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Circles on the field and other formations. Cuba

ID #1596736104
Added Thu, 06/08/2020
Author July N.
Sources
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Status
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Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness
Incident date: 
14.06.1968
Location: 
Кабаньяс
Cuba

Shortly after midnight, several bursts of machine-gun fire could be heard coming from the area where militia member Isidro Puentes Ventura was on duty. At dawn, Puentes was found unconscious by an army patrol and taken to a hospital in Pinar del Rio, where He remained in shock and unable to speak for six days. 

Transferred to the neurological Department of the naval hospital in Havana, Puentes was diagnosed with emotional trauma, which remained in shock for another week. 

At the spot where Puentes was stationed, Cuban and Soviet intelligence investigators found forty-eight spent casings and fourteen bullets, apparently flattened as a result of the impact, as well as dents in the ground located at the same distance, indicating the landing of a heavy device. 

Tests showed that the soil was subjected to intense heat. When Puentes regained consciousness, he reported that he approached a bright circular object on the ground with a dome and several antennas at the top at a distance of 150 feet (45.6 m). 

Convinced that it was an American helicopter, Puentes fired about forty shots at it. The ship turned orange and made a strong whistling sound - Puentes ' last memory before losing consciousness.

Soviet intelligence agents subjected Puentes to a fifty-hour interrogation, after which He was examined by a group of psychiatrists and subjected to fifteen sessions of hypnosis. There are no contradictions in his story.

Original news

Date: June 14 1968
Location:  Near Cabañas, Pinar Del Rio, Cuba
Time: after midnight
Summary: Shortly after midnight several bursts of machine gun fire were heard coming from a location in the vicinity where militia member Isidro Puentes Ventura was on guard duty. At dawn, Puentes was found unconscious by an Army patrol and taken to a hospital in Pinar Del Rio, where he remained in shock and unable to speak for six days. Removed to the neurological ward at the Naval Hospital in Havana, Puentes was diagnosed to be suffering from emotional trauma, remaining in shock for another week. At the site where Puentes had been posted, Cuban and Soviet intelligence investigators found forty-eight spent cartridges and fourteen bullets apparently flattened by impact, as well as equally spaced indentations in the ground, indicating that a heavy device had landed. Tests revealed that the soil had been exposed to a high degree of heat. When Puentes recovered consciousness he reported that he had come to within 150 feet of a brilliant round object on the ground, with a dome and several antennas on top. Convinced that the device was an American helicopter, Puentes fired about forty rounds at it. The craft turned orange and emitted a strong whistling sound—Puentes last recollection before losing consciousness. Soviet intelligence specialists subjected Puentes to a fifty-hour interrogation after which he was examined by a team of psychiatrists and put through fifteen hypnosis sessions. No contradictions were found in his story.
Source: Timothy Good, “Beyond Top Secret” quoting Jacques Vallee

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