An official Argentine Navy UFO report, labeled one of the most important Argentine UFO cases, has been released to NICAP in accordance with an agreement to exchange UFO information.

This combined visual and E-M (electromagnetic) interference incident occurred late in 1963, involving the Navy transport A.R.A. "Punta Medanos."

During the night of Nov. 12, 1963, says the official report, "A large airship (never identified) was sighted from the stern of the vessel. The huge UFO was round-shaped, and it was moving at great speed. It displayed no lights and made no sound.

As the unknown machine appeared, the needles of the ship's magnetic compasses "suddenly and simultaneously" swung off course, pointing toward the UFO. The power which caused this E-M interference is indicated by the distance involved. At the time, the Navy report states, the UFO was 2,000 meters (well over a mile) away from the ship.

After the UFO was gone, and the compasses returned to normal, the transport commander radioed the Commander in Chief of the Argentine Fleet. The Fleet Commander was so concerned he ordered a full investigation by the Hydrographic Service.

Instrument experts found no electric cause for the E-M effect. No magnets had been near the compasses, which were separately mounted on different decks. The Geologic Division determined that the sighting area was magnetically quiet, and also ruled out submarines and military and civilian aircraft, leaving the UFO as definitely the cause of the E-M interference.

The official report was sent to NICAP by Lt. Cdr. O.R. Pagani, whom the Secretary of the Argentine Navy appointed to investigate UFO sightings. Pagani said that the Argentine Naval Hydrographic Service will investigate all future E-M cases, and he will send detailed reports to NICAP.

Lt. Cdr. Pagani also forwarded a summary of 1964 UFO cases registered with the Argentine Government, adding that fifteen 1965 reports already are on record with the Navy. NICAP will try to report the best cases as soon as space permits.
 
 

Three scientists in Chile have publicly agreed on the importance of UFO sightings. One was the Director of Chile's Cosmic Radiation Center, Prof. Gabriel Alvial.

"There is scientific evidence that strange objects visit our planet," Prof. Alvial told  La Tercera de la Hora, in Santiago, after a flood of reports in the southern hemisphere. "It is lamentable that the governments have drawn a veil of secrecy around this."

Prof. Claudio Anguita, observatory director, concurred: "We are not alone in the universe."

The third scientist was Dr. Mitrovan Zverer, a Russian at Carro Calan Observatory.

"Something unknown to our understanding is going around the earth," he said.

Prof. Alvial revealed that two technicians at the radiation center at Infiernello, in the Andes, saw the mountains lit up one night by a very bright orange glow. After this, a brilliant object rose out of a nearby gully and disappeared.

Alvial was quoted as saying a university center would be set up in Chile in 1966 to study the UFO phenomena.

Source: NICAP Files