West Tajsara Mountains, Bolivia being encounter — September 27, 1996

The Tajsara account is attributed to Roberto Suárez Molina, a twenty-eight-year-old hiker reportedly lost in Bolivia’s mountains in September 1996. A later catalogue, citing Luis Pacheco of UFOZONE, places the unusual encounter on Friday, September 27, around seven in the evening. It also associates the search area with the snow-covered Nevado Chorolque at the range’s western end. Suárez allegedly watched a peculiar light cross the sky, pause and turn red before disappearing. Later, brilliant illumination reached his campsite. A tube of light rotated from horizontal to vertical and descended onto the mountain trail near his campfire. He then described a luminous humanlike form communicating with him, without supplying detailed anatomy or clothing. The figure reportedly predicted that the Bolivian air force would find him around noon the following day. The retelling says a Cessna subsequently spotted him and a helicopter recovered him. No contemporaneous rescue log or independent statement connecting that operation with the luminous figure accompanies the consulted account. The record therefore preserves a lost hiker’s reported encounter and prediction, without converting the later rescue narrative into proof of an identified craft or visitor.