- Source: C.O.R. (Circulo Ovnil"gico Riocuartense)
- July 30, 2002
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- Policeman Sees Giant UFO
- **Was on Duty at the Time**
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- Guillermo Arias, who provides services in the dependency
of the town of Chaj'n, 60 km southeast of Rio Cuarto, was on routine patrol
through rurla Chajan at 23:00 hours on Sunday, July 21, 2002, when he heard
over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras were seeing
lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading toward
Chajn along Nat'l Route 8, which links the cities of Rio Cuarto, in Cordoba
with Villa Mercedes in the province of San Luis Arias. At the wheel of
the police patrol van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the
distance and decided to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had
covered said distance, he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine
of his vehicle sputtered and died, causing the police car to strike the
edge of a guard rail.
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- Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began
turning on and off randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial
displayed the random shifting of the frequencies (channel codes) while
the cabin became filled with an acrid odor, as though of burnt wiring,
and the interior lights and stop indicator, which were broken, began lighting
on and off. Seized by fear, Arias leaped from the van and walked away a
few meters down the road, losing his cellphone in the escape.
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- The darkness was total, when suddenly, amid the [confusing]
situation, an immense light emerged from a field adjacent to the road as
a triangular object rose majestically into the air. Now, [the officer's]
condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what he described as
a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row of
windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something move
behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines
and shadows" (sic), which he defined as "non-human", and
that many beams of light came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground.
The event lasted 2 or 3 seconds, but Arias "it felt like an eternity
to him."
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- The object suddenly rose and sped away, vanishing behind
the hills of a local field. Arias's statement indicates that while the
object moved away, the entire sector was lit "as though it were daytime",
since he could clearly make out farms, fields, barbed wire fences, etc.
and that the afterglow lasted another 20 minutes.
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- Recovering from his nervous condition, he returned to
the vehicle and notified his comrades of the experience, receiving radio
instruction that reinforcements were being set out. In the darkness, he
heard the cellphone ring, and that is how he found it in the darkness:
his wife was trying to find him and his fellows. He told her briefly about
what had happened and sat down to wait for the expected assistance. Patrolman
Barrios from Achiras was trying to keep him calm over the raido, while
Sgt. Medina, who was the first to arrive on the scene, and Sgt. Cordoba
were among the subofficers who reached the area to lend aid to their comrade
in distress.
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- Meanwhile, other police elements radioed the incident
to their superiors at Regional Unit 9 at Rio Cuarto. After learning the
details, these superiors issued specific directions. In this regard we
add that today, Monday noon, the senior officers of said police unit reported
to Chajn to order a medical exam for Sgt. Arias and a subsequent re-creation
of the events, for which they returned to the scene.
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- There was news coverage from Rio Cuarto Channel 13, LV-16
Radio Rio Cuarto and numerous FM stations of this city interviewd members
of the C.O.R to learn further aspects of this spectacular incident.
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- Translation (C) 2002. IHU.
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- Special thanks to Mario Luis Bracamonte, COR.
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