It seems like it really was a good idea to start that UFO investigation commission in Argentina, because recently, there’s a lot going on over there. There was an incident early last week in which a flaming object fell from the sky, destroying at least two houses and a business, and leaving six or seven people injured and one dead. Some witnesses described the object as a blue fireball, and said that the impact caused what felt like an earthquake. While many assumed it was a meteor, Guillermo Perez of the local fire brigade said that the actual cause was yet to be determined. It was also suspected that a gas cylinder had exploded, although that still didn’t explain why something appeared to be coming down from the sky.
A few days later, the gas cylinder explanation was discarded, and Perez was able to confirm that there had been no explosion. It also came to light that one of the residents had taken a photo of something red that resembled a comet burning in the sky. More testimonials came out, with one young woman saying she smelled gunpowder and saw fireballs coming down, and that one of these explosions struck her husband in the leg. Another woman said she saw blue fire descending. But, no impact crater had been found yet.
Here the story gets a little messier. The man who had taken the photo of the burning object in the sky admitted he was lying, and was later detained for making false claims. Also, researchers found a gas cylinder that was connected illegally to a pizza oven and went back to assuming that this was the cause of the whole incident. Andrea Perez Simondini from Visión Ovni learned of the event and decided she wanted to see what was going on for herself. First she contacted Capt. Mohaupt (Remember him from last week?) at the UFO Commission and after obtaining permission, conducted an investigation of the area. Visión Ovni has three extremely detailed accounts of her visit, including photos, video, charts and sample analyses.
But even after the gas cylinder explanation had been announced and the man who had taken the photograph admitted to lying, the residents that had witnessed the event were still openly cynical. Luis Burgos, another UFO specialist in Argentina, surveyed about 30 residents, and found that “they all agree that a pear-shaped object, small in size, descended along a 30-degree plane: it didn’t fall – it descended.” He added that his team “discarded the possibility of a missile due to the lack of a hole or crater. For that reason we adopted the UFO hypothesis. […] The pear-shaped object fell with a bluish hue, the changed to red and back to blue when it struck the telephone wire that it severed, rather than melted.”
This incident is yet to be officially resolved, and I’m sure more information will come out in the next few days as the story has slowly been gaining international traction. But to add to the confusion, residents in a different part of Argentina saw “something like a round, shiny object descending from the sky, striking a light post and causing a large explosion.” Again, a blue fireball was reported and the area was left without power. Are the two incidents related? Is there something trying to get the attention of Argentina’s UFO Commission? Or is there someone in Argentina really dedicated to creating the perfect hoax?
