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Argentine Farmer Claims Having Seen UFO And Occupants

Diario El Tribuno (Salta, Argentina) - 1/11/2003

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"It was incredible. We could see an object with impressive lights, side by side, spinning in a circle at high speed. Then other lights appeared which came and went over the same spot. It made our jaws drop," were the first words uttered by Julio Espinoza, a farmer and shepherd from La Poma.


Source: Diario El Tribuno (Salta, Argentina)

http://www.eltribuno.com.ar/2004/salta/20040110_202019.php\

January 11, 2003


Farmer Claims Having Seen UFO And Occupants

In Cachi, on the Tin Tin road
He traveled with 7 other people on a bus
All of them witnessed the strange and fantastic event


"It was incredible. We could see an object with impressive
lights, side by side, spinning in a circle at high speed. Then
other lights appeared which came and went over the same spot. It
made our jaws drop" were the first words uttered by Julio
Espinoza, a farmer and shepherd from La Poma.

It all happened on the Tin Tin road on December 16, 2003 at
midnight, some 120 km west of Salta, the gateway to Cachi which
crosses the Los Cardones National Park.

This location was not only the site of a new UFO sighing. This
time, according to the eyewtiness, the phenomenon was
accompanied by the strange manifestation of humanoid creatrues
walking stealthily amid the scant vegetation of the Puna.

They Were on the Road to Puna

Eight people traveling in a bus were among the witnesses to the
phenomenon, among them a 5 year-old girl. But the main witness
to the events, Julio Rafael Espinosa, 39, told his experience to
El Tribuno only last Friday.

That Tuesday, the passengers on the bus were Benito Salva and
his father, Ricardo, four other men, Espinosa and his young
daugher Tamara, age 5. At the entrance to the Tin Tin road, some
400 meters to the right in the direction of Cerro Negro, Benito
Salva, the vehicle's driver, said: "Hey guys, look over there"
before parking the bus, while the travelers looked through the
window toward the indicated spot. Espinosa says that he managed
to climb on top of the bus, but curiosity got the better of him
and led him jump off and walk toward the luminous phenomenon.

A Stunning Tale

"Upon reaching a bramble, in spite of the darkness, the
landscape was very well-defined. I couldn't go on any further; i
was moving away from the road and I was getting scared when my
eyes started to see something that couldn't be made out clearly
at a distance"

"There was a device measuring some 100 meters wide resting over
some kind of struts or legs which kept it some 10-12 meters off
the ground. Some sort of hoses emerged from its middle, with
lights on their tips. Suddenly, the lights on the object went
out and these strange beings appeared. They walked slowly in
single file, they were thin and their glow was so powerful they
blinded me. At that moment I hid behind a bramble and I could
see when one of them jumped onto a bramble--don't know how he
did it--and began to pull pieces off it, as though taking
specimens"

Some twenty minutes had gone by. It was then that Espinosa
decided to return to the truck to report what was going on.
"When I told them what I'd seen, they told me that they couldn't
see the creatures because they were very far away. However, they
saw the luminous phenomenon, which was visible from the
roadside" he concluded.

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Translation (C) 2004. Scott Corrales
Institute of Hispanic Ufology (IHU)
Special thanks to Gloria Coluchi


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