Strong testimonials after the fall of an UFO in Argentina – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

On Saturday, May 6, 1978, an event marked the history of South American ufology. At 4:30 pm in Bolivia, one of the most important events related to the UFO phenomenon occurred.

An intense flash was seen as never before and was observed within a radius of about 150 kilometers. Almost at the same time, a terrifying explosion rocked hundreds of square kilometers of a mountainous and sparsely populated area.

250 kilometers away, the populations of Salta, Oran, Tartagal, Aguas Blancas and Colonia Santa Rosa clearly perceived the explosion, the tremors and, at a greater distance, the populations of these places have seen intense light.

In reality, what was produced was due to an object that had rushed from the space and crashed into the foothills of the El Zaire hill, located in the Bolivian department. from Tarija, on the border with Salta. On another hill called El Cabildo, just 30 kilometers from the impact area, three miners belonging to the Bolivian Mining Bank, based in La Paz, were conducting prospecting work. With them was the agent of the Border Intelligence Service, Juan Hurtado.

The four were silent witnesses of the fall and when they were replaced, they strictly stated: "We all remained motionless and terrified by the presence of a very strange metallic device that whistled over our heads, just 90 meters high, I calculate, cylindrical in shape, extremely bright, and about 4 meters in diameter and higher than wide, it ended in a conical shape and followed its trajectory, giving off a bluish smoke, perfectly visible from behind, until it crashes violently against the hill of El Zaire, "he said. "The lightning and the immediate explosion were so terrible that they made us throw on the ground and at that moment, the whole earth trembled. An operator of the national office of Tarija, Mario Puca, swears that since the same day, all communications are disturbed.

There were several witnesses who observed perfectly and twice a second object that closely followed the fallen artifact. After the event, NASA scientists arrived and the area was fenced.

As a result, on May 14, a NASA scientist arrived, whose identity was surrounded by secrecy. The man went to study the starry object on Mount El Zaire.

Several members of the National Gendarmerie reported hearing a loud explosion, a very large number of inhabitants of the region, as well as various specialized workers present that day in Tarija, each described in their own way, what They had lived in the time of the conflict. incident:

Tomás de la Torre, director of the school No. 7 of Candadito Chico: "On Saturday, at age 17, while the boys were preparing to leave school, the loud explosion was felt and a trail of smoke was observed in the northwest direction that remained in the area. Space for several minutes, we have all seen it ".

Jesús Ordóñez Carrique: sheep farmer of La Mármora, He recounted "I saw in the sky a huge oval object, steel and shiny, which gave off a thick trail of smoke, then I heard the great explosion that caused the dispersion of the animals so as not to find it again ".

Celestino Guayra Fernández, neighbor of La Mármora He said that after seeing the pbadage of a "flying saucer" (as he defined it), "I had the impression that one of the hills of the mountain range that runs through La Mámora would burst because of the violence of the explosion ".

Matías Saravia, Mayor of Los Toldos: "I did not see anything, but people there said they saw something like the size of a football, which exploded shortly afterwards, letting out a high column of grayish smoke … "

David Abay, maintenance manager of the Treserres sawmillIn Oran, he heard the explosion, and the sawmill employees, 2 km away, said they saw an artifact flying horizontally in the SE-NO direction towards Los Toldos, leaving a trace of reddish-blue lights. Shortly after, they heard the explosion.

Encarnación Chanque, shepherdess of a hamlet called Tierra Loja He reported that at the time of the explosion, he had felt the sensation of an electric current flowing through his body from the bottom up and that he had felt a great fear.