On October 23, 2013, the Peruvian Air Force (Fuerza Aérea del Perú) relaunched its Department of Investigation of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena under the new acronym DIFAA, after the original OIFAA office created in 2001 had gone dormant for several years. The department's mandate was framed by its leadership as grounded in the Peruvian Constitution's assignment of sovereign aerospace responsibility to the FAP.

DIFAA's investigative panel includes sociologists, archaeologists, astronomers, meteorologists, and active-duty FAP officers. Colonel Julio Vucetich, who directed the relaunch, told the press the office was created because pilot reports of unidentified objects had continued to accumulate during the dormancy and required a formal channel. Peru is one of several Latin American states to operate a named UAP investigation office within its air force, alongside Chile (CEFAA), Argentina (CEFAe / CIAE), and Uruguay (CRIDOVNI).