SPACE TOAD #SPACETOAD In the summer of 1965, a Peruvian student claimed to have had a face-to-frog-like-face encounter with an extraordinary — and ostensibly amphibious — extraterrestrial being on an isolated rooftop in the capital city of Lima. On Sunday, August 1, 1965, at precisely 6:02 pm., the sun began its slow descent over the coastal city of Lima. There was a bite in the air that evening; in fact that day was to be the coldest of the year with a temperature of just 55° Fahrenheit. It would not be the weather, however, that would leave 15 year-old student Alberto San Roman Nunez chilled to the bone. At approximately 7:00 pm., Nunez was taking in the wash from the line on the rooftop of his family’s home when he glanced up into the steadily darkening sky and bore witness to a sight which he would never forget. Directly in front of his disbelieving gaze was a UFO slowly descending onto the roof behind him. As astonishing as this sight clearly was, it would pale before what came next. According to noted ufologist and British diplomat, Gordon Creighton — in his chapter “The Humanoids in Latin America” in Charles Bowen’s invaluable 1969 catalogue of extraterrestrial encounters “The Humanoids” — Nunez then claimed to have seen an eccentric entity emerge from the now apparently landed craft. What he described was a hirsute, luminescent “Space Toad” — as I’ve dubbed this critter — which Nunez illustrated as: “greenish… with hair all covered with green lights, and looking like a toad.” The student would also state that this frog-like fiend was approximately three-and-a-half-feet tall. Whether this entity was genuinely bioluminescent or merely glowing due to biochemical or crystallographic modifications to its body was unknown and remains a mystery to this day.
