The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Progrès, France, on April 6, 1980.
An unidentified flying object was seen on Friday over a locality in southwestern Colombia, causing disturbances in the electrical network and in the operation of the telephone, announced in Bogota the radio station "Caracol."
According to "Caracol", at nightfall, an eight-shaped craft appeared in the sky, from which a kind of saucer detached itself which let out a trail of smoke or vapor, and which disappeared rapidly gaining altitude.