selected ufo cases
South & Central America
Large triangular UFO photographed over Puerto Rico
May, 15, 2005 - Carolina, Puerto Rico
"I saw an immense triangular object... I can tell you [and compare it] to the size of a ball park or two enormous ball parks. It was going very slowly and passed directly over me... It made no noise whatsoever and was going slowly, very slowly, and thats when the van's engine and lights went out completely... I managed to capture the craft and photograph it. View full report
Source: Scott Corrales (INEXPLICATA - Journal of Hispanic Ufology) ID: 564
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Photo, Vehicle Interference, E-M Effects, Physiological Effects, Animal Reaction
The Parque Forestal (Chile) Alien Photograph
May, 10, 2004 - Parque Forestal, Santiago, Chile
Civil Engineer Germán Pereira was taking photographs of the Carabineros (state police) on horseback in the Parque Forestal of Santiago, Chile. One of the photos, after being downloaded from his digital camera, showed the image of a possible alien being. CIFAE Chile has interviewed the witness and undertaken the analysis of the photograph. View full report
Source: Germán Pereira / Corporacion de Investigacion de Fenomenos Aereos (CIFAE), Chile ID: 380
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Alien Photograph, Humanoid/Occupant, Witness Photo
Large, Luminous UFO Stops Cars, Electronics In City
July, 15, 2002 - Campamento Vespucio, Argentina
An unidentified flying object (UFO) of large size and intense luminosity was seen in the town of Campamento Vespucio. The event caused a sensation in this community. The object was of the size and shape of a rugby ball. The phones stopped working and the electrical systems of several cars were left for dead. View full report
Source: Scott Corrales - 'El Tribuno' de Salta - Argentina July 21, 2002 - Rense.com ID: 30
Case Type: PressReport Features: E-M Effects, Vehicle Interference
Enormous Cigar-Shaped UFO In Argentina
May, 1, 2002 - Cachi, Argentina
Three motorcyclists from Cachi saw 'an enormous cylinder measuring some 100 meters in length, shining like a mirror in the reflected light of the setting sun. It was shaped like a giant cigarette and flew slowly some 200 meters from the ground. View full report
Source: Scott Corrales, El Tribuno Digital (Argentina ID: 33
Case Type: PressReport
Pilot encounters giant pyramid-shaped UFO over Pelotas, Brazil
October, 5, 1996 - Pelotas, Brazil
Brazilian pilot Haroldo Westendorf, 39, was flying over Pelotas when he encountered an enormous pyramid or cone shaped UFO, with 8-10 sides; it was 100 meters in diameter and 70 meters high. Westendorf was able to fly around the base of the object three times, at one point coming as close as 40 meters. Then, out of an opening at the top of the craft, a smaller classic disc-shaped UFO emerged and flew off at tremendous speed. Three air traffic controllers and others on the ground also witnessed the event. View full report
Source: CNI News, Dec. 20, 1997 ID: 699
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Pilot/Aircrew, Multiple UFOs
Electrician Alleges UFO Abduction In Southern Chile
June, 27, 1996 - La Araucania region, Chile
An electrician claims having been abducted by a UFO while traveling by car between two towns in southern Chile. Gabriel Encina, 47, states that the strange experience occured six years ago, but that the anguish he experienced kept him from disclosing it until now. View full report
Source: EFE News Agency / Scott Corrales ID: 58
Case Type: PressReport Features: Abduction, Vehicle Encounter
The Varginha Incident (Brazil)
January, 20, 1996 - Varginha, Brazil
In 1996 in Varginha, Brazil, during the course of several weeks at least two and perhaps as many as six alien creatures were captured or killed and turned over to American authorities, and a UFO may have crashed. Eyewitnesses described the creatures as humanoid and 3 to 4 feet tall. They had dark brown, hairless skin, big triangular heads with three short "horns" on top, and huge red eyes that were vertically oval. View full report
Source: Press release by A.J. Gevaerd, Editor of UFO Magazine (Brazil), June 12th, 1996 ID: 498
Case Type: MajorCase Features: Humanoid/Occupant, Crash/Retrieval, Injury, Children, Witness Photo
Ex-airline pilot has close encounter with dome-shaped UFO in Brazil
May, 6, 1994 - Guarantingueta, Brazil
I could see the shape of the object and it was the familiar "flying saucer" dome shaped object. I walked two hundred feet on the side of the road towards the object which was hovering low, no sound came from it... The object was quite large and I estimated it to be at least 70 feet in diameter and about 30 feet high. It was just hovering in the air at about 120-150 feet high." View full report
Source: Brian Vike, HBCCUFO Research (hbccufo.org) ID: 1115
Case Type: RawReport Features: Silent, Humming, E-M Effects, Body Lights, Group Sighting
The Story that 48 Hours Missed
March, 20, 1994 - Mt. Popocatepetl , Mexico
CSETI allowed a crew from CBS's 48 Hours "news show" to accompany an RMIT, March 20, 1994 to show its audience CSETI, doing real-time research in an area of known UFO/ET activity at Mount Popocatepetl in central Mexico. View full report
Source: Wayne Peterson ID: 48
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Interaction/Reaction, Human-Initiated Contact
CSETI Investigative Team in Mexico
January, 30, 1993 - Mexico
Convinced that a truly significant Extraterrestrial event was continuing in the volcanic zone of Mexico, CSETI's Director activated the RMIT to investigate directly these events. View full report
Source: Steven M. Greer M.D. International Director of CSETI ID: 47
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Interaction/Reaction, Human-Initiated Contact, Portholes/Windows
CSETI Mexico City Sightings - 1993 (Large triangle craft observed)
1993 - Mt. Popocatapetl, Mexico
In 1993 Dr. Steven Greer, director of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI), led a Rapid Mobilization Investigative Team (RMIT) to Mexico to study the ongoing wave of UFO sightings there. A large triangular shaped craft with a white light at each corner and a red beacon in the center was observed. View full report
Source: Dr. Joseph Burkes, CSETI (Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) ID: 45
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Interaction/Reaction, E-M Effects, Human-Initiated Contact, Portholes/Windows
Jet Chase Over Brazil
May, 19, 1986 - Brazil
As many as twenty UFOs were seen and tracked by ground radar and at least six airplanes. Unidentified radar returns were tracked by airports in São Paulo and the Integrated Air Defense & Air Traffic Control Center (CINDACTA) in Brasilia. Two F-5E and three Mirage jet fighters were scrambled from Santa Cruz AFB in Sao Paulo State, and Anápolis AFB in Goias State. View full report
Source: Don Berliner, UFO Briefing Document ID: 51
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Radar, Pilot/Aircrew, Military, Multiple UFOs
Carlos Diaz Photo and Contact Case (Mexico)
January, 1981 - Ajusco National Forest , Mexico
"The source of light revealed itself to be a large, orange, oval-shaped UFO, slowly hovering about 30 metres from his car... The whole car began to shake violently. Diaz got out of the vehicle and took two more photographs before the craft sped up vertically into the sky..." This encounter marked the beginning of what was to develop into a fascinating and long-running contactee case. View full report
Source: The X Factor, Issue 89 ID: 1091
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Contact, Photo, Vehicle Interference
UFO Abduction at Maringa (Jardim Alvorada Affair)
April, 13, 1979 - Maringa , Brazil
The Jardim Alvorada Affair is the study of a UFO abduction involving sexual relations and dialogue with the crew of a UFO. The case was investigated by the Center for Flying Saucer Research. The investigation included a number of interviews with the two main witnesses, who are brothers, and then hypnotic regression sessions, which were carried out by Dr. Oswaldo Alves, an MD. View full report
Source: A. J. Gevaerd ID: 1033
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Abduction, Physiological Effects
UFO crash in Bolivia witnessed by thousands of people
May, 6, 1978 - El Taire Mountain, Bolivia
On May 6, 1978, at about 4:15 p.m., something crashed into a mountain near El Taire on the Bermejo River, the border between the Bolivian province of Tarija and Argentina. Thousands of people saw this happening and later described the object as being cylindrical in shape with a flaming tail. It had caused a supersonic bang that was heard up to 150 miles away. View full report
Source: Michael Hesemann, 1998 ID: 635
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Crash/Retrieval, Mass Sighting
Retired Chilean General in air encounter with large 'banana-shaped' UFO
1978 - Antofagasta, Chile
Retired General Hernan Gabrielli Rojas had squared off against a gigantic UFO while engaging in a training flight in the skies of northern Chile. According to the military man, the object was the size of 10 or 15 aircraft carriers, and its presence was picked up by the radars aboard two F-5 jet fighters as well as the Cerro Moreno airport in Antofagasta. View full report
Source: Inexplicata, Scott Corrales, editor / Ovnivisión (Chile) / Revista TOC / Terra Chile ID: 997
Case Type: PressReport Features: Military, Pilot/Aircrew, Witness Photo, Radar
Abduction by robot-like beings in Brazil (La Rubia case)
September, 15, 1977 - Paciencia (near Rio de Janeiro), Brazil
Antonio La Rubia, a 33-year-old bus driver, encountered a huge object, which he estimated to be 70 meters (235 feet) across, sitting in a field near his home. He decided to retreat, but was unable to do so, for at the moment he started to run, an intensely bright light lit up the area, and he was unable to move. At that moment Antonio saw three "robots" positioned near him, and he was captured and taken into the disc. View full report
Source: APRO Bulletin, Vol. 26 No. 4, Oct. 1977 ID: 464
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Abduction, Physiological Effects, Injury, Humanoid/Occupant
Chilean soldier loses five days to UFO (The Valdes Case)
April, 25, 1977 - Pampa Lluscuma (near Putre), Chile
A Chilean soldier was in shock after a weird, five-day ordeal with a UFO. Six members of an army patrol saw two bright objects descending from the sky. Cpl. Armando Valdes, the patrol leader, set out alone to investigate and, according to the men, simply vanished. Fifteen minutes later, they said, he reappeared, tried to speak and passed out. The date on his watch had been advanced five days, and he now had about a week's growth of beard. View full report
Source: Associated Press / San Antonio News, May 23, 1977 ID: 460
Case Type: PressReport Features: Missing Time, Military
Dog dies after close encounter on ranch in Uruguay
February, 18, 1977 - Salto, Uruguay
Angel Maria Tonna, a 52-year-old rancher, and his foreman, witnessed a fiery disc like two plates placed face to face hovering a short distance above the ground behind the barn. The cows "were going crazy" and all the dogs were barking. The object approached, and Tonna felt electric shocks which went all through his body and a very intense heat hit him. Three days after the event, Tonna's dog, who had been 15 from the object, was found dead. View full report
Source: APRO, August, 1977 ID: 825
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Animal Reaction, Physiological Effects
Small object hovering over the roof of house
1977 - Popayan, Colombia
Object was an inverted triangle of an aproximate size of two meters in the base. It was hovering silently at one meter or less of the top of the roof. View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 333
Case Type: RawReport
Saturn-shaped Object seen and photographed in Brazil
May, 12, 1976 - Passo Fondo, Brazil
Mr. Joshua da Silva and Mr. Gesareo Goncalves were driving in Goncalves' car. At ten A.M. when they were less than fifty kilometers from Passo Fondo, da Silva spotted a silver metallic spherical object resembling the planet Saturn, replete with ring. They estimated the object which had a "brushed metal" surface to be six to eight meters (twenty to twenty six feet) in diameter. View full report
Source: APRO Bulletin, Nov. 1978 ID: 409
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Photo
Man taken into craft, encounter with 3 beings
January, 4, 1975 - Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Carlos Alberto Diaz, a clerk in a central store, was walking home from work, when he was paralyzed after being blinded by a brilliant flash of light. Trying to resist, he was pulled off the ground and when about 3 meters off the ground he became unconscious... When Diaz regained consciousness he was inside a smooth, bright sphere which appeared to be semi-transparent plastic... Suddenly, Diaz reports, three creatures resembling humans came sliding into the sphere... View full report
Source: APRO Bulletin, Vol. 23 No. 5 (Mar 1975) ID: 307
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Physiological Effects, Abduction, Humanoid/Occupant, Witness Photo, Humming
Photograph of disc-shaped flying object near car in Argentina
July, 19, 1974 - Balcarce, Argentina
Antonio Le Pere snapped these two photographs through the driver's window of his car as he was proceeding along route 226 near Balcarce. A disc-shaped metal-looking flying object approached the automobile and kept pace with him from a position only a few hundred meters to his left. Le Pere took the pictures through the rolled down window on the driver's side of the car. View full report
Source: Wendelle Stevens (Credit: Cosmic View) ID: 875
Case Type: SummaryReport Features: Photo, Vehicle Encounter
Occupant Encounter In Argentina
October, 28, 1973 - Bahia Blanca, Argentina
On Sunday, 28 October 1973, in the first hour of the morning, truck driver Dionisio Llanca had a fantastic experience. Dionisio, a calm and quiet bachelor arrived at a hospital in Bahia Blanca in a state of total amnesia. Three days later as he regained his memory he related his extraordinary experience - - a night encounter on route H3 with a flying saucer and beings that talked with "chillidos" and who took a sample of his blood. View full report
Source: APRO Bulletin, Vol. 22 No. 3 (Nov/Dec 1973) ID: 301
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Humanoid/Occupant, Witness Photo
