Location: Las Cantarillas, Concepcion, Chile

Date: October 17 1968 Time: afternoon

Two youngsters, Maria Isabel Obreque, 10, and Manuel Gonzalez, 9, reported separate encounters with a strange entity. The girl ran home in a hysterical state after reportedly seeing a gigantic metallic man-like figure that flew through the air on a metallic platform resembling a “frying pan”, it then vanished. The boy was playing marbles in the street when he suddenly heard a scream, looking towards the road he saw a very tall “metal man” standing inside what appeared to be a metallic pan or bowl, according to the boy the strange entity was looking around with what appeared to be a large round eye on the middle the face. The entity then lifted up into the air and flew over some houses and then returned. Terrified, he ran home and told his mother, who did not believe him, immediately reprimanding him.

The young girl added that she saw the entity as she stood at her front porch. The figure was only a few feet away from her, the figure was very tall almost reaching the light on the light pole. She could not see any feet, but it wore a belt and it had glowing golden-metallic arms, which seemed to be tied to its sides. An unknown object hovered above its head. Maria was so afraid that she could not move or yell out. She noticed that the entity wore some type of headgear resembling “a large hat”. It suddenly rose up into the air flew over her house and then disappeared into the clouds at high speed. Both youngsters are still afraid that the entity might come back.

HC addendum

Source: Pablo Petrowitsch catalogue of Chilean cases citing Cronica, Diario de La Tarde Concepcion, Saturday 9 November 1968 Type: E?