Carlos Alberto Díaz, the "teleported" railway worker of Ingeniero White

Carlos Alberto Díaz was 28. He worked for Ferrocarriles Argentinos in the locomotive shed at Ingeniero White, Bahía Blanca. That night he was moonlighting as a waiter at a wedding at Club Napostá. After 3 a.m. he bought La Nueva Provincia and caught the line 500 bus at Chiclana and Colón. Sunday, 5 January 1975. He got off in Ingeniero White and walked toward home, near Daniel de Solier street.

He walked between two co-workers, Entraiga and Miguel. They saw a white light in the sky. At first they took it for an aeroplane. Then it moved at great speed over them. "That light suddenly came closer," Díaz said. "I was walking between the two of them and it sucked up only me."

Joseph Brill, writing in Official UFO in February 1976, gave the earliest English account. Díaz was paralyzed after being blinded by a brilliant flash of light. He tried to resist. He was pulled off the ground. At about 3 meters up, he became unconscious.

He woke inside a sphere. The floor seemed plasticised. No openings. No doors. No windows. Brill described a smooth, bright sphere which appeared to be semi-transparent plastic. Díaz had entered through a square opening he only later learned to call a hatch.

Three beings were with him. They were greenish, with stumps rather than arms. No mouth. No nose. No ears. They did not walk. They levitated. "When I touched its arm it felt like foam." They pulled tufts of hair from him, without pain. "I was desperate, screaming, I didn't even know what a UFO was." He passed out again.

In the best known version, from TN in 2023, he was found asleep in a patio in Constitución, Buenos Aires, at 4:17 a.m. Others place him in the front yard of a house in Retiro, across from the Casa de la Moneda. Rubén Rombola writes that a truck driver found him wandering at dawn, 45 km from the Capital Federal. Brill put him in a vacant field about 200 miles from where he was taken, found at mid-day.

He still had his bag, his bus ticket and his copy of La Nueva Provincia, printed in Bahía Blanca that same morning. His watch had stopped.

Rombola, citing neurosurgeon Francisco Macrina, reports burned scalp tissue and marks on his chest. A Federal Police expert could not identify what had caused the burns. A hospital record notes total body hair loss. Roberto Banchs of CEFORA investigated at the time. Decades later Andrea Pérez Simondini obtained the clinical records and called it one of Argentina's "four or five emblematic cases" with medical backing. La Nueva reported that the case reached President María Estela Martínez de Perón. No official report has surfaced.

No hoax finding or confession has been published. The UFO Iconoclasts blog set the case beside Antônio Villas Boas and asked whether it was hallucination, a psychological operation or real contact. Read side by side, the versions drift. The famous 18 minutes, and the paradox of the morning paper, belong to the later accounts. If he was found at mid-day, a fast ordinary journey becomes possible in principle.

Díaz says he lived in hiding for about 15 years. Then came Mendoza, Neuquén and finally Capilla del Monte, Córdoba, where he runs a hostel. He speaks at UFO congresses, among them the International UFO Congress in Victoria, Entre Ríos. "I've been telling what happened for 48 years and I've never changed my version," he says. "I still can't make sense of what happened, though it changed my life forever."