- State Assistance Requested In Finding Unknown Animal
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- **Expedition organizers seek participation of environmental
professionals**
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- The Chief of the Rosario de la Frontera Volunteer Fire
Brigade, JosZ Exequiel Alvarez, requested the aid of the provincial Department
of Environmental Resources to organize an expedition to track the strange
bipedal animal--of large size and uncommon dimensions--prowling the vicinity
of this urban center, located some 184 km south of the provincial seat,
Salta.
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- "It is necessary to have specialized professionals
as part of the team heading for the wilderness. We do not wish to harm
the beast nor produce any alterations to the environment," noted Alvarez.
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 "The
request for help must be made in writing, formally and providing the necessary
background to face an undertaking of such magnitude," said biologist
Sonia Chavarr'a, director of the agency in question, located in Met¦n.
Roque Far'as added that "we are compiling all the necessary background
info to set the expedition in motion. We are collecting data from everyone
who believes they have had an encounter with the strange animal, which
to judge by the reports received, does not appear in catalogues on local
fauna."
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- The singular creature, described by many witnesses as
a humanoid biped standing two meters tall, with upper extremities ending
in long and sharp curved claws, is covered in hair and has large eyes and
ears as well as "bald buttocks". It would be a fierce animal,
according to the statements of those who claim having seen it.
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- The first of these sightings occurred two years ago when
Rogelio Martinez, a cattleman living in the vicinity of Cerro Termal, a
forested area 7 km east of the city, told authorities he had been attacked
by creature, which according to his more recent claims, has not stopped
attacking his cattle since that time.
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- Analogous accounts have emerged in the past two weeks:
the one that triggered this second chapter in the beast's history was reported
to Sheriff's Office # 31 by a 25 year old man known a "El Rafa".
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- His story left the authorities perplexed: he said that
while he was with his lover at Arroyo Salado (the traditional "lovers'
lane" in Rosario) some 6 km to the east, both were attacked by the
biped, whose description proved identical to the one made by Martinez two
years earlier.
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- Then there was a follow-up: four youngsters retold having
an experience the same place while two others claimed having seen [the
beast] running along the riverbank and proferring deafening howls. These
last two retold their story, but refused to give their names out of fear
of ridicule.
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- However, a few days ago, three residents of the Juan
Domingo Per-n neighborhood, giving their names and surnames (Demetrio Villalba,
Eleuteria del Carmen Alvarez and Nelida del Valle Martearena, 43, 72 and
53 respectively) claimed having seen this creole "Bigfoot" wandering
the streets in the early morning hours, and agreed that it vanished into
the wilderness.
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- Translation (C) 2003. Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic
Ufology (IHU).
- Special thanks to Christian Hernan Quintero, PLANETAUFO.
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