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Boa del Tigre giant scaly roadside being — May 27 1958

CE3Argentina1958-05-27

Road near Boa del Tigre en route to Santa Fe, Santa Fe Province, Argentina

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Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Boa del Tigre giant scaly roadside being — May 27 1958
Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Boa del Tigre giant scaly roadside being — May 27 1958

Case description

Truck driver Remo dall’Armellina reportedly encountered an extraordinary figure on a road at Boa del Tigre while travelling toward Santa Fe late on 27 May 1958. A being estimated at three metres tall stood in his way. The account describes very long arms, a scaly appearance, a flight-coverall-like outfit and a phosphorescent glow. These features belong to the witness’s reported impression; the surviving summary offers little anatomical detail beyond them. Dall’Armellina stopped and approached carrying an iron bar. He said an overpowering smell and the figure’s luminosity prevented him from getting close. He then lost consciousness. When he recovered, the figure had disappeared. The preserved sequence does not describe a conversation, entry into a vehicle, pursuit or observation of the being’s departure. Vallée’s Magonia catalogue lists the episode and points to earlier literature associated with Perego and Bulgarini. That chain is a historical reference, rather than an accessible contemporaneous medical examination or independently verified roadside investigation. In particular, no spacecraft is described. Its placement in an entity-encounter collection does not justify adding a landed saucer, assuming the being came from one or labelling the lapse of consciousness an established abduction. The illustration consequently keeps the driver, truck and reported giant on the road without an invented craft.

Recorded details

Local time
Late night
Witnesses
1
Entity description
A figure approximately three meters tall with very long arms, a scaly body, and a flight-coverall-like garment.
Coordinate precision
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Date precision
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