- Buenos Aires Channel 13 interviewed Alvaro Gestillo of
the Uruguayan Air Force at noon, and upon making reference to the object
seen over the River Plate, he spoke of "a missile or advanced combat
aircraft". Perhaps there is no direct relationship here, but it reminded
me of the story picked up by several newspapers of [the province] of Entre
Rios regarding a "phantom airplane" that experienced technical
problems near the city of Concordia. For those who live outside Argentina,
the province of Entre Rios is on the border with Uruguay, and Concordia
is located on the Uruguay River, which serves as the border between our
two countries.
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- But returning to the phantom aircraft: the alert was
issued by the Victoria volunteer firefighters, who picked up a distress
call on their VHF equipment from an aircraft identifying itself with three
numbers and claimed to be flying near Concordia. They immediately advised
the control tower at the Comodoro Pierresteguy Airport and personnel from
the Argentinean Air Force (FAA) requested information from all airports
from which an aircraft headed to Concordia could have departed, but no
flight with that destination was confirmed.
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- The strangest thing is that upon verifying the numbers
given by the alleged pilot, they learned that the call numbers belonged
to an experimental aircraft. Despite the search, nothing was ever found,
but residents of the Uruguayan town fo Salto claimed seeing "an airplane
in distress" flying at low altitude.
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- In short, the Argentinean-Uruguayan frontier region has
received reports of "missiles", experimental airplanes and unknown
lights that light up the night sky as though it were daytime. Whether or
not UFOs are involved, it is clear that something strange is occurring
in this area.
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- Translation (c) 2005, Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic
Ufology (IHU).
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- Argentina - Phantom Aircraft Crashes?
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- El Sol Matutino - Argentina
- April 6, 2005
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- A police detachment from the Concordia Department of
the Entre Rios Police searched for the wreckage of an alleged airplane
in the vicinity of Termas Vertientes de la Concordia using a high-power
searchlight. The aircraft would have crashed in that vicinity around 23:50
hours last night.
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- Argentinean Air Force Personnel Requested information
from all airports as to where an aircraft headed for Concordia could have
departed, and reported it to the 3rd Aerial Brigade headquartered in Paraná.
No aircraft had departed in this direction, although its call numbers suggest
that it could be an experimental plane.
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- A mobile unit of EL SOL Tele-5 was sent out immediately
to the thermal baths in the location, ascertaining that neither employees
of the baths, nor the tourists visiting them, had witnessed the collision
of the alleged airplane.
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- Police officers, after combing the thermal baths and
their vicinity, decided to return to their stations after alerting the
National Police and the Naval Prefecture to be alert to a possible appeararance
of the "phantom aircraft" in their respective spheres of influence.
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- To make matters worse, residents of Salto claimed having
seen a low-flying plane that, according to the Uruguayans, showed signs
of being "in trouble".
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- Could it all be a prank?
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- As of this morning, it remains unknown if the distress
call was a prank or if an aircraft in distress flew over the skies of Concordia.
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- Translation (c) 2005. Scott Corrales, IHU. Special thanks
to Christian H. Quintero
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