- Claim having seen " a bunch of lights coming out
of a circle". This fact resulted in the presence of the Chief of Police
and the Air Force
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- NEUQUEN (AN).- Luciano Manrique
always thought that people were "talking guff" and the UFOs were
bunk. As of yesterday morning, the boy and the majority of the residents
of Costa de Reyes no longer think that way. "It was a bunch of lights
of all colors, coming out of a circle that had at least 50 meters wide.
All together they were the size of three large trees. It was over the river
for a while and later ran about a kilometer over to the small farms. There
were three of us and we followed it. Then it suddenly shot out something
like many lights together and it looked like it was going to explode...we
ran away quickly, followed it for too long." Luciano, 18, says he
was scared despite the fact of being with his uncles, Carlos and Hilario.
Everything began after 12 midnight, with lights that expanded to the very
coast itself.
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- "I went to bed early. My uncle Carlitos (34) called
me by cell phone and I went out. I always thought that UFOs were guff,"
said the boy from Costa de Reyes, a populated corner of the locality of
Vista Alegre. There, between twelve thirty and two in the morning, an enormous
light like a flying saucer appeared over one of the islands of the Neuquén
River amid the commotion in the neighborhood. Curiosity and intrigue even
reached the Police, which appeared en masse to witness the spectacle and,
of course, to determine what was going on. "I only asked the police,
[they said] that what was seen were blue and yellow lines that came out
of that thing," said Antonia Quialpi, a local woman who abandoned
the comfort of her bed to see the "Flying Saucer".
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- "I woke up on account of the squad cars. Eight patrol
cars arrived in front of the race part. I looked at the commotion through
the window, since when these things happen, the police can seize you as
an eyewitness, and I'm not up to those transactions," said another
neighbor who lives on the access road to the Costa de Reyes jockey club.
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- The object's presence caused the appearence of Walter
Cofre, Neuquen's chief of police, and of police personnel that reported
in from the provincial capital. The Air Force Command in Neuquen was summoned
from the police prefecture itself.
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- "We went after two in the morning and the personnel
remained until dawn. We saw nothing and stayed until dawn. People claim
having seen those lights but we could not ratify it," maintained Santiago
Romero, the director of the Neuquen Airport.
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- Costa de Reyes is located some two kilometers from the
limits of Vista Alegre and its name has nothing to do with royalty. There
is a resident surnamed Reyes who occupied a good segment on the coast in
a place where barricades are being built to keep the Neuquen River from
causing flood damage. "Nothing like this had ever happened before,"
said Antonia Quilapi, the historic resident of the riverside wilderness.
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- Yesterday, the talk of the town was the spectacle that
everyone claimed to have seen in the sky. What was it? Many lights were
coming and going to and from a round large object. "One of our cameras
arived only five minutes late,according to what we were told. I don't know
if there was something, but everyone was up in arms," said Lucio Piancola,
a Channel 7 producer.
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- Residents say that the object vanished rigth above the
house of former town intendant Ernesto Meschini after having been suspended
over the river. From the get-go, the possibility that it could have been
a Police chopper was dismissed. Also dismissed is that any photos may have
been taken from there. If the event replays itself, residents are geared
up for a safari and claim that they will photograph the UFO in order to
keep it from being "unidentified".
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- Translation (c) 2005. Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic
Ufology (IHU).
- Special thanks to Christian Quintero, Planeta UFO.
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