THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP & ENTITY ENCOUNTER REPORT

1954: The Martin Antiman Encounter — Los Toldos, Salta, Argentina

Martin Antiman was alone in his room one night when a high-pitched sound filled the air and something he could only describe as a magnetic force pulled him into a cabin that hadn’t been there a moment before. It carried him at impossible speed to a desolate mountain valley, where men he tried to hail simply ignored him — because, a voice in his mind explained, they had no brains, and couldn’t hear the creator’s voice the way he could. He kept the experience to himself for twenty years before he ever told a soul.

Date: January 1954

Sighting Time: Late night

Day/Night: Night

Location: Los Toldos, Salta Province, Argentina (witness’s own room; subsequent journey to an unidentified mountainous valley)

Urban or Rural: Rural

No. of Entity(‘s): Several (unnumbered men seen in the valley); a separate unseen voice communicated telepathically

Entity Type: Humanoid (the men in the valley); an unseen telepathic intelligence (the voice)

Entity Description: The men seen in the valley were carrying large bags on their shoulders; no further physical description survives. The voice heard telepathically was not attributed to a visible speaker.

Hynek Classification: CE-IV (Close Encounter, Fourth Kind — involuntary transport/abduction)

Duration: Not precisely specified; a compressed sequence of departure, arrival, a walk of approximately 100 meters, and return

No. of Object(s): 1 (described as a cabin or elevator-like enclosure)

Description of the Object(s): A cabin or elevator-like enclosed compartment that appeared suddenly in the witness’s room

Shape/Size/Color of Object(s): Described only as cabin- or elevator-like; no further shape, size, or color detail survives

Distance to Object(s): Appeared directly within the witness’s own room

Height & Speed: Departed at what the witness described as fantastic speed, with complete surrounding silence following departure

Number of Witnesses: 1 (Martin Antiman)

Special Features/Characteristics: The witness was drawn into the cabin by what he described as a magnetic force; upon arrival in the valley, his attempts to hail the men he saw (yelling and whistling) were entirely ignored; a telepathic voice explained that the men “had no brains” and could not hear “the voice of the creator,” and instructed him to relay what he had seen; the witness did not speak to anyone about the experience for approximately 20 years

Case Status: Unresolved — a single-witness account from a named, locally prominent individual (later a recognized Indigenous chieftain), notable for the extended silence preceding its disclosure

Source: www.visionovni.com.ar

Summary/Description: In January 1954, 25-year-old Martin Antiman — who would later become a local Indigenous “Cacique” (chieftain) in Los Toldos, Salta Province, Argentina — was alone in his room at night when he heard a high-pitched sound. A magnetic force drew him into a cabin or elevator-like enclosure that had appeared in the room, which then departed at fantastic speed. Emerging, he found himself in a desolate mountainous valley, where he saw several men carrying large bags who ignored his attempts to call out to them. A telepathic voice told him the men could not hear him because they “had no brains” and could not perceive “the voice of the creator,” and instructed him to share what he had witnessed. He was then returned to the cabin and, moments later, found himself back in his room. He did not speak of the experience to anyone for approximately 20 years.

Related Cases: None known

Detailed Report

Martin Antiman was 25 years old in January 1954, living in Los Toldos, in Argentina’s northern Salta Province — a region with a significant Indigenous population, where Antiman himself would go on to become a recognized local “Cacique,” or chieftain, in the years that followed. His account, as later published, begins on an ordinary night, alone in his own room.

A high-pitched sound broke the silence first. Almost simultaneously, Antiman felt what he could only describe as a magnetic force take hold of him, drawing him into a cabin- or elevator-like enclosure that had appeared in the room without warning. The compartment departed immediately at what he called fantastic speed, and everything around him fell into complete silence.

When the door opened again, he stepped out into an entirely different setting: a desolate, mountainous valley, unlike anything near his home. Walking roughly a hundred meters, he spotted several men carrying large bags on their shoulders. He called out to them — yelling, whistling, doing everything he could think of to get their attention. They didn’t react at all, as if he weren’t there.

It was in that moment of being ignored that a voice spoke directly into his mind. The men couldn’t answer him, the voice explained, because they “had no brains” — they were incapable of hearing “the voice of the creator” the way Antiman himself apparently could. The voice gave him an instruction rather than an explanation: he was to tell others everything he could about what he had experienced.

He was led back into the cabin. Moments later, the door opened once more, and he found himself back in his own room, the entire episode concluded as abruptly as it had begun.

Despite the voice’s explicit instruction to share his account, Antiman kept the experience to himself for approximately twenty years before he ever spoke of it publicly.

RESEARCHER’S NOTES

Los Toldos — 1954 and Two Decades of Silence

• A twenty-year gap before disclosure: Unlike cases surfaced through hypnosis after decades of buried, inaccessible memory, Antiman appears to have retained a clear conscious memory of the event the entire time and simply chose not to share it — a meaningfully different situation from a recovered-memory case, and one that raises fewer of the specific evidentiary concerns hypnotic regression carries.
• An instruction the witness didn’t immediately follow: The voice’s directive to “tell all he could” went unheeded for two decades, which is itself an interesting detail — whatever one makes of the encounter, Antiman clearly wasn’t driven by any urgent compulsion to publicize it.
• The ignored men remain unexplained: Nothing in the account clarifies who the bag-carrying men were, why they couldn’t perceive Antiman, or what relationship (if any) they had to the voice or the cabin. This archive preserves that gap rather than speculating to fill it.
• A named, locally significant witness: Antiman’s later status as a recognized community chieftain lends his account a degree of standing within his own community, though it does not constitute independent verification of the event itself.
• A telepathic voice with a specific theological framing: The “voice of the creator” language situates this account within a spiritual or religious register rather than a purely technological contactee framework — a variation worth noting alongside this archive’s more secular, hardware-focused encounter accounts.

This is a single-witness account with no physical trace, no corroborating observer, and a two-decade gap before it was ever shared — limitations this archive states plainly. What it offers instead is a named, community-recognized witness and an unusually long, deliberate silence that doesn’t fit a pattern of someone eager to be believed.

“They did not answer him because they had no brains and could not hear the voice of the creator.”
— Martin Antiman’s account, via visionovni.com.ar