UFO FLAP ERUPTS IN SOUTHERN CHILE

July 4, 1996
Source: LA TERCERA NEWSPAPER / Unknown (2 articles)
First Peru, then Brazil, then Australia--now Chile is the latest country in our planet's southern hemisphere suffering an invasion of unidentified flying objects. Recent sightings have taken place around the city of Valdivia, 900 kilometers (565 miles) south of the nation's capital, Santiago de Chile.

Promptly at noontime on Tuesday, July 9, 1996, a UFO appeared in the sky over Chillan, a city of 200,000 about 400 kilometers (250 miles) south of Santiago. The object was described as "very bright" and "remained motionless for a few minutes and then disappeared at high speed toward the southeast."

On Thursday night, July 4, 1996, a UFO appeared over the airstrip at Pichoy, 32 kilometers (20 miles) northwest of Valdivia. "We saw a large light, accompanied by another small one," the airstrip manager said. "The luminous UFO went at great speed over the airport, flying from west to east. In spite of the mist (sea fog), the intensity of the light was very noticeable and called everybody's attention."

Radar sets at the Pichoy tower did not register the presence of the UFOs. The objects were seen by the tower staff, the baggage loaders, plus the crews and passengers of two airliners, one from Ladeco Airlines, the other from Alta Airlines. The Ladeco jet was taxiing for takeoff at the time of the sighting. The Alta plane was just getting its luggage loaded aboard when the UFOs appeared.

On Saturday, June 29, three UFOs flew over the village of Huellehue (population-240). Among the witnesses was Sgt. Romeo Ojoda Carrasco of the Chilean Army. He said the three UFOs "seemed to be flying inside something that looked like a bubble, or perhaps their own atmosphere. I don't believe in UFOs, but what I saw, with my companions, does not have a logical explanation. Those objects moved very fast."

Source: Unknown
Date: July, 1996

UFOs SIGHTINGS IN CHILE

VALDIVIA. -( 900 kilometers south of Santiago ) The south of Chile population was moved by the apparition of a UFOs wave. This time was the community of Valdivia. At the Pichoy airport, located 32 kilometers northeast of Valdivia, commercial airline pilots, passengers and officials at the airport observed the UFOs.

Tuesday night ( July 4 ) we saw a huge light, accompanied with others small ones. The lunimous UFOs, displaced great speed over the airport flying from west to east'1 said witnesses. " In spite of the mist, the intensity of the lights was admired and called everybody affention". said an airport official, who request anonymity. Also it was knows that the control tower at the terminal did not register, in that moment, any flying aircraft, while in the runway was an Ladeco Airlines loading passengers and another of Alta airline which depart much later. 11The airport binnacle do not record this situation", informed yesterday a shift official, however, he coniimed the sighting.

The UFOs course, west to east, coincides with sighting observed by the village of Huellelhue (population 240 ) narrated by sergeant Romeho Ojeda Carrasco who commented seen three twOs, on Saturday night, June 29, flying inside of something that looks like a bubble' or their 'own atmosphere', before disappearing behind some hills. "I did not believe in twOs, but what I saw, with my companions, do not has a logic explanation. Those objects moved very fast" he said.

SANTIAGO.- Tuesday July 9.-For more than half hour, at noon time, a twO was seen over the city of Chillan ( population 200,000 ) some 400 kilometers south of Santiago, provoking anxiety to the locals, informed witnesses. The object, that was very height, stayed motionless for a few minutes and them disappeared at high speed to the southwest. In spite nobody could identify the object, some witnesses said that it could be a meteorology balloon but the majority of the witnesses discarded that the object had those characteristics.

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