“Glowing Man” Sightings
Witness drawing from Inexplicata
South America and Scott Corrales’ reporting continue to fascinate and amaze.
From Corrales’ site Inexplicata:
Residents of the town of San Carlos now claim seeing a strange being, standing some 40 cm tall, with a magnetic field that kept people from approaching it.
Two people, mechanics Walter Lopez and Omar Ferlatti, informed police about the sighting of the diminutive creature whom they described in detail: the being was small, glowing and wore pants. It appeared it be protected by a magnetic field.
This incident increased the collective fear of the residents of this community of the Valles Chalchaquies even further. In recent days, a luminous object was seen in the vicinity of their town.
In the 1950s, reports of “bellicose, hairy dwarves” attacking people in alleys late at night seemed to be almost standard fare. No other region of the world seemed to have such strange encounters. There must be some reason for the cultural difference in UFOs and especially strange beings associated with them. I can recall no “hairy dwarves” from the US or Europe, and small glowing men have not been reported anywhere else, at least not recently. Perhaps there is an openness of the press and people of Argentina and South America that is not present elsewhere.
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May 28 2008 
May 28th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
“Perhaps there is an openness of the press and people of Argentina and South America that is not present elsewhere.”
Perhaps the argentinian government desires to thwarth the attention of the public from the current pressing problems caused by farmer riots to these exotic events. Better keep the people talking about glowing little men than about ways to overthrow Madame President Kirchner
We must never loose sight of the context. These events never happen on a cultural vacuum.
And oh! don’t forget that video that was very famous in the 90s, of a glowing midget filmed on a field close to a hom in Puebla, Mexico—the film was later labeled a hoax, but Jaime Maussan had a field day with that one for many years.
May 28th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
RPJ,
Could be a big hoax, but it’s still a fun story. Thanks for the context. Often overlooked, but important.
May 29th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Hello,
My hard drive crashed. I lost all of my favorite UFO websites. Can anyone send me some link?
May 29th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Sorry to read that misteranderson. Wouldn’t you like some Mario instead?
Ok, sorry for the bad joke. How about these:
http://www.redstarfilms.blogspot.com
vintageufo.blogspot.com
May 31st, 2008 at 12:06 pm
The lack of reports may be climatic. The “short hairy dwarf” stories in South America predate ufology. Part of the folklore (or perhaps “cryptozoology”) of places like Trinidad and Guyana has always been the “buck” or “baku”, a short human-like being well known to rural dwellers (typically described as hairy and of extreme physical strength). Since almost all the plants or animals that exist in Trinidad and Guyana would also be found in Venezuela and other parts of SA, the same is likely for the “baku”.
It is interesting the the hairy dwarf - UFO connection started in Venezuela in the 1950s (i.e. within the flying saucer age), mainly through encounters by urban-dwelling Venzuelans, who may have been unaware of the “baku” and decided that this must be part of the “new” space-alien phenomena reported from the north.
So, the introduction of hairy dwarves to ufology is uniquely South American, but they may be totally unrelated to UFOs. But the whole idea of shorter “humans” with strange powers is part of European folklore (fairies, trolls, leprecauns, etc) as well as all other parts of the world - only the stories are not usually classified with UFO. Perhaps all these stories are in fact related to something like the “hobbit” hominid remains recently found in Oceania.
Having said that, the report of shorter beings - “glowing or luminescent, protected by magnetic fields”, seems to be something totally different…
May 31st, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Rather than being some sort of DMT homunculus vision on the part of these two dudes — I would say that this short person with a magnetic field is more likely a phallic projection. It’s the whole “hairy” hang-up that is the give away, besides the fact that the short magnetic person has an even shorter left ear and left arm (just like a male’s testicle asymmetry).
May 31st, 2008 at 8:02 pm
It’s Raggedy Andy!