Encounter record / 1963
October 1963. A night of fog and drizzle on Provincial Route 11, outside Monte Maíz in Córdoba. Truck driver Eugenio Douglas saw a small red light on the road ahead, like a parked car. Then a red flash. His 1936 Ford went into the ditch. What followed, he told police, was a thin violet beam that burned his cheek, hooded figures in helmets and a huge barrel-shaped craft with violet-blue windows. He fired his .38. He ran through ploughed fields and past the cemetery, and the lights followed him. In town, a street lamp turned violet, then green. A police doctor recorded "unusual injuries caused by undetermined agents". The story has been retold, and enlarged, ever since.
Friday 11 October 1963. Eugenio Douglas, a 48-year-old truck driver from Venado Tuerto, was hauling charcoal along Provincial Route 11 between Isla Verde and Monte Maíz, in Córdoba. The national weather service later recorded continuous drizzle and fog banks that cut visibility to 500 metres.