CEFAA Caso El Bosque — November 5, 2010 Air Show Multi-Angle Capture
A Chilean Air Force (FACH) / CEFAA-released video compilation documenting a disc-shaped UAP captured by seven independent cameras during the November 5, 2010 El Bosque Air Base change-of-command air show.
Brief
During a public air show at El Bosque Air Base in Santiago, an unidentified disc-shaped object passed the F-5 demonstration flight at a speed photogrammetrically estimated by FACH analysts at over 4,000 mph — far beyond any aircraft in the display. An ENAER engineer initiated the investigation by flagging civilian footage to CEFAA, which then assembled seven independent camera angles for analysis. CEFAA director General Ricardo Bermúdez presented the case publicly in March 2012, stating the assembled analysts agreed the object was present and could not be scientifically explained. The case remains one of the most rigorously multi-sourced video UAP events in Latin American governmental records.
Metadata
- Agency
- CEFAA / Chilean Air Force (FACH)
- Release
- 2012-03-13
- Type
- VIDEO • .mp4
- Length
- 16.8 M
- Classification
- UNCLASSIFIED
- Programs
- CEFAA
- Tags
- disc-shaped, video-multi-angle, high-speed, low-altitude, Santiago Chile, 2010, CEFAA, El Bosque, air-show, photogrammetric-analysis
Key points
- Seven independent video angles were assembled by CEFAA from cameras operated by civilian and aviation-industry witnesses at the air show.
- Photogrammetric analysis by FACH technicians placed the object's speed at over 4,000 mph during the F-5 demonstration pass.
- The investigation was initiated by an engineer at ENAER (Empresa Nacional de Aeronáutica), the state aerospace manufacturer adjacent to El Bosque Air Base.
- CEFAA director General Ricardo Bermúdez publicly presented the case in March 2012, making it an official Chilean Air Force disclosure.
- The object's morphology was characterized as disc-shaped based on frame analysis across multiple independent recordings.
- Analysts collectively concluded the object was unidentified and could not be scientifically explained, per the CEFAA director's public statement.
Most interesting
- The incident occurred at a change-of-command ceremony — a formal military event with planned aerial demonstrations — maximizing the number of cameras and trained observers present.
- Seven independent camera angles provide a stereo-photogrammetric baseline rarely available in UAP cases, enabling genuine triangulation rather than single-axis speed estimates.
- ENAER, where the engineer who flagged the footage worked, manufactures military aircraft and employs personnel with direct aeronautical expertise, lending unusual technical credibility to the initial identification.
- At an estimated 4,000+ mph, the object would have been traveling well above Mach 5 at low altitude over an urban area, a flight profile inconsistent with any publicly known Chilean Air Force or foreign aircraft.
- CEFAA — Chile's official government UAP investigation office under the FACH — is one of the few institutionalized national UAP offices in the Western Hemisphere with a standing mandate to investigate and publish findings.