PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. '-OC~TION 3. OATr:TI.'A2 G~OU~ ,(, T 'l' ?E Or 09SERVATION 13 GrovndVisuol D Ground-Rode" 12. CONCLUS&OHS Wo-. Balloon P robobly Balloon Po~ui bly Balloon C A.i,..VIsuol 0 Alr-lnhtrc-.pt Rodor Wen Ahcroft Probably Aircraft Po ssi h1 y Ai rcroh o. S::)IJ~Ce 7. LENGTH OF 09SE~VAT!OH JMaER OJ' 0!3JECTS 9. COU~Sc 10. BRfEfl SUMMA~Y OP' SIGHTING t:-roundin-:; object. t..'lE~V 3t:.ll in 301.:th. s i l V\3r:-r Hi th gl o .... r Ob~e r va d e.~ 7 5 d ~g Straight fli~ht to 45 deg Du=~tio~ o~e uin o r less. 11. COMMENTS ol'f:..c~r. Wo-. Astronomical Pr obobl y Astronomleol Pos.aibly AJtronofftieol 0 Jn~uHicient Dtrtn for Evoluo t i ..,,. C:on-:ur rith ''l'~\,t. t!lti! !1 tppt:rtcd 0 1\ <L v ery j,ohtecl fum Stt~.,ted3 km. fio m t h e town ofTranr.ts and <dJ,>ll t 7<;.~ b n . north 01. the Pr O\'incial C . tpital ofTucum.\n . T ht:'"e wrc Pin people in the ho u:>e, the s c\:cnt;-- t : vo ->c:lrold Scr}.;r Antonio ~f reuo, hi1 \if<~ agt'rl stxty-tltrec, three of their a d u lt d,tu;~hten; , three children o f on~ of th ese dau .. ;htcrs, and a fiJ'tten- -o!d :-cr:ant g i rl. It m ust be cmphas iscu that t!te :\ [01'('11(, :.~mi: >.are n o t peasants or ifl-educdtccl folk, bu~ i :-:,?or~".r.t people in the Province, t ltcir son D r . :\ I):etw tying a COitnsdlor to the municipal g ovr:tnme;;: of"i'uc11:n;ln Citr. I It w.1~ 9.:3fJ J.l.m. o n _O.C:t~r ~! . l~fjJ., a n d the l hou;.:hotJ ' 'ere prez.nnng to go t n o~d, whe n the mairh cr. :1 !~ Dora ~fartin Guzm~Ln looked o ve r to,.~arcl> ~:~c ::-ack.-> _of th e Bclgrano Rail way Line, w ntch lJ l.::i -es :1t a d!.st:lncc of a b o u t 300 yard~ from the h o t)e. 3 had n o ticed somr~hinrr intenscly e stab 'i'ih t' _ t here \Verc n 'Jw at :::.1-.t f!\c o f the rli scs hovt-.:;~ l'r'ar che h ou5r., t '.\ ljf them b eing onlv about -; j vard:, d istant. She <.:"lc h e r hn!:>hand state tha t .. :: the mach inc" w e re a :>'In t 8 metres (26 feet) :~ d iameter . The b t ightl;: i ilumina ted inte ri o r of t!1e machines could Le "en1 through a r o w o f ~ix portho l es in their ccnrral r~l.l'l, and Senor :\l.:-:-~.10 stated that at on~ ~-:~e h e could see tl.;ur <!iLonetted at the porth "!..: The ~t~.) :.\s nca r t h e house ,.,.ere :,~!y thirt; o r fi)rty feet ~:-.:-.:1 tl.e g:-oun d , and :.2 'f'a:-ed to be s u pporte d by a jf't of g..1s." The ltu..,inous beam s cnnt in 1:ed l) sserp the hou~e and :; u d e 11. These con~i:>tc:J of one; white " tubular ' ' bc:~m from on e macht::e, and nne:: r cd (lhh-\'iotet ' tubular" beam f10m tL e o ther , and the insi h nf the house w~:; uow like a fut n.1ec. Th': ~rnreno fumil> laid p articubr cmphasi.; on the fa~r th.,lt ux !ike ordinary E.,ht , th.::se beams did not f.1n out, but kept their sh:1pe, "as thou g h solid". o ,e o f the accounts adch that the beams gave o ff a w~iti:ih gas, and speaks o f "a sort of h o wling n o ise ' ' tha t accompanied t~e beam . Ar r 4 5 minutes spent in their terrifying s i t uci- tion, t he ~ f<.,r en os saw the CFO which was o n th~ railway tra~:..k r~:ie u p into the air and b egin to rnuve away. At once: t h e others be~p:-1. to folln w suit. The beams oi' tin sling light were t u:-ncd off anJ the Hotilla s-....-ent J: .... J.; over th e house to w ards the s: rr a d e ~!c-:!:~:1 :-.an,5e, flying quite lov.. T :tr: stup~ =:e,: -:nss n o w began to h mvl fear fully, and k ept it ...:.;. !',~:-'Orne time. I n the garde n , "a thic k m is t lookiug like smoke ~ncl ~melling l i k c sulphur" huug o v,..r the trccs and ver;rt.n.ion f~1r .;orne ti m e, ~u1ci a jo11nn.Jis t '"hu c. m e tu the house nex t d a y ,.,To te that the a b - n0r:-;tal hc:1t md sulp h u rot!S smell wen:: stiJI q uite noticca!.>le i n chc r O t)TilS. ~ "Xt J ay, a p o lice iu~pt>ctor was sent from '\:t'GJntina lumint)US o n the line, an<l ...... h .tt ,,( I'P"td tn l)f' a IlltTI\1 et or 11\t'Il Jl)(l\ in~ to :lt!d Iiu arou tl(l it. The po;,sil.Jilit\. of '"''rhntcn l>ciwr <'IW.t"cd i a m .. 1in tcn.1nce 'Jf the p t-rut:tncnt way a t tlt.tt time o f night Wds out of tlw tl't<'Sl i0 n, ~o natural~\ tlw ~[orcno f~lmily decided th~H au an irknt 'mtt,.,t h.1ve o ccurre d o n th e r .. tilwa r lin e. To tn.tke '\ttrc, one o f the youn3 wome n , Sci1ora .Jtdia .\fprertr> de C o loLti, atjcd t\Hnt~-one, wt:n t out i~ttu the g<trdt>n to take a clo'ic r lonk, a1td tlttrc ~he ~.lw xanh- what the rn:tichcrYan t had seen, n"lmck "!>ome- Lhin.~ li ke a small tr:1in, intensd~ i llur{1inatt'd and she could dear!>-:.cc figures mo\in;; Llbou t At this p oin t there:: is some d iscr tpanc y in tlw v ario u!) reports. S0 m c say th:.tt Sciil'l'rt J u lia and h e r m othe r D oih 'l''crrc;:t K a it us <lr :\l o r cno both w a lking acrw" the garden tnwards the:: front gate, \hilc o~hcrs sa\ t !t,H the dauo-hter alo ne did th is. \ \"ltoc\'er i t ~v~1!1, hO\vcnr, t, ;rned back again to bet a l,ultcrn, and ~t;t t hi-; u p some- whe r e ncar the t;:.lt<, presumabl y intending to I entu re out further in the dire c tion of the mytery. 1 In the m e :lnti mt-t !tey h a d s ee n som ething d eci ded-1 ly odd h appe n o n the r ailwa y l ine, fo r it seemed as j thou g h o r1e half o f the lumino u" "train, sudd e n.ly 1 s h o t away from the rc~t. It fle w , j u:;t sk imming abme the ~rounu, fr>r <t di')tanc~ or h:df a m ile or so, ) anci CfJIItd clear!> b~ sten to consi..;t o f thrc .. ; 1 circubr objects . Xot one of the accrn m t" is very .1 clea r at this point. Prrsumahly three of the si~: c c r:1ft h a d re m ained on t he railwc~y, and the tlnc:e n. tha t ltad tlown ;nvay cam e b:tc k ag,t in shortly s afterwards. ~Icanwhilc, as oon ac; the w o men had se t up t h e lante r n, a n d a;, t hou\{h in rc:,ponsc to it , one of r: 1c [ b r ifliant beam s o!' lt~ht em:tnating frorn Ollt: CJf t h e t machine-; un c'r above the raih ,ay n ack at once t tilt ned from white to \:ole t, and was switc hed r rou n d so as to play upon the tw o w onu.:n in the t garden. They immed iateir w e r e O\'crcome by suflcoatin~ heat, and prickling-o r (inglin~c;er!s~\ti(ms in the body, a n d wc-re obliged to run b ack into t!:e t The b eam n o w t urned from violet to red, and W:'.S playin~, stt-adily upon the h o u se . ; Ins ide, the terrified fa m ily proceed e d t 0 h id e the child rc:n i n differe n t place$ in the honse, <lnd for the ~ next fort v minutes they a ll cowcr~d there in . too. I n brief, it lou "-"i as though t h e 'l tanc:l..; c.utu11 was a d<.:fen~i\'t rather tlun an offcn i \ c or a man- hun t ing o perat irm. B 'l t why thit: pen\h;~Ia for hndinr~ 0 1 our 1 :t i! w a y tracks? There han alrc:-acly b een q uite a nurr.her of C<hc:c; with this ll:awre, Pll...l I l1",h' t in t come o f our :-.cic:n tific fr irnd:i <t re t!,inking about ir. O ne thinll is cvi dc~nc: Tr;,nr;) li'"'" wirhin th~ I n ,u i~ Otle ui t hl" f(:rrorna.5rtc(it <l,.mtn t:. hit t h i" thac: d m\"' tht-:n t o ottr railway lil('S., Ar:; vr~t. in~ Sao .Andre5 (.Provine~ of Tucu1nan Ac,:or-:::,-{ to the d ttily La Gact!ta, ofQY.~'ft: ~ a cc:r ::L. 1 Sc:.ftm R o bf'rto C a pd<.:vilta was driviug h nm':! c.--. ~}le p 1cvio us e\:enin~ when, on :\atin~t.al Hish., ~: ~o. 9, h e b ch d d a lu m inous red oLjcc:t su!)pe;c, 1 ~bo,e t he si<le of the roaJ . lie c-~timated t hn.t i : ,\;-. l t a bout fiO m e t re:<; from thf' g rounrl and a bod -,, 1 met res c\i.)tLmt fr<'m h is ca r, and h e had it ur~e: Jbsrrvati o n fp r a bou t four minnt..:.... ET~ d escri':;..-d the objAct as lo o king " like hctlf iHl oran~ " . [ t t:'-c n tua ll y di3a p pe arcd slo\-. ly t o - ward s : h e .,ou th. foll:-Jwin'l L~ qu'Jt~d from -l n lnr.r;lr!- " On Oct. 29th ~nd ~!ov. 27th, l'J~,_, Dr. J.Jme::; C . !:rccn.:crr: Jfl'J :sl least fo~: o:.;,er astronomer:: tlt fLHJStaff, "rizon~, clc.1rly oiJ(r;E:cJ o n nr ne~r the ;o~:H1 :31 ~pot5,' J.hich turn.1d out to be hut]r. sr<"~cr::::;hips. ,'\ft~r much consult~:..:o~ u.:ith the co-:.citn~!;Je'3 <1ncJ C:>f1'1Cially the Air rorci!~ rn fin=1ll y publi~hed :.he breath-till<ing nxpcrir!ncc, a fe"JJ detail~ ;)t :1 ti:n~. "These 3 1 cr<Jf t .IJ ~re f)ir);Jnlic , r ;,nqinf'} in sizr! fro:;, ;J:J.,ut 1 , CCJO feet clcro~5 to three mile::::. Y~t., from the ob:;f"!rv~r::; vious t nat a t least SO:il::! C,. thr.~e shins :A:'H'r.! rr.ovinq ijJhilc th~l \.U !CB t1ainq w.:1tch8 d . They l.l.~'~re sym~c t: i':i::!l ;.lnd of v n r ious color!;, u,hich ::'it tim-t'; ~:Jr~rc brilli3n~. These circular, c ;lindric~ll, dl.1:7~oncJ-:h=:~pod 'lnt1 U-:h.1;1t::d ~pot'j' t=~1:!re g!'cu:;P::i into five difft:::-:!'1t ')'!om~tricr)l for.,.:.ttionr;: an o v~l. t .o ctrcl ., ar.c l..a ~:::L~ln-tc~t-tu~r. o~':te?:-n:;, o n e of u.:hich l;,:;t~d f o r one hour o~nd fif- "~nd th~t~ no~ ~111 tween th~sc 'snot~ th~rc rc 'tiny rl~t s.' Th~ Bx:>r? =5ion, o f cour!:;c, .:.s very misle1d.in ') , fa: th~"?se so-c:lllr.rJ 1drJt'.' h"Jd to bg ~t :23st 500 feet ~c:os~ since they rc di~ccrnibl~. The y U.:'!r'! ~h~tc, and they '=~n along ' thR l~::1~r ones ~hich ~t ti~cs w8r~ ruhy in co;n~. Dr. Creena!:re s~ id tha t the dis:-11~'/ rcminde1 hin of ont? of 'lur a .un m~tn-'1i1'1>,! d.-.- vices: a set of electric lig~ts ~oin1 on ~n1 off nr:co:dln~ tQ ~n int~!ll rttly c .Jntrolle d rhy~hr.:. Ye~, in :;;:i.t~ of hi~ v:~l!-'-:n-:;:.:n arJ.1mnnt forli'P.r -::--er:tici.:;-, in regard to reuort s o~ chan')es o n the lun~r ::urfacr.!, h:'ld P.n'JU'"Jh h'Jne~t.y ~.,d coura')e to a:kn~!L'led'J~ til'1l thi~ --;:1ec tn::..;lrsr :hou: tJn Lhe ~oon rr~::iinrJcrJ hi:n of ~ naon s i g n ~ade u n of re~ ~nd whit e liqht~ 'chd~in1 n~ch o~hcr' ~era it. "~ few scientists had qu~:~ed th~t the~c 'calor~' re ju-:t clourJ~. But last rray, ::l!'. Greenacr~ f..:i.lnhrd.i-=,:,llf' ~t;) j t h;:1t tr.c--:~ n~r~no--~n, 'J:I'!tf! n0t cl-:Jud~ of ~ny kind " r~ ""u-t<i ':'<"'rt ()"''!'t' mon"' to file'"'~' ~nly. l'lt , ~loll Ph~om n R~ lrth c~"Uli,~lo<H" is .. ron-ptofit orovl') dt"<fic .. led o ,.,. tv-nru.l J,Olue;.,., of th. m ysl ... y (ContintUd fr(}fn Pagt One) (!~ ty. lf tne disc s:mlc through the water "1.1 1 in t urn the mud ~5 the boiling up ")t ,.;:~ter and then mud se-em to indic:tte, it m~Y have proceeded ~hrougb the mud- -.!.:~ river bed to solid :-xk underneath. I 1 crt1Pr t o fully a..'-Sess the meanint o~ this incident which !s i'retty well es tnllished as having oc=urred, we must t-.1!\e inhl consideration 3 !1 or the factors. ! 1ougb mine detecton were t:sed and the 3rldlian equivalent of the Civil En ;hc:~rs .1ttempted finding and salvaging th~ ui5C, r~.!ports do not indicate any SUC <C~3s. of any ldnd, not ~en the location v ! the disc. 'ttt! must considet' t~e possibility that t disc, .alter settling to the bottom, ~ :.:,er pr,~eeded through locomotion of :0;-:e sort away f,"'m its mi!ial resting ?:3c~ and i.5 not now in t!le originJI s pot. :: IJ, .it c~uld b e anywhere in that .river. \ ....... th~ .;ize indiC3tes that it may have -c~n manned and if so perhaps repairs =-cn\j bP. 3iiected under water and es : l!='~ crom thP. river and the mud accom ):i.>h~ durini Ute night hours, 3t some spot more isolated than where it origin ally san!c. UFOS or various ty s hJve be~n se~.n going Into and coming o ut of tb~ ,,;~t~r 39 we must not .1ssume that this particu Jar disc is n ecessarily t:~pped even though it is a tempting assumption to m:'l:ce: 1'1me w ill t~tl nnd It rl'JY b.a thlt the cisc will be pulled out oi the river eventually. It may be, too, that other UFOs have already come to th~ disc's aid and have either destroyed or salvaged. On the 31s t or October 1S53, nut(.> d e ~ S ouz.1, 0-y'-!:liol u ~:m~:,ter o f I::1iti!:1 tle I Souza who live ncar l guape, Brazil, h eard I a stnm$.!~ and inc r e a sing r oar and on l ooking to :;cc .. .,.here it ce~ml! from, wJs terrified to observe a silvery object com ' ink! tow1rd the river n ear her }1nuse. The object soarcrt over her hous~. lh~n .above h er, struck a palm tree near the t o p and i'P:jan t o "writh~ and struggle in the air a bove the river. Then it ! e ll into th~ P~ropava River n ear t!1e opposite shore . Rutc began to run to h e r h ouse? to t ell h e r .'.!other, and met her l\tolhing coming oqt. l\lrs. de Douza had also heard the r ot\r and r a n to inv~stigate. Shortly Raul de Sou! a, Rute's uncle, came upon the scene. He, too, h a d heard the roar where he w.1s working about 300 fe e t f ro m th~ h~'ttse. All three stood in ~mazement as 1'1.~ only s imilar incident we h~Y'e ]oJ~ ed in APflO files is lhe incident which took pl3ce oH the coast of V enezuela ~n the 13~:, of December 1956. A s wedi'sh tht!y watched the water "boil up" in the ship ""ired the harbor control at L3 Gu.1i- . spot where the disc !l:td faahm. The wate r ra say jng tha t a strange, cone-shaped ob- ject w1s fllling vertic31ly into the sea, that it was very brilliant .1:1d ~ave off "strlng e glares." The time was 9 : 50 p . m. and the obj~ct was seen by the Cap- bin .1nd several of the crew. 'When the object hit the water an explosion was h e.1rd, then the sea where the object fell b ecame brilliantly colored. After the col ors subsided the sea became very disturb ed with a "boiling motion," which ron tinued for some time. It is not known whether or not the ob- ject w.1s in trouble in this incident but there is a similarity between the f ore going sighting .t nd the disc which f ell Into the P eropltva River. continued to sur~e up, f ollowed by an eruption of muddy water and then mud. On the opposite shore of the rive r fish ermen i:~cluc.ling Japanese Tetsuo Joshi gawa h1d witnessed tne event and it was {rom Ioshi~awa that investigators a~d rc p orters obtaioed sufficient description that led to the estimation of-size of the ohject-ahout 25 feet in diameter. All d escribed the d i sc as like oolished alum- inum and shaped like a "wash basin." The object appeared to be at a bont 20 feet altitude when it hit the tree. It wns in level night until that time and Clter it struck it beg3n its gyrations which led to ~he conclusion of the witnesses that 1t WJ S e xpt-riencing trouble of some sort. During the e n um:~ weeks, divers o ( V;J ious s orts bc~:H to :ttlempt 3 salv.a~l! O;Jeratinn . At iirst, <lalt'rs usin g only face n:.\ 's triec1 hul ! .lll4d. to be followed b : S.~uha divers arHl , ... cntu.-alty a prof~s- s : '11 dl! p ::;c .l dn. tr wt!h iuH d tvtn suit and tti't" coni(H ~'''or ,.~rne to :Jt i c mpt t o Ioatc th~ di~; , , \ l La I 'f'port, nvthJrl ~ h~d b~cn fou ncl - d :tll the divers <.:urn phi ned o f t !w II '" P''' "'~ l'fiect of the , mud :tt th~ br,ttn th-! Ji:;c ;:hlnk ""' lt . ,. rnu r4Jy bottom comprised of .1h' l\l 't ot mud and Tha f~Howing account is -:.-.ken from the A.P.R.O. BULLETIN for Jonuary, 1964, publi~hed from 414:i E.Desert Place, Tucson, Arizonc1 U.S.A. and is r cprint11d by parmi!iston. The FLYING SAUCER REVIEW's latest information is that because of the difficult conditions the search ha~ had to be abandoned. '\ O(to!Ja 3 1, l 9 h3, R11te de Soul a, 8-yca r-nlc.l .:~tv.:!i~c=-o f Elid ia de Scm2.l ,\ho Ji\e ncar l g \ !cl ..... ..-, 1~razil, h e.uo a :">trangi~ cUH.l inc tcasing r<1ar a l<.l >,"'. looki n g to sec when; it came from, was rr:.: d i0 uh' rve ~ ilvcrr ....'~t:~t coming v,w::trd t h e :-! ::r near hr ho~tsc. Tht. objrc t smu cu ove r he:-... c; then a bo\e her , S~'t:ck a palm tree nr.ar t h e r ' )and b(;'rr~u1 ro ''wr iti. and strug,rlc in t h e a=r:. r ve t h e river. T }wn it ~.l into the Pcrop~va R1' '":." Hear t he oppo ite ~hore. h :~ began to nm to he r honsc to tell Ite r ~tn:'1<i, and met h e r coming nqt. 1\frs. de Souza h-.~ :1: ' 0 heard the r oar a ile_ ran t o investigate. s:. 1--:.,. Ra11l de Souza, R1::~?.:, uncle, came upon tht ~ ... ;j . H:o, too , hal hca rc! ,.,._f't~ar '"" h ere he was '-" : i:--.; C~.l~<,u~ 300 feet fro r.. :i"".e house. All three s: . ... u iii r.:~ ;tzement as the,-,,:;uchr.d the w a ter "tc. ,;>'' in the ~20t where t -.e ~i:;c had faliC'n. The w ,1 : contin11cd to lilt:3e t.~, foll<>wc~<l hy an ct ur. "n nf rn11dd v w<\le r ar.C.: th cn mud. () . th e o;>prJ~ite 'ihorc: o f the river fish erme n in- cluo:.:.~ J p"lneo;;e T c tsuo Ioshi,~awa h td wit n essed ~he cve:1t and it was from Io.;Li~<twn that invc~riga to rs and reporte rs obtained s u fiirient descriptirm tha t led tv the estimation o f ~ize of the ol~ject abo u t 25 fr e t in diamete r. :\!1 described the di' c as like a ''wa.:-;!l basin". The object appear ed to be at a l,rJUt 20 feet altitude w hen it h it the tree. It was in lc \ tl fli~ht until that time and ;\ft~r i t s truck it h c!_;an it~ gyrations which ){:cl tu the conclusion of the.: win t""es that i t w a s exp eriencing trouble of some so rt. lJt:ri:--,; ~he cnsuin5 v