This is one of those stories that becomes increasingly baffling the more its circumstances are re-examined. Elements of it will satisfy conventional UFO theorists, psycho-social explainers and even conspiracy buffs, but, 32 years later, the Bermudez family is still without final answers as to why 54year-old Arcesio Bermudez, a father and uncle, died after an encounter with an unexplained flying object seen by multiple witnesses.

On 5 July 1969, the Bermudez family saw a strange light outside their farm near Anolaima, Colombia. The father, Arcesio Bermudez (left, from his death certificate), followed the light down a hill on foot. He came back frightened, saying he had seen a little man in the light.