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This Central Intelligence Agency foreign broadcast release reproduces Latin American news items dated 24 and 25 May 1962. One reports an Argentine Communist Party appeal for a popular front. The UFO item describes a luminous body seen hovering for several minutes over Bahia Blanca on 21 May, photographed by a local photographer and a NUEVA PROVINCIA reporter. It notes that the Cordoba Astronomical Observatory was collecting public reports to determine whether the object was meteorites, satellite debris or something else.
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COMMUNISTS APPEAL FOR POPULAR FRONT Havena PRENSA LATINA in Spanish to Latin America 0341 GMT 25 May 1962--E (OUTSIDE USE ONLY) (Text) Buenos Aires--The Argentine Communist Party released a declaration in which it appeals to trade unions and several parties to unite to form a strong national popular front in order to prevent the consolidation of the dictatorship. The declaration says that the present regime has definitively been unmasked "in the face of world opinion as well as the (country's)," and that the civil-military dictatorship of a fascist type, imposed on the country by the reactionary groups of the armed forces, serves the interests of the monopolies, especially the Yankees, and the landholding oligarchy. The document says that only the mobilization and action of the masses can foil the consolidation of this dictatorship. UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS--Buenos Aires--The appearance of unidentified flying objects over the city of Bahia Blanca, south of Buenos Aires, is causing the most varied comment among the people there. The most extraordinary occurrence was on 21 May when many people observed a strange luminous body suspended for several minutes over the city, and then saw it disappear quickly. A local photographer was able to take two pictures of the object, which looks like a luminous oval on the print. The Cordoba Astronomical Observatory is compiling data about this phenomenon which has been observed in other regions of Argentina, although not as clearly as in Bahia Blanca. The observatory has asked the public to submit their observations in order to determine whether the phenomenon was a cluster of meteorites, part of an artificial satellite, or due to other causes. (Lima AFP Spanish Latin America 0354 GMT 25 May 1962--W) A luminous object which was crossing the heavens above Bahia Blanca was photographed by a reporter of the local newspaper MUEVA PROVINCIA, according to that newspaper. The reporter was walking along the street when he first noticed the object. Seeing that it was not leaving the city, he drove to the Maldonado Canal, and there took several photographs, one the very instant the mysterious body stopped and changed its course. This was when the object was closest to earth. (Lima AFP Spanish Latin America 1525 GMT 24 May 1962--W) (OFFICIAL VIDEO) Approved for Release 2/2010
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