Huancavelica, Peru being encounter — September 1965

Lieutenant Sebastián Mancha, also rendered Macha or Manche in later accounts, reportedly saw two small figures in the snow near Lake Ceulacocha in the Huancavelica region of Peru at about 5 a.m. in September 1965. He was described as the officer responsible for Santa Bárbara. The figures were estimated at approximately 80 centimetres tall and were observed for about two minutes. Gordon Creighton's account, drawing on South American press and a Reuters dispatch, says the figures entered a saucer which departed with a thunderlike noise, leaving marks in the snow. Vallée's catalogue similarly includes entry into a craft and a noisy departure. A later Rosales summary instead describes the figures disappearing like a spark and does not describe a visible vehicle. Detailed faces, clothing and craft construction are absent from these sources. The date is disputed between 5 and 12 September, partly because the reporting mixes references to the previous week and Sunday. Reports of one large disc accompanied by four smaller discs, allegedly watched by many people elsewhere in the district, should not be treated as hundreds of witnesses to Mancha's lakeside figures. The plate selects the craft-associated version while labeling its unrecorded appearance; it does not import the separate formation into the scene.