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have been caused by a phenomenon known as apporting in occult lore and teleportation in science fiction. There are many documented instances in which objects and human beings have been transported instantaneously over great distances by some unnatural force that defies explanation. This force seems to operate outside the man-made boundaries of time and Ye abann. ----b n-- abe .-4---- space. In theory, such events could be caused by converting the energy of atoms into a transmissible beam, projecting that beam to a distant point with the speed of light, and then reconstructing the original atoms. Some scientists think this may eventually be a feasible process for our advancing banhanlan- technology. But somebody else has been doing it for centuries. Early in May 1968, Dr. Gerardo Vidal and his wife got into their car, a Peugeot 403, at Chascomis, Argentina, to drive to the town of Maipt some 150 kilometers to the south. They traveled along National Route 2, following a car carrying two friends who were heading for Maipu, to visit relatives. When they reached Maipt, they found the Vidals were not behind them. They turned around and retraced their route, expecting to find the Vidals changing a tire or laboring over the motor. But Dr. and wale Ural. Le Mrs. Vidal were gone. Two days later the Rapallini family in Maipt received a phone call from the Argentine consulate in Mexico City—6,400 kilometers away. It was Dr. Vidal, and his incredible story later made headlines in the newspapers in Buenos Aires and Cordoba. He and his wife had just left the suburbs of Chascomis, he reported later, when a dense fog suddenly appeared in front of them and enveloped their car. The next forty-eight hours were a total blank. They woke up, still in the car, parked on an unfamiliar side road. Both had a pain at the back of their heads but were otherwise unhurt. Dr. Vidal got out of his car and inspected it, finding that it was badly scorched, as if a blowtorch had been applied to its surface. He started driving through the strange scenery, searching for a sign or landmark. When they saw people by the toad, they stopped and asked for directions and were dumbfounded to learn that they were in Mexico! Their watches had stopped, but they quickly learned that two days had somehow passed since they first started out from Chascomis. They drove to the Argentine consulate in Mexico City and told their story to amazed officials. Consul Sefior Rafael Lopez Pellegrini advised them to keep quiet while an investigation was held. Their car was shipped off to the United States for examination (no information on whom it was sent to), and later they were given a replacement of the same make. 256 / Operation Trojan Horse