Chile · 11 November 2014

Coastal airspace between Vina del Mar and San Antonio, 2014

Reported

Nine minutes and twelve seconds of military infrared footage that a civil aviation authority's expert committee formally classified as an unidentified aerial phenomenon, with DGAC radar showing no traffic in the area.

Where

Coastal airspace between Vina del Mar and San Antonio, ~1,300m

When

11 November 2014

Who reported it

2 - Chilean Navy helicopter pilot and infrared camera technician on patrol

Entities described

None reported

Handled as

INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED

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 - cefaa.gob.cl retired; successor https://sefaa.dgac.gob.cl/ does not list this case

Part of the chain is attached. The rest is still being retrieved.

What is not settled

The French analysis group IPACO identified the target as a commercial aircraft on a descent trailing a contrail, a reading now widely accepted. If IPACO is right, the no-radar-traffic premise was simply wrong.

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