San Clemente 'UFO route', Maule
In 2008 the commune of San Clemente in Chile's Maule Region launched an official UFO-tourism trail into the Andes, built on decades of local reports of lights over the mountains.
2008 CE · -35.55, -71.48 · status: claim
The account
The route runs from the town up toward the Reserva Nacional Altos de Lircay and the basalt plateau of El Enladrillado. Residents tell of flying lights and even humanoid figures walking through the town. The trail was promoted as one of the first official UFO routes in the world and helped make the Maule cordillera a destination for skywatchers.
The sceptical view
A tourism route is a promotional product, not evidence. The reports gathered for it are mostly anecdotal, and the dark Andean skies make satellites, meteors and aircraft lights unusually conspicuous.