Argentina: The Monte del Tรญo Celestino Humanoid
This is the journal of the Institute of Hispanic Ufology (IHU), presenting UFO and paranormal cases from Spain, South America and the Caribbean
Source: Factor Desconocido (S1,E4)
Date: 28 June 2022
Posted by Arturo Leรณn
Mexico: Lights Reported Over Tijuana and Mรฉrida
Jorge Luis Wong
On the evening of June 27, hundreds of people reported seeing several strange lights in the Baja California region, Tijuana, Yucatรกn and also apparently in San Diego, California.
Videos circulating in a number of social media sites show lights that do not correspond with any known aircraft or at least not with the behavior normally associated with these. Moreover, it has been said that these were flares, in the case involving the border region between Mexico and the U.S... However, the U.S. government has not issued any statement in this regard.
What is striking is that the sightings took place more or less simultaneously. It is worth noting that in the Primo Tapia region, sightings of these lights had been reported in previous years. It should also be noted that more research is required in this regard, as this is a very recent event springing from a well-known pattern in the Baja California, suggesting that it may hold some kind of interest for these objects. We will continue reporting as more information is received.
VIDEO at: https://youtu.be/h0JomgvNvbk
[Transcription & Translation (c) 2022 Inexplicata]
Source: Los Primeros (Argentina)
Date: 23 June 2022
Argentina: Teacher From Salta Claims Seeing UFO on the Way to Cafayate
It was around 4 a.m. on Wednesday. "I was alone on the road. I pulled over and observed for a long time," says the philosophy instructor.
Pale, nervous and above all shocked by the experience, Carlos Paz Morales, a philosophy instructor, claims having seen a UFO on the way to Cafayate.
"I was returning to Salta on Wednesday morning, as I usually do every week upon finishing my teaching duties at the former Escuela Normal de Cafayate (Cafayate Teacher's School). It was around 4 a.m. when I saw a light flooding me from behind my truck. I thought it was a car, but saw absolutely nothing when looking through the mirrors".
In an interview with El Tribuno, Paz Morales said that all he could think of doing was pulling over on the shoulder, near the stone formation known as "El Sapo."
"I got out of the vehicle. Despite the fact that there was an astonishing full moon - I think the one they call Strawberry - the road was dark. I could only see a strange object in the hills. I had it there before me, not too far away. I thought it might be one of those lights they place on top of antennae, but it couldn't be, as it was white and rather large," said the teacher.
The luminous object, according to the Saltean philosopher's description, was elongated, cigar-shaped, and moved from left to right in a zig-zagging, threatening manner.
"I said to myself, I'm not leaving here no matter what happens. If it wants to take me, let it take me. And without removing my eyes from the heavens, because I felt hypnotized, I took out my cellphone, turned on the camera, and took some photos. We were alone - that strange object and me - in the desert, plunged in darkness and ominous silence."
According to his account, the 'face to face' contact lasted some 5 minutes. "But the object vanished in a thousandth of a second, like a flash of light," said Paz Morales.
While the photos show the luminous object, the teacher says it was much larger and startling than what is shown, as his phone's camera is very limited.
[Translation (c) 2022 S. Corrales, IHU with thanks to Luis Burgos and El Tribuno]
Source: Ovnivenezuelagrupo.blogspot.com
Date: May 19, 2022
Venezuela: Circular UFO Sighting in the State of Bolivar
By Hector Escalante
A large flying object was sighted by two individuals on May 17, 2022 at 08:40 pm in the airspace over the state of Bolivar, southeastern Venezuela, a region with elevated hydrological potential and abundant gold and diamond deposits.
Aisberlin Palma, one of the witnesses, said the artifact "appeared out of nowhere" just as she was getting ready to take a photo of the nocturnal landscape from the locality of Puerto Ordaz in Ciudad Guayana, prompted by the presence of some odd reddish clouds that caught her attention.
"I only wanted to take a photo of those reddish clouds. When I focused the camera, I noticed there was something odd in the sky, but when I looked outside the screen, I could confirm that it wasn't a reflection or light effect. I took the photo immediately and this is what I captured," she explained.
Several squares of bright green light are visible in the photo, arranged symmetrically, running along the edges of what seems to be a circular structure which appears to be slightly tilted.
After seeing the image on her phone, she looked in the same direction, but the artifact was gone. "We tried looking again in the event that it should reappear, but there was nothing. It was really strange, we don't know what to think," she stated.
Palma says that the UFO remained static throughout the short time it remained visible, and its lights blinked in the same intermittent pattern. "Had it been an airplane, it wouldn't have remained suspended there, or vanished so quickly."
[Translation (c) 2022 S. Corrales, IHU with thanks to Hรฉctor Escalante]
Source: FAO / ICOU
Date: 05.18.2022
04. The Bartolomรฉ Bavรญo Sphere - Eyewitness Report from Luis Bianchi
"Good afternoon to you all. My name is Luis Bianchi, I'm a photographer and videographer by trade, and an illustrator as well. I'm a member of FAO, the Fundaciรณn Argentina de Ovnilogรญa (FAO) in the city of La Plata, and I also belong to Investigadores de Campo Unidos (ICOU), a group devoted to UFO research within the national territory of the Republic of Argentina. Within ICOU I belong to AFI, a subgroup of ICOU, which stands for Analisis Fotografico y Filmico (Photo & Film Analysis) and we are devoted to analyzing any and all photo and video evidence complementing a UFO sighting along with a group of professionals.
"I'm joining this round of video testimonials to discuss my personal experience a little. I have had three sightings, but the most significant of them occurred on July 16, 1984. It was winter, and I lived in the city of Ensenada, Province of Buenos Aires, and it took place in the early hours of Monday as I got ready to travel to [the town of] Magdalena. I was performing my obligatory military service at that community, some 60 kilometers distant from the city of La Plata, and my father decided to take me to the base that morning so I could report for duty.
"And so we did. We set off on that cold winter morning - I remember it was very cold, the sun wasn't out yet, sky was clear - and as we drove along Route 11, more than halfway to our destination, passing the town of Bartolomรฉ Bavรญo, or rather the entrance to that locality, I was looking through the passenger side window when something caught my eye. There was something out there, over the level of the horizon. That's when I asked my father to pull over; he asked me if I was noticing some kind of mechanical issue with the car, to which I replied no, to please stop the car as I wished to corroborate something.
"We stopped the car on the shoulder, pointing toward Magdalena. I asked my father to step out of the car to see if he could see the same thing I'd noticed. We both got out, it was very cold, we were almost in the middle of the wilderness, and we were able to see...from the southwest heading northeast...that is to say, from the interior of the province toward the shores of the River Plate, [there was an object] I compare to a steel ball, an incandescent one. It had a spherical look and an orange-reddish cast, like red hot metal. It traveled at an average speed, I wasn't able to calculate it. It gave us enough time...let's say its horizontal displacement lasted some six seconds, perhaps. Between six and ten seconds, which gave us enough time for a detailed observation of this object, which was coming in from the southwest, flew in front of us at a distance of some 200 meters. In other words, it crossed the road, heading toward the opposite side of the wilderness, perhaps another 600 meters, at which point it made an adjustment to its flight path, going up into the sky at a 45 degree angle, when it vanished at an incredible rate of speed. It became a point of light.
"As I said, it flew some 200 meters in front of us. Its size was comparable to that of a small car. This thing was traveling at a height that was almost flush with the ground, between 7 and 10 meters high. My father and I exchanged looks and got back in the car. It was very, very cold. We remained there for a few minutes, stunned. We exchanged opinions about what we had seen, or if we had seen the same thing, and evidently we had. We continued the journey. My father made me promise him that I would say anything about this when we reached our destination, and [the sighting] became a sort of family secret. A matter that was kept within the family group and never discussed. This is one of the few times that I have broached the subject in public so openly.
"So essentially this was my most startling experience. I was curious about the subject since childhood, and I think it is a matter characteristic to our generation, fostered by everything that was going on in the world - the space program, humans reaching the moon, the first deep space probes. All these things nourished me and gave rise to my interest in aeronautics and astronautics. This sighting of mine has made me become more involved in subject, in one way or another. In fact, I became fully involved upon becoming a member of FAO in the year 2012. That is my eyewitness account; I wanted to share it with all of you, and we hope to have even more accounts to come. Good day to you all and thank you."
[Transcription and Translation (c) 2022 S. Corrales with thanks to Luis Burgos and Luis Bianchi]