Amazing Humanoid and Alien Entity Encounters in Argentina

The country of Argentina is a land steeped in mystique, culture, and deep history. It is also a place of great mysteries, and for years the country has been considered to be a hotspot for UFO and alien activity. Here we will delve into some strange reports of encounters with various humanoid and alien entities ranging from the odd to the downright outlandishly bizarre. 

In May of 1950, Architect Enrico Carotenuto Bossa, 46, was driving home from a business trip in the region of Epu Pel La Pampa when his attention was captured by a silvery metallic object on the ground ahead. As he approached it, he noticed strange details, such as portholes and a translucent cupola, and when he got nearer he decided to stop his car and examine the thing. He got out of the car and as he approached on foot he could see that the object was saucer-shaped and that it had an open portal on its side. Now most people would have backed out of there at this point, but not Bossa. He instead made the brash decision to climb in through the doorway, and it was a decision he would probably live to regret. 

Within the saucer-like craft, he was immediately hit with a strong odor like ozone and garlic pervading the gloom. As he inched his way into the dim interior he realized that he was in a circular room lined with a row of portholes, very thick, glazed with some transparent material resembling Plexiglas. At the center of the cabin, which was about 3.5m in diameter, was a strange kind of chair occupied by a man around 1.2 to 1.4 m tall, dressed in a lead-gray coverall; his round head, with sparse light-colored hair resting on his chest. Bossa warily approached and could now see that the being’s well-formed hands were “a light tobacco-brown color,” and were tightly gripping two handles that emerged from a black box in front of it. The body looked human, but the eyes were very large and glassy-looking, with dilated pupils that took up almost the whole eye. 

Further proving that he just didn’t know when to get out of there, Bossa reached out and poked the thing’s arm, finding it to be cold and rigid, and he also ran his hand along the being’s suit, which seemed to be made of a material akin to leather. It was only after examining the consoles in front of this dead creature that Bossa noticed there were two others slumped against the walls, both dead as well. He also noticed that there were four chairs in the room, so he began to wonder where the fourth alien was, assuming that it had probably survived and left via the open portal doorway. It was at this point that he was seized by an ill-defined sense of dread, and he backed back out of the craft to the ground below.

Once on the ground, Bossa felt dizzy from breathing normal air again, realizing how difficult to breathe and how heavy the air had been inside the object. Back at his car, he found that the motor wouldn’t start and that the car’s battery had inexplicably been drained dry. With much effort, he was able to finally get it started and went back to tell his friends what he had seen. Interestingly, rather than telling him to lay off the grappa, they went back to the site with him but the craft was no longer there, in its place a pile of smoking silver-red ashes. At that moment the men looked up to see a saucer identical to the one Bossa had encountered, flying over them at an estimated height of 600 meters, with a second identical object hovering above it. Both of these UFOs then headed towards a larger cigar-shaped ship not far away, which they entered and which then made its way out of sight. Bossa claimed to have taken a photo of this, although it is not clear what happened to this picture. Was there any truth to any of this?

In that same year, we have the case of a respected doctor by the name of Enrique Caretenuto Botta. As a seemingly reliable witness, Dr. Enrique Caretenuto Botta has impeccable credentials. A decorated ex-war pilot with a sterling educational history and research record in aeronautical engineering, he was highly sought after by many firms in his native land of Venezuela. In 1950, the then 40-year-old Botta was working at an architectural engineering firm based in Caracas, which had sent him on a business trip to Argentina to work on an ambitious construction project out in the countryside of Buenos Aires. To get to and from the project, he commuted through the sparse rural landscape outside of what at the time was the fairly small city of Bahía Blanca, and it was during one of these drives that he would have a bizarre experience that would change his life forever.

The drive was typically mundane, the area only sparsely inhabited and not much to see out past the windshield and the hypnotizing repetitive landscape flashing by, making it easy to get lost in one’s thoughts. Yet on this evening, his thoughts would be intruded upon by something very anomalous out on a field along the empty road ahead. It appeared to be some sort of metallic, disc-shaped object sitting right on the grass of the field, and it was such an unexpected enough site that Botta slowed down and then stopped his vehicle to get a closer look. His first thought was that it was somehow an aircraft that had come down to land out in that remote expanse, but as he drew closer he could see that it was no ordinary helicopter or plane. When curiosity compelled him to get out of the car and walk closer, he could see that the object was made of a very strange material that appeared metallic but was somewhat spongey and “rubbery” to the touch. After circling the bizarre thing for a few minutes and gliding his hand along this weird surface, Botta claims that he then came to an opening. At this point, he was more curious than scared and decided to go inside.

Once within the mysterious craft, he allegedly saw just a plain metal corridor with a lone blinking red light at the top of the domed top above. As he continued, that flickering red light illuminated a room that had control panels adorned with various blinking lights, knobs, meters, buttons, and switches, the whole of it hovering over a transparent sphere, but this dancing light also outlined what appeared to be a curved divan with four seats. Botta warily approached until the blinking lights revealed to him the outlines of what appeared to be three small, almost child-sized figures only about four feet tall sitting there in the seats motionless. At this point Botta could not see them clearly because of the wavering lighting and the fact that he was behind them, so he crept closer to the figures, wondering who they could possibly be, and as he did he could see that whoever they were they were dressed in some sort of tight-fitting grey coveralls. Botta called out to them but got no response, so he gave into the overwhelming urge to reach out and touch the shoulder of one of them. When he did, he claims that he could feel that the body was rigid and that their skin had a “charred texture.” It seemed that these individuals, whoever or whatever they were, were dead. This was enough to strike Botta with a jolt of fear that sent him scurrying back outside to get into his car and speed off.

When Botta got back to the hotel that he had been staying at, he excitedly told two of his associates about what had happened, and they decided to head back out there the next morning to check it out. When they arrived, the strange craft was gone, and in its place was a large pile of what appeared to be ash. When one of Botta’s companions touched this ash, his hand supposedly turned promptly purple much to the man’s alarm, and that’s when they saw a strange display in the sky above. According to Botta, there were three unidentified objects up there, two discs and a larger cigar-shaped object. These strange objects hovered above them for a few minutes, before suddenly seeming to merge into one, after which this single object emanated a red light and sped off at breathtaking speed to leave them standing there dumbfounded. Botta would claim that for several days after this bizarre incident, his friend’s hand would remain purple where he had touched the pile of ash, and that he himself was plagued by fever and unexplainable blisters and what was like a sunburn on his skin. Doctors were allegedly unable to find any rational cause for these physical symptoms. Dr. Botta would keep the bizarre incident to himself for years before telling it to a man named Horacio Gonzales G., who in turn passed it along to UFO researcher Leon Stringfield, and the report would feature in Stringfield’s book Situation Red.

It is frustrating that this is where the case stands. Only one witness, no matter how seemingly reliable, just doesn't seem to cut it in this day and age. We are left to ask, just what happened to him out there? What were those creatures he saw, and were they really dead? Did their friends perhaps come to retrieve them, and perhaps that is what Botta and his friends saw? How did they end up dead to begin with? What was the pile of ash left behind? Did any of this happen in any sense at all? It is a rather eerie and spooky account, and as with many others like it, there are no real answers.

In 1962 there were several odd reports of alien encounters in quick succession. On May 26, 1962, a woman in the sparsely populated rural province of la Pampa, claimed to have seen a strange bright disc land, out of which lumbered a hulking “robot-like apparition.” The robot seemed to be collecting samples of soil, and when it realized it was being watched it stared at the woman with an inscrutable gaze for some time before entering its craft and shooting off into the sky. The woman’s husband witnessed the disc depart as well, and the woman was supposedly so traumatized by the incident that she was taken to a mental institution for treatment. 

In July of that same year, a 17-year-old youth by the name of Ricardo Limeres was riding his motorcycle along a lonely rural dirt road at night in the vicinity of Parana, Argentina, when out of the gloom a strange-looking figure appeared in the glow of his headlight. Ricardo was startled and tried to swerve and ride away, but apparently, his motorcycle would not obey him, instead being drawn towards the mysterious stranger. The vehicle stopped right in front of the enigmatic being, which the witness could now see stood over six feet tall and had a head “in the shape of a melon” with three eyes. This bizarre entity reportedly tried to grab Ricardo, before ambling off in a robotic manner that was “scarcely human” towards a bright white light in the distance, leaving deep tracks in its wake. The following month there was another strange encounter from the same area, when on August 21 a medical doctor saw a disc with a halo in the sky as he was driving towards the city of Parana with his wife. Right after he saw this UFO he noticed two beings over six feet tall, with light hair and huge eyes, which were carrying “luminous objects” on their foreheads, with which they made signals for the car to halt. The doctor did not halt, instead tearing off into the night in a panic, as most people in their right minds probably would. What exactly was going on here? In October of that year, there was yet another weird alien encounter reported from Argentina, this time from an area between a place called Isla Verde and Monte Maiz. The report was given to police by truck driver Ernesto Donles, who would say of what happened:

“I was driving my truck to Isla Verde when a luminous object – apparently a spaceship – surrounded by light of blinding brilliance, came down near me. Three very tall beings, dressed in strange clothes and carrying unknown kinds of weapons, came down out of it towards me. I lost control of my vehicle and drove into a ditch, but I finally got back onto the road and kept on driving at high speed. The three creatures kept coming after me. A blinding red light came out of their craft. The creatures followed me for about a mile and a half. When I finally arrived in the outskirts of the town of Monte Maiz, they suddenly stopped the persecution. They then got back into their craft, which disappeared into the distance.”

The report was corroborated by several residents of the area, who also claimed to have seen a flying object that had let off a blinding bright light that had dazzled them. Argentina certainly isn’t the only place where such encounters were going on in the 1960s. On December 12, 1962, a peace officer in Milan, Italy by the name of Francesco Piania was doing his rounds of inspection when he suddenly heard a whistling sound behind him. He would say of what happened next:

“At first I thought it was my ears, but the noise grew louder. As I was going to leave the courtyard I saw a silver-aluminum disc, shining under the moon’s rays, landing. I turned abruptly and stood paralyzed with emotion. I saw a strange being about one meter (3’3″) tall coming out of the disc. His space suit looked silver- fluorescent and emitted a bluish light. He was wearing a black helmet and made a gesture toward the dome or turret rising above the disc. Another person appeared at a porthole. The first man looked at me and then signaled for me to come toward him. At that moment the other being signaled him, and he reboarded the disc and the engine flew off.”

Strange, indeed. We also have the tale of Orlando Jorge Ferraudi, who a few years later in 1965 was out fishing on the northern coast of Argentina when he had an experience he would never forget. He claims that he suddenly felt as if he were being watched, and when he turned around he saw a very tall humanoid entity, standing 7 feet tall, with pale skin, light-colored eyes, and wearing some sort of shiny, yellowish one-piece outfit. The being seemed to know that Farraudi was scared, and tried to ease him through telepathic messages. Farraudi would say:

“It was a very dark night. This being was telling me mentally ‘Take it easy. Don’t be afraid. You mustn’t be scared.’ Then he turned around, taking my arm, and placed some kind of powder box on top of the wall. When opened, this box gave off a phosphorescent luminosity which enabled me to see more details. The entity’s garb was of a yellow-mustard color, had no wrinkles, zippers, or buttons, and it had a hood at the back of the head. He was repeating ‘Don’t be afraid, you will come with me, we will take a long trip..”

The being then fiddled with his box for a moment and a large craft like “an inverted saucer” approached from the water, coming closer until it was hovering right in front of them. A door then opened and a ramp distended to them, upon which the tall entity gestured towards the opening. He found himself almost in a trance as he obediently entered the craft to find a young human woman about 18 years of age within, who also told him not to be afraid and that the alien was their friend. She told him that her name was Elena and that she too had been whisked away aboard this ship not long before. The being then had them change clothes into a type of jumpsuit, and they were told that they would be going underwater to travel across the ocean to Africa.

Farraudi claims that along the way they stopped off at an immense underwater dome, which housed some sort of base, which he was told was for “reconditioning the ships,” and he was also told that there were various experiments carried out here. According to the alien, Earth was a sort of zoo, and most life on Earth had come from them doing genetic experiments. They were fed some sort of tasteless red, yellow, brown and green eggs, after which they were placed on some kind of stretchers and both fell into a profoundly deep sleep. When they woke up, they were told that the “results of the test” were good. They were informed that their pineal glands had been “reactivated,” and that this would enable them to receive mental messages from the aliens. They were then given loads of information on the alien home planet and how the ship worked, as well as various philosophical musings, and then Farraudi woke up back on the beach where he had started, at first without any memory of what had happened.

On October 28, 1973, a truck driver by the name of Dionisio Llanca was driving in the vicinity of  Bahia Blanca along with a load of construction equipment to be delivered to Rio Gallegos, a two-day trip. At some point on his drive, one of his tires ran out of air along a cold, windswept road in remote territory and Llanca grudgingly climbed out into the frigid night to change it. This is where things would get weird, and he would later explain what happened next as follows:

“I braked the truck on the shoulder, got down, took out the jack and the tools, and began to change the tire. The road was completely deserted. All at once, the road was illuminated with an intense yellow light that seemed to be about 2,000 meters distant. Because of the color, I thought that they might be the headlights of a Peugeot and continued with my work. A few seconds passed and I had my shoulder to the light but it became so bright that it lighted the whole area.

Now the light had changed to a bluish color similar to an electric arc welder. I tried to get up but could not rise; I had no strength, and a strange thing – – my legs would not respond. I was on my knees. I wanted to get up and look towards the woods that grew along one side of the road. Then I saw a great thing in the form of a plate suspended in the air at some seven meters altitude, and three persons at my shoulders looking at me. I tried once more to get up but could not. The paralysis became total and I could not even talk. The three beings stood looking at me for a long time, perhaps five minutes. They were two men and a woman. The woman was between the two men. I believed it was a woman because of the form of the breast and the long hair, blonde, reaching to the middle of her shoulders.

The men were also blond with shorter hair in the back. The three were about the same height, one meter and 70 or 75 centimeters, and dressed in the same manner: single piece smoky gray coverall suits well fitted to the figure, % yellow boots and long gloves reaching to the middle of the arm of the same color. They had no belts, nor weapons, nor helmets nor anything else. Their faces were like ours except for high foreheads and elongated eyes, like the Japanese and a little tilted.

They talked among themselves in a language impossible for me to understand. They had no vocal inflections but sounded like a…… like a radio badly tuned with chirps and buzzes. One of them grabbed me by the neck of my sweater and lifted me firmly but without violence. I tried to talk but my voice would not come out. While the one held me up another put an apparatus in the base of my index finger on the left hand. They looked closely at the apparatus. It was like a razor but had a small tube. They applied it to me for several seconds. It did not hurt. When they left I had two drops of blood on my finger. I believe I then passed out because I can remember anything else.”

When he snapped awake he was unsure of how long he had been unconscious. When he looked around was was surprised to see that he was now among the rail cars in the yard of the Sociedad Rural de Bahia Blanca, exactly 9 kilometers 600 meters from the point where the bizarre encounter had taken place. He could remember nothing, not even his name, nor the episode, nor the truck, nor his home. He stumbled along towards the road and a Doctor Ricardo Smirnoff would recall:

“I am a forensic surgeon. I had rotating duty on Sunday the 28th. About 9:30 Dr. Altaperro at the Spanish Hospital called me and said that he had a curious case. I arrived at the hospital about 10:15 and saw a young man of about 25 or 26 years of age in a state of total amnesia. He could remember nothing of his past. He did not know who he was, where he was born, who his parents were or anything about his past. He cried continually and asked what town he was in. The doctor told me that a man had left him at the hospital after encountering him wandering in the center of the city, like a robot, and asking everyone he met where a police box was. At first, he thought that he had had an automobile accident on the road. He changed this as he had no injuries. When I touched his head or came near his hand he drew back instinctively as though it would produce pain. He had a bad headache in the right parietal temporal area. I notified the police and had him admitted to the Municipal Hospital.”

There he would wake the next morning with a full memory of his identity and what had happened to him. He quickly realized that some odd items were missing from his pockets, such as his watch, cigarette lighter, and cigarettes, which the medical staff denied taking. When he asked about his truck he was told that the police had found it parked on a shoulder in Villa Bordeu, some 18 kilometers from Bahia Blanca, with the jack still in place and one tire ready to change as if nothing had happened. It is still unknown what happened to Llanca during his bout of missing time, and after this, he was mostly reticent to give interviews about his experience, so it will likely always remain a mystery.

On January 4, 1975, a man by the name of Carlos Alberto Diaz was walking home from work in Bahia Blanca on a route that took him through a large and desolate railroad yard. As he walked he was suddenly blinded by a brilliant light shooting down from the overcast sky, which was enough to disorient him and render him unable to see anything. Scared, he stumbled towards his nearby home but found his movements getting slower and slower, as if he were moving through water until he was completely paralyzed and unable to move at all. At that point, Mr. Diaz heard a humming sound which he compared to the sound of rushing air or wind, and his strange experience continued.

He would claim that he had been lifted off the ground by an unseen force, and as he rose higher he lost consciousness. When he came to, he was inside a smooth, bright sphere that appeared to be semi-transparent plastic. There was no furniture or devices and the illumination seemed to come from the walls. As he sat there trying to process what was happening, a procession of three completely outlandish creatures entered the room. They appeared to be 1.75-1.80 meters in height (approximately 5 feet, 10 inches), their heads half the size of a human head and completely devoid of features – no ears, nose, mouth, or eyes. The head was mossy green in color and the body which was rather thin, was covered with something Diaz defined as rubber – light cream colored and very soft, and the creatures were completely hairless. The arms were almost straight and very flexible and ended in “stumps” with suckers attached rather than hands and fingers.

These entities gathered around him and began pulling clumps of hair from his head, which seemed to make them so happy that they were practically jumping up and down in joy. Oddly, the hair-pulling seemed to cause no pain. Diaz continually tried to fight back against these outlandish creatures but was completely helpless and unable to move at all. When the beings were done pulling his hair, Diaz began to feel dizzy and once again lost consciousness. 

When he woke, he was lying on the grass near a highway with his bag and his belongings lying beside him. Diaz looked at his watch which had stopped at 3:50, the time he last noted before his experience began. A concerned driver soon pulled over to ask him if he needed any help, and after hearing Diaz’s surreal story, he was taken to the Ferroviaro Hospital in Buenos Aires. For the next four days, Diaz was questioned and purportedly examined again and again by 46 different doctors, which turned up no evidence of physiological or psychological problems in Diaz, except the illness described as dizziness, upset stomach, lack of appetite, and the missing hair. Considering that he would talk very little about his strange experience, it is hard to know just what is going on here, although it has been suggested that this was likely a hoax. Whatever the case may be, it is damn strange all the same.

Moving along to 1978, we have the case of Mrs. Leonor Beatriz, of La Dulce, Argentina. On August 31 of that year, Leonor was taking a shower when there was a sudden blackout. After getting dressed the blackness was then intruded upon by a bright light coming from outside, which was so intense that she would explain it as “going right through my body.” The phenomenon was like a compact beam of light, iridescent white that poured through the window blinding her. She would even describe the light as actually phasing through the walls of the house. When she was able to regain some of her vision she looked outside to see a large dark object suspended, oscillating, over a group of 6 silos located some 30 meters away from the house. 

Leonor decided to wake up her husband, who also saw the spectacle and the two noticed that the object was moving away from the silos to pause over a grove of trees. They could see that the object was around 8 meters in diameter, with a row of 10 luminous rectangular windows that surrounded the object’s central section, each of them emitting brilliant light. As they looked on, two objects resembling lightbulbs broke away from the larger ship and moved towards the two astonished witnesses. They could see that these were some sort of amorphous entities that came down to hover just over the ground. Their movements were continuous but rigid. When they reached the barbed wire fence, the beings avoided it by rising in the air and descending on the other side, continuing their march. The entities came close to a shed that contained machinery and vehicles. They made a 90-degree turn and entered a space between the shed and wire fencing. They disappeared for a few moments and then reappeared, dodging other obstacles such as the eucalyptus tree stand and a timber chute with a brick floor, measuring 2 meters wide and 13 meters long.

The creatures proceeded to circle the same route several times, seemingly focusing mostly on the shed. The entities then ascended into the air to rejoin the craft before speeding away into the night. An examination of the area turned up no footprints or physical traces of the strange intruders. Interestingly, this encounter would coincide with several other UFO sightings in the same area on the same day. What was going on here?

Also from 1978 is a case that started in a rural ranching area of Venado, Tuerto, where on the morning of September 6th, 1978, 12-year-old Juan Pérez went out to gather up some of their grazing horses that were wandering out in the fields. The boy dutifully rode his horse out into the nearby field where the horses were, passing some uncommonly thick fog along the way, and as he rode he would claim that he saw several silver, disc-shaped craft suddenly fly overhead. Not only this, by the strange objects then began illuminating the fog with beams of multicolored light and an eerie glow, which caused Juan’s horse to panic and buck, threatening to throw him off. This was all weird enough that the frightened boy returned home, but his father was angry with him for not fulfilling his duty and so sent him out again into that mist, and here is where things would get even weirder still.

Juan managed to get out to the field again without incident, but it was here that he would come across quite a strange sight, in the form of a large flying saucer sitting right there in the field as if it had every business in the world being there. The large disc was described as being domed, with round portholes lining its side, and although Juan was scared, he could not take his eyes off the otherworldly sight before him. As he stood there dumbfounded and gawking at the alien object, a door slid open to extend a ladder and then disgorge a huge, 7-foot-tall entity from within. This entity was wearing a metallic suit, oversized gloves, and a cylindrical helmet, with a tube extending from it to the craft behind it, possibly some sort of breathing apparatus, and it raised an arm to gesture for Juan to approach.

Amazingly, Juan did not run away, but rather got off his horse and approached the strange humanoid figure, with which he ascended into the bowels of the craft itself. The first thing the boy noticed was that everywhere he looked was covered with blinking and flashing instrument panels, and while this didn’t scare him at first that would change as he went deeper into the ship. He came across a room in which there seemed to be a dead animal lying sprawled out upon a table, either a cow or a horse, Juan couldn’t be sure which, half gutted, and hunched over this macabre carcass there was some sort of mechanized being, seemingly hard at work dissecting it. This was shocking enough that Juan ran back outside, where he was once again confronted with that tall humanoid figure. The being then offered one of his gloves as proof of the encounter, taking it off to reveal a clawed, reptilian hand, and as Juan took the glove it pricked his arm to draw blood.

This seemingly aggressive action by the creature and the revelation that its hand was so freakishly inhuman caused Juan to freak out, hopping on his horse and riding back home as fast as he could. As he did so, the ship reportedly detached some sort of metallic orb, which chased the boy, hovered over him, and sucked the glove up into itself, after which it flew off. When Juan returned home, he did so without that physical evidence, but he nevertheless told his family all about what had happened. The mention of the dead animal was very odd, as the father had found a dead and mutilated cow on the property not even a week before, and making it even more mysterious was that the horse Juan had been riding would inexplicably fall ill and die just a few days later.

No one ever would really believe Juan’s story, and he would become the object of ridicule, ending up a recluse living out on his farm alone and with only some dogs to keep him company. However, it made the rounds in the news enough that it caught the attention of famed UFO researcher Jacques Vallee, who would investigate it all, interview the witness, and write of the case in his 1990 book Confrontations – A Scientist’s Search for Alien Contact. It would also become the main subject for a documentary by Argentinian filmmaker Alan Stivelman, entitled Witness of Another World (Testigo de Otro Mundo ), which has been widely touted as one of the best UFO documentaries out there. Stivelman would say of his film:

“In the beginning, I proposed to make this film in order to decode the mystery behind the UFO phenomenon. This mission was overshadowed by the acute sadness that Juan brought with him and the desire to understand why he had to have lived through that supernatural experience that marked him for the rest of his life. It was there, as a filmmaker, that I had to make a crucial decision for the rest of the shooting. To continue with the investigation of the UFO phenomenon, to stay only in the phenomenological aspect, or to attend to Juan, to his suffering, and to look for a way to help him.”

The case of Juan Pérez is especially interesting not only in its bizarre elements but also in who it happened to. This was a simple rancher out in Argentina, who was mostly illiterate and who just wanted to work hard in his own little world away from the big cities of civilization. He was far removed from the world of UFOs and all of that strangeness had no reason to make up such an absurd tale, and indeed it caused him a great amount of trouble and ridicule, which made him pretty much a hermit for life. Why would he do this? It must be noted that despite the hardships it caused him, Juan has never deviated from his story and insists it is all true, and Vallee notably proclaimed that he found Juan to be a very sincere and reliable witness who at least truly believed what he was saying of his otherworldly experience. What happened to Juan Pérez on that strange evening? We may never know for sure, but it remains a remarkable case in the realm of alien abduction cases.

In later years we come to the year 2007, with a report from the town of Irene, in the Coronel Dorrego district of Argentina. On November 7, 2007, two police officers, Luis Bracamonte, a first lieutenant, and Osvaldo Orellano, a sub-lieutenant from the same police station were on patrol in a rural area outside of town at one and a half hours past midnight. At some point, they stopped and Orellano got out of the police pickup truck to take a look around when an odd series of events unfolded. Bracamonte would say of what happened:

“At that time I was loading a telephone calling card into my cellphone, and for that reason, I remained in the vehicle. While I stared at the phone in my hand, I saw a small light, like that of a pickup truck approaching, but when I saw that it was closing in quickly, the light became larger as though from a large gray pickup truck. I wasn’t disturbed by the scene, but at a distance of 10 meters I saw a shape moving and my first thought was that it was a dog. Then I saw that it was a silhouette, like that of a little man, standing approximately 80 centimeters tall, with a large head, large prominent gray eyes, and a greenish cast. I then tried to dial my fellow officer’s cell phone, but when I pressed the 1 and the 5, my hand remained sort of static. I could see that three more creatures came out of that vehicle or craft, two similar to the first and a fourth with a slightly more robust appearance. At that time, my partner was seeing the same thing I was seeing and shouted, “what’s going on?!” In a flash, the four little men boarded that craft again and it took off swiftly toward the north, scattering a white light that extinguished itself, leaving behind a green halo and a strong odor of sulfur or gunpowder, making a sound like a thunderclap.”

Several residents would confirm the police officers' testimony, claiming having seen a strange glow that surrounded the towns of Irene and Aparicio at the time in question. Considering this account was given by police officers, considered to be traditionally reliable witnesses, could there be anything to this?

In 2009, there was a report from an unnamed young woman, 23, who lives in a house in Florencio Varela along with her husband and child. The woman claims that one evening they went to bed as usual only for her to wake up to the sight of 14 aliens surrounding their bed staring at them silently. These aliens were described by the witness:

“They were practically alike. The only difference was the height of one of their number. They were skinny, with long necks and small heads. Their eyes were black, like almonds, slanted, and their mouths were also small. They had little wrinkles on their face and the head was oval. They had shoulders; their fingers were long and had no nails. The tall one was looking at my husband all the time. His head was slightly smaller than the others because the small ones had rather larger heads. It felt like touching a baby’s skin – they had little wrinkles, but I couldn’t feel them when I touched one of them. The skin was cold and the color was odd, neither white nor gray. They had a skin tone that doesn’t exist here.”

The woman would describe what happened next as follows:

“I never had an experience of this sort. It happened two and a half months ago. We were in bed – my husband, my baby and me. They were asleep and I was trying to fall asleep. Suddenly I felt lights, and when I opened my eyes there was nothing there. I closed my eyes again, and the same thing happened. Like a flash of light. I opened my eyes, but all I could see was the [pilot light] on the stove. The fourth time that this happened, I felt it closer. I opened my eyes and saw the beings standing beside me. I was lying between my husband and my daughter. I uncovered myself and sat up. They were around the bed, fourteen of them, all of them short except for one: this last one was beside my husband, staring at him fixedly. The small ones were all around and measured 1.30 meters or so. They were slightly taller than my bed’s sommier, which is rather tall.

I tried to wake my husband up. I even dug my nails into him, but nothing. The baby was on the other side, on her stomach, but neither of them reacted. At that time, one of the beings told me not to wake up my husband, because he was not ready. I  realize that they spoke to me telepathically, and I could answer them in the same way.”

These aliens then proceeded to telepathically tell her, among other revelations, that the aliens visit our planet on six-month rotations, and are replaced by a new group, that the circles and shapes that appear on the fields are signals they employ among themselves, and finally they explained that there are dozens of civilizations from other planets that come down and interact on Earth to study it. The witness continues:

“Five of them were on the left, four facing me and five on the right side of the bed. I was the only one who wasn’t paralyzed. We communicated for some 40 minutes, mouths closed. That is to say, I spoke by my mouth didn’t move. I managed to touch one of the little ones, and he touched my face. I just felt the need to touch him, and in fact, I felt peaceful in their company. I never had the impression that they could harm my daughter or anyone of us. Suddenly he made a movement. He touched me with two fingers, and finally brushed a finger along my forehead. They told me they had come to give me answers about a black book (the Bible) and that what I was thinking was in fact true. When I asked them a question, they told me everything, with details.”

What are we to make of reports like this? Are these cases really alien encounters? Are they perhaps interdimensional interlopers? Or are they merely figments of the imagination? We will probably never know for sure, but they certainly add to the strange files of one of the world's big UFO hotspots.