MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2007
Argentina: The Vidal Case Exposed
Argentina’s Vidal Teleportation – The Truth Can Now Be Told
by Guillermo D. Gimenez, Director, Planeta UFO (Necochea, Argentina)
Editor’s Note: The Vidal Case was deliberately excluded from the INEXPLICATA monograph on the subject of UFOs in the 1960s in South America and Spain due to its complexity. This article by our good friend and contributing editor, Guillermo Gimenez, will give readers the most complete approach to one of South America’s most fascinating and controversial cases.
The story concerning the teleportation of a car from Chascomus, Province of Buenos Aires, to Mexico in 1968, became world famous and it remains today an undisputed classic of Argentinean ufology. Furthermore, it was a the catalyst for the tremendous Argentinean UFO wave of 1968, when all newspapers took to publishing UFO accounts, including older cases that had never appeared in the press. ...
This incident received global attention and weeks later a “cloak of silence” fell over the events. Neither journalists nor researchers could secure access to the main protagonists, and those upon whom the mantle of silence fell were no longer inclined to speak. Conjectures and suppositions would surround the event. ...
28 years would elapse before the truth would emerge, and over 36 before it could be reported.
There had been so many obstacles in gaining access to the true protagonists, and given the case’s characteristics, the incident became a classic in world ufology. Authors all over the world took it as a spectacular UFO case. Subsequently, numerous teleportation cases would occur all over the world. ...
So much was written about the incidents in newspapers, and subsequently books, and presented in conferences and TV programs that even skeptics reported it.
It was Peter Rogerson in "Notes to a Revisionist History of Abduction
(Part 4): Recovering the forgotten records", Magonia No. 50,
September 1994, who reported having learned in Buenos Aires that the case had been a lie employed to conceal Mrs. Vidal’s missing days while she was committed to a mental health clinic. ...
Alejandro C. Agostinelli, an Argentinean journalist and researcher, looked into these events and confirmed that it had all been a sham designed to promote an Argentinean science fiction film at the time
In his report “Coches Voladores a Estrenar:
Fraudes,Rumores y Ciencia Ficción"
co authored with Luis R. González (Spain) and appearing in
Anuario, Cuadernos de Ufología, No. 29, 3ra Epoca 2003.Fundación Anomalía, España,
he states that he interviewed filmmaker Anibal Uset in 1996, who confessed to having invented the Vidal Case with the assistance of entertainment journalist Tito Jacobson and other friends to promote a movie that opened 2 months after the events, titled “Che OVNI” ...