Years
after you have been through an event which you find
unexplainable, it is easy to think it might have been a dream or
a figment of your imagination. I guess this happens more as you
get older, and the more time passes from the time of the
occurrence. In this particular case, what I witnessed that one
summer night in Montevideo, was also witnessed by my mother and
younger brother, and even today, we all remember it well.
Obviously,
this has not been an isolated event, many people now and them
claim to have seen UFO's, and some, even to have been abducted by
aliens. There were many reports of sightings in Uruguay itself
around that time.
What
I tell here, should not be understood as an attempt to change
anybody's mind, it's just an account of an event from my past, as
I remember it.
Not
long ago, while reading Whitley Strieber's "Comunion
Letters", I found in one of the letters, a person who tells
about his sighting, and in his description of the
"ship", tere are many similarites with what I saw. The
lights, the rotation, the "windows" around it, the
general look.
I
wrote the story both in English and Spanish, and there is also a page of Links, UFO links, and one of Freebies. (All of us
like free things).
There
are many links related to Uruguay, where you can get an idea
about the culture, arts, sports, even recipes.
Around
that time, in my teens, I used to listen to "Los Shakers", a local
Rock-n-roll band, called by many the "South American
Beatles", because they really had a hold of the "Mersey
beat". The band consisted of four members: Hugo, Osvaldo,
Caio and Pelin. The first two, the Fattoruso brothers, eventually
moved to the USA and formed a band with Hugo "Ringo"
Thielman, called OPA. They performed as a cover band in Long
Island, N.Y., and in 1977 released "Goldenwings", which
was re-released in 1997.
Their musical style is what now is called acid jazz, although
their's is heavily influenced by Afro-Uruguayan music (Candombe).
Recently,
there was a solo release by Hugo, called "Homework", and in
2000, for those who are nostalgic, there was a CD released called
"Los Shakers,
por favor!", which is a very good
sample of 60's Uruguayan
Rock-n-roll.
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