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On September 17, the eyes of western Greater Buenos Aires, or at least those of its more curious inhabitants, were fixed on an unidentified flying object. The *UFO* appeared unexpectedly on the radar screens at Ezeiza Airport . The Argentine Navy also detected it, but no one knew what it was or what it was doing there.

At the VIII Air Brigade of the Air Force , at that time located in José C. Paz , eyes were not only on the object but also on two Mirage III pilots who were entrusted with the strange task of intercepting the intruding object.

Dressed in unusual high-altitude flight suits, similar to those worn by astronauts but smaller, they fastened their seatbelts and gave their engines full throttle. The two planes climbed at high speed toward the bright sphere.

Alarmed by the news, several astronomers pointed their telescopes at the bright spot and could clearly see its elongated, round shape with protrusions. Some claimed it had a tube hanging from its base.

The object, far from being bothered by the earthling eyes that were observing it, wandered from one end of the suburb to the other until the planes approached it.

Those who were able to observe it closely described it as a whitish, lentil-shaped object with a lower appendage resembling an antenna and a very luminous column at the top. Other casual witnesses to the object's movement included the crew and passengers of several commercial airliners, among them an Iberia Boeing 747 flying to Santiago, Chile , who saw the *UFO* from below after circling nearby. According to the captain's description, it emitted a great light and had an elongated shape.

Collective sightings—whether it's a balloon, a space re-entry, or a meteor—activate unique mechanisms of perception. The shared experience, witnessed by hundreds or thousands of people in broad daylight, where hallucinations, imagination, and doubt have no place, is powerful. The object is there, in the sky, on the TV screen; the neighbor sees it, the shopkeeper sees it, the police officer sees it—everyone sees it. In short, it's real!