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this where the unidentified flying object has been caught on film at the same time as terrestrial planes.
If you ask me, after looking at the footage again, something that size, that is moving eighteen times faster than fighter jets, is definitely not from this planet.
CEFAA was contacted by these seven different people individually after they’d all been freaked out by their footage. A number of CEFAA experts have studied these recordings and the agency has confirmed this as an unidentified object travelling at speeds in excess of 4,000 mph. The footage was eventually released to the public in March 2012, but no explanation has been found.
At the 2012 International UFO Congress, General Bermúdez, the big cheese of CEFAA, said that afteranalysis by all their astronomers, Air Force specialists and internal military personnel, ‘it has been confirmed that the UFO captured in the footage is an unknown aerial phenomenon’. This obviously caused a bit of a stir in the global UFO community and, as you’d expect, loads of them jumped on it as the solid evidence of UFOs they’ve been waiting for.
The production team has arranged for us to go to the Air Force base and see exactly where this happened, and meet some of the witnesses, which is exciting. Me and Antonio jump in a people carrier and set off through Santiago. The traffic is a nightmare and the smog is also pretty terrible. It reminds me a bit of Los Angeles, the way it settles over the downtown area. I tell Antonio this and have a bit of a chat with him about the similarities between Santiago and LA. ‘Well, you know the climate is similar,’ he says, ‘and the smog comes down from the mountains in Santiago and settles over downtown in a similar way to the way it does in Los Angeles. Also, Chile and Los Angeles are both famous for their wine, and they also both have quite a bit of a new age culture.’ That’s a bit of LA I could never be arsed with, I tell him, all that new age bollocks.
‘Of course, both California and Chile are also good spots for UFOs.’
Which is why I’m here, obviously. I decide to pick Antonio’s brains about why he thinks people are obsessed by UFOs.
‘Even the sceptics have to recognize that, at least as asociological phenomenon, UFOs are real, in other words, people see stuff. No one can deny that. But we don’t know what it is, which is why we call them UFOs.’
I tell Antonio about my second encounter, when I saw a UFO on the way to work as a postman early one morning, and he’s really interested and tells me that his first sighting was pretty similar. He was in Santiago in 1988: ‘I saw lights, it looked like a star, but it was moving like crazy, and then it would stop, and it went on for like twenty minutes or something.’
Apparently this type of sighting is pretty common. Two-thirds of all close encounters of the first kind, i.e. sightings of UFOs, are pretty similar to mine and Antonio’s – mysterious lights in the night sky, moving at very unusual speeds and performing mad, fast changes of direction that would be impossible for any plane that we’ve invented.
I also tell Antonio about my first sighting, when I looked up in the sky and saw literally hundreds of small lights, and my belief that there is life out there. He agrees with me: ‘I mean, the universe is so huge why would there just be one place with life? It doesn’t make sense.’
I also tell him that I think if the authorities announced tomorrow that we’ve made contact with an alien race then a lot of people would go bananas. What’s mad is that Antonio then starts telling me about a famous Arthur C. Clarke TV series in the eighties that he loved called Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World , which I actually rememberwatching as an eighteen-year-old on Granada TV. Pretty crazy to go to the other side of the world and find a local banging on about something that you saw on local TV when you were growing up.
Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World
If you ask me, after looking at the footage again, something that size, that is moving eighteen times faster than fighter jets, is definitely not from this planet.
CEFAA was contacted by these seven different people individually after they’d all been freaked out by their footage. A number of CEFAA experts have studied these recordings and the agency has confirmed this as an unidentified object travelling at speeds in excess of 4,000 mph. The footage was eventually released to the public in March 2012, but no explanation has been found.
At the 2012 International UFO Congress, General Bermúdez, the big cheese of CEFAA, said that afteranalysis by all their astronomers, Air Force specialists and internal military personnel, ‘it has been confirmed that the UFO captured in the footage is an unknown aerial phenomenon’. This obviously caused a bit of a stir in the global UFO community and, as you’d expect, loads of them jumped on it as the solid evidence of UFOs they’ve been waiting for.
The production team has arranged for us to go to the Air Force base and see exactly where this happened, and meet some of the witnesses, which is exciting. Me and Antonio jump in a people carrier and set off through Santiago. The traffic is a nightmare and the smog is also pretty terrible. It reminds me a bit of Los Angeles, the way it settles over the downtown area. I tell Antonio this and have a bit of a chat with him about the similarities between Santiago and LA. ‘Well, you know the climate is similar,’ he says, ‘and the smog comes down from the mountains in Santiago and settles over downtown in a similar way to the way it does in Los Angeles. Also, Chile and Los Angeles are both famous for their wine, and they also both have quite a bit of a new age culture.’ That’s a bit of LA I could never be arsed with, I tell him, all that new age bollocks.
‘Of course, both California and Chile are also good spots for UFOs.’
Which is why I’m here, obviously. I decide to pick Antonio’s brains about why he thinks people are obsessed by UFOs.
‘Even the sceptics have to recognize that, at least as asociological phenomenon, UFOs are real, in other words, people see stuff. No one can deny that. But we don’t know what it is, which is why we call them UFOs.’
I tell Antonio about my second encounter, when I saw a UFO on the way to work as a postman early one morning, and he’s really interested and tells me that his first sighting was pretty similar. He was in Santiago in 1988: ‘I saw lights, it looked like a star, but it was moving like crazy, and then it would stop, and it went on for like twenty minutes or something.’
Apparently this type of sighting is pretty common. Two-thirds of all close encounters of the first kind, i.e. sightings of UFOs, are pretty similar to mine and Antonio’s – mysterious lights in the night sky, moving at very unusual speeds and performing mad, fast changes of direction that would be impossible for any plane that we’ve invented.
I also tell Antonio about my first sighting, when I looked up in the sky and saw literally hundreds of small lights, and my belief that there is life out there. He agrees with me: ‘I mean, the universe is so huge why would there just be one place with life? It doesn’t make sense.’
I also tell him that I think if the authorities announced tomorrow that we’ve made contact with an alien race then a lot of people would go bananas. What’s mad is that Antonio then starts telling me about a famous Arthur C. Clarke TV series in the eighties that he loved called Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World , which I actually rememberwatching as an eighteen-year-old on Granada TV. Pretty crazy to go to the other side of the world and find a local banging on about something that you saw on local TV when you were growing up.
Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World
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