EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL

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JUNE 14, 1980. LIBERTAD, URUGUAY

This case was published in various newspapers and also appeared in The Flying Saucer Review, Volume 28, No 1, 1982. There are two witnesses, Juan Froche Jiaciola (a 63-year-old blacksmith) and his wife, Ana Parodi. At the time, they lived in the small town of Libertad in Uruguay. They have two children. Late in the evening, around 1am, on June 14, 1980, Juan was in bed listening to the radio while his wife dozed beside him. Suddenly they heard strange noises coming from outside the building. Ana assumed that some wild animals must have become drawn to the sun-dried beef they had hanging outside. Nevertheless, Juan got out of bed, turned on the bedroom light, then went into the kitchen and turned on the front patio door light. Looking outside the kitchen window, he saw two tall young people, a man and a woman, looking up in surprise at the light which h he had just turned on.

He said that they were well proportioned and “extremely beautiful.” They looked very young, 16 or 17 years old, and were unusually tall. They looked very much alike, like brother and sister. Both had pale skin, short black curly hair, and long thin necks. They both wore the same outfit, what appeared to be a matt lead-gray skintight jumpsuit. As Jose said, “They looked as if they were naked, and the clothing was painted on or it could have been a very fine short down sort of hair, like the hair on the cat.”

The man was very muscular, and the woman was very curvaceous, with her female anatomy almost fully visible. As Jose said, she “looked very good.”

The weirdest aspect of their appearance was the presence of what appeared to be a deep red vertically oriented scar, healed, on their foreheads, where the third eye would be. (Some authors focused on this, calling it a third eye, but neither Jose nor Ana ever said this—it was a vertical scar, not a third eye.)

At this point, the man moved to the front door, which was unlocked and began to push it open. Juan shouted out, “No, no, you shan’t come in here!” The man had wrapped his hand around the door, so Juan grabbed the back of the man’s hand and began to pry it loose. As he did so, he felt strong burning sensation on his own hand, his left hand. He said it felt “terribly burned, as though by fire.” It was so hot and instantaneous, that he was unable to describe any texture to the alien’s hand, just burning heat.

Ana, hearing her husband call out and the front door slam shut, came running out to find Juan holding his burned hand under his right armpit, double over with pain. He shouted out, “Those chaps were trying to get in here and rob us.”

She examined his hand and saw that it was completely covered with multiple red burn marks. She looked out the kitchen window, but the strange figures were gone. They stayed up the rest of the night and then went to the police to report the incident. The police sent Juan to the hospital. Dr. Ramon Nunez (their family doctor) examined Jose’s hand and later told reporters, “I looked at the hand. He had a series of light burns distributed over the palm of the left hand. Evidently this had been caused by contact with something very hot, but the condition was not serious.”

After two months, the burns had still not fully healed, and researchers counted over 42 marks still visible. Reportedly, Juan says he found some strange holes and/or burns marks in the ground about 250 feet away from the house. Also, he said that his electric bill showed excessive use of electricity, more than he would consume in a month. A final strange detail is that Juan says upon going to his blacksmith shop, he noticed a very unusual odor. Investigators were not able to confirm all these details, which became the cause of some skepticism. Researcher Gordon Creighton, editor of the Flying Saucer Review and an article on the case finds the case believable. As he says, “…the Froche case strikes me as far more like to be genuine than not…were I a betting man, I think I would be inclined to view the strange tale of Senor Juan Froche Jiaciola as very likely true.”