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Puerto Maldonado, Perú, July 19 1951. (https://preview.redd.it/yy8b9k1g0cpe1.png?width=567&format=png&auto=w…)

I was curious about the place where Domingo Troncoso might have taken the photo in 1951 to try to find out the possible dimensions of the object with the help of a distant land mark, and I think it was taken near what is now the Billinghurst Bridge (https://www.google.com/maps/@-12.5935979,-69.1743807,3a,30y,98.83h,93…), in the city of Puerto Maldonado:

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Slide comparison (https://imgsli.com/MzYwMjA4)

Apart from the similarity of the 2 panoramas, the newspaper mentions the direction in which the object was flying, which was from south to north, wich further supports this hypothesis as it would also show the object moving from right to left, as shown in the photo:

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The newspaper clipping dated August 15, 1951 reads as follows:

*Together with the above photo we have received a copy of the following radiotelegraphic dispatch transmitted from the Iberia hacienda to Lima by the internal service of the Peruvian Amazon Corporation.*

*On July 19 at 4:50 in the afternoon crossed the sky of Iberia (department of Madre de Dios) a luminous disk with an intense electric blue nucleus or head and a luminous trail with its yellow beginning ending in an intense orange color. The direction was from south to north, visible from one to two minutes, leaving a vaporous and thick trail, which remained floating for more than 15 minutes.*

*The altitude at which it was going was about 2500 to 3000 feet, in full sunlight.*

*During the flight, the radio service installation of the Peruvian Amazon Corporation was paralyzed, it did not work to neither transmit nor receive any signal.*

*Our informant adds that the disk was observed in Maldonado, capital of Madre de Dios at 4:55 in the afternoon of the same day.*

*The distance between Iberia and Maldonado is eighty miles which means that this disc made the trip in five minutes. An ordinary aircraft makes the same distance in 50 minutes.*

*In our morning edition of July 20 we published a dispatch sent by the correspondent of “El Comercio” in Puerto Maldonado in which he reported the passage of the flying saucer, with identical details adding that more than 300 people were able to observe it. Now we receive, graphically confirming the news and for the first time in information of this nature, a photo of the strange artifact, whose characteristics are not easy to appreciate, but its dimensions and the extensive wake it leaves in its path, as if it were moving through space by a jet propulsion system.*

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