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UFO case file · UFO-11400

Boca Del Tigre, Arg being encounter — May 27, 1958

CE3Argentina1958-05-27

BOCA DEL TIGRE, ARG, CRD, Argentina

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Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Boca Del Tigre, Arg being encounter — May 27, 1958
Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Boca Del Tigre, Arg being encounter — May 27, 1958

Case description

The Boca del Tigre encounter has unresolved date and description differences. The ledger gives 27 May 1958 and a truck driver; Lorenzen's account calls Remo Dall'Armellina a motorist travelling by car from Córdoba toward Santa Fe on Route 19 at about 04:30. That account itself has a June 13 heading but June 23 in its text. A broad 1958 title therefore avoids presenting one incompatible day as settled. Dall'Armellina reportedly noticed a glow beyond a hill that he first attributed to an oncoming vehicle. He then saw a taller-than-normal individual in the road, its clothing covered with small luminous, metallic-looking balls. It raised its arms as though signaling. He stopped, took a crowbar from the car and stepped outside. When he approached, the light allegedly changed from white to rose; he became dizzy and lost consciousness. On recovering, he found the road empty and drove to the local police station. The fuller account reports back and shoulder pain, with a medical examination said to show nervousness rather than a documented injury. Its distributed luminous balls differ from the ledger's chest-beam summary, and its imprecise tall figure differs from the three-metre giant in some versions. No craft appears in this recovered narrative. The plate consequently depicts the pre-collapse encounter without a beam weapon, spacecraft or asserted biological features. The reported fainting does not establish what occurred during the unremembered interval.

Recorded details

Local time
04:30
Entity description
Other Humanoid
Coordinate precision
SOURCE_APPROXIMATE
Date precision
EXACT_DAY

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