EPEC truck drivers' encounter, Route 19, Córdoba
At about 4:20 a.m. on 27 December 1978, three employees of Córdoba's state power company, driving on Route 19 from Arroyito, reported lost time and then a glowing craft with rotating windows that blinded them with its light.
1978 CE · -31.43, -63.25 · status: account
The account
Severino Brunetto, his son Daniel and Orlando Carrizo said they found themselves kilometres along the road without remembering familiar landmarks. Near Pedro Vivas they stopped for a hazy glow: an object with flashing windows, a red mist below and a searchlight on top moved toward them, and its beam swept their truck. Other drivers also stopped. When one shone a torch at it, a flash blinded them and the object was gone. The company asked the men for written reports, which surfaced more than 45 years later through a former employee and the UFO group CEFORA.
The sceptical view
The 'declassified' reports are the witnesses' own statements kept by their employer, not an investigation. Night driving fatigue can produce gaps in memory of a familiar road.