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LocationCountryChile is a South American nation whose civil aviation authority has run an official UAP study office since 1997 and whose northern desert hosts major observatories.
Chile is a South American nation whose civil aviation authority has run an official UAP study office since 1997 and whose northern desert hosts major observatories.
Chile is a long, narrow country between the Andes and the Pacific, with Santiago as its capital and largest city. Its northern Atacama, the driest non-polar desert on Earth, hosts major observatories including the ALMA radio array, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope at Paranal, Las Campanas Observatory, and Cerro Armazones, site of the planned Extremely Large Telescope. Farther south, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory on Cerro Pachón began repeatedly imaging the southern sky in 2025.
Chile also has a long official record of UFO study. In 1968 the national meteorological office formed the Chilean Commission for the Study of Unidentified Space Phenomena under Colonel Sergio Bravo Flores; it operated until 1975 and sent some of its roughly dozen reports to the University of Colorado's Condon study. After sightings over Arica in 1997, General Gonzalo Miranda Aguirre, director of the Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil (DGAC), created the Committee for the Study of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena, CEFAA, on October 3, 1997. Reorganized as SEFAA in October 2021, it describes its mission as supporting the safety of Chilean air operations and invites the public to submit photos and video.
CEFAA's best-known case came from a Chilean Navy AS-532 Cougar helicopter that filmed an object with an infrared camera west of Santiago on November 11, 2014. The footage became public in January 2017 after CEFAA said it had found no credible explanation; the pilot described a flat, elongated structure with two thermal discharges. Analysts on the skeptic forum Metabunk argued that it was most likely an airliner, farther away and higher than CEFAA assumed, trailing an aerodynamic contrail. The desert also yielded the Atacama specimen, a tiny mummified skeleton found near La Noria in 2003 and promoted in the 2013 documentary "Sirius" as possibly alien; a 2018 Genome Research study identified it as a human fetus with skeletal-gene mutations, and Chilean authorities investigated whether it had been removed illegally.
The NASA-funded ATLAS survey telescope at Río Hurtado discovered the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on July 1, 2025, and Rubin had imaged it days earlier during science validation; speculation that it was artificial has not displaced observations showing an active comet. Public reports continued in 2026, including video of lights over Talca and red flashes reported over El Quisco. With a standing civil-aviation office for anomalous aerial reports and some of the world's most capable telescopes, Chile pairs an official reporting channel with one of the most closely watched skies on Earth.
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On September 24, 2016, Chilean photographer Francisco Muñoz attended an international contact gathering at the Wayra campground, near San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, centered on the experiences of Peruvian researcher Ricardo González. Muñoz also recalled seeing anomalous lights or objects moving through the sky. He raised his Samsung cellphone and took several photographs. According to Muñoz: “My intention was to take a photo of them.” The photographs appeared almost completely dark when he chec...
This video was filmed in Punta Arenas, Chile on August 17, 2020. If anybody has any additional info about this sighting, please share!
This is what a sky full of lights does to people on the ground. Chile. Fourteen years ago. What do you see? https://t.co/wxdowtXJW9
On July 31, 1965, dozens of residents of Pelluco, Chile, claimed to have witnessed the landing of a large object in a wooded area of the town. The alleged landing site showed signs of missing soil, circular in shape and one meter deep. The case description mentions the arrival, several days after the event, of a U.S. scientific commission, which “preliminarily concluded that the surface exhibited characteristics consistent with a uplift produced by an intense energy field.” https://www.lavozd...
-55.543916, -69.266027 I found this on Google Maps in southern Chile. When zoomed in, it looks strangely symmetrical, almost like a giant armored figure or mask. Is this a natural formation, an image-processing artifact, or something else?
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A Chilean channel has some footage of UAP’s at night, according to them the area has no aircraft in their airspace, nothing. Also there’s a military video but also makes it interesting about a pilot talking about an encounter with a sphere with the lower part as a Medusa, like some footage we are getting. ?is=zR2DjECv4vzaLBLE
UAP video in Chile (National TV ig video). Was spotted yesterday night
Possible UFO spotted in Chile yesterday? Yesterday, the official Instagram account of TVN Chile posted a video showing a strange object moving across the sky at what appears to be very high speed. Here's the video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbEPPxsk7SW/
