Sightings1978

Reports of an object falling near Tarija, Bolivia

Name: Reports of an object falling near Tarija, Bolivia
Start: 1978-05
Location: Tarija, Bolivia

When: May 1978
Where: Tarija, Bolivia
Sources: 1 public source

Tarija, Bolivia, near where an object was reported falling in 1978 Ruditaly, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

In May 1978 Bolivian and Argentine media reported that an unidentified object had fallen on a hill in southern Bolivia near the Argentine border, that the area was cordoned off and that Bolivia sought U.S. help to identify it. A U.S. press-monitoring compilation recorded the conflicting reports.

Sources

OfficialBolivia reports conflict on details of fallen object (opens in a new tab)CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room (UFO special collection) / 1978-05-17

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