Case file · Official inquiry
Peru reopens its UFO office
In October 2013 the Peruvian Air Force revived its Department of Investigation of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (DIFAA), first created in 2001 and closed around 2008.
2013 CE · -12.05, -77.04 · status: official
The account
Colonel Julio Vucetich, head of the air force's aerospace interests division, said the office was returning because of more reports of anomalous lights in Peruvian skies. It was to bring together sociologists, archaeologists, astronomers and air-force staff to analyse when and where such events occur. Similar agencies exist in Brazil, Argentina and Chile.
The sceptical view
The office's stated job is to study reports, most of which turn out to have conventional causes; reopening it was a response to media reports, not to new evidence.