A Flying Disk Over Santiago: Seen Flying Over Los Cerrillos

June 1947: Elsewhere in the World

By Inexplicata
6-23-09

     Fifty two years ago, on June 24th, 1947, Kenneth Arnold saw five objects that he described as "skipping like saucers over water" in the skies over Washington State. The rest is history.

Let us not forget that UFO activity was already beginning to occur elsewhere in the world, and this newspaper article from Chile, courtesy of our friend Raul Núñez at the IIEE, is a good example:

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A FLYING DISK OVER SANTIAGO: SEEN FLYING OVER LOS CERRILLOS

Mr. Gillermo de la Cerda Simonot, a former civilian officer of the Fleet, states that a shining, silvery and oval-shaped object" appeared before his eyes for ten minutes at noon yesterday.

A flying disk remained stationary for at least ten minutes over the Los Cerrillos airport, at least ten kilometers from the Plaza de Armas, at the very same time that the population of Santiago left its offices and workshops to go off to lunch. The object was seen by Guillermo de la Cerda Simonot, master mechanic of a small bus line, and whose background as a former civilian officer of the Fleet for 30 years, knowledgeable about machinery and vehicles, is a serene, creditworthy individual with good eyesight.

LIGHT REFLECTED AT NOON
It was noon when Guillermo de la Cerda, son of the known racehorse owner of the same name, was returning along the Maipú road after having made repairs to a damaged bus. He was wearing sunglasses, which allowed him to face the sun. Suddenly, only a few centimeters over the horizon, he saw something that shined "like the reflection of an airplane's wings when the sun strikes them". He said nothing to his escort, an assistant mechanic of the same bus line, and he continued looking at the object, which remained stationary.

A SILVERY, SHINING DISK
Finally, convinced that it could not be an airplane, he stopped the bus and got off t for a better look. It was an oval, silvery object, similar to the ones described in newswires regarding "flying saucers". He believed that he could see portholes along its edges, but was uncertain. "I don't want to say something that I didn't say with certainty," he added. His companion saw the same thing as he.

A fiew minutes later, the oval, silvery and brilliant object vanished behind the trees and out of sight.

A "flying disk"? A hallucination? Everything suggests the former. Chile appears to hav been visited by the same extraordinary messengers from space that have already appeared in so many parts of the world.

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ARGENTINA: UFO WAVE IN THE WINGS?

CHILE: A UFO Lands on the Shores of San Antonio?

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MY UFO EXPERIENCE: Silvery, 'Arch Shaped' UFO Spotted Over Pataskala, Ohio

By Reader Submitted Report
[Unedited]
4-24-09

     I live in Pataskala, OH. Yesterday after I picked my son up at school we were driving North to go home. A flash in the sky caught my attention. (It was a bright, sunny cloudless sky). I looked up and there was a silvery arch of metal in the sky with a ball of bright light at one end. It looked kind of shimmery and maybe even partially transparent.

The ball of light was on my right and flashed really bright right before it all blinked out. It was gone almost as soon as I saw it. Totally gone, not a trace of any kind of trail or exhaust or anything. It was there and in a blink of an eye it wasn't! It was like a half circle but not a perfect half and it hung at an angle like the ball of light was tipping it.

My son did not see it but neither of us heard any sound whatsoever. Any way, that is my experience.

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UFO 'Dive-Bombs' Couple

By JASMIN AFIANOS
Northern Territory News
6-2-08

AN ELDERLY couple claim they had a close encounter with a UFO while travelling along a Territory highway.

     Lawrie Fuchs, 70, and his wife Gwen, 69, were returning to their home town of Elliott following a trip to Queensland last Friday when they say the UFO swooped them as they drove along the Barkly Highway.

Estimated to be about six metres wide, they say the object passed the vehicle with such speed that its slipstream forced their Mazda sedan into the middle of the road.

They were travelling in a westerly direction and were about 55km east of the Threeways roadhouse when the incident occurred.

"It was about 4pm when suddenly we saw a dark, silvery flash and heard a loud sound as it passed,'' Mr Fuchs said.

"It was travelling at a terrific speed, very bloody fast, and there was no warning at all.

"I'm sure it dive-bombed us but I can't imagine why.''

"I do a lot of bush work and over the years I've seen a number of strange, unexplained things,'' he said.

Mrs Fuchs said she saw a little flash just below the sun visor then heard a loud whoosh as it passed over.

"I actually thought it hit the car, but there were no marks,'' she said.

Mr Fuchs, a mechanic who has lived in Elliot for 40 years, says he took the incident in his stride.

"I don't talk about it much because sometimes people don't take you seriously.''

Last week, another man reported seeing a UFO near Tennant Creek. Alan Martin, who is deaf, was obviously shaken by his experience. The Aboriginal man in his 40s had bought alcohol and headed alone into scrub land to avoid being humbugged.

He described seeing a disc-shaped object at close range. His drawing indicated it had red, green and blue lights.

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Australia: UFO Reported Over Victoria

Australia: UFO Files Opened

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