Applause echoed around the silent, strange statues which have guarded Easter Island for thousands of years as a solar eclipse plunged them into darkness in the middle of the day.
“It was like being in the stadium at night with artificial light. It was like being in a dark room with a 10 watt bulb,” local official Francisco Haoa told AFP.
The remote island, some 3,500km from the Chilean mainland, has been flooded with thousands of stargazers waiting with bated breath for the rare four minute, 41 second eclipse.
“Everyone applauded. We saw a luminous object near here and people started saying that they were sure it was a UFO,” added Haoa.
Easter Island and its mysterious huge statues were touted by astronomers as the best place to view the total eclipse which arched its way eastwards across the Pacific on Sunday.
“Many people were happy because in China (where there was a solar eclipse two years ago), there was bad weather. But here you can see it completely,” added Haoa.(AFP)
日食現象讓日正當中的復活節島頓時陷入黑暗,默默守護復活節島數千年的奇石像間,霎時迴盪陣陣喝采。
當地官員法蘭西斯科•哈歐亞向法新社表示:「那感覺彷彿夜間置身使用人工照明的體育場,宛若身處僅用一顆十瓦燈泡的暗室中。」
數千名遊客湧入這座距離智利本土約三千五百公里的偏遠孤島,屏息等待這歷時四分四十一秒的日食奇景。
哈歐亞還說:「民眾齊聲喝采。我們看到附近出現一個光體,接著大家就開始議論紛紛說那肯定是幽浮。」
天文學家力推有神秘巨石群的復活節島是此次日全食的最佳觀測地點。日全食在週日向東橫跨太平洋。
哈歐亞補充說:「許多民眾很開心,因為中國(兩年前那次日食)天候不佳影響觀測,但這次可以看得清清楚楚。」
(法新社╱翻譯:林倩如)
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