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Ars Technica commenta un video di una decina di minuti realizzato nel Novembre 2014 da un tecnico e un pilota della Marina Cilena in volo su un elicottero Cougar AS-532. La commissione statale che ha esaminato il filmato – CEFAA, Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos – composta da analisti, militari e scienziati ha stabilito di classificare l’evento come FANI (Fenómeno Aéreo No Identificado).

The infrared video is intriguing. According to Kean, the French analysts explained the sighting as a medium-haul aircraft on approach to the Santiago airport, with the heat signals due to waste water being dumped from the cabin. The Chilean committee dismissed this explanation, however, because the “plane” in question was not seen on primary radar. (As he observed the object, the Chilean pilot radioed an air traffic control along the coast and another at Santiago, both of which failed to observe a plane on radar. Nor was any aircraft in the vicinity cleared for a landing at Santiago.) Moreover, the plume of heated material does not fall as one would expect water or other material to do at an altitude of about 1km above the surface.