On 2 March, a spherical UFO was spotted making erratic zigzag movements over the city of Buga in Colombia. Shortly afterwards, a group of people recovered a metal sphere, roughly the size of a football and weighing about four and a half pounds (2kg), from woodland in the city. They believe this was the UFO sighted earlier, although no one saw it make a landing.
One of its finders, David Velez el Potro, said that his companion, named only as Jose, “felt sick for days” after touching the object, adding “When I poured water on it, it started to smoke and the water vaporised instantly”; although, confusingly, he also says the sphere had “the temperature of a refrigerator.” His group retrieved the object, seemingly without it making anyone else ill,…