At 9 p.m. on August 14, 1996, nearly a hundred people
in the northern border area of Argentina and Chile "observed a
strange phenomenon" which was described as "a ring-shaped
object crossing the sky from north to south."
This week the Harvard Observatory in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA identified the UFO as exhaust from a
rocket motor "burn." The spacecraft was a Molniya-IT
satellite launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia's
Arctic region. The spacecraft was on a north to south polar
orbit, ranging from 207 to 438 kilometers above the Earth.
The satellite's Blok-ML booster stage fired at 9 p.m. over the
Andes, a spokesman for the observatory said, and the angle
of the sun made the exhaust plume visible to observers on
the ground.
(Editor's Comment: Well, that explains the "ring-shaped UFO,"
but what about the nickel-colored saucer seen flying over
Talagante, Chile?)
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