Argentina · 04 February 1978
Dique La Florida, 1978
ReportedA dictatorship-era Argentine police and intelligence expediente recording six fishermen's sworn description of a two-metre blond figure in a transparent helmet, with a note that the statements were passed to the Air Force for onward transmission to the United States.
- Where
- Dique La Florida, near Trapiche, San Luis
- When
- 04 February 1978
- Who reported it
- 6 civilian fishermen
- Entities described
- 1 figure
- Described as
- 1.90-2.10m tall; pale skin; short blond hair; close-fitting shiny scaled silver suit; transparent helmet through which face and hair were visible; smiled showing very white teeth; gestured with palms upward.
- Handled as
- INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED
- Evidence class
- GOV-2
What the record resolves
The record carries a face, a head, eyes, skin, hands or proportions.
Face and hair visible through a transparent helmet: one of the few cases where a suit does not hide the body.
On that description this archive reads the form as Humanlike. That is a reading of recorded words, not the record classifying itself.
The record
An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.
- Policia Federal Argentina Delegacion San Luis; Policia de la Provincia de San Luis; Direccion General del Interior; Superintendencia de Seguridad Federal; Fuerza Aerea Argentina V Brigada Aerea Exposicion Genaro Luis Sosa y otros (aparicion O.V.N.I.) plus police actuaciones and DGI memoranda (opens in a new tab)
Part of the chain is attached. The rest is still being retrieved.
What is not settled
Provenance is the weak joint. The 37 pages did not come from an Argentine state archive; they came from a Cuban-American researcher's estate, said to have been received from J. Allen Hynek, and were certified by a private group. No Argentine repository has produced originals.
