The Citroen GS 1220 driven by Acevedo and Moya levitating during the 1978 South America Rally Race.
THINK ABOUTIT ABDUCTION REPORT
Date: September 23, 1978
Sighting Time: Around 3:00 a.m.
Day/Night: Night
Location: the intersection of Route 3 and the road to Cardenal Cagliero, they were close to Salitral del Algarrobo and Salina de Piedra, about 30 km north of the city of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina
Urban or Rural: – Urban
No. of Entity(‘s): 0 reported (The witnesses were blinded and paralyzed by light and did not see any physical beings).
Entity Type: N/A
Entity Description: N/A
Hynek Classification: CE-IV (Close Encounter IV) Abduction of the witness or other direct contact
Duration: Indeterminate / Missing Time (The witnesses lost all notion of time and noted inconsistencies with their odometer and fuel).
No. of Object(s): 1
Height & Speed: 2 meters elevation / 100km/h initial speed (The vehicle floated 2 meters above the asphalt while they were originally traveling at 100km an hour).
Size of Object(s): Not specified (The oval light was initially a “dot” that grew to fill their entire field of vision).
Distance to Object(s): Immediate proximity (The light filled the interior of the car and the object shot away once they were back on the road).
Shape of Object(s): oval
Color/Description of Object(s): yellowish
Number of Witnesses: 2
Source: Guillermo Roncoroni, UFO Press # 9, October 9, 1978
Summary/Description:On August 17, 1978, Carlos Acevedo and Hugo Prambs had left the city of Buenos Aires on board a Citroen GS 1220 as part of the first leg on the South America Rally Race. On September 16 in Bariloche, Hugo Prambs had to abandon the race due to personal matters and was replaced by Miguel Angel Moya. Midnight on the 23rd they stopped to refuel in Viedma, taking in approximately 50 liters of fuel and then drinking coffee. At around 0300A as they approached the city of Carmen de Patagones Carlos Acevedo was on the driver’s seat when suddenly he observed a powerful brilliant light that reflected on the rearview mirror. It was a very dense yellowish light. At first, it was just a dot on the mirror but it began to grow larger, seemingly approaching. They were both traveling at about 100km an hour at the time, but the light quickly approached them which made the men think that it was one of the newer model vehicles in the race. Acevedo then decided to slow his Citroen and pulled off to the side of the road to let the faster “vehicle” pass. As the light continued its fast approach suddenly the interior of their vehicle was filled with light. It was a brilliant yellowish light with violet tints which made it impossible for the men to see beyond the hood of the car.
At that moment Acevedo seemed to lose control of the car, looking out the window he was stunned to see that the vehicle floated at about 2 meters above the asphalt road. He immediately thought they had hit some type of “bump” on the road and the vehicle had gone flying and waited for it to fall back down on the road. But incredibly the vehicle continued “flying” through the air, and apparently ascending at a higher altitude. At this moment Acevedo screamed and looked out the window but he could no longer see anything, everything was surrounded in a brilliant yellow light, indeed he couldn’t even see the control panel and could not see Moya sitting next to him.
In the meantime Moya remained sitting in his seat paralyzed with fear unable to speak or move, he felt enveloped in “thick” yellow light which prevented him from even seeing his hands or feet. Both men then lost all notion of time and several moments later felt a bump and they were back on the road again. At the same time, the yellow light seemed to their vehicle was now stopped on the side of the road. Suddenly both men saw the yellowish oval-shaped light shoot away towards the west and vanish into the distance. Moya felt a numb and strong pressure on his chest and took him some time to recover, he even had some difficulty in breathing.
The men sat quietly for a few moments then finally started the vehicle and continue on to the north on Route 3. The men noticed several inconsistencies with their odometer which indicated a shorter distance of traveling than what really transpired; also the fuel had been totally exhausted. Another race crew, a Chilean team also reported similar phenomena with their vehicle instruments and apparent time and place dislocations.
Researcher’s Notes: Mechanical Interference and Physical Proof
The Carmen de Patagones abduction is distinguished by the measurable physical effects on the Citroen GS 1220, which provide objective data to support the witnesses’ subjective experience:
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Vehicle Levitation Dynamics: The report of the car floating 2 meters above the road while traveling at 100km/h suggests a highly localized gravitational or electromagnetic field. The “bump” felt when the vehicle returned to the asphalt is a consistent detail in vehicle interference cases.
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Fuel Exhaustion Anomaly: The most significant physical evidence is the total exhaustion of fuel. Having refueled with 50 liters in Viedma just prior to the encounter, the car should have had ample fuel for the remaining distance. This suggests either an accelerated mechanical consumption or a direct energy drain by the UAP.
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Odometer Discrepancy: The shorter distance indicated on the odometer compared to the actual geographical distance traveled indicates a spatio-temporal dislocation, where the vehicle was physically moved across space without its wheels recording the rotation.
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Independent Corroboration: The Chilean race team reporting similar instrument failures and place dislocations at the same time transforms this from a single-vehicle event into a multi-witness regional anomaly.
The Acevedo and Moya abduction remains one of the most compelling South American cases due to its occurrence during a high-profile rally race. The presence of “thick” yellowish-violet light that paralyzed the occupants and blocked their vision is a hallmark of high-strangeness abductions.
When combined with the physical fuel loss and the secondary reports from other racers, the 1978 Carmen de Patagones incident provides a rare intersection between subjective missing time and objective mechanical proof.
