Case file · Government program
CEFAA / SEFAA (Chile)
Chile's civil aviation authority (DGAC) set up an official committee in 1997 to study anomalous aerial phenomena.
1997 CE · -33.39, -70.79 · status: official
The account
The Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos was formed after radar-tracked sightings near airports. It later became a section of the DGAC (SEFAA). It has publicly released and analysed military and civil footage, such as the Chilean Navy helicopter infrared video of 2014.
The sceptical view
Its most famous release, the 2014 Navy helicopter video, was later attributed by independent analysts to an airliner's contrail (an Iberia flight leaving Santiago).
Connections in the atlas
- Six airliners see triangular lights, Antofagasta
- Corporal Armando Valdés, Putre
- El Bosque air base object, Santiago
- San Clemente 'UFO route', Maule
- CRIDOVNI (Uruguay)
- Peru reopens its UFO office
- Chilean Navy helicopter infrared video