From: Hector Cantero
U.S. newspapers carried scant notice of an event that made big news in
other parts of the world. The Los Angeles Times ran one paragraph on
August 17, more than two weeks after the event:
"A flight crew for Aerolineas Argentinas, and aviation officials on
the ground, observed a luminous object that approached the aircraft as it
was about to land at Bariloche airport, about 870 miles from Buenos Aires.
Control tower personnel reported all of their instruments started behaving
strangely at about the same time. Ground observers said the UFO appeared
to have shining lights on its belly."
ISCNI*Flash has learned from a European source these further details.
The commercial jet, type not known, was on approach to the airport at
Bariloche at approximately midnight on August 1. An estimated 103 people
were aboard. A brightly lit object approached the jet, flashing and
changing colors as it came. The jet pilot, fearing a collision, took
evasive maneuvers. The bright object then flew in formation with the jet,
approximately 100 meters away. Most of the passengers and the flight crew
of the jet saw the object. Later, many described it as a "space ship" and
as big as the jetliner, with multi-colored flashing lights. Observers in
the airport control tower and military officials on the ground also
observed the object. As the plane and UFO approached the airport, all
electrical power at the airport and in much of the nearby town failed,
causing a blackout. With the runway lights out, the pilot of the jet
aborted his landing approach and brought the plane around for a second
attempt. He succeeded in landing the plane on the second try, though
ISCNI*Flash has not learned if the electrical power had been restored by
that time. Meanwhile, witnesses observed the UFO to climb straight up and
out of sight at high speed.
Based on testimony of dozens of good witnesses in the air and on the
ground, plus the classic electrical effects so often associated with UFO
encounters, there seems little doubt that a highly unusual and potentially
dangerous UFO encounter did occur over Bariloche, Argentina on this
occasion. Newspapers in London, Paris and elsewhere treated this as an
important story. ISCNI*Flash laments the fact that the U.S. news media did
not.