PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION no t reported multipl-e 10. BRIEl' SUMMARY 0, SIGHIINO 11. COMMENTS ~-:?wspaper :trtic a stating that objects Let:-r:er dispatched to .1\ttache in fell fro:n sky and were recov.gred :.:1 Bog-ata wi t h requ~st to recover Arenda, CJlumbia, South Americ~. o~jects i f 90ssible. , eply itldi- cated tha t the p i eces of tnetal l1ad uee n t urne d over t o the Colur- baan ~:ecuri ty Po lice .. Al.::;o t!1ere ar:.1 on date o1 1 ptd 3ightittr; & l~c~t~d (could not. lJc luc:~ted). B/Ltr tr ATIC to Olll-111 . UFO Sigbti ag -Sr. Ricardo L. AFOD-lAl-11 3rd Tnd Dept at tbe Air Force, Hq USAF, Wubi.Dgton 25, D. C. to InYestigate TOt , .Air Technical Intelligence Center, wright Patterson ASr Force Baee, Ohio. Air Technical Intelligence Center# Wright Patterson Air Force Base (Dayton, Ohio).-U.S.A. - Remite: Ricardo L. Torrijos de Pefiafiel Apartado A~reo I 7 50 5 . ' Bogotl (Colombia).- N OTICIA A PARECIDA E N E L P ERIODICO "EL INTERM:Sj)I O ' '. DE JULIO 7./56 P latillos Voladores? EXTRA~O O:BJETO :-:IZO EXPLOSION SOBRE EL CEMENTERIO DE ARAN.tJA Pasto. 6. -Las leyendas modernas sobre existencia de "Platillos Voladores cobraron hoy gran actualidad. En e fecto, un senor de apellido Luna, quien pres ta sus servicios en el cementerio de Nuestra Senora del Carmen, s e presentb :- ayer a la Emisora Ecos de Pasto llevando extranos trozos metalicos, restos al parecer. de rm artefacto b~lico. Las particulas fueron recogidas en el campo- santo. ubicado en Aranda. a eso de las 8 y 30 de la noche despues de ser escu- chadas ocho violentas y ensordecedoras explosiones. - Dice el senor Luna que el espacio se cubrib con una espesa nube de hu mo azul tan intensamente brillante que tuvo que aplicarse en los ojos un paftue-- lo hfunedo.- Los restos hallados por el senor Luna fueron entregados al SIC a fin - de establecer su origen. Las gentes de Aranda se hallan intrigadas con el extra ' ~o insuceso y esperan ansiosas conocer las causas del fenbmeno. -/ We 1a rec-eipt :Jf a lett3:F t'l"om :9~gota, Col3b1a -aitteD 1n lD truala.t1!1g it, w t'o,t'l4 that thu obsa:rteza (senor ) ol>Mrved :m obj ;.:c:t (t1r~foaU Jr: nJeteoritef) which he '!!eseribed aa a "aaucer. ':!"71e !ign!..fieant thing 1s i: t this ~bjec't e.tolode4 ill the and he nOW' ( ...;:.Q -:.JIB) '4o nave J;.il.:~ea L1 hta p;,nr-~ 3&:1 on :iatlaw than di.Jl"':!~:.rtl the : d "eer, I i!Jtend t.o ,r~C!ed v!.t.h the :m ~ s.samtpt::...ln t.bt he r&"f have a ptcee ~ a. :uetailrite or 1 trca Juterr :;pace, which 1a daf'1n1 tely of interest to the b. 3uJ:D1t :'1:ldizles, opinions, etc., on a 112. c. t & 3J)<!ei:~:l ctr the ubJect vith tbe rep~t. u ita part It it is meteoric ot a torti tla can or ox cart 11'heel, lie ve . or part ot saucer) --ou:r gain! lost nothing. From :he newspaper ~EL Inter.medio on July 7, 1956 - - - Flying Saucere? Strange object made an explosion over the Cemete.ry ot A.cande. ..to\. man \vho worlcs in the cemetery, whose name is Luna, brought pieces of metal wh1ch he pick~d up after a number ot explosions. He said the object was like a blue cloud and so bright that he had to protect his eyes. The pieces which he found were handed to the SIC AIR'.!J'EOtNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER WRIGHTPATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE uest to Invest te UFO Sighting -Sr. Director of Intelligence Headquarters. USAJ' AT'l'N' ~OIN-1 41 Washington 25, D. c o. s. Air Attache American Embassy Bogota. Colombia 1. In accordance with provisions ot AFR 200-2, dated JUl i~ )I) 12 A~t 1954, request that the Air Attache. Bogota, Colombia initiate action to investigate incident submitted in letter tram Sr. and the results made known to the Air Technical Inte~ligence Center. 2. Further, request sao1ple specimens of alleged object be o~tained for analysis by thi s Center, if preliminary investigation i~dieates specimens cannot be identified either as to composition or a e J)art of man-made objects. f'JJeteoric :fragments, assuming specimens to be sucn, are of interest to the Air Force a nd should be submdtted a s ~art ot any report on this i ncident 3 A revie,. cates that pieces tion known as the 1. Cy ltr tr Sr. vf a brief tr~nslation, c opy attached, indi- of tlle object "'-'~re turned over to an org!lniza- SIC. This organization js unknown to this Bosota, Colomb 2. Cy Spot Translation B/ltr ta ATIC to OTJI-lAl dtc1 23 Jul. 56, UFO Sigbttng -Sr. st t o Tnvt~tstigate APOD-lAl-11 Dept or tbe Air Foree, Bq USAIP, Washington 25, D. C. TO: U. s. Air Attache, Ameriean '-~ s.y, Bo!Ota, Colombia OFFICE 0:' THE AIR ATTACHE, US Embassy, Bogota, Colombia~ 10 Sep 56 . THft.U: Director of Intelligence, Hq USAF, Attn: AFOI N-LU, ~Jash, DC TO: Conmander, Air Technical Intelligence Center, ,;right-Patterson 1. Following in!'or-na.tion is offered in reply to b::.sic communi- a. Aranda. is a s11B.ll village near ~asto in So~tthwest Cololl'lbia, .3 da~rs driving and approxi."'l.rt tely 2 hours fl:'L'1g time fro-a 13op,ota, with no conmercial aviat i on scheduled. As the lmdersi rned i s .1ot assigned a n aircraft a'ld the only officer assigned this o.ffice, i t \"qs impossible to make a pe~so~al visit t o Ar anda b. SIC is th~ abbreviation of the na.'!le of the ~:At.ional Colom- bian Securit~' Police. Interview with the officers of SIC in Eoeota in- dicates no info~tion is available to the Colombian r.~vern~ent concern- ing UFO sightL~gs or n eteoric fragments in the Aranda-Pasto a rea. Practice light artillery firing was accomplished by the Colo~bian Army Calvary Group stationed at Pasto in t he vicinity of Past o and Aranda for several days around 6 July c. I t is believed that fraements mentioned in basic communi- cation ~y possibly be fraements of 40mm or 20mm tracer used L& the practice firing. It is known from personal experience in viewing demon- strations in "'lid-July in Bogota that 40nm tracer ammuniti on was fired directly over ho~es in Bogota into a hillside without any cons i deration for civilian safet y in c ase of short rounds. ; B/ltr fm ATIC to OIN-lAl w/lst Ind to OAIRA, Bogota, Colombia, dtd 2.3 Jul 56; subj: Request to Investigate UFO Sighting d. Unable to locate Sr. at the address given. SIC has been requested to inue to form his office of any further information on the subject. Several articles have ap- peared recently in Colombian newspapers jesting at observers' reports of articles seen in the sky as fig1aents of imagination. G W CRABBE Colonel, USAF Air Attahc&