Case file · Close encounter
Famaillá landing, Tucumán
On 12 October 1978, about 30 workers of Tucumán's provincial irrigation department reportedly saw a craft land about 40 km southwest of Famaillá; small humanoids stepped out and quickly went back in when the men approached.
1978 CE · -27.30, -65.65 · status: claim
The account
The story was published by the Buenos Aires paper La Razón on 13 October 1978 and repeated by Argentine UFO bulletins and the HUMCAT catalogue of humanoid reports. The craft was said to have left clear traces before vanishing between the mountains.
The sceptical view
Researcher Patrick Gross notes that no investigation, drawings, photographs or detailed descriptions exist: the case rests on one newspaper story repeated by later catalogues.