- Botella al Mar.com
- September 22, 2004
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- Fireball Crash Site: "There's a rage in that place"
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- One of the expedtionaries who walked to the site where
the strange objects fell from the sky on Tuesday and Wednesday last week
held an extensive chat with a journalist from Botella al Mar.
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- Fernando Garcia described his journey to the mouth of
Cañadón Negro in Valle de Andorra and the discovery of a
150 square meter area with trees found in positions that are hard to interpret.
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- While the conclusions reached by CADIC scientists who
also visited the impact site are expected, the following is the transcript
of the interview with the Ushuaia resident.
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- What made you go to the alleged crash site?
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- Like everyone else in the city, I heard the story of
lights falling from the sky last Tuesday and Wednesday. The fact is that
I didn't give it much improtance. On Saturday I heard a journalist explain
that the police officers who'd visited the site hadn't found anything strange,
but had indeed found flattened trees. And that was strange to me. Then
I phoned my friend Roberto (Ceballos) a backwoodsman who knows the area
well, and asked him to come with me.
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- Just out of mere curiosity?
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- Exactly, nothing more. Above all because the toppled
trees intrigued me.
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- Why did that suprise you?
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- It gave the story a certain veracity. If people saw fireballs
come down and there are toppled trees, then there is a certain coherence
[to the story] and it was necessary to take a look. That's why on Saturday
night we got everything ready and we went out on Sunday at 7:30 a.m..
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- Which is the exact site?
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- It's the mouth of Cañadon Negro en Valle de Andorra.
I wouldn't like to give much more detail unter the scientists have been.
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- How long did you walk to get there?
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- Once you know the place you can get there faster. We
had no clues to go by and were just looking for something strange. But
I figure that we walked some two and a half to three hours.
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- Can the site be clearly made out?
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- Clearly. The sensation upon reaching the site is that
a plane crashed tehre, and you're expecting to see bits of metal plating
dangling from the trees. That's the image. What's incredible is that when
you penetrate the place, there's nothing at all to be found. There's nothing
strange within the strangeness. Only 150 square meters of toppled woods.
Imagine four walls and in the middle, all of the trees are overturned,
fallen, all of them piled exactly from north to south. All of them toward
the same place. In the north, where the object presumably fell, the tree
trunks are sheared off at a height of six to eight meters, from greater
to lesser, as though the object came in at a slant.
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- Your opinion is that an object fell?
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- Yes, yes, but it's odd, because the fallen trunks are
in perfect state, as though the object hadn't quite finished falling yet.
Their bark is intack. There is no trace of anything being burned, no dust,
nothing.
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- Could the wind have toppled the trees?
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- I don't think so, because in one of the photos I took,
and in which I asked my companion to stand beside a trunk as a reference,
it can be seen that the trees had diameter of 70 centimieter. If there
had been wind, it is hard to understand the direction of the gusts. The
site isn't like a letter "U", with an entrance leading to the
valley. It's an enclosure. It's as if a giant dinosaur had placed its giant
foot in the middle of a forest, but never quite finished setting it down.
The only possibility I can think of is that a tornado or whirlwind entered
the area, caused the damage, and retreated in the contrary direction.
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- A tornado?
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- Yes, but that wasn't it, because it would have scattered
branches everywhere, not piled from north to south. If the wind was responsible,
the ground vegetation would have been damaged, and it was in perfect conditions.
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- Would it be easy to see the area from the air?
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- Of course, because it is easy to see that the cuts to
the trees are no more than four days old. In some parts you could see tree
sap, because the trunks had exploded. For this reason the collapse of tree-trunks
in a domino like arrangement would have to be discarded, because the trees
are very close to each other. The first one can fall to the side and strike
a second and then a third, but that's where the chain reaction stops. This
is different: there are tree-trunks that appear to have been blown away
from within by a stick of dynamite. All of the trunks are frayed on the
same side. If there was such great external pressure, at least the roots
would have moved. None of that happened.
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- Translation (c) 2004. Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic
Ufology. Special thanks to Christian Quintero, Planeta UFO.
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