[Retweeted] The March 1997 shootdown occurred around the time former Marine Jonathan Weygandt claims he encountered a retrieved UFO while deployed to Peru for Operation Laser Strike, a related counter-drug effort. The consequences of a mistaken shootdown became clear on 20 April 2001. A Peruvian Air Force jet misidentified a civilian missionary plane as a drug-trafficking aircraft and fired on it, killing a woman and her infant daughter. U.S. support for air interdiction operations in Peru an...