Case file · Sighting
Paihuano school ceremony light, Elqui Valley
In 2008, during a presidential speech at a secondary school in Paihuano in the Elqui Valley, people in the audience spotted and filmed an unidentified object in the sky.
2008 CE · -30.03, -70.52 · status: claim
The account
The Elqui Valley, home to world-class observatories and to New Age communities around Cochiguaz, has been described since the 1980s as a spiritual centre and even a portal. The Paihuano footage became part of that reputation.
The sceptical view
The footage is low-quality and the object was never identified, but nothing in the record rules out a balloon, bird or aircraft.