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URECAT - UFO Related Entities Catalog

URECAT is a formal catalog of UFO related entities sightings reports with the goal of providing quality information for accurate studies of the topic. Additional information, corrections and reviews are welcome at patrick.gross@inbox.com, please state if you wish to be credited for your contribution or not. The main page of the URECAT catalog is here.

NOVEMBER 23, 1958, COJUTEPEQUE, CUSCATLAN, EL SALVADOR, JULIO M. LADALETO:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

In 1962, an Italian journalist who claimed to have contacts with extraterrestrial beings told in his article about the flying saucers that on November 23, 1958, at 11:35 p.m., in Cojutepeque, San Salvador, engineer Julio M. Ladaleto stopped when his car hit a can rolling on the road, then observed an object about 35 meters away.

It was shaped like a lamp shade with an upper transparent sphere emitting a bluish, pulsating light, 12 meters diameter, 7 meters high, resting on three half-spheres, i.e. a saucer matching the description of a famous hoaxed photograph by the American "contactee" George Adamski.

An occupant, 2.5 meters tall was allegedly photographed by the witness as he crossed the road and appeared to inspect the craft. He wore a blue coverall and luminescent heel-less boots, and had a bald head.

The observation lasted 10 minutes, after which the object took off with a whining sound, sparks and smoke. The following day, before he had revealed anything about the case, Ladeleto was contacted by strange "newsmen" who appeared to know all the details of it.

No investigation or checking seems to be made and the case entered the catalogue of UFO landings by Jacques Vallée, hardly leaving other traces in the ufological literature, probably because of its obviously more than doubtful nature.

Basic information table:

Case number: URECAT-000093
Date of event: November 23, 1958
Earliest report of event: September 16, 1962
Delay of report: 4 years.
Witness reported via: Not known.
First alleged record by: Magazine article by "contactee".
First certain record by: Jacques Vallée ufology catalogue.
First alleged record type: Sensationalist magazine article.
First certain record type: Ufology catalogue.
This file created on: January 25, 2007
This file last updated on: July 8, 2013
Country of event: El Salvador
State/Department: Cuscatlan
Type of location: Road
Lighting conditions: Night
UFO observed: Yes
UFO arrival observed: No
UFO departure observed: Yes
UFO/Entity Relation: Certain
Witnesses numbers: 1
Witnesses ages: Not reported.
Witnesses types: Allegedly engineer.
Photograph(s): Allegedly.
Witnesses drawing: No.
Witnesses-approved drawing: No.
Number of entities: 1
Type of entities: Humanoid
Entities height: 2.5 meters
Entities outfit type: Suit
Entities outfit color: Blue.
Entities skin color: Not reported.
Entities body: Not reported.
Entities head: Not reported.
Entities eyes: Not reported.
Entities mouth: Not reported.
Entities nose: Not reported.
Entities feet: Luminescent boots, no heels.
Entities arms: Not reported.
Entities fingers: Not reported.
Entities fingers number: Not reported.
Entities hair: Bald.
Entities voice: Not reported.
Entities actions: Was out of UFO inspecting UFO, went back in, departure.
Entities/witness interactions: None.
Witness(es) reactions: Observed, photographed, went.
Witness(es) feelings: Not reported.
Witness(es) interpretation: Not reported.
Explanation category: Invention.
Explanation certainty: Medium.

Narratives:

[Ref. jv1:] JACQUES VALLEE:

In his catalogue of UFO landings, Jacques Vallée indicates that on November 23, 1958, at 11:35 p.m., in Cojutepeque, San Salvador, engineer Julio M. Ladaleto stopped when his car hit a can rolling on the road, then observed an object about 35 meters away.

It was shaped like a lamp shade with an upper transparent sphere emitting a bluish, pulsating light, 12 meters diameter, 7 meters high, resting on three half-spheres.

An occupant, 2.5 meters tall was photographed by the witness as he crossed the road and appeared to inspect the craft. He wore a blue coverall and luminescent heel-less boots, and had a bald head.

The observation lasted 10 minutes, after which the object took off with a whining sound, sparks and smoke. The following day, before he had revealed anything about the case, Ladeleto was contacted by strange "newsmen" who appeared to know all the details of it.

Vallée indicates that his source is "Settimana Incom. September 16, 62."

[Ref. lg1:] LUIS GONZALES:

In a catalogue of all first UFO occupants encounters after Kenneth Arnold's sighting in 1947 for each country, Spanish skeptical researcher Luis Gonzales lists the case as the first such case in San Salvador.

He indicates that on November 23, 1958, in Cojutepeque, at 11:35 a.m., engineer Julio M. Ladaleto, stopped when his car hit a can rolling on the road, then observed an object about 35 meters away.

It was shaped like a lamp shade with an upper transparent sphere emitting a bluish, pulsating light, 12 meters diameter, 7 meters high, resting on three half-spheres.

An occupant, 2.5 meters tall was photographed by the witness as he crossed the road and appeared to inspect the craft. He wore a blue coverall and luminescent heel-less boots, and had a bald head.

The observation lasted 10 minutes, after which the object took off with a whining sound, sparks and smoke. The following day, before he had revealed anything about the case, Ladeleto was contacted by strange "newsmen" who appeared to know all the details of it.

Luis Gonzales indicates that the source is the MAGONIA Catalogue case 476 [jv1] citing "Settimana Incom". He indicates that "Settimana Incom" is the primary source and the publication date was September 16, 1962, the case appearing in a serial by Bruno Ghibaudi about flying saucers.

Points to consider:

Bruno Ghibaudi, who is said to have written the primary source, was described as a scientific newspaper journalist, and sometimes as an aeronautics journalist. Himself took several photographs of allegedly strange flying devices on the beaches of Pescara along the Adriatic sea in Italy in April 1961 and claimed he had encountered extra-terrestrial beings. The one of his UFO pictures that is still circulating seems to show a bat.

The publication "La Setimana Incom" was the magazine of the movie-news company Incom (Industria Cortometraggi Milano), Italy, funded in 1938 which produced propaganda information bulletins for movie theaters during WWII. Their bulletin "La settimana Incom" was published from 1946 to 1965, with a total of 2550 issues, released twice a week.

The story mentions that the spaceship was formed like a lamp-shade and resting on three half-spheres. This is clearly reminiscent of the famous "Adamski" hoax; in which the saucer used in a famous faked photograph was said to have been an actual lampshade and does have a lampshade shape, moreover, it had three half sphere underneath as some sort of landing gear; which were halves of ping-ping balls glued underneath the lampshade:

The episode with the "strange newspapermen" that "knew everything" of the encounter before the alleged witness talked about it, is also reminiscent of Adamski's and similar tales, and the sort of inventions that nurtured the "Men-in-Black" mythology.

List of issues:

Id: Topic: Severity: Date noted: Raised by: Noted by: Description: Proposal: Status:
1 Data Medium January 25, 2007 Patrick Gross Patrick Gross Primary source not available. Help needed. Opened.

Evaluation:

Hoax, insufficient information.

Sources references:

* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.

Document history:

Authoring

Main Author: Patrick Gross
Contributors: None
Reviewers: None
Editor: Patrick Gross

Changes history

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0.1 Patrick Gross January 25, 2007 Creation, [jv1], [lg1].
0.2 Patrick Gross January 25, 2007 First published.
1.0 Patrick Gross July 8, 2013 Conversion from HTML4 to XHTML Strict.

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