Half Human Half Snake....Hmmm
Maybe just dropping off some new chicas at the Blue Marlin.
How do you say "No Cien" in Alien....
Flying saucers are no strangers to Costa Rica
By Jesse Froehling of the A.M. Costa Rica staff
As anxious Ticos stared at silver discs in the sky Jan. 13, they were writing another page in the long history of Costa Rica's relationship with flying saucers.
Apparently, the tourist reputation of the country extends beyond Earth, as some claim that visitors from another planet may have also touched here.
In 1996 a slew of UFO sightings, or of an objeto volador no identificado, rocked the country, particularly around Quepos.
“For the past two weeks the Central American country of Costa Rica has been visited nightly by unidentified flying objects, usually described as grayish-white or silvery discs,†said UFO updates in January 1997. That old bulletin board describes itself as a mailing list for the study of UFO related phenomena.
Many of the contemporary reports were relatively normal as far as UFO sightings go. They described the stereotypical disc-shaped object hovering in the sky before blasting off into outer space. Unfortunately, the little green men who often accompany such sightings were absent from Costa Rica's reports. Some say they must have seen the state of the nation's roads and decided to make their abductions further north. Others say they passed unnoticed among the beachside residents.
A pilot named Jorge Arturo Meléndez Mora spotted three unidentified flying objects near his plane “reflecting in the moonlight,†the day after Christmas 1996, the bulletin board said. Melendez described them as the size of a Boeing jet doing things that most pilots couldn't do. He was flying along the mountaineous spine of the country.
On succeeding nights more reports of flashing lights and platillos voladores, flying plates, surfaced and air traffic controllers at Juan SantamarÃa international airport made radar contact with unidentified flying objects, the historical document on the bulletin board said. Local newspapers also are supposed to have carried the reports.
In 1982, things were a bit more weird. The National UFO Reporting Center said that someone else saw a disc-shaped object over Quepos but that this one was much more animated: “We were driving on a small street with no lights. Suddenly, a bright red light lit up the forest to our left. The red light was bright as day and there was a large, upside down plate. We got really scared and drove off quickly,†the translated personal account said.
Several reports at Lago Cote near Arenal were even more harrowing and creepy. Stayreality. com shows a grainy black and white picture of what is supposed to be a disc shaped object diving into the lake in 1986.
Later, two farmers saw an object just beneath the surface of the lake with a row of three or four pipes rising out of the water. After five or 10 minutes, the object submerged and sunk out of sight, the account said.
And yet more weird: At Volcán Irazú, residents have seen solid crafts enter and exit the volcano through its sides, the same Web site said, adding that researcher of the unusual Andreas Faber-Kaiser reported having gone down a tunnel which locals claim leads to a mysterious ancient shrine called the Temple of the Moon, a sacred building said to have been built thousands of years ago by an advanced race that includes some 500 underground buildings, the Web site said. However, stayreality.com also describes a Costa Rican ancient race of half snake, half human creatures.
Traditional archaeologists tend to discount reports of Moon Temples and snake people.
Although, the story of the ancient underground UFO launch pad in Irazú may be as hard to swallow as the snake people tale, many Costa Ricans are deeply infatuated with OVNIs and reports of sightings are just as abundant here as they are in UFO hot spots like New Mexico.
Undoubtedly some Ticos were disappointed Jan. 13th when they learned that the Instituto Meteorológico Nacional launched a bunch of weather balloons that glittered in the afternoon sky like flying saucers.