From: Scott Corrales <lornis1@juno.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 09:39:08 -0400
Fwd Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 15:11:54 -0400
Subject: UpDate: Bombardment Takes Place in Chile's 2nd Region


Dear Friends,

Despite admonitions from a number of parties to "stop informing
the public about the Chupacabras activity in South America", I
feel that I have no choice in the matter. The phenomenon has
been occuring since 1995 in the most disparate locations--Puerto
Rico, Mexico, the U.S., Spain, Portugal, Brazil and now Chile
and Argentina--and the physical manifestations of the
creature/entity/whatever have been wildly different from one
nation to another, according to eyewitness reports. The easy
solution--drawn along ethnic lines--has been to dismiss the
matter as a phantasm of  the Iberoamerican and peninsular
Spanish peoples, yet a similar solution is never posited for the
Loch Ness monster as a similar phantasm of the Anglo/Celtic
mindset. Any such suggestion would be met with hostility, and
well it should.

I have refrained from posting anything to my own list or the
lists of others that smacks of FOAFtales or other secondhand
information (which invariably includes some of the most
fascinating information). My sources have always been from
newspapers or their respective websites, and in certain cases,
transcripts of radio shows furnished by sources in Chile and
Argentina. I am not a scientist--merely a writer and translator,
and I limit myself to these endeavors. Scientists or the
science-minded would therefore be best advised to stop reading
these messages in order to avoid undue mental distress to
themselves.

My apologies for inserting myself into the news item, but I felt
(rightly or wrongly) that a clarification of my position was
necessary.

The following newspaper account will strain my credibility even
further, I fear.

Very best regards,

Scott Corrales
Institute of Hispanic Ufology (IHU)
www.inexplicata.com

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Bombardment Takes Place in Chile's 2nd Region
Source: "La Estrella del Loa" (newspaper)
Date: Monday, July 31, 2000

*** Claims indicate that a jet bombarded the area between Pedro
de Valdivia and Maria Elena

Last week, two students faced the creature on Galvarino Street.
The animal observed them and levitated, but refrained from
attacking them. The sightings are increasing as the authorities
maintain their silence.

A "nest" where these entities would have reproduced was
discovered in an area located to the northeast of the road which
joins the Maria Elena Salt Mines office (a town having a
population of 8,000) and Pedro de Valdivia (which was abandoned
in 1996).  According to residents of Maria Elena, who claimed
having witnessed the event, a large detonation accompanied by a
tremor shook the houses of the commune on July 20, 2000. All
area residents are accustomed to the sounds produced by the
explosives operated in the Pampa, and this made them realize
that something strange was afoot.

This coincided with the flyover of a military aircraft over the
area since early hours of the morning--an event corroborated by
several inhabitants. The witnesses are employees of a contractor
firm which was engaged in work at a location not far from where
the events took place. According to their testimony, the jet
flew past and bombarded an area which had been characterized as
a "Chupacabras nest" by men working nearby. [The area] was
filled with small hills and mounds which have eroded into caves
suitable for use as a shelter by the animal.

A BIRTHING LOCATION

Researchers of the subject reported a few days ago that the
absence of sightings in recent weeks were the result of a period
in which the animal was in a reproductive phase, which would
require a dark location not far from population centers, since
it is indispensable that their source of nourishment be nearby.

The explosion--which was heard at a distance of several
kilometers--took place between 08:30 and 09:45 hours without
anyone having produced an explanation for the event.

The Chupacabras staged a reappearance after these events
elapsed--not only once, but several times and in different parts
of the commune. The latest case, and one of the ones which
achieved greatest prominence, involved three students from the
"Arturo Perez Canto" school who were returning to their homes in
the early evening (1900 hours) along Galvarino Street. At that
moment, they encountered one of the creatures (which had already
been seen simultaneously in different locations). They explained
that one of them realized there was a animal on the rooftops,
which then jumped off and landed in front of the startled
youngsters.

According to their story, the animal did not attack, but they
found it impossible to move, largely out of the fear that this
event had caused in them. When they tried to react by huddling
protectively against each other, the creature levitated some 30
centimeters off the ground, continuing to observe them. Only
after less than ten seconds had elapsed were the children able
to escape toward their homes, each of them telling their parents
about the experience. The elders were unable to calm the
terrified students down.

Upon discussing the animal's characteristics they all agreed in
that it had large yellow eyes, dense black-and-grey hair  [..]
of a dense textur and standing approximately 1.50 meters tall.
They also recognized a penetrating odor similar to that of
ammonia which the animal might employ to paralyze his prey and
humans who stumble upon it. In any event, no direct attacks have
been recorded on people, giving rise to the belief by
researchers of the subject that it was "a genetic manipulation
effected by humans and made aware that it should not harm [its
creators]."


MORE DEAD ANIMALS

Residents of Maria Elena continue finding dead cats and dogs
with perforations similar to those of the first felines apparing
in different areas of the commune. Yet they claim having
received "third-party" warnings urging them to conceal the
information.


This has caused many to have chosen to take the [dead] animals
and deposit them in dump located behind the Las Piscinas sector,
where there exist a number of places used as refuse pits. It is
worth noting that the creature was seen here a little more than
a month ago by a worker from a contractor firm, who also claims
having heard the creature scream, a detail reported by this
newspaper at the time.

The importance of the events taking place in the Chilean Pampa
are evinced by the arrival of Miami-based ufologist Dr. Virgilio
Sanchez Ocejo, who is investigating the incidents transpired in
Calama and Maria Elena. He indicated that the cases reported in
numerous areas, as well as those reported by the residents of
other sectors and mining deposits are identical to the cases
known in Puerto Rico and in Central America, leading him to
presume that it is the same creature or at least one having
similar characteristics.

Given that it has increased in strength over time, the notion
that the animal reproduces over a brief period of time would
explain the increase of sightings in the area, since it would no
longer be a matter of one but several "critters" being seen in
the area.

In any event, apparitions of the Chupacabras--or whatever the
creature might be--have grown apace in recent days, thus making
necessary an official declaration, or at least an explanation,
of what is happening in the area.


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Translation (c) 2000. Institute of Hispanic Ufology (IHU).
Special thanks to Ms. Liliana Garcia.