SUBJECT: GUATEMALA CITY UFO REPORT FILE: UFO1729
Date: 01-28-90 21:01
From: Michael Corbin
To: All
Subj: P 1006-1 GT Guatemala Report
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PARANET CLASSIFICATION NUMBER: P 1006-1 GT
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT
1. Country: Guatemala
2. Subject: UFO Sighting
3. ISC Number:
4. Date of Information: 23 Apr 67
5. Place and Date of ACQ: Guatemala City, 26 Apr 67
6. Evaluation: Source F Information 6
7. Source: Mr. J.R. Carlos, who observed phenomenon
8. Report Number: 1 838 0030 67
9. Date of Report: 12 May 1967
10. No. of Pages: 3 [Handwritten]
11. References: DIRM 4A3e
12. Originator: USDAO Guatemala
13. Prepared by: Col John A. Carroll, Jr., Defense Attache and
Air Attache [Signed by Col. Carroll]
14. Approving Authority:
15. Summary:
1. This report forwards a narrative written and signed by J. R.
CARLOS and concerns his sighting of UFO's 23 April 1967. It
should be noted report is submitted as an IR since AFR 80-17 is
not available this station.
COMMENTS OF REPORTING OFFICER: a. On query, Sr. Carlos
described his portrayal of the zig-zag area (on attached
drawing) as representing his conception of the total path of one
object which changed direction in rapid succession, producing an
explosion or brilliant flash at each change of direction. He
thought also that the phenomenon he observed might have had some
sort of connection with SOYUZ I which was reported to have
crashed 24 April.
b. Source became visibly agitated and excited while
recounting the story. He mentioned also that his children were
pulling at his elbow to use the binoculars as the two objects he
described approached one another. Therefore, he was unable to
state whether an actual collision took place or what might have
transpired. He knows of no one else besides himself and family
who might have seen the objects.
c. This report has been delayed in submission to try to
ascertain whether there were other observers. No other observers
have been located and no local publicity has been generated on
the subject. Source is a responsible citizen, a florist in MIXCO
(1439N/090 36W), a small town about 5 miles West of Guatemala
City near the Pan American highway. It should be noted Source
came in of his own accord after requesting an appointment by
phone. He first reported to the MILGP and was referred to
DATT/AirA. He was firm about not wanting any publicity as he did
not wish to appear foolish or overly imaginative. His desire was
simply to report the incident. RO feels he seemed believable;
there was no joking about the subject and there is no doubt in
mind of RO that Source saw something [underlined] which was to
him unnatural or at the very least highly unusual.
TRANSLATION OF WRITTEN NARRATIVE BY J. R. CARLOS
Memorandum Concerning Phenomenon Observed Sunday, 23 April 1967
At Approximately 8:00 P.M.
At approximately the hour indicated above, my wife was
watering the flowers in the window boxes of our house; I was near
a bedroom window which she had left open. She asked me to close
the window and when I approached it I was surprised to see the
sky so clear and full of stars. At this moment I noticed a star
of surprising magnitude; my surprise was even greater when I
observed it was moving from the Southwest to the Northeast. Its
size was greater than Venus in its most visible periods. I
called to my children and to my wife; they saw the star (as we
will call the object) which was moving and had a very intense
brilliance, with no change of color, giving off a clear yellow
light with uniform rays. We ran out to the fields near our house
and I carried binoculars (Zeiss) which are very powerful.
As I leaned on a fence to control my nerves, I called out to
my children that I saw a star of a dull red color, without the
rays which normally appear around a star; it was moving toward
the star which had first interested us. At first I thought it
was an optical illusion since the other star wa also moving in
the same direction, but, on training the binoculars on the red
star, I noticed it was increasing in size and therefore must be
moving. I called out to my children to look at the second star
but found it was not visible to the eye and it was also being
covered by a cloud. The two stars rapidly approached each other;
both appeared to be at the same altitude or height on horizon but
the red star was moving faster. On looking again at the area I
could only see the large star which had somewhat changed its
direction, moving more to the North. (Larger star is the yellow
star.) I realized this change of direction later; I did not stop
to think about it at the time but when I was reconstructing my
observations I remembered it. I did note at the time that the
larger star was moving more rapidly but without losing
brilliance, and while I was observing it there was no change of
color or any flashes.
The drawing attached shows the larger star at the moment I
saw multiple red lines moving from one side to the other, making
a kind of zig-zag and, at the end of some of these lines, what
appeared to be small rays, completely rectilinear, forming small
stars of enormous brilliance. The lines were red and the small
stars formed at the end of the lines were of a very brilliant
clear red color. At this moment the clouds lifted and my wife
could see the multiple lights or stars that formed.
In summary, this phenomenon seemed to come from one object
which moved rapidly from one place to another, leaving behind a
red line which faded out with a sort of flash; it was not like
the explosions of fireworks in which there are a number of rocket
flashes at the same time.
I believe that the two objects crashed together but,
unfortunately, I let my children use the binoculars and tried to
direct their vision toward the two stars; also, the observation
took place during some 80 seconds so there was no time. I do
know that the larger star was already somewhat out of the zone
where I saw the explosions when they appeared. It could be that
there was some delay in finding the area when my children
returned the binoculars, but when I again located it, it was
difficult to find as it was moving fast and had somewhat changed
its trajectory. Signed: J. R. CARLOS G. 26 April 1967.
[Drawing on Page 3]
16. Distribution by Originator:
J2 SOUTHCOM
USAFSO
Am Emb Guat
17. Downgrading Data: NOT APPLICABLE
18. Attaching Data:
[END REPORT]
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