This article was published in the daily newspaper New York News, USA, on July 25, 1965.
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Lima, July 24 (Copley) -- As if things weren't restive enough, Peruvians are now seeing flying saucers. One scientist asserted that the saucers were piloted by beings 3.5 feet tall.
Reports have been coming in all week to government authorities and newspapers from people who say they have seen flying objects around Lima.
People in Chile, Portugal, Argentina, Australia and Uruguay also have recently reported seeing unidentified flying objects.
Because the Peruvian government hasn't investigated the reports, it has fallen to the newspapers to do most of the sleuthing. The best eyewitness account the press got came from a chemist and his wife.
They said that they saw a bright flashing object land on a hill near their ranch about 80 miles outside of Lima. They said it stayed on the ground for 45 minutes and then zoomed off. They rushed out to the spot where it landed and found singed plants, overturned rocks and a blacked area.
A group of farmers supported the couple's report.
The saucermongers got an ally and the people got a bigger scare when a group of Peruvian scientists issued a statement saying that flying saucers did exist and that observatories had been on a 24-hours alert for a week trying to track them down. A member of the Peruvian Institute of Interplanetary Relations even went so far as to give a description of the spacemen.
Gustavo Villar Dongo said the beings that occupied the saucers were about 3.5 feet tall and had physical characteristics similar to ours. He did not say how he had arrived at that description.
"We are being watched out but we shouldn't be afraid," he said. "If they (the spacemen) had wanted to conquer us, they would have done it long ago."
