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hour on July 28th. A night watchman at the Electric Center in Lima said that at 3:00 A.M. he was alerted by a "bubbling and buzzing sound" which came from a large round object which hovered above the plant's parking lot. He estimated the size of the UFO to be about 15 feet in diameter. It had windows which gave off intermittent colored lights, and the globe-shaped object had a kind of turret on its top which rotated a protruding metal arm, as if it were some kind of scanning device. The UFO had taken off immediately when the watchman had appeared at the window of the Electric Center. The residents of Chinchero, Peru reported a disc-shaped object hovering above their city for an entire On the same day in Maracaibo, Venezuela, three UFO's were tracked on radar at the Grano de Oro airport. The flying saucers were impossible to ignore as they hovered above the main runway while an instructor in radar operation conducted class for new personnel of the Control Tower. "| can't say whether they were saucers or not," the instructor told newsmen. "I only know that they were strange objects and they showed on the radar screen. They had an elongated shape like a cigar, but with a bulge in the center." On July 30th, patrons leaving a movie theater in Cumana, Venezuela were treated to an added attraction as an object that gave off yellowish lights and "looked like a saucer wrapped in flames" dipped out of the sky. Minutes later, the seaside resort of Lecheria, over 60 miles away, reported that the flaming object had passed over its beaches. An unsubstantiated report from Santiago, Chile had a UFO landing in the city, but a substantially witnessed observation of a flying saucer on the ground came from Puerto Monte, Chile. There, on July 30th, more than 15 persons were maintaining a death watch over the body of a child who had been fatally injured in a street accident. Suddenly the house in which they sat became illuminated by a purplish light. Several of the mourners stepped outside to determine the cause of the strange illumination. They were stunned to see a "strange machine" that hovered just a few inches above the street. Their collective description of the object was a confused one, because shortly after their arrival, the UFO had emitted a blinding light and had blasted off with a noisy roar. Although their individual