The Vidal 'teleportation', Chascomús
In June 1968 Argentine papers reported that Dr Gerardo Vidal and his wife had driven into a fog outside Chascomús and woken up two days later on a road near Mexico City, car and all.
1968 CE · -35.58, -58.01 · status: hoax
The account
The story said the couple went straight to the Argentine consulate in Mexico, and that their car's paint was scorched. It was published abroad by Flying Saucer Review and became a classic 'teleportation' case, retold for decades.
The sceptical view
The Argentine embassy in Mexico denied the story the day after it appeared. Filmmaker Aníbal Uset later said he invented it as publicity for his film 'Che OVNI', released in August 1968, and researcher Roberto Banchs, writing in Fortean Times, found the confession credible. No Dr Vidal matching the story was ever traced.