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AUGUST 19, 1965, LA VICTORIA, LIMA, PERU, DORA NAKAMURA:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

It seems that in 1967, the British "Flying Saucer Review" said something about a little green man eating at the El Pollon restaurant in La Victoria, Lima, Peru, on August 19, 1965.

The story goes that El Pollon waitress Dora Nakamura told that a "little man with green skin and only one eye in his forehead" entered the restaurant, ordered chicken "with plenty of red pepper and powdered saffron," then served by a speechless Miss Nakamura who was then paid "in strange coins with indecipherable signs" on them.

The comment attached to the story says that "attempts to investigate this report were unsuccessful" because the waitresse "claimed" that the report had been a hoax and she would say no more about it.

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Narratives:

[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:

Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in La Victoria, Lima, Peru, on August 19, 1965, at an unknown time, Dora Nakamura, a waitress at the El Pollon restaurant, reported that a "little man with green skin and only one eye in his forehead" entered the restaurant and ordered chicken "with plenty of red pepper and powdered saffron." Speechless, Miss Nakamura served the dinner and was paid in strange coins with "indecipherable signs" on them. Attempts to investigate this report were unsuccessful; the witness, claiming she was in a "delicate state of health," said the report had bee a hoax and she would say no more about it.

Albert Rosales indicates as source IPRI in FSR Vol. 13 #6.

Points to consider:

From a document I own indicating the table of contents of Flying Saucer Magazine issues, I see nothing called "IPRI" in their volume 13, #6; I suspect the story is the one by Charles Bowen headlined "Peru - One For The 'Monster' Book", the only one that could fit the story in [ar1].

Of course it appears to be a totally nonsensical story, and I am not sure many ufologist would ever call this a "good case", specially as Mrs Nakamura denied it happened at all. It is even quite possible that Mr. Bowen gave the sory with a grain of salt in the first place. I saw several other cases published by Mr. Bowen with warnings that they should not be considered reliable, only to find the sames case copied without his word of caution in later sources.

But why would anyone make up such a story in the first place?

Well, I suspect that it was initially just an advertizing trick for the restaurant. Advertizing using "fake" stories of little green men was not new at all. Telling about a little green man enoying a good meal at the restaurant was certainly an efficient manner to put the establishment in the newspapers - but ultimately, possibly, poor Mrs Nakamura must have been harassed by the curious and the gullible and was possibly in much pain telling over and over again that it simply did not happen.

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Evaluation:

Publicity stunt gone wild.

Sources references:

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

• [---] ? "Peru - One For The 'Monster' Book", article by Charles Bowen in the ufology magazine Flying Saucer Review (FSR), volume 13, #6, November 1967.
• [ar1] * "1965 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2007, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1965.shtml

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