'Flying saucers over Asunción'
At about 7 a.m. on 20 February 1948, an oval or disc-shaped object was reported at the same time from Asunción, Areguá, the Cordillera hills and a Chaco ranch, and the case was filed by the US Air Force.
1948 CE · -25.30, -57.63 · status: account
The account
A widow in Asunción's Barrio Obrero described an oval object; a bank employee in Areguá saw it change colour; a rancher and his hands in the Chaco saw a green disc with halos, slower than a plane, at about 300 feet. La Tribuna reported the sightings on 26 February. US Major Samuel J. Skousen wrote a 13-page report on the case, which was later archived in Project Blue Book. Paraguayan ufologist Ronald Maidana Torres has collected some 50 Paraguayan sightings going back to 1651.
The sceptical view
Simultaneous reports over a wide area at dawn suggest a bright astronomical or atmospheric object, such as a meteor or Venus, rather than a craft at low altitude.