August 20, 1957🇦🇷Sighting
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Quilino, Argentina: Air Force guard sees disc land, a voice warns about nuclear energy

In August 1957 (20 or 22 August), a member of the Argentine Air Force guarding a downed aircraft near Quilino, Córdoba, saw a disc descend and heard a voice in Spanish warn about nuclear energy; Eberhart rates the case a probable hoax.

Date
August 20, 1957
Location / Country
Type
Sighting

Background

A member of the Argentine Air Force guarding a downed aircraft was in a tent near Quilino, Córdoba, when he heard a high-pitched hum. Running out, he saw a disc slowly descending, making the grass and plants flutter wildly. Reaching for his revolver, he felt that something prevented him from drawing it; the weapon seemed glued in its holster. A voice from the disc told him in Spanish that spacecraft had a base in the Salta region and that they were here to warn about nuclear energy. The craft rose vertically and sped off to the north. Eberhart classes the report as a probable hoax. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.