- An Alert in San Lorenzo
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- Woman reports seeing unidentified flying object near
San Lorenzo. Notified duty officer at Empedrado Prefecture and the search
commenced immediately. According to witness, who was driving along Route
12 at around 6:30 a.m., a brightness lit up the road. It was a fireball
in free-fall, she said.
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- Elements fo the Provincial Police, the National Gendarmes
and the Naval Prefecture carried out a broad joint operation in the jurisdiction
of Saladas, near San Lorenzo, in order to determine the truth of a complaint
made by a woman who, driving toward that area, saw a fireball falling toward
the ground bordering the Parana River.
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- According to the report, filed yesterday at 6:30 a.m
at the Empedrado barracks of the Naval Prefecture, the glow moved from
southeast to northwest. "It was a fireball, like a small plane disintegrating
after an explosion."
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- This was description given of the UFO that the driver
gave to the Prefecture duty officer. Elements immediately reported this
to the San Lorenzo Sherriff's Office and the combing operation and information
sharing began shortly after. The Gendarmerie also provided a support group.
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- The sun was not quite up when the uniformed personnel
made their way across the alleged impact zone. They inspected the fields
adjacent to the river, the ranches and all of the San Lorenzo rural area,
but no one found traces of the object sought.
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- Most of the locals were interrogated but none of them
even heard their dogs bark. For this reason the unsuccessful field operation
was transferred to the communication rooms of the teams involved in the
operation.
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- It was then that the story fo a member of the road control
police of Cuatro Bocas (Saladas) became known. Accoridng to this police
officer, an eyewitness to the event, the glow truly existed, but at a greater
height than a private plane can reach in flight. This possibility was dismissed
in order to concentrate on the likelihood of a meteor impact.
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- The search continued but no trace of rock or space junk
was found. A communiquÈ was issued from the Empedrado Prefectture
to the barracks at Goya, Bella Vista and Corrientes. By evening, nothing
further was known about the matter, according to a report by prefect Andres
Ramirez to this newspaper. Ramirez is a subofficer with the national naval
institution located on the "Pearl of the Paran· River".
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- Nor was any information forthcoming from the Saladas
Regional Unit of the Corrientes Police. But investigation will proceed
until some element is found that can substantiate the report made by the
driver, whose name was not released.
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- Note: the San Lorenzo and Empedrado regions of the Province
of Corrientes are on the Paran· River, facing the coastline of Chaco
Province.,
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- Translation (c) 2005, Scott Corrales, IHU. Special thanks
to Christian Quintero, Planeta UFO.
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- Argentina - Commotion Over Chaco Flying Object Continues
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- Corriente Noticias
- July 15, 2005
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- ARGENTINA: COMMOTION OVER CHACO FLYING OBJECT CONTINUES
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- One of the eyewitness accounts came from Sergio Acosta,
who said that between 6:05 and 6:10 yesterday, as he was throwing out the
trash, he noticed "a powerful light that lit up the sky." He
informed LT-16 Radio Santa Esmeralda that he " looked upward and saw
a something like a giant star, flying at high speed, at an altitude that
did not exceed 1000 to 1500 meters in an East to West direction until it
became lost in the horizon."
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- Apparently he was so alarmed by the strange object's
flight pattern that some details were burned into his mind. "It lost
a chunk of its luminous body in flight, and in its rear it had something
like a "little tail" following it at a close distance, like a
hot coal, as thought it was a jet engine or navigation light. But it was
a very large object," Acosta remarked.
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- This was one of the most detailed accounts of the sighting.
But there were at least 4 other witneses who claimed having seen this light
with similar charactersitcs -- and at the same time -- crossing the skue.
It was even said that one of the witnesses made a drawing to depict the
object he had seen.
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- When asked if it could have been an airplane, he said
it was unlikely because: "it was noiseless. It drew my attention because
it was [flying] in total silence. I thought it was a shooting star, but
I've seen shooting stars before and they make a whistling sound. This one
made no noise whatsoever."
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- "Furthermore it wasn't fiery colored, but rather
had the same color as a star; like a satellite, but very large, and it
even titilated. It was sof ast that it took between six and ten seconds
to cross the sky, which was completely clear." He aslo remarked that
"I looked to see if ti would fall, but it didn't. It crossed the horizon.
I'm not sure if it fell later on. I say it was a UFO because I have no
other way of describing it," said this witness.
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- "I saw that thing, and night was turned into day.
It lit up everything," said Cesar Gustavo Blanco to a local FM station.
Blanco is a rural worker who was on his way to his field, north of Napenay.
Nervous aftr having seen the object for which he was still trying to find
an earthly explanation, he said: "I turned off my pickup truck's engine,
because I was shocked. and there was silence. But I could hear something,
like a whistling sound, and I felt fear, because that was really the sound
of silence," he insisted.
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- SOURCE: Corrientes Noticias - http://www.corrientesnoticias.com.ar
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