Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Metallic disc surrounded by windows in the outer edge (marquee like lights).

Size of Object(s)

At about an estimated 100 meters of altitude, the extended hand would just about cover the width of the disc.

Description of Area / Surroundings

City, many tall buildings, over a street traveling East to West direction.

Full Description & Details

Sometime in early March of 1963, my mother, younger brother and I were going home from a bus stop several blocks away. We were traveling West on Charrua street, when on crossing Coronel Alegre street we saw in the distance a string of lights floating in the sky at low altitude coming our way. The lights moved from our right to the left.

Eventualy the object came to hover at about one hundred meters of altitude, which we judged from the height of the surrounding 10 story buildings abundant in the area, and about five degrees south of our position while spinning in place. At that altitude, the size of the disc was about the same as the apparent size of the full moon and appeared to reflect the surrounding mercury vapor lights as if it were metallic, as in stainless steel or aliminum.

The initial speed of rotation, which appeared to be related to that of the speed of travel, started to change, and also the color of the lights which surrounded the vehicle as those of a marquee or row of windows. They became yellow, and the faster they went, the more intense the color. After a few seconds, the color changed to orange first , then bright red, later a more intense, darker red, and then the object took off in an East North East direction while traveling faster than anything we've seen before or after, and in a matter of a fraction of a second it was out of our view.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

No way. Too clear a sight to be anything else than a disc shaped vessel of sorts. Also the wilfull operation gave the impression of it being a vehicle guided by some sort of intelligent control, as in piloted by intelligent beings.

Witness Background

I am a retired Administrative Assistant from the Health Care Industry.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

This being my second sighting, all my preconceptions about the matter flew out the proverbial window. I believe in UFO's as such, although I would not rush to make a judgement about their origin. As our scientific knowledge allows us to believe, interstellar travel appears as an imposibility, although our knowledge is also bounded by our ignorance. There my be many other realities that at this time we are not aware of and are very difficult to even begin to fathom.

Other Comments

As the late Carl Sagan said, traveling in our known Universe would take such vast amount of time, that with our means and present understanding, it would be very unlikely for beings from another planet to visit us, specially with such frequency and also never interfering with us in a more direct manner, as in landing in the White House lawn, or simply in the town square and asking us "take me to your leader". But keep an open mind, there are lots of thing we don't know and understand, and the things we know limit our horizons.

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