1968 HUMANOID SIGHTING REPORTS
Compiled by
Albert Rosales
Location. Near Cabañas, Pinar Del Rio, Cuba
Date: June 14 1968
Time: after midnight
Shortly after midnight several bursts of machine gun fire were heard
coming from a location in the vicinity where militia member Isidro
Puentes Ventura was on guard duty. At dawn, Puentes was found
unconscious by an Army patrol and taken to a hospital in Pinar Del Rio,
where he remained in shock and unable to speak for six days. Removed to
the neurological ward at the Naval Hospital in Havana, Puentes was
diagnosed to be suffering from emotional trauma, remaining in shock for
another week. At the site where Puentes had been posted, Cuban and
Soviet intelligence investigators found forty-eight spent cartridges
and fourteen bullets apparently flattened by impact, as well as equally
spaced indentations in the ground, indicating that a heavy device had
landed. Tests revealed that the soil had been exposed to a high degree
of heat. When Puentes recovered consciousness he reported that he had
come to within 150 feet of a brilliant round object on the ground, with
a dome and several antennas on top. Convinced that the device was an
American helicopter, Puentes fired about forty rounds at it. The craft
turned orange and emitted a strong whistling sound---Puentes last
recollection before losing consciousness. Soviet intelligence
specialists subjected Puentes to a fifty-hour interrogation after which
he was examined by a team of psychiatrists and put through fifteen
hypnosis sessions. No contradictions were found in his story.
HC addendum
Source: Timothy Good, "Beyond Top Secret" quoting Jacques Vallee
Type: G?
High Strangeness Index: 8
Reliability of Source: 9
Comments: This if probably an abduction event that apparently the
Soviet investigators failed to uncover, or if they did they kept it
under wraps.