3 April 1992
(The Tico Times, Costa Rica)
Sources: U.F.O.
Newsclipping Service, Plumerville, Arkansas and AFU.se
The whole article (Page 13):
“An
unidentified flying object (UFO) using what officials describe as a ‘tractor
beam’ sapped electrical energy from the Arenal hydroelectric plant early
Thursday morning [2 April 1992], causing a nationwide blackout that lasted half
an hour, officials said.
‘It was the
most incredible thing I ever saw,’ said Arenal plant manager Ingenuo Tomapelo.
‘The thing just hovered there for several minutes shining this tractor beam
down onto the main generator.’
Tomapelo
said he witnessed the event from the window of the plant’s control room where
he watched helplessly as the gauges registered dropping energy output.
‘It looked
like a tamal, just like the kind my grandmother used to make, except that it
glowed,’ said Tomapelo. ‘They drained all our power in a matter of minutes.’
NATIONAL
Emergency Commission President Jorge Trejos said the commission received reports
of UFO sightings from the Guanacaste provincial capital of Liberia to the small town of La Fortuna at the foot of the Arenal volcano.
From these reports
the Emergency Commission approximated the route of the UFO. It was first
reported spotted over Liberia
around 12:15 a.m., spotted over Canas at 12:16 and made its appearance at the
Arenal plant only two minutes later.
After
several minutes of hovering over the plant, it sent down its tractor beam at
12:21. Three minutes later, the lights went out all over the country and the
UFO immediately abandoned the Arenal plant.
AT about
12:30, Ernesto de la Verdad, manager of the El Volcan restaurant in La Fortuna,
reported seeing the UFO hover briefly over Arenal Volcano before disappearing
inside the crater.
‘We were
watching the volcano with some tourists, and all of a sudden we see this glowing
object over the crater,’ de la Verdad told The Tico Times. ‘At first we thought
it had something to do with an eruption, but then we saw we could make out its
shape. It looked like a tamal, exactly like my grandmother used to make, except
that it glowed.’
One alert
tourist, April Fuller, from Oshkosh,
Wisconsin took a picture of the
alien craft.
MINISTER of
Public Security Luis Fishman ordered Civil Guardsmen to the top of the volcano
to investigate the strange occurrence and enlisted the assistance of tour
operator Gabino Hidalgo,
who offers a controversial crater tour that many believe to be dangerous (TT,
March 20).
President
Rafael Angel Calderon told reporters that he had no knowledge of the UFO, but
welcomed any positive contributions the aliens could make to the country.”
My comment: The newspaper presents April Fuller’s UFO
photograph (shows a self-luminous (disk shaped?) object).
Wikipedia article: “Arenal Volcano”:
Wikipedia article: “Lake Arenal”:
Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“Hydroelectricity
Lake Arenal
was tripled in size with the construction of the Arenal dam in 1979, which
exists at the eastern end of the lake. This hydroelectric project is hugely
important to Costa Rica,
initially generating 70% of the country’s electricity, now closer to 17%, and
was also a driving force behind Costa
Rica's green energy policy.[3]”
YouTube video:
“Save My Planet Series 05: Costa Rica, Lake Arenal Dam &
Hydroelectric Plant” (VisitCostaRicaVideos (YouTube channel)) (Published: 21
August 2010):
[Lake Arenal, Costa Rica] A view from the
southwest side looking across at the north depth 30–60 m (98–197 ft) (text by
Wikipedia) (wikimedia.org)
(wikimedia.og photo)
(lib.utexas.edu image)
.jpg)
The late Dr. James E. McDonald,
