- La Otra Realidad
- September 20, 2004
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- Expedition Found No Craters And The Mystery Increases
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- The strange object that fell from the sky a few days
ago behind the mountain range of the Martial Glacier, and which was seen
by at least a dozen residents of the city of Ushuaia, caused damage to
at least 150 square meters of forested area within the National Park, but
no visible marks were found on the ground following the impact. This has
increased the mystery surrounding the celestial event that caused wonder
among the Fuegian population.
- The "fireball", described thus by the press
to counter act the lack of scientific details on the nature of the phenomenon,
destroyed a considerable number of trees as it feel toward the Earth's
surface, converting the impact site into a tree-clearing location. Some
trees were sheared off at a height of some eight meters.
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- But researchers would like to double-check this information
and shall set out tomorrow toward the site that was first surveyed by a
police patrol that took photos and some soil samples. One of the investigators
to visit the site will be Daniel Acevedo, a witness to the episode that
captured the public's imagination. He plans to collect samples of the local
sandstone to ascertain if there are pieces of metal or any material foreign
to the Fuegian geography.
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- Acevedo will visit the epicenter of the crash accompanied
by a forestry engineer who will determine if the condition in which the
trees were found, in an area measuring "more or less forty meters
across", as described by witnesses, correspond to human intervention,
wind action or the consequences of the phenomenon being investigated.
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- For the time being, scientists have dismissed the possibility
that it could have been a meteorite, since the impact would have involved
a rock that usually leaves unconceivable traces of its impact against our
planet. Nor have they discarded the possibility that Earth may have traversed
the path of some comet and that these "fireballs" could be part
of the evidence.
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- The survey headed by experts from the Centro Austral
de Investigations Científicas (Cadic) shall be essential to define
the characteristics of the event and put an end to this week-long mystery.
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- A five-hour long expedition on foot conducted by Fernando
Garcia and Roberto Ceballos, authors of the photographs published in today's
issue of Botella al mar, verified the existence of "thirty to forty
uprooted trees, some shattered in half and others exploded, all of them
lying on the ground in a south-north direction."
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- It would seem that Garcia and Ceballos reached the same
spot discovered by a local police patrol, but with a difference of a few
meters. This means that there are at least two impact sites and this increases
the number of traces of the event to be confirmed.
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- It should be recalled that residents of Ushuaia witnessed--on
two consecutive nights--how two strange objects fell to the ground. Numerous
phone calls were made to the Municipal Office of the Civil Defense and
the Police to report the sighting, which was described at the time as "a
multicolored fireball that fell behind the Martial Glacier."
- For more information:
- Fuente: http://www.botellaalmar.com.ar/detalle_nota.php?Id=270&tipo=4
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- Translation (c) 2004. Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic
Ufology (IHU). Special thanks to José Martínez E.
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