Giant UFO Abducts Two
People in Chile
On Thursday, October 19, 2000, at 7 p.m.,
teacher Joan Rojas Moffett was chatting with some colleagues in a second-floor
classroom at the Escola San Francisco (school) in Chiu-Chiu, village
in northern Chile about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Calama, when he
saw a bright light in the dark sky.
"It appeared in the northeast, split in two and then lost itself
in the south," Rojas said, "I thought, What the hell!? but didn't
comment on it to anyone until later in the evening when everyone saw the
object and heard the noise."
That was the beginning.
Three hours later, at 10 p.m., 35 adults, members of the local branch
of the General Center of Parents and Attorneys (a kind of Chilean PTA--J.T.),
were holding a meeting at the school. Twenty children were playing
in the schoolyard, waiting for the meeting to end. They heard a
weird sound, and then the UFO appeared.
"Students Rene Calpa Carranza and Walter Anza Vilca stated that the
object, which was predominantly white in color with blue, red and yellow
flashing lights" hovered above the schoolyard. "A number
of the children also recalled 'a burning odor.'"
As the UFO hovered overhead, a panel slid open on the underside of the
craft, and a dazzling light beam stabbed downward, bathing two people
in its unearthly glow-.
Struck by the beam were Sra. Fresia Vega, the school custodian, and student
Valentina Rojas Espinoza, age 8. The pair instantly vanished.
"According to Monica Espinoza Fernandez (the girl's mother--J.T.),
'the children were outdoors and were the witnesses, although not in the
same way as Fresia and Valentina, and they (the other children) called
for the meeting to end and the parents to come outside and see for themselves
what was taking place. However, at this precise moment, we heard
an enormous blast, much louder than the shattering of glass. It
was not an earthquake or explosives or anything like that. The meeting
went was ended, and everyone went outside for a look.'"
The stunned adults saw "a spaceship that was hovering no higher than
'a four-story building' (40 feet or 6 meters above the schoolyard--J.T.)"
The eye-dazzling beam then switched off, and the UFO zoomed away "to
the south and disappeared as it reached the Chiu-Chiu cemetery."
Fresia Vega and Valentina Espinoza were found, dazed and shivering, a
short distance away.
In an interview with the newspaper El Mercurio de Calama, Fresia Vega
said, "It was a very large ship, about the size of a soccer field,
surrounded by lights of every imaginable color. In the middle of it there
was a door from which there came a light that blinded me and left me paralyzed.
I felt myself being sucked in through the door, and I felt a tingling
sensation all over my body. Voices became far, far away, and I froze.
That's when I realized I must have passed out because I remember nothing
at all. I then felt the door was being shut with a sound like that
or iron, and the shop looked like it was surrounded by light. Twenty-four
hours have gone by, and I still haven't recovered from it."
"Much like the custodian," Valentina Rojas Expinoza said, "I
felt cold, and my blood froze. I was very scared, and I hid behind
Fresia, but then I looked up and everything was clear, as when day breaks.
I would speak to Sra. Fresia but she didn't answer me. She couldn't
speak, and it was as if she had gone away. I was very scared."
There is an intriguing time discrepancy in the accounts of the eyewitnesses.
Both Fresia and Valentina reported being "in the light for two or
three minutes." But the children in the schoolyard said they
were "gone for two or three seconds."
Monica Espinoza Fernandez, who was still inside the school, reported,
"I felt nothing, but my daughter (Valentina) who was with the children
and suddenly came in to tell me. I paid her no mind until I saw
that Fresia was frightened."
UFO reports poured into the regional office of the Carabineros (Chile's
national police--J.T.) from all over El Loa province, also known as the
Second Region.
"Parmedic Enrique Alvarez said, 'My colleagues in Ayquina and Caspana
also saw the object.'"
Earlier, at 7 p.m., "a veritable flood of sightings took place in
the towns of El Loa province, particularly in Calama, Chuquicamata and
the towns bordering Argentina," such as San Pablo de Atacama.
"In Calama and Chuquicamata, there was a single sighting at 10 p.m.
of a spacecraft the size of a soccer field that filled the area with light
and turned night into day."
"In Caspana, in the foothills of the Cordillera, a witness suffered
a nervous breakdown after seeing the craft."
"Eyewitness accounts forced the Carabineros to open an investigation
which is being conducted with great secrecy. But there are police
officers who were in the middle of their rounds who had seen the lights."
(See the Chilean newspapers El Mercurio of Valparaiso for October 22,
2000, "UFO causes commotion in the northern region;" El
Mercurio de Calama for October 21, 2000, "School custodian beamed
up by a huge spaceship;" and La Estrella del Loa for October 21,
2000, "Massive UFO sightings on the Loa River." Muchas
gracias a Scott Corrales, autor de los libros Chupacabras and Other Mysteries
y Forbidden Mexico, a y tambien a Dr. Virgilio Sanchez Ojedo y Lilliana
Torres para esos articulos de diario.)
(Editor's Note: Calama is where three Chupacabras were reportedly
captured by the Chilean army earlier this year. See UFO Roundup,
volume 5, number 23, "Chileans say NASA took custody of captured
Chupacabras," page 1.)
Source: UFO
ROUNDUP: Volume 5, Number 44: November 2,
2000
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