Cocachacra, Peru: Architect Hugo Luyo Vega photographs silver domed object with Polaroid
On October 19, 1973, around 3:00 p.m., architect and engineer Hugo Luyo Vega and a client stopped on the Peruvian Central Highway near Cocachacra, Peru, where he photographed a silver, domed, bowl-shaped object with a Polaroid camera from about 160 feet away; Eberhart notes the case as a potential hoax.
Background
About 3:00 p.m., architect and engineer Hugo Luyo Vega, 54, and a client from Matucana were driving along the Peruvian Central Highway when they stopped near Cocachacra, Peru. The client pointed out a luminous object near the bottom of a valley moving toward them; Luyo Vega ran to the car, grabbed his Polaroid camera, and photographed the object when it was about 160 feet away and 65 feet above the ground, after which it rapidly moved off in the opposite direction. The object resembled an inverted soup bowl of burnished silver with a cupola on top, a steady blue light at the apex above a turret with a row of small portholes, a base about 33 feet in diameter, and a pulsating deep red light emitted from a cone on the underside surrounded by oval protuberances. The observation lasted about 30 seconds, but the witnesses were so stunned that 20 minutes passed before they could continue driving. Eberhart marks the case as a potential hoax; Gordon Creighton discussed it in Flying Saucer Review Case Histories (1974) in connection with George Adamski's influence. 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.