Date:
June 27, 1996
Location: La Araucania region, Chile
An
electrician claims having been abducted by a UFO while
traveling by car between two towns in southern Chile.
Gabriel Encina, 47, states that the strange experience
occured six years ago, but that the anguish he experienced
kept him from disclosing it until now.
Source:
EFE News Agency/Scott Corrales
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From
Scott Corrales, 5-21-2
The
light that hovered over his car made him pass out. When
he woke up, he was over 10 km. from where the encounter
occurred...
EFE
News Agency May 14, 2002
(EFE)
- An electrician claims having been abducted by a UFO
while traveling by car between two towns in southern Chile.
Gabriel Encina, 47, states that the strange experience
occured six years ago, but that the anguish he experienced
kept him from disclosing it until now. "No one
can keep me from thinking that I was abducted by something
or someone. What I saw wasn't an airplane or a flying
saucer -- it was simply a very bright light that landed
on top of my car," said Gabriel Encina in an
interview published by "El Diario Austral de Temuco".
Encina
notes that he never discussed the subject and that only
his wife and close friends knew about it. "I know
that others will call me a madman." "In
spite of the time that's elapsed, I'm still a bit affected
by it. Ever since that abduction, I have headaches, migraines
and bone trouble," he explained. "I have
difficulty sleeping, I'm afraid of dreaming, and when
I close my eyes, I see that light following me, moving
slowly toward me."
Chile,
a nation of 15.5 million inhabitants, ranks fifth among
the countries having the greatest number of UFO sightings,
after the USA, Peru, Brazil and Russia. Encina recalled
that the incident occured on June 27, 1996 at 20:00 hrs.
(24:00 GMT) while traveling between Los Sauces and Angol
in the La Araucania region, 608 km to the south of Santiago,
under clear skies and the damp weather characteristic
of that winter season. "I suddenly saw a very
bright white light some 3 meters in diameter which appeared
and descended and followed me. I accelerated, but curiously,
the car lost speed," he added. He says that when
the light landed on his vehicle, the radiance was so intense
that he could make out dust particles floating in the
air. "That's when I felt anguished and passed
out."
According
to Encina, when he awoke, both he and his car were some
12 km. from where the encounter with the alleged UFO took
place. "My legs trembled and my head hurt. I was
surprised that my wristwatch had stopped at 20:05 hours,
althought almost an hour had elapsed since the encounter,"
Encina explained.
In
mid-April of 2001, Erasmo Mena, an expert with the Centro
Informativo para el Fenomeno OVNI en America Latina (CIFOAL)
disclosed the "massive" presence of UFOs
between the cities of Angol and Victoria which could be
seen by the unaided eye. Until 1990, Chile experienced
over 400 sightings and the country's northern region was
the scenario of a number of cases, such as so-called close
encounters of the third kind and the abduction of a Chilean
army corporal by the crewmembers of alleged flying saucers.
Translation
(C) 2002 Scott Corrales Institute of Hispanic Ufology.
Special thanks to Ing. Marco Reynoso, Fundación
Cosmos.
Source:
http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case58.htm
