Crux No. 2 - Incorporating Stigmata No. 23, 1986
(Crux, Thomas R. Adams, Paris, Texas)
Source: Archives For the Unexplained (AFU),
Norrköping, Sweden
The whole article:
“In response to his Freedom of Information Act request
for information on UFOs, Ray W. Boeche of the Fortean
Research Center
in Lincoln, Nebraska, received a selection of documents
from the Defense Intelligence Agency in late 1985. A number of foreign
reports were included, as well as several references to Project Moon Dust,
which other sources have described as the retrieval of fallen spacecraft or
space debris of unknown origin (some suggest that UFOs easily fall within the
purview of this project). One of the documents Boeche received is identified as
from the Joint Chiefs of Staff Message Center and is concerned with events in Peru in May
1980. The summary of the event is as follows:
Source reported that a UFO was spotted on two
different occasions near Peruvian Air Force (FAP) base in southern Peru.
The FAP tried to intercept and destry [sic] the UFO, but without success.
The document then provides details:
Source told RD about the spotting of an unidentified
flying object in the vicinity of Mariano Melgar Air Base, La Joya, Peru……Source
stated that the vehicle was spotted on two different occasions. The first was
during the morning hours of 9 May 80, and the second during the early evening
hours of 10 May 80.
Source stated that on 9 May, while a group of FAP
officers were in formation at Mariano Melgar, they spotted a UFO that was round
in shape, hovering near the airfield. The air commander scrambled an SU-22
aircraft to make an intercept. The pilot, according to a third party,
intercepted the vehicle and fired upon it at very close range without causing
any apparent damage. The pilot tried to make a second pass on the vehicle, but
the UFO out-ran the SU-22.
The second sighting was during hours of darkness. The
vehicle was lighted. Again an SU-22 was scrambled, but the vehicle out-ran the
aircraft.”
NOTE: The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) provides
the wrong date for the La Joya UFO incident, according to Leslie Kean’s book, UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government
Officials Go On the Record (Google Books):
The correct date of the first UFO incident is 11 April
1980. It was Lieutenant (later Air Force Commander) Oscar Alfonso Santa Maria Huertas who was
engaged in a dogfight with the UFO over
the La Joya/Mariano Melgar Air Base, Arequipa, Peru. Huertas
fired on – and hit the UFO – but the bullets had no effect on the unknown
object. Huertas flew a Sukhoi Su-22
fighter-bomber airplane.
Related posts:
realtvufos.blogspot.com/search?q=11+April+1980+Peru
Commander Oscar Alfonso
Santa Maria Huertas,
Peruvian Air Force (Ret.) (youtube.com image)
(tageo.com
photo)
