The Villa Fanny shelter school has 100 students. That night, 80 of them were present and all claim having witnessed the luminous phenomenon. Neighbors of the little school say that animals hid when the lights manifested, even though no noise was heard.

Residents of Chicoana as well as numerous tourists pulled up in their cars on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday to photograph and look at the strange marks that were left on the wheat field located next to the access road to the town.

Federico Arnaldo Gutierrez, a technician with Nortevision Satelital, a local TV station, was one of the few who crossed the barbed wire fence and inspected the marks. "It's very odd. The soil looked like something extremely heavy had landed on it. Wheat was flattened but not cut. There were no signs of burning or anything similar, only the geometrical marks."

Graciela, a biology instructor who also arrived with her camera to take pictures of the figures left behind in the fields, remarked: "This area has a wealth of strange phenomena and UFO sightings. Remember that over the past 15 years three aircraft plummeted from the sky and in all cases, the reasons were the same. Their instruments stopped working, just like what happened to those who saw the colored lights on Thursday morning and tried to photograph them, but couldn't because their instruments didn't work."

Authorities with the Chicoana Sheriff's Department did not comment. One law enforcement officer, who asked to remain anonymous because "I'm about to issue a personal opinion that shouldn't be construed as an official story" informed El Tribuno that many remarks "had indeed been received about the situation, but no one wants to make a written complaint. In my opinion, all of these marks are the result of wind and rain."

However, after consulting the weather bureau, there was no precipitation or strong wind during previous days or on the days that the events occurred. And should this be the case, why were the marks only on three wheat fields and not all of them, which can be found in the hundreds?

José Silva, principal of School 558, whose students witnessed the events, ventured an opinion: "I've lived here for ten years and had never seen marks like this. I reject the possibility that they were caused by nature or made by someone. It's weird, very weird."

Children living in the shelter also told El Tribuno that those of them with cellphones, and who saw the lights, tried to take pictures and couldn't. "My aunt," said Pedro, 13, "lives near the school and has a video device. The same thing happened to her. It didn't work, as though its batteries had run out."

Silva adds: "I never saw anything like it. If people are saying that the prints were produced by the lights, let's be clear about one thing: lights are weightless," concludes the principal.

(Translation (c) 2008, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Luis Burgos and Guillermo Gimenez)