Case file · Close encounter
Anolaima light and the death of Arcesio Bermúdez
In 1969 about fourteen people at a farm in Anolaima, Cundinamarca, saw an amber sphere land; Arcesio Bermúdez walked toward it, fell ill and died days later in a Bogotá hospital.
1969 CE · 4.76, -74.46 · status: account
The account
Witness Mauricio Gnecco, then 13, described the light as casting no shadow. Later accounts add a humanoid waving people away. A planned exhumation years later reportedly found no remains, fuelling rumours.
The sceptical view
No medical record of the cause of death has been published, and many details come from ufologists decades later.