The article below was published in the daily newspaper The New York Times, New York, USA, on June 3, 1962.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters). -- A group of "unidentified flying objects," either cigar-shaped or saucer-shaped, were reported over Argentina one early morning recently.
According to the reports they were sighted almost simultaneously from places more than 1,000 miles apart.
Two responsible, independent, morning newspapers, La Prensa and La Nacion, quoting their own correspondents, reported that the objects had been seen by hunters, truck drivers and policemen.
La Prensa's reports came from the province of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, on the southern border of Buenos Aires, and San Juan, in the northwest.
The "objects" were moving more slowly than a meteorite and in every case from north to south.
Quoting eyewitnesses in Santa Rosa, captial of La Pampa Province, La Nacion said that "many dwellers in this city saw overhead the strange spectacle of six or seven moving objects, strangely bright, advancing in perfect formation from north to south.
"In the zone known as "La Arana" (The Spider), about forty kilometers (about twenty-five miles) west of this city, people attending a late party saw the same bodies at closer range. They notices a white beam on the ground, which soon soared to a high altitude followed by other objects of similar shape. They appeared to move around their own axis."
