AudioBlog: Night of the Saucers, Trancas, Argentina, 1963

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Host: Martin Willis

Society & Culture, Science, Astronomy

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🗓️ 14 September 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Many people who have more than a passing interest in the UFO subject might be aware that the scene in Steven Spielberg’s 1977 movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, where several UFOs go speeding by the main character’s stalled car, followed by police cars in hot pursuit, was based on a real case. This was the 1966 incident where police officers Dale Spaur and Wilbur “Barney” Neff reportedly chased a single UFO at high speed across the state of Ohio into Pennsylvania, with other officers joining them in the chase. However, another scene in the movie, where a house occupied by a mother and son is flooded with light from a UFO, was also inspired by a real case, but this one is not nearly so well known.The front-page headline of the November 1963 APRO Bulletin is “Family Beseiged [sic] by Discs.” According to the article, on October 21, 1963, at his ranch near Tranca, Argentina, Antonio de Moreno was woken up by a fifteen-year-old employee who told him there seemed to have been an accident at the railway tracks about a half mile away from the house, as, in the reporter’s words, “there was a lot of light and people moving around at that location.”
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0:00.0	The Night of the Saucers and Traunca, Argentina, 1963, by UFO History buff and author Charles Lear,
0:36.4	read by Martin Willis in this particular case.
0:40.0	Many who have more than a passing interest in the UFO subject might be aware that the scene
0:45.5	in Steven Spielberg's 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, where several UFOs go speeding by
0:53.2	the main character's stalled car, followed by
0:56.5	police cars and hot pursuit, was based on a real case. This was the 1966 incident where
1:04.0	police officers Dale Spauer and Wilbur, well, Arnie, Neff reportedly chased a single UFO at high speed across the state of Ohio into Pennsylvania,
1:15.7	with other officers joining them in the chase. However, another scene in the movie where a house occupied by a mother and son is flooded with light from a UFO was also inspired by a real case.
1:30.7	This one is not so well known.
1:34.7	The front page headline of the November 1963 APRO bulletin is, quote, family besieged by discs, unquote.
1:45.0	According to the article on October 21st, 1963, at his ranch near Tonka, Argentina, Antonio de Marino, was woken up by a 15-year-old employee who told him,
1:59.2	there seemed to have been an accident at the railway tracks about
2:02.6	half a mile away from the house. As in the reporter's words, there were a lot of light and people
2:09.5	moving around at that location. Morano 72 is said to have woken up Signor Teresa Moreno, who was his wife at the time.
2:22.0	She was 63 years old.
2:23.4	According to the article, they both looked out the window and saw an oval-shaped object,
2:28.9	hovering a few feet in the air over the railroad tracks that projected light on the ground
2:34.0	where the couple could see people walking back and forth in a single file.
2:40.0	Teresa Marino reportedly saw another object very near the house close to the ground.
2:46.0	It's described as a dome-shaped 25 feet in diameter with windows or ports around the circumference of the object.
2:55.7	Teresa is said to have then gotten a flashlight and shown it at the object,
3:00.6	quote, whereupon it shot a bright white tubular beam of light at the house, unquote.
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