Argentina: UFO Sighting in Tin Tin

SOURCE: El Tribuno

DATE: Wednesday, June 7 2006

**UFOs in Cachi Once More**

ARGENTINA: STRANGE LIGHTS IN TIN TIN

People claim seeing incandescent circular light in the sky over Route 33.

With the first days of cold, clear skies over Cachi, reports on the apparition of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) have emerged once more from believers and skeptics alike.

This can be seen in the eyewitness accounts from a group of six people who saw moving lights and flashes in the sky last Friday around 20:00 hrs. as they drove along Route 33 near the Amblavo intersection.

After they reached Salta, the individuals came to our newsroom to report their experience: "We can't all be wrong. We saw a light that moved and emitted flashes. It surprised us as it emerged from the straight road to Tin Tin and then again from Cuesta del Obispo," said Marcelo Tomas Aranda, an agronomist who works in Cachi and who visits Salta every Friday for the last 14 years.

The witnesses, who travelled aboard a van, agree with the report of a strange incandescent light that appeared up above. "The skies were clear and the moon lit the outline of the mountains. Suddenly, a circular light appeared, four times larger than a star." To Monica Cuevas, a technical secretary, and Adriana Laiseca, a supervisor with the Ministry of Education, the experience took them from total skepticism to questioning things that are said about UFO manifestations in the area.

Horacio Nolasco, the van's driver, travels back and forth from Cachi on a daily basis for years and had never seen anything like it. "It was a very shiny light with a straight-line motion from North to South that vanished between the mountains. We later saw it much closer as we descended halfway down Cuesta del Obispo," he explained.

Cesar Miguel Naranjo is an Ecuadorian national who has lived in Salta for 10 years. He is a parapsychologist and was among the witnesses to the event. "It's a wonderful sensation -- one is left dumbfounded by the knowledge that what is being seen is not a product of the imagination."

The other passenger, Nancy, who works in the Amblayo school, also saw the light but unlike her travel companions, did not wish to get off the vehicle. "The truth is that is frightened me a lot," she admitted.

(Translation (c) 2006. Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology (IHU). Special thanks to Mercedes Casas).