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Public release of a Chilean Navy AS-532 Cougar helicopter's nine-minute Wescam MX-15 FLIR recording of an unidentified object filmed November 11, 2014 between San Antonio and Quintero, after a two-year CEFAA technical review.
Public release of a Chilean Navy AS-532 Cougar helicopter's nine-minute Wescam MX-15 FLIR recording of an unidentified object filmed November 11, 2014 between San Antonio and Quintero, after a two-year CEFAA technical review.
On November 11, 2014, two officers aboard a Chilean Navy Airbus AS-532 Cougar on coastal patrol between San Antonio and Quintero recorded roughly nine minutes of infrared footage with the aircraft's Wescam MX-15 high-definition FLIR camera while tracking an object at approximately 4,500 feet. The captain's report described a flat, elongated structure with two thermal discharges and visible chemical plume ejections. CEFAA, the official UAP investigation body attached to Chile's Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil, reviewed the recording for two years with nuclear chemists, astrophysicists, and image analysts. CEFAA publicly released the footage on January 5, 2017 with the conclusion that the body could not identify the object but could rule out conventional explanations.