Chacho the Author 333
Andes Mountains, you encounter winter, with rain,
snow and mud.
The main central highway had become even worse
than the last time I had traveled this road. It took me
almost six hours to make the same trip that in Septem
ber had taken me only four. The only thing that was an
improvement was I didn't have any altitude sickness this
time.
I got up early the next morning, fresh and rested, and
checked my watch. It was six-thirty, Tuesday, January
- It was raining copiously, but I went down to the
bathhouses anyway. I was looking forward with great
anticipation to getting into that carbonated water again.
It felt so good I stayed in the pool for about an hour.
As I was having breakfast after my bath, I noticed a
pickup truck dropping off someone. It was Rama. She'd
hitchhiked a ride to meet me.
A UFO was waiting for us nearby, she said. I couldn't
believe my ears. Today I was going to take my first ride
in a space ship.
We got into the volkswagen and drove about fifteen
minutes toward Huancayo. We came to a clearing,
where she asked me to pull off the road.
We got out of the car and Rama took me by the arm,
leading the way. By then the rain had let up. As we
walked, I saw something that resembled a small rain
bow, very weak in intensity. She told me this was an
electromagnetic field that surrounds the UFOs com
pletely, thus making them invisible while standing on
the ground. We were no more than twenty-five feet
from the craft, and my eyes didn't see it. After we
crossed the electrical frequency, it came into full view.
This ship wasn't like the small "vimanas" I'd seen
previously. It had the same form and football-like shape,
but it was much larger. It was metallic and seemed to