Ckolo unidentified-object report — March 2, 1983

NICAP’s NSID catalogue lists Ckolo, Bolivia, under March 2, 1983, with the headline “Space Aliens Terrorize Tiny Mountain Village.” The row is filed among entity cases but contains no narrative, witness names, craft description, appearance of the alleged beings or account of what the headline calls terror. Its linked article was unavailable during this review. The spelling and precise identity of Ckolo have not been securely established from the recovered material. Neither the catalogue date nor its entity-category code proves that an encounter happened on that day. Repeating the headline across indexes does not produce independent testimony, and a similarly themed Bolivian story cannot be substituted without evidence that it is the same report. This record therefore documents a source gap. It does not support a reconstruction of attacks, injuries, frightened villagers, alien anatomy or a spacecraft. The plate uses a clearly labelled research-desk composition with a catalogue folder and blank reference cards, rather than presenting invented events as witness-derived imagery. A substantive encounter narrative would require the original publication, identifiable locality and the underlying witness account; those remain unresolved.