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.

Sooner or later the truth would emerge.

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 Ficcion" co authored with Luis R. Gonzalez

(Spain) and appearing in Anuario, Cuadernos de Ufologia, No. 29, 3ra Epoca 2003.

Fundacion Anomalia, Espana, 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".

The cast of the film included Marcela Lopez Rey, Jorge Sobral, Perla Caron, Juan Carlos Altavista, Javier Portales, Erika.

Wallner, among others, directed by Anibal Uset from a screenplay by Gius.

Che OVNI was pulverized by critics of the time. The film went by unnoticed and was only recognized years later when some granted it cult status for its role in the early years of Argentinean science fiction.

The movie tells the story of how a hitchhiking Tango singer is picked up by a stunning blonde driving a Peugeot 403, just as in the Vidal Case. After a love scene, he takes the wheel and as he drives, a beam of light from a UFO stops the car and puts the driver to sleep. The frightened blonde leaps from the car and is stripped naked by the UFO. The film moves on, now showing the driver at the wheel of the car during the day, but with a brunette beside him - supposedly an alien - on a road in the outskirts of Madrid, Spain.

The teleportation had taken place along the lines of the Vidal Case. Other scenes and teleportations lead the car to London, and the movie ends at Ezeiza International Airport, where the protagonist is attracted to an airplane - a camouflaged UFO - filled with lovely flight attendants. Uset also told reporter Alejandro Agostinelli that the alleged witness who appeared on the "Sabados Circulares de Mancera" show had been none other than Juan Alberto "Muneco" Mateyko, his personal assistant and character actor in the movie, who is today a well-known television host.

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