- Note - The photo in question has NOT been forwarded to
IHU's attention. An effort to secure it will be made.
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- El Tribuno (Salta, Argentina)
- 2-24-5
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- ** At Cachi, over Monte Nevado**
- ** The "thing" is of tremendous size, amber-colored
and saucer-shaped
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- An unidentified flying object (UFO) of prodigious size,
amber in clor and with the characteristic shape of the so-called "flying
saucers" was photographed with a high-definition camera by a Buenos
Aires mountaineer during the ascent of Nevado de Cachi, one of the greatest
challenges for South American climbers.
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- The photograph, of extraordinary clarity, was taken while
the sportsmen were at Las Pailas, an inhabited location halfway up to the
summit at an elevation of 3,500 meters above sea level which contains the
ruins of an ancient Chalchaquí settlement.
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- The protagonist of the event was Guillermo Martin, an
instructor with the Buenos Aires-based "Entrenamientos de Montaña"
club.
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- The photos were taken in November 2004, but were made
known last week. Martín had not had enought time to examine them
due to work reasons. "I didn't realize I'd taken the photo until I
saw it as a print. We researched with specialists and there are no errors
or damage to the negative. Nor does it appear that the object is the result
of an undesired chemical reaction of some sort.
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- What the camera did record, for some reason, perhaps
due to the "thing's" speed, could not be seen by the human eye,
according to the sportsma, who forwarded the startling images to Antonio
Zuleta, a Cachi UFO researcher, who is also a renowned mountaineer and
host of a radio show on FM San José. He has also managed to record
these objects on videotape.
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- Cachi, located 150 kilometers south of the provincial
capital and some 2,200 meters high, has become a worldwide center of interest
for lovers of this mysterious and intriguing subject.
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- Martin has returned to this locale once more since last
week and is attempting a new ascent of El Nevado, 6,380 meters above sea
level, this time heading a team of 8 mountaineers. "The day I took
the photo--around noon- the skies were clear, cloudless, the sun was shining,
there was no wind, and the temperature was quite pleasant," Martín
told Zuleta, who in turn forwarded a transcript of the sportsman's statements
to El Tribuno.
- The Las Pailas UFO Case is analogous to the one experienced
by a married couple from Chaco -- engineers Cesar Cotichelli and Graciela
Cedro, who were returning from San Antonio de los Cobres in July 2004 heading
toward the provincial capital. They stopped between the towns of Ingeneiro
Maury and Chorrillos and took some photos which, upon developing, showed
a UFO similar to the one in the shot taken by the Buenos Aires mountain
climber.
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- "We had the negatives analyzed in detail,"
said Cotichelli, "and it was clear that were were no faults nor problems
of a chemical nature. Furthermore, the objects on our negatives reflected
the sun's rays, proof that the object was of a solid nature."
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- The images in question were taken on International Hwy.
51 "Mario Banchik", 80 km. from the provincial seat, at the
midpoint between Ingeniero Maury and Chorrillos in the municipality of
Campo Quijano.
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- This area is similar--as far as landscapte and geological
characteristics are concerned--to Cachi and is known as a "producer"
of reports involving UFOs.
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- The UFOs appearing in the photographs of the Cotichelli-Cedro
couple appeared in the 07.25.04 issue (p.49) of this newspaper. They were
identical to the one photogrphed by the mountain climber in Cachi, being
amber in color.
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- Translation (c) 2005, Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic
Ufology. Special thanks to Mercedes Casas.
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