CIAE Informe de Casos 2024

Brief

The Centro de Identificación Aeroespacial (CIAE), established 4 April 2019 under the Argentine Air Force, accepted 36 of 45 submitted sighting reports — the remaining nine rejected for lacking testimony or physical evidence — and resolved every case as a known-origin event. The analytical workflow applies Occam's Razor as a first-pass filter, then compositional, qualitative, and technical analysis across seven stimulus categories (aeronautical, meteorological, astronomical, satellite, biological, optical, and airborne/ground-fixed objects), with results classified using France's GEIPAN dual-tier scheme: Type A (definitively explained) and Type B (foundationally explained). Of the five cases detailed in the extracted pages, identifications include flying insects attracting to a security camera's LED ring, an internal windshield reflection confirmed by radiometric histogram analysis, a commercial drone, Starlink satellite solar reflections verified via Stellarium simulation, and a combination of spent fireworks and lens flare. The center publishes all resolved cases online for public audit and requires evidentiary challenges to be presented in person rather than via social media.

Metadata

Agency

Centro de Identificación Aeroespacial (CIAE) / Fuerza Aérea Argentina

Release

2025-01-01

Type

PDF • .pdf

Length

98 pages

Classification

UNCLASSIFIED

Programs

CIAE, GEIPAN

Tags

annual case report, Argentina, 2024, Starlink reflections, commercial drone, insects, lens flare, windshield reflection, fireworks, CIAE, GEIPAN methodology, radiometric analysis

Key points

• CIAE was created 4 April 2019 to organize, coordinate, and execute analysis of aerospace events of interest and report findings to relevant agencies.p.2
• Of 45 total 2024 submissions, 36 met the dual requirement of testimony plus physical evidence; 9 were rejected after repeated contact attempts failed to obtain missing documentation.p.2
• All 36 analyzed cases were resolved as generated by known-origin causes — zero cases remained unexplained.p.2
• The center adopts France's GEIPAN classification: Type A (definitively explained, absolute probative evidence) and Type B (foundationally explained, key elements strongly supporting a hypothesis without reproduced confirmation).p.2
• Occam's Razor is the governing methodological axiom: analysis begins with the simplest compatible hypothesis before proceeding to compositional, qualitative, and technical layers.p.6
• Resolved cases are published online for public audit and not archived as closed; evidentiary objections must be presented in person, not posted to social media or non-academic forums.p.2
• The Facundo Romero case (San Pedro, Misiones, 12 January 2024) was resolved Type A: Stellarium simulation confirmed Starlink satellites transited a sun-below-horizon position producing solar reflection flashes visible from the southern Argentine sky sector.p.15
• Radiometric histogram analysis of border sharpness gradients distinguished an internal windshield reflection from a possible external source in the Raúl Vigil case (Ruta Nacional 40, Santa Cruz), with double-borders and halo signatures confirming the origin was inside the vehicle.p.10
• The Claudio Jeldes case (Morón, 28 November 2023) was resolved Type B: insects attracted to a security camera's LED ring light produced erratic luminous trails, including upward traces that appeared to emerge from the swimming pool.p.6
• Director of CIAE is Com. (R) Rubén LIANZA, a retired Argentine Air Force Commander who signed the annual report.p.2

Verbatim

• Organizar, coordinar y ejecutar la investigación y análisis de eventos, actividades o elementos presentes u originados en el aeroespacio de interés; identificar sus causas e informar las conclusiones a los Organismos pertinentes que las requieran

  p.2

• Si bien la totalidad de los casos analizados fueron resueltos como generados por causas de origen conocido, constituyen, sin embargo, testimonios muy valiosos desde el punto de vista investigativo, no solo por habernos obligado a refinar los procedimientos para resolver aquellos que resultaron más difíciles, sino también por su inherente contribución al conocimiento, al verificarse que fueron originados por interpretaciones honestas pero erróneas de objetos ordinarios, percibidos (por los testigos) como extraordinarios, al momento de la observación.

  p.2

• Los casos catalogados como "resueltos" no se publican bajo un estricto carácter de: "cerrados", sino que se suben a la red, precisamente para que sean leídos, analizados y auditados por los lectores, esperando que también puedan llegar a constituir información valiosa para sus propios estudios.

  p.2

• Cualquier oposición a las conclusiones publicadas que aparezca en redes sociales o foros no académicos sin incluir nuevas hipótesis o que no posea nuevas evidencias o no haya seguido el procedimiento más arriba indicado, no será citada como referencia válida.

  p.2

• En igualdad de condiciones, la explicación más sencilla suele ser la más probable

  p.6

• …. al continuar el camino sinuoso pierdo contacto visual. Al terminar la subida, ya no estaba, por lo que no puedo precisar como desapareció

  p.7

Most interesting

• Nine cases from prior years (2020 and 2022) appear within the 2024 report, indicating the center clears a rolling backlog across annual reporting cycles rather than limiting each publication to calendar-year incidents.
• Starlink-related sightings have generated a documented wave of citizen UAP reports in Argentina since November 2022; multiple cases in successive annual reports resolve identically to solar reflection off satellite panels at specific orbital geometries.
• The center's radiometric histogram analysis — comparing border-sharpness gradients between internal and external reflections — is a forensic photographic technique more typically applied to image authentication, used here as a primary UAP investigative tool.
• Director Rubén LIANZA holds the rank of Commander (Retired) — Com. (R) — placing CIAE outside the active chain of command while retaining institutional Air Force standing.
• CIAE embedded a YouTube link to its own animated Starlink-reflection explainer video directly within the formal government analytical report, treating public science communication as part of the investigative record.
• A field investigation case (Lomas de Zamora, 18 February 2022) occupies page 90 of the full document, indicating the center conducts on-site physical investigations in addition to remote evidence review.
• The report formally footnotes Occam's Razor to Franciscan friar William of Ockham (1280–1349), grounding a 21st-century aerospace investigation methodology in a medieval philosophical axiom cited by name and date.