Late August saw South America under a UFO siege. According
to the August 18 issue of Correio Brasiliense, the daily newspaper
of Brasilia, numerous UFOs have been sighted along the border
between Argentina and Chile.
In Talagante, a town 40 kilometers (24 miles) west of Santiago
de Chile, "dozens of residents congested the telephone lines of a
local broadcasting company to ask for an explanation of what they
were seeing," namely, a large, nickel-colored saucer.
According to Rodrigo Fuenzalida, president of Associacion de
Investigaciones de OVNIs (AION) of Chile, "We think that it could be
space rubbish entering Earth's atmosphere, but we do have our
doubts about that. What happened was seen for a very long time
in several places of the region (northern Chile). That obliges us to
continue to study this phenomenon."
In addition to the incident in Brasilia, there were three UFO-related
incidents in the state of Sao Paulo, according to ufologist Eduardo
Mondini of Sumare, who runs the CEPEX study group. All three
took place on or about Friday, August 23, 1996.
In Sao Carlos, S.P., residents reported "uma esquadrilha de
OVNIs" (a squadron of UFOs) flying over the city. Sao Carlos is
6 kilometers (4 miles) northwest of Campinas, where the captive
Varginha aliens were taken on January 21, 1996.
In Nova Odessa, people heard "a mysterious explosion in the
sky."
And in Sao Roque de Fratura, a fazendeiro (farmhand) spotted
a monster, or what he called "um animal extranho" in a coffee field.
He described the creature as a quadruped, gray-green in color,
approximately 1.5 meters (5 feet) long, with a large head and what
looked like "armor" protecting its foreleg shoulders and rear end.
He likened it to "a scorpion lacking its pincers and a tail" but with
"legs like an ox." Despite its fearsome appearance, the creature
fled back into the jungle when the fazendeiro threw rocks at it.
(Editor's Comment: First Varginha, now Sao Roque. Seems to me
that Homo sapiens has this bad habit of throwing rocks at anything
they don't understand.)
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