On January 5th, 2016, footage of a UFO captured by Chilean Navy was released to the public. The video is approximately 9 minutes long and was studied by Chilean authorities for the last two years. The CEFAA, the branch of government agency which investigates UFOs, UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena), has been in charge of the investigation. Along with the help of other agencies, none of them have been able to explain the strange flying object captured by two experienced Navy officers from a helicopter. ^[1]

The Chilean government agency always makes its cases public when an investigation is complete, and acknowledges the existence of UAP when a case merits such a conclusion.

General Ricardo Bermúdez, Director of CEFAA during the investigation, told me that “We do not know what it was, but we do know what it was not.”

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On November 11, 2014, a Chilean Navy Helicopter (Airbus Cougar AS-532) was on a routine daytime patrol mission flying north along the coast, west of Santiago. On board were the pilot, a Navy Captain with many years of flying experience, and a Navy technician who was testing a WESCAM’s MX-15 HD Forward Looking Infra Red (FLIR) camera, used most often for “medium-altitude covert intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance,” according to the product website. ^[3]The aircraft was flying at an altitude of approximately 4,500 feet on a clear afternoon with unlimited horizontal visibility, and the air temperature at that height was 50 degrees F (10 C). There was a cloud base above at 10,000 feet, and a layer of stratuscumulos clouds below. The helicopter was flying at about 132 knots, or 152 mph. ^[2]

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