We watched them cross the sky with lights in the front. There are sections of the circles where the grain was squashed flat but not broken. Residents of Chilca claim that aliens altered the mud flats in town, giving them miraculous healing powers. Marco and Erudita Alva plunged into a pool called 'the Twin Maker' and began slapping on ink-black mud from head to toe. A lot of ailing Peruvians are turning up in Chilca, a dusty desert town on the Pacific coast 40 miles southeast of Lima.
People here believe in UFOs.
The Peruvian Ministry of Health, however, does not agree. Twins Veronica and Moncia Sanchez, whose mother regularly bathed in the 'Twin Maker,' say many of their friends have seen strange objects hovering over Chilca. In Jesus Maria, another Lima suburb, residents poured into the plaza to watch the overflight. One man videotaped it with his camera. By now, the word had spread, and a crowd of about 2,000 people witnessed the overflight of Callao.