'Witness of Another World'.

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Thought this film by Alan Stivelman was a rather special one and one of the best 'close encounter' examinations I'd seen in ages.

It deals with the full physical, psychological and emotional impact on Juan Pérez after his 'anomalous' experience as a young gaucho in rural Argentina back in September, 1978.

Amongst other things Pérez witnessed several flying objects emitting strange beams of coloured light and a subsequent landed 'domed' object (with humanoids).

It's pretty powerful stuff and would highly recommend it for folks genuinely interested in the UFO/OVNI/UAP subject.










Also thought this film review by RPJ pretty much nailed it.

Alan Stivelman is not terribly preoccupied with convincing his audience of protagonist Juan Pérez’s dramatic close encounter of the third kind in September of 1978, back when he was just a young, innocent boy growing up in the rural setting of the Argentinian pampa; a seemingly unremarkable child who was suddenly face to face with the greatest mystery of our modern age, and was thrown into a whirlwind of confusion, celebrity and ridicule for which he was never able to fully recover. Does anyone ever?

If the viewer is not moved by the anguish visible in Juan’s face, by the honesty in his words, and if the tears running down his cheeks are not enough to convince you that something REAL happened to this man and others like him, which has scarred him for life (both figuratively AND literally) and haunted him ever since, then no amount of official documents with ‘top secret’ seals will serve to change your mind.

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Jacques Vallee originally investigated the case back in the day and reported on it in his book 'Confrontations' - he and filmmaker Alan Stivelman discuss the incident below (as well as other very strange reports from around the same time and area).










Vallee report:

The young witness, Juan O Perez, had gone to gather a herd of horses and as he rode on his horse through the morning fog he felt something fly overhead, several objects then appeared and began maneuvering overhead emitting powerful beams of color changing light. His horse panicked and the witness barely managed to ride back home.

The boy’s father reprimanded him and ordered him to go back to get the horses. Back on the field the witness found a large round object on the ground, it had a dome on top with several round windows. A door opened and a seven-foot tall being wearing gloves and a cylindrical helmet appeared. The being seemed to be attached to the object by some type of breathing apparatus. He invited the witness inside.

They boy then tied his horse to a ladder and climbed in. Inside he was able to see a panel with buttons, tables and a small robot like being that was apparently busy at cutting into pieces, large bones of some animals resembling cows or horses, afraid the boy jumped out of the object to the ground. The tall being followed him outside. The witness then requested one of the giant’s gloves as proof of the experience, he then saw that the being had green claw like hands with blue metallic nails.

The being then pricked the witness right arm apparently extracting blood in the process. As the witness rode back home carrying the glove, two flying objects caught up with him emitting a small slab and sphere that descended and brushed by the horse pulling off the glove like a magnet. Another curious fact was that while inside the UFO the young witness attempted to touch the being and the object several times but was prevented to by what appeared to be an invisible barrier. (Six days prior to the incident the witness father had found a mutilated cow in a pasture.)

Source: Jacques Vallee, Confrontations, A scientist Search for Alien Contact

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Sketches from three other UFO incidents around the same period and area can be found on the right in this image and other cases reported the same year also involve 'occupants' emerging from domed objects wearing 'helmets' and 'silvery suits'.



Vallee on other activity:

Within a three-week period in September 1978 there were four dramatic UFO cases in Venado Tuerto, a small town three hours southwest of Rosario, Argentina. In the first case, a young carpenter named Alberto saw seven objects and two beings on the ground. In the second case, a twelve-year-old boy named Oscar saw three objects and went inside one of them, interacting with a very tall man and a small robot. In the third case, a sixteen-year-old baker named Francisco felt intense heat from a luminous object during a blackout of the local transformer. And in the fourth incident, a twenty-three-year-old man who was driving at night was “teleported” over four miles and had to be admitted to a local clinic for chest pains.”

– Jacques Vallee, Confrontations – A Scientists Search for Alien Contact, p. 121 (Ballantine Books, 1990)

Apparently the Perez case caused quite a bit of interest at high level and there's an interesting research paper found in this article by David Metcalfe.

In 2003 Jacques Vallee and physicist Eric W. Davis translated details from these types of experiences into a 6-layer Model for Anomalous Phenomena for a paper presented at a conference hosted by the Centro Transdisciplinar de Estudos da Consciencia at the Universidad Fernando Pessoa in Portugal. (10) “The main argument presented in this paper is that the continuing study of unidentified aerial phenomena (“UAP”) may offer an existence theorem for new models of physical reality. …the authors attempt to clarify the issues surrounding “high strangeness” observations by distinguishing six layers of information that can be derived from UAP events, namely (1) physical manifestations, (2) anti-physical effects, (3) psychological factors, (4) physiological factors, (5) psychic effects and (6) cultural effects. In a further step they propose a framework for scientific analysis of unidentified aerial phenomena that takes into account the incommensurability problem.” (11) The experience of a boy in rural Argentina speaks to the possibility of new models of physical reality, new models of consciousness and new models of community – surprising associations for an event associated with a subject like the UFO phenomenon that has been cast off for so long by serious researchers.

Witness of Another World – Exploring the Soul of a Phenomenon

Cheers.