East / Medanos, Arg being encounter — August 28, 1972

Mechanic Eduardo Fernando Dedeu reportedly picked up a stranger while driving from Médanos toward Bahía Blanca around 3 a.m. in late August 1972. The passenger wore a coat with its collar raised and a cap. Dedeu noticed an unusually long face or prominent chin, but initially interpreted him as an ordinary local man. His questions about the destination produced answers he could not understand. Near kilometre 710 the headlights failed and Dedeu stopped. Ahead was a broad object he first compared to an overturned bus, with a large blue central light and smaller white lights beside it. When he got out, a brilliant flash and heat caused him to shelter behind the car door. He then saw the object moving left, with illuminated windows and a green light below. Returning to the car, he found the passenger gone, a door open and its handle on the floor. The headlights worked again. The fuller account credits Jane Thomas’s Flying Saucer Review report and mentions a police statement plus another observer’s bus-like object that night. It dates the event 27 August, while Hatch gives 28 August. The short catalogue also mentions missing time, but the accessible sequence supplies no defined interval or evidence of bodily transportation. The stranger was not seen boarding the object. The illustration preserves his coat, cap and elongated face while showing a moment before his disappearance, rather than converting him into a generic grey or depicting an established abduction.