Argentina · 31 July 1995

Approach to Bariloche airport, 1995

Reported

An airliner on final approach broke off while the whole city was blacked out, and the encounter is preserved in tower audio the Argentine state itself later declassified.

Where

Approach to Bariloche airport, Rio Negro

When

31 July 1995

Who reported it

4 airline crew; tower; airport chief; two Gendarmeria pilots; named ground civilians

Entities described

None reported

Handled as

INVESTIGATED / EXPLAINED

Evidence class

GOV-1

The record

An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.

UNVERIFIED - 2020 declassification reported in Argentine press; no government-hosted audio or report PDF located

No document is attached yet. The retrieval is open work.

What is not settled

The Air Force's own finding is the killer: it attributed the light to a powerful projector beam aimed at the cloud base during the blackout and found no craft posing concrete risk. The pilot calls that absurd, but it is the official explanation.

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