A Lost Police Report, 48 Years Later: The 1978 Bahía Blanca UFO Case Gets New Evidence

 

Source: LaBrujula24.com

Date: 09.27.2026 

A Lost Police Report, 48 Years Later: The 1978 Bahía Blanca UFO Case Gets New Evidence

For nearly half a century, the story of two Chilean racing pilots, a blinding white light, and a car lifted off the road has been passed around as regional legend. Now the paperwork is about to surface.

The original police report filed in 1978 by Carlos Acevedo and Miguel Moya has been recovered and was slated for public display on Saturday, September 26, in Pedro Luro. Andrea Pérez Simondini, founding member of Argentina's CEFORA (Commission for the Study of the UFO Phenomenon), announced the find on the program Nunca es Tarde. She and researcher Daniel Lecomte tracked the document down, and the presentation promises new testimonies and fresh documentation as well.

The night in question

On September 23, 1978, Acevedo and Moya were competing in the Vuelta a la América del Sud, a ten-country driving marathon. Somewhere on the road from Viedma toward Bahía Blanca, they say, a light of tremendous intensity came up behind them and flooded the cabin. They first assumed it was the headlights of the German competitors' Mercedes. Then came a jolt, and the sensation that the car was rising.

By their account, the Citroën was lifted several meters into the air. When they came to, they had lost all sense of time and place, and the car was facing the opposite direction from the one they'd been traveling.

The details that don't add up

The strangeness didn't end there. At a service station down the road, the pilots found their fuel tank nearly empty, even though they had filled up in Viedma. Another competitor rolled in one hour and 45 minutes later and said he had lost sight of the Citroën along the route. Shaken, the two men went to the Pedro Luro police station, filed an official report, and asked for a police escort to Bahía Blanca. That report is the document now coming to light.

What the researchers dug up

Pérez Simondini's team went beyond the report itself. They gathered records on departure times, refueling stops, and the progress of the race, plus material from the Argentine Automobile Club's central archive, participant rankings, and testimony from people who helped organize the rally. Based on the timing evidence, she maintains that a stretch of 70 to 80 kilometers of road cannot be accounted for by the participants. She also says the new material lets researchers re-examine the versions of the story that have circulated for decades.

The event was also set to include a virtual appearance by members of Carlos Acevedo's family, along with the handover of a certified copy of the report, which will stay in Pedro Luro. "We believe this is the place where it should be displayed," Pérez Simondini said, promising "new evidence and previously undisclosed testimonies."

A missing tank of fuel, a missing stretch of highway, and a police report that sat unseen for decades: this case may be getting more interesting, not less.

[For more information on this case, please refer to the 2014 article published in INEXPLICATA;  https://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2014/01/argentina-police-report-documents-1978.html

[Translation ©2026 Inexplicata with thanks to Gloria Raquel]