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Circles on the field and other formations. Argentina

ID #1619531931
Added Tue, 27/04/2021
Author July N.
Sources
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Status
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Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness
Incident date: 
09.01.1986
Location: 
Серро Пахарильо
Córdoba
Argentina

Argentina: The burning mark of Cerro Paharillo. In 1986, residents of the province of Cordoba saw an aircraft that left a circle of burnt grass measuring 100 meters in diameter on the mountainside. Since then, the "Paharillo burn" has become a worldwide UFO attraction.

Witnesses of what will become one of the most significant UFO cases in Argentina were an elderly woman, Ms. Esperanza de Gomez, her daughter Sarah and her nephew Gabriel, 11 years old.

The events took place in 1986 in Quebrada de la Luna, one of the spurs of the mountain Uritorco in the province of Cordoba. That evening, at 23:20, they finished playing cards and were ready to give up when a powerful bright light penetrated through the blinds of the only window in the house.

Sarah was about to open the window, but she was paralyzed by fear. 

This was seen by her son Gabriel, whose curiosity made him look.

The next day, the boy became the only witness to what he described in this way:

"I thought it was an Evil Light because it comes from the mountains. It got bigger and bigger and moved from one side to the other. Later, when the red light turned off, I got a good look. It was a round thing with windows. A red light was visible from the windows, and above it the light was clear."

After a minute, the light went out. Mrs. Esperanza, thinking that the light did not bode well, decided to go to bed and forget about what had happened.

The next morning, the son of an old woman living nearby woke them up excitedly and asked them to come and see what had happened on the facade of the house - the peak known as Paharillo. 

This is something that none of them had seen before: a huge perfect circle of charred grass (later it turned out that its diameter is 100 meters (328 feet)).

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This very strange case occurred in Argentina in 1986 and is practically unknown in the world of ufology, but Spanish-speaking researchers have documented quite a lot of materials on this case.

It all started on the night of January 9, 1986 on a small farm, which was located near the hills of the Sierra del Paharillo. Esperanza Gomez, her sister Sarah and her grandson Gabriel Gomez were at the farm that night. At about 22:00 they were sitting and playing cards when Dona Esperanza suddenly thought she heard a car approaching the farm, and, concentrating on this sound, she interrupted the card game and got up from the table.

Then all three of them saw a powerful red light enter their house through the windows and doors. Going to the window, they saw an intense red light moving back and forth across the hills of Paharillo, and a few seconds later they saw something emitting this red light fly over their farm, hitting a large willow tree growing about 10 meters from the house. Then the red light disappeared and everything became quiet and calm.

The next day Esperanza came out of the house and noticed that the willow had changed the green color of the foliage, now all the leaves were reddish in color. And after a while, the leaves turned yellow just as quickly. It seemed that the tree was doused with some kind of acid.

The next morning, Dona Esperanza's son Manuel Gomez was returning from night work and driving to the farm when he suddenly noticed a strange black spot on the southeastern slope of Paharillo Hill.

He told his family about it, and the next day Manuel and his son Gabriel Gomez went in that direction to inspect the unusual spot.

When they arrived at the place, it seemed that there was a spontaneous fire, but the men immediately realized that something was wrong when they examined the burned grass. For some reason, the grass was burned only from above and did not suffer at all from below, which was very different from the picture of an ordinary forest fire.

In a matter of days, the story of a strange red light coming from a UFO and an unusual fire spread widely among the local population and soon reached Mayor Diego Cesa, who was friends with the Gomez family and immediately equipped a research team to the site of the fire. Dona Esperanza told them everything she had seen during the night, including about the damaged willow tree.

The photo below shows how Gabriel Gomez draws a round flying object on wet sand that he saw in the night sky. This group also visited the site of the fire and examined everything that was there. And that was just the beginning.

When articles about the incident got into the media, journalists and various scientists began to come to Dona Esperanza's house en masse. Just at this time, the injured willow began to shed its leaves, "as if something accelerated its biological time," eyewitnesses said.

Samples of willow bark and leaves and trees growing next to it were taken, which were then sent to the Buenos Aires laboratory, where they were studied and concluded that chlorophyll had somehow been extracted from the tree.

This was confirmed by an attempt to moisten the leaves, which turned out to be impossible. By the way, when this willow completely shed all its leaves, then after a while it regrown with leaves, normal and green, as if nothing had happened. Further more.

Other materials, dead insects, soil samples, rocks and ashes were collected at the site of the fire and near the willow tree, and they also showed very strange results. For example, some stones have changed their color, becoming much darker on the upper side.

Amazing features were found in insects collected at the site of the fire: externally, the insect bodies looked completely intact, but inside they were completely empty: it seemed that something had sucked out all their insides. The same thing happened with the remains of a small frog found in the same burnt circle. Outwardly, she looked completely unharmed, as if she had literally just died.

There were no signs on her skin that she had been exposed to high temperatures. Inside, all her organs were missing, like insects. All this was very strange, but it did not allow us to draw any logical conclusions, except for the impact of UFOs, so the whole story very quickly disappeared from the pages of newspapers.

A year and a half later, in August 1987, a large forest fire (real) occurred in this region, which devastated all the hills of the Sierra del Paharillo. And the only place that the fire avoided was the very area that was exposed to UFOs!

It already seemed like real witchcraft to the locals. Moreover, a few days after the big fire, a certain Jorge Suarez specially came to this "enchanted" place together with journalist Fernando Gabriel and checked whether the grass was burning there.

The grass inside the oval easily caught fire from an ordinary lighter, so the theory that a UFO treated this place with something incombustible was not justified. In 1989, Spanish engineer Fernando Jimenez del Oso and his group arrived at the site and found that their high-precision equipment had been subjected to strange interference that interfered with its operation.

According to del Oso, the UFO probably "fixed" some unknown energy in the earth, which, like the effect of a bell, protected this earth from fire, and it also created interference.

Original news

Source: Engimas Costa Rica (Costa Rica) and Planeta UFO (Argentina)
Date: 04.27.2021

Argentina: The Cerro Pajarillo Burn Mark

In 1986, residents of the province of Cordoba saw a craft that left a circle of burned grass measuring 100 meters in diameter on the side of the mountain. Since then, the "Pajarillo burn mark" turned into a worldwide UFO attraction.
The witnesses to what would become one of Argentina's most significant UFO cases were an old woman, Mrs. Esperanza de Gómez, her daughter Sara and her nephew Gabriel, age 11.
The events occurred in 1986 at Quebrada de la Luna, one of the spurs of Mt. Uritorco in the province of Córdoba. That evening, at 23:20 hours, they had finished playing a game of cards and were ready to turn in when a powerful bright light came in through the blinds of the only window in the house.
Sara was about to open the window, but she was paralyzed by fear. It would be her son Gabriel whose curiosity led him to take a look.
The boy would become the sole witness to what he would describe thus the next day: "I thought it was the Evil Light, because it came from the mountains. It got bigger and bigger and moved from one side to the other. Later, when the red light turned off, I got a good look. It was a round thing with windows. You could see the red light coming from the windows, and above it the light was clear."
The light vanished a minute later. Mrs. Esperanza, thinking that the light couldn't bode anything good, decided to go to bed and forget the event.
The following morning, the son of an old woman living nearby woke them up excitedly, asking to come see what had happened on the facing the house - a summit known as Pajarillo. It would be something that none of them had ever seen before: an enormous, perfect circle of charred grass (it was later ascertained to measure 100 meters (328 ft) in diameter)

[Translation (c) 2021 S. Corrales, IHU with thanks to Ariel Leiva and Guillermo Giménez]

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On the night of January 9, 1986, in a rural farm located a few meters away from Provincial Route 17 that runs parallel to the Sierra del Pajarillo and that joins National Route 38 with the place known as Las Grutas de Ongamira , there were three members of the Gómez family: Esperanza Gómez , her sister Sara (who lived in Buenos Aires) and her grandson Gabriel Gómez , 12 years old.

At around 10:00 p.m the Gómez family thought they heard the sound of a car arriving at the farm but then they begin to see a powerful red light, penetrating through windows and doors, illuminating the whole room. They went to the window facing the front of the house and saw a very large red light flying across the Pajarillo hills and, moments later, they saw it fly over the farm and then "land" on the willow tree that was ten meters away from the house.

The next day, Esperanza noticed that the tree had changed the green coloration of its foliage, turning reddish and then yellowish "as if it had been poured with acid".

A few hours later, in the morning, Doña Esperanza's son, Manuel Gómez, who was returning from his night work, arrived home. As he was passing by the road in front of Pajarillo, he noticed a strange black ovoid spot on the southeast slope of the hill. When he told his family about this circumstance, they told him about the night they had experienced. Gabriel was interested in the location of the strange footprint and was able to certify that it was at the same point from where he thought he saw the object coming towards his grandmother's house.

The next day, on horseback, Manuel and Gabriel went to see the stain. What they saw seemed strange to both of them, the grass was burned at the top but not at the bottom, something very different from the forest fires:

The incident reached the ears of the government secretary of Capilla del Monte (the closest city to where this happened) Jorge Suárez, and he informed the mayor Diego Ces,who was a personal friend of the Gómez family and,out of curiosity, they made an excursion to the area. This group consisted of Andrés Argañaraz (provincial deputy), Raúl Ochonga (municipal photographer), Jorge Suárez and Diego Ces and his son.

When this event began to take on national relevance, different researchers and scientists began to arrive to Esperanza's house and the area of the burned footprint. At this time, the affected willow tree began to lose its leaves, "as if something had accelerated its biological time," they said.

Another issues that called attention was the change of coloration of the stones of the footprint that became darker at the top.

The insects found inside the footprint offered some surprising peculiarities, as they seemed to be mummified, with their exterior intact, but empty inside, as if something had drained their vital fluids:

Thin parts such as antennae or legs would have disappeared in a conventional fire.

Something that surprised, was the finding of a small batrachian, which offered the same characteristics of the insects, but in addition, its skin had not changed coloration, a situation that would have occurred if it had been affected by fire.

Second phase, August 1987:

This burned grass marking of about 120m x 70m had a second phase a year and a half later, when in August 1987 there was a natural fire in the area, but the footprint was not affected by the fire!

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