Nicaragua: UFO Sightings That Caused Alarm

 

Source: La Prensa Domingo (Nicaragua)

Date: 24 August 2025

 Nicaragua: UFO Sightings That Caused Alarm

 Unidentified luminous objects fired up the imagination of the residents of the Nicaraguan communities, causing nervousness and alarm. Were they UFOs? Not exactly.

 If extraterrestrial life exists and has visited us, El Sauce appears to be one of its chosen destinations. Located some 117 km from Managua in the department of León, this municipality has been the locale of various 'sightings'

 On Friday, 18 December 2015, residents of the Los Limones No.2 community witnessed strange lights in the sky and figured that they were unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

 "I ran into a light that was over the standpipe (...) and did not move. It was static. A white light that gave off red flashes," said a witness to the official Channel 4.

 Shortly thereafter, in late February 2016, the events in El Sauce reached the Telemundo network's Al Rojo Vivo television program. According to this report, local residents were certain that the seismic activity in the area at the moment (attributable to the San Cristobal volcano) had attracted aliens.

 Videos taken by community residents showed round luminous objects crossing the skies. The phenomenon coincided with the alleged disappearance of a 4-year-old child, who vanished from the face of the earth only to reappear later some 10 kilometers distant, with no memory of the event.

 Another resident, who claimed having had extraterrestrial contact, explained that the visitors resembled "normal people, black or white" desirous of a world at peace and without wars.

 The aliens returned that very same December to El Sauce, allowing themselves to be seen by Hugo Sánchez Buitrago, who reported them to the Facebook social network. "The luminous phenomenon crossed the sky slowly from east to west, and to our astonishments, the light changed from an entirely metallic hue to red before vanishing," he explained.

 A sighting of glowing objects, by day or by night, is nothing new, but has become more frequent in modern times. Similar phenomena have been reported similar in various parts of the world, but the 'mystery' was confirmed when these turned out to be drones, satellites, rockets and even the ISS.

 In March and April 2020, an alleged recording went viral showing four dancing lights at daylight over Managua. The video's creator professed feeling nervous as he recorded the phenomenon from the yard of his own home. It proved to be a hoax. A special effects expert explained that knowledge of the After Effects software program would suffice to create "UFOs".

 16 years ago, Fabrice LeLous, current editor of Costa Rica's La Nacion, had a close encounter of the third kind while at the home of some relatives in Jugalpa, Chontales. He and a cousin witnessed a black, triangular flying object with lights at each of its corners. This event occurred on the evening of June 22 into the morning of Saturday, June 23rd. LeLous, a journalist of Diario LaPrensa, told his experience in a feature for La Nación. Shortly after he furnished details to Costa Rica's La Teja about what he saw in the skies of Juigalpa.

 "It was a black triangle with yellow, dim lights at its corners. Three lights. The object flew here and there at high speed, suddenly remaining still before retaking its course in a different direction, again, very quickly. The triangle plowed the skies noiselessly. The sight, which seemed magical at the moment, lasted some 20-30 seconds, but I remember that it seemed like hours," he noted.

 The object flew at high speed until it hovered all of a sudden of the heads of the young men, who ran away in fear. According to LeLous, and while there is no way of proving this, humanity shares the universe with other beings and there must be intelligent life on distant planets. The incident with the triangular object isn't a positive memory; however, he would like to experience something 'so rare, so unique' once more.

 A number of similar objects have been seen in other parts of the world, with lights on their vertexes. These have mostly been explained away as military aircraft (lawful or secret), atmospheric phenomena, optical illusions (suggesting a triangle) or drones.

 In November 2019, the Loon Google Project, designed to bring the internet to remote rural locations, frightened many in Nicaragua. Seen at a distance, the Google aerostats had the appearance of a giant jellyfish, clearly alien, but nothing of the sort. The project was shuttered in early 2021 after nine years in service, bringing connectivity to millions of users all over the planet. However, its profitability was questionable, and it did not find the investors needed to continue providing services.

 [Translation ©2026 S. Corrales, IHU with thanks to La Prensa]