PROJECT BLUE BOOK

1.

DATE

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

2. LOCATION

6 July 1956 Arenda, Columbia a
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
1.000) ae &X Ground- Vi sual D0 Ground-Radar
cmT__2ot reported _ D Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar
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| mre CRSE2H82' a) Civilian

7. LENGTH OF pir cee

not reported

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE

_multiple

19, SRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
ewspaper artic stati

fell froin sky and
Arenda, Columbia,

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South

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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ing that objects

(11, COMMENTS

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recovered
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|x Insufficient Data for Evaluation

fell on ground :

Letter dispatched to Attache in

cated that the pieces of

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12, CONCLUSIONS

Wes Bolloon
Probably Balloon
Possibly Balloon

Was Aircraft
Probobly Aircroft
Possibly Aircraft

Was Astronomical
Probobly Astronomical
Possibly Astronomical

Other

BO oo0 oo0 Oo

QO Unknown

equest to
Sssible,

recover
keply indi-
metal
ed over to the Colun-
Police, Also there
llery firings in the
rptd sighting &
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Was indicated,
WLinesses not
not located),

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B/Ltr fr ATIC to OIN-1Al, dta

= Jul 56, subj: al to Investigate
. UFO Sighting - Gr. Ricardo L.

AFOIN-1A1~-11 3rd Ind 2” SEP 13565
Dept of the Air Force, Hq USAF, Washington 25, D. C.

TO: Commander, Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright Patterson Air
Force Base, Ohio.

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Mr.

Air Technical Intelligence Center,
@ Wright Patterson Air Force Base
(Dayten, Ohio).- U.S.A. -

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Remite: Ricardo L. Torrijos de Pefiafiel
Apartado Aéreo # 7505
Bogot& (Colombia). -

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NOTICIA APARECIDA EN EL PERIODICO "EL INTERMEDIO", DE JULIO7/56 |

Platillos Voladores?

EXTRANO OBJETO =IZO EXPLOSION SOBRE EL CEMENTERIO DE ARANUA

Pasto, 6. - Las leyendas modernas sobre existencia de 'Platillos Voladores",
cobraron hoy gran actualidad. En efecto, un sefior de apellido Luna, quien pres
ta sus servicios en el cementerio de Nuestra Sefiora del Carmen, se present6 -
ayer a la Emisora Ecos de Pasto llevando extrafios trozos met&alicos, restos al
parecer, de un artefacto bélico. Las particulas fueron recogidas en el campo-
santo, ubicado en Aranda, a eso de las 3 y 30 de la noche después de ser escu-
chadas ocho violentas y ensordecedoras explosiones. -

ere "T - -

Dice el sefior Luna que el espacio se cubrié con una espesa nube de hu
mo azul tan intensamente brillante que tuvo que aplicarse en los ojos un pafiue-

lo hamedo. -

Los restos hallados por el sefior Luna fueron entregados al SIC a fin -
de establecer su origen. Las gentes de Aranda se hallan intrigadas con el extra
fo insuceso y esperan ansiosas conocer las causas del fenémeno, - j

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We ave in receipt of a letter from Sogota, Colombia written in
Spanish. In translating it, we found that this obscrver (Senor @iigum
sie ) observed an object (fireball or meteorite?) which he Jescribed
aga saucer”, Tie significant thing 1s *i2t this sbfect srploded in the
air, and he now (claims) Jo have pieces in his posession. |

Rather than disresard the ictter, I intend to sroceed with the
following on she assumption that lie may have ae picce of 2 meteorite or
= matter from outer space, which is definitely of interest to the |

@. Request whe Aubassador or Air Attache Laterview the sDserver.
b. Submit findings, opinicus, etc., on a 112,
Ce. Submit <« specimen of the object with the report.

If ite part of a tortilla can or ox cart wheel, we've lost nothing.
If it is meteoric fragment or part of saucer) -- om gain!

SPOT TRANSLATION
From the newspaper "EL Intermedio" on July 7, 1956 - - -

Flying Saucers?
Strange object made an explosion over the Cemetary of Aranda. A man who works
in the cemetery, whose name is Luna, brought pieces of metal which he picked up
after a number of explosions. He said the object was like a blue cloud and so

bright that he had to protect his eyes. The pieces which he found were handed

over to the SIC.

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Cee ae ee eR mers wemery Ean

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AIR TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER é
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE
OHIO

AFOIN-E

SUBJECT: Request to eee UFO Sighting - Sr. @jam,

TERU: Director of Intelligence
Headquarters, USAF
ATTN: AFOIN-1Al
Washington 25, D. Ce

TO: Ue Se Air Attache
American Embassy
Bogota, Colombia

le In accordance with provisions of AFR 200-2, dated
12 August 1954, request that the Air Attache, Bogota, Colombia
initiate action to investigate incident submitted in letter from
Sr. QQRMMB and the results made kmown to the Air Technical

Intelligence Center.

2. Further, request sample specimens of alleged object be
obtained for analysis by this Center, if preliminary investigation
indicates specimens cannot be identified either as to composition
or as part of man-made objects. Meteoric fracmenits, assuming
specimens to be such, are of interest to the Air Force and should

be submitted as part of any report on this incident.

3e A review of a brief translation, copy attached, indi-
cates that pieces of the object were turned over to an orzaniza-
tion known as the SIC. This organization is unknown to this

Centere

he St. QB address is as follows:
Apartado gail,

Bogota, Colombia

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B/ltr fm ATIC to OIN-1Al, dtd 23 Jul 56, subj; R <<
UFO Sighting - Sr. @iiii——iee_«s) °°

- AFOIN-1Al-11 lst Ind

3 3 arilf oa
Dept of the Air Force, Hq USAF, Washington 25, D. C. i |

TO: U. S. Air Attache, American Embassy, Bogota, Colombis

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OFFICE OF THE AIR ATTACHE, US Embassy, Bogoté, Colombia, 10 Sep 56

THRU: Director of Intelligence, Hq USAF, Attn: AFOIN-lAL, ‘iash, DC

TO: Commander, Air Technical Intelligence Center, ‘/rignt-Patterson
AFB, Ohio

l. Following information is offered in reply to vasic communi-
cation: : ape 2

& Arande is a small village near Fasto in Southwest Colombia,
3 davs drivine and approximstely 2 hours flying time fron Uoxota, with
no commercial aviation scheduled. As the undersigned is not assigned
an aircraft and the only officer assigned this office, it was impossible
to make a personal visit to Aranda.

be SIC is the adbreviation of the name of the ‘iational Colom=
bian Security Police. Interview with the officers of SIC in Sogoté in-
dicates no information is available to the Colombian Covernnent concern-
ing UFO sightings or meteoric fragments in the Aranda=Pasto area.
Practice light artillery firing was accomplished by the Colombian Army |
Calvary Group stationed at Pasto in the vicinity of Pasto and Aranda for
several days around 6 July.

Ce it is believed that fragments mentioned in basic conmuni-~
cation may possibly be fragments of 4Omm or 20mm tracer used in the
practice firing. It is known from versonal experience in viewing demon-
strations in mid-July in Bogotd that 40mm tracer ammunition was fired
directly over homes in Bogoté into a hillside without any consideration |
for civilian safety in case of short rounds. |

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B/ltr fm ATIC to OIN-1Al w/lst Ind to OAIRA, Bogota, Colombia, dtd
23 Jul 56; subj: Request to Investigate UFO Sighting ...

d. Unable to locate Sr. eed at the address
given, SIC has been requested to continue to inform this office of
any further information on the subject. Several articles have ap-

peared recently in Colombian newspapers jesting at observers' reports
of articles seen in the sky as figments of imagination.

2 Incls G W CRABBE
n/c C # Colonel, USAF
| Air Attahcé

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