Mendoza, Argentina: Artist watches rotating Saturn-shaped object approach to 130 feet

At 12:10 p.m. retired artist Julio Suárez Marzal was in Walter Griehl's first-floor dental office on Avenida Pedro Molina in Mendoza when they saw a flattened, Saturn-shaped, incandescent dark-orange object about half a mile to the south; Griehl went for binoculars and missed most of it. The object floated down with a rocking motion to within 230 feet, a small circular mark on its rim showed it was revolving, and a dense cloud enveloped it and turned it pearly gray. It vanished for 4 seconds, reappeared only 130 feet away and hovered for 10 seconds with a bronze-colored cylinder seemingly pointed at the short-wave antenna of the nearby central post office; he estimated it at 18–20 feet across. After 90 seconds in view, changing shape from globe to hat to oval, it took off south leaving a vapor trail. François Lagarde and Antonio Baragiola reported the case in Data-Net and Flying Saucer Review in 1972. 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.