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On August 4th, 1968, Gradela del Lourdes Gimenez, eleven, was playing outside her home in Cordoba. Argentina, when she too was caught up in one of these mysterious clouds. ‘I wanted to go back indoors and watch TV,' she told reporters from the newspaper Cdrdoba, ‘and then just as I was about to turn around... a white cloud, like mist, appeared on the front path. It gradually came towards where I was, and then I could no longer see the other houses, and I couldn't move or call out to Mummy... And after that... I don't know anything more... until I found myself on a square where there were lots of people and lots of little boys..." She knocked at a nearby house, and the residents turned her over to the police. How had she travelled from a C6rdbba suburb to the Plaza Espaiia in the heart of the city? Mr Gordon Creighton, a retired British consular officer, collected the reports and translated them for Flying Saucer,Review, September-October 1970. He reports that the child suffered fits of weeping and cold chills following the incident. There are periodic waves of disappearances which create brief sensations in the newspapers and are quickly forgotten. No one ever manages to find out where these people have gone. In 1912 five men, all unrelated, disappeared unaccountably in a single week in Buffalo, New York. Montreal, Canada, had a wave of missing persons in July 1883, and again in July 1892. Children vanish more frequently than any other group. We're not talking about ordinary runaways. In August 1869, thirteen children vanished in Cork, Ireland. No sign of kidnapping or foul play. That same month there was a wave of disappearing children in Brussels, Belgium. Another group of youngsters melted away in Belfast in August 1895. And again in August 1920, eight girls (all tinder twelve years of age) disappeared forever in Belfast. The latter part of the nineteenth century produced several classic disappearances. On Thursday, September 23 rd, 1880, a fanner named David Lang took a few steps into an open field near Gallatm, Tennessee, and vanished instantaneously in front of several witnesses, including Judge August Peck. Where did he go? A long and thorough search of the field never produced an answer. Five years later on Thursday, April 23rd, 1885, another farmer named Isaac Martin walked into a field near Salem, Virginia, and like David Lang, dissolved into nothingness. Christmas Eve (a twenty-fourth, naturally), 1889, an eleven-year-old boy named Oliver Larch joined the legion of the missing when he went outside his home near South Bend, Indiana, to get a pail of water. His family heard him cry out, 'Helpl Help] They've got me!" His footprints led fifty feet away in the fresh snow and then stopped. His bucket lay a few feet beyond that point. There were no other marks of any kind. It was as if Oliver larch had been scooped into the sky cour cu This type of sudden, inexplicable disappearance still takes place. In the summer of 1969 a seven- year-old boy named Dennis Martin was whisked away in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee. One second he was walking along with Ms father and other relatives, the next second he was gone. Every stone and crevice was searched. A massive hunt was launched with more than fourteen hundred people looking under every bush. The boy was never found. off the face of the earth.