AudioBlog: PART 3: Hovering Assailants Reported in Peru in 2023 and Before

This is the last in a three-part series of blogs looking at a case
from 2023 that involved Ikitu tribe members in the village of San
Antonio de Pintuyacu in Peru who reported nighttime attacks by
7-feet-tall aliens with elongated heads wearing black body armor
and masks that had yellow or green eye lenses. They were said to
stand on some sort of circular device like Green Goblin from the
Spiderman movie that enabled them to fly and hover. Some villagers
attributed the attacks to creatures from local folklore called Los
Pelacaras (The Face-Peelers) said to feed on human faces and
organs. Adding credence to this belief, a 15-year-old girl,
identified as Talia, suffered an attack that resulted in her being
taken to a hospital with lacerations on her neck. Witnesses
reported that, as they came to her rescue, they saw the attackers
flying away. Police came to investigate, and a spokesman for the
Peruvian National Prosecutor’s office, Carlos Castro Quintanilla,
came to the conclusion that illegal gold miners using jetpacks to
explore deep into the jungle were responsible. This caused the
story to die down in the news, but Timothy Alberino, a
documentary film maker and paranormal enthusiast based in Bozeman,
Montana, who had spent a good deal of time as a young man living in
the jungles of Peru, returned to investigate the story first-hand
and shared his findings on his YouTube site and on
podcasts. While the descriptions of the creatures and the
encounters were quite strange, there is a history of these sorts of
reports linked to outsiders seeking to exploit natural resources in
areas occupied by indigenous people, often with little concern for
their rights. Read more