UFO case file · UFO-18246
Vizcacheras, Arg landing encounter — May 1, 1979
VIZCACHERAS, ARG, MND, Argentina
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On May 1, 1979, the NICAP listing describes a reported landing at the Vizcacheras oilfield in Argentina, an apparent response to lights and traces. Its phrase 'oil held' is evidently a damaged rendering of the setting. A separate Hatch record for the same place and date, at 4 a.m., describes a disc about twenty metres above the oilfield, a response to lights, fused sand and changes in animals' behaviour. It cites the MUFON UFO Journal.
Neither stored description supplies an occupant encounter. CE2 therefore replaces CE3 for the NICAP-derived record because of the reported ground effects; the source's entity-category label alone is insufficient. The nature of the sand analysis and animal response remains unestablished. These two entries probably describe the same report, but are retained separately with a source-equivalence link.
Recorded details
- Local time
- 04:00
- Craft description
- Craft / Vehicle
- Coordinate precision
- SOURCE_APPROXIMATE
- Date precision
- EXACT_DAY