File 162 · 11 November 2014
Chilean Navy helicopter video
Off the coast near San Antonio, Chile · Region, not street
Opened 9/4/2026
Ledger illustration of the file — not a photograph of the object. Ledger illustration of the report. Pacific off the Chilean coast. — Night Ledger illustration of the file
Standing
Unidentified
On the public record, and still open. A claim, paper, or film — not a finding that it was ours, and not a finding that it was not.
Chilean Navy FLIR, November 2014 — CEFAA study tape
Chilean Navy / CEFAA public release. Officially studied; not identified as extraterrestrial.
Original tape · heard in Spanish
English writing · from Spanish
English of the Chilean Navy / CEFAA tape. The original voice is Spanish. An Airbus Cougar on a FLIR test west of Santiago records an object that matches the helicopter at about 130 knots. A plume shows in infrared. CEFAA, Chile’s official office, studied the file for two years and called it a UAP. Later commentators argued for a distant airliner. The paper and the clip are the record — not a recovered craft.
What was claimed
A Chilean Navy helicopter recorded a white object that appeared to vent or trail something, later studied by CEFAA.
What is on the record
CEFAA is a real official office. Their public file treats the case as unidentified in the original study; later commentators argued for a distant airliner. The paper and the clip are the record.
An Airbus AS532 of the Chilean Navy, on a daytime patrol, recorded a compact object with a trailing heat or exhaust-like feature, visible in both color and IR. The CEFAA, Chile’s official UAP committee, collected radar and weather data and in 2017 stated that the object remained unidentified after three years of study.
A 2018 analysis for a skeptical organization identified a distant airliner with sun glint and a matching flight. CEFAA did not withdraw. Two competent offices, one tape. The wiki holds both readings.
Could this have been ours?
The known sky, that night.
The station was flying. Starlink was not. A string of orbs in this year is usually not a train.
1998 —
International Space Station
A bright, steady moving star. A few minutes to cross. No strobe. Occupied since 2000. NASA publishes the pass times. Not unidentified.
Always
Venus and the bright planets
A fixed brilliant point. Does not streak. Does not hover over a street then leave. Often the first misread light in a rural report.
Always
Aircraft, balloons, meteors
Landing lights, flares, lanterns, reentries, fireballs. They are on the known sky. They do not close a file by themselves — they are what a serious look has to hold the claim against.
Orbit · Space — the desks for lights that are already named.
Sources
- CEFAA / Chilean DGAC
- CEFAA / Chilean Navy
Paper on this file
Official or public documents that belong with this case — not a verdict.
Related files
Same craft, same place, same years. A neighbor in the catalogue — not a conclusion.
Same craft · Nearby · Same year · November 11, 2014
Chilean Navy FLIR UFO Encounter
Coast west of Santiago · Chile
Unidentified
A Chilean Navy Airbus Cougar helicopter equipped with an infrared FLIR camera captured footage of an unknown object during a routine patrol. The object flew alongside the helicopter for several minutes, emitted a heat signature without visible propulsion, and then accelerated away. The event was officially investigated by the Chilean government’s UAP committee (CEFAA/SEFAA) with released video and
Same craft · Nearby · Same year · November 11, 2014
Chilean Navy FLIR UAP
Coast near Valparaíso · Chile
Unidentified
A Chilean Navy helicopter crew captured nine minutes of infrared video of an unidentified aerial phenomenon that emitted two large thermal plumes. Extensive multi-agency investigation by CEFAA could not identify the object.
Same craft · Nearby · Same year · November 11, 2014
Chilean Navy Helicopter FLIR
Coast west of Santiago · Chile
Unidentified
Chilean Navy AS532 Cougar helicopter crew using a WESCAM MX-15 FLIR camera filmed an object visible only in infrared that appeared to emit a gaseous plume while flying parallel to the aircraft.
Same craft · Same years · September 2015
Pantex airspace, Amarillo
Pantex Plant, Amarillo, Texas · United States
Unidentified
A Department of Energy file released in 2026 describes an unidentified object in the airspace over the Pantex nuclear weapons plant.
Same craft · Same years · January 2015
Gimbal FLIR
Off the U.S. East Coast · United States
Unidentified
Navy fighter crews recorded a fleet of objects. The Gimbal video shows a dark shape against clouds, apparently rotating, with a trail. The Pentagon released it in 2017.
Same craft · Same years · April 26, 2013
Aguadilla Puerto Rico Customs Infrared
Aguadilla · Puerto Rico
Unidentified
U.S. Customs and Border Protection aircraft captured extended infrared footage of an object flying over land, splitting, and entering the ocean near Rafael Hernandez Airport. AARO assessed it as likely balloons or lanterns with no anomalous performance.