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.
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[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.
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.
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