Bariloche flight AR 674 and blackout

Captain Jorge Polanco, flying Aerolíneas Argentinas flight 674, a Boeing 727 from Buenos Aires, reported a white light that rushed towards the aircraft, stopped about 100 metres away and then flew alongside for some 17 minutes, showing green and orange lights; he estimated it the size of an airliner. At the same moment a power cut darkened parts of Bariloche and the runway lights, and tower staff said their instruments behaved erratically; an Argentine military officer and town residents also reported lights. The Argentine Air Force did not open an investigation. The French COMETA report (in PURSUE) cites it as a case of electrical interference and shadowing of an aircraft.

none established; the Moon and Jupiter were suggested at the time and rejected by the crew

• Document255_413270_UFO's_and_Defense_What_Should_we_Prepare_ForRelease 1

  UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For? (the COMETA report), with April 2001 Carol Rosin cover letter and handwritten notes

  This is not a NASA-authored document: it is a 2001 cover letter and handwritten notes from Carol Rosin (self-described former spokesperson for Wernher von Braun) forwarding the 1999 French COMETA report 'UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?' to a NASA official, apparently seeking a meeting. COMETA was an independent association of former auditors of the French defense-studies institute IHEDN, not a French government body. The report reviews French pilot testimonies, five foreign radar/visual aeronautical cases (Lakenheath-Bentwaters, RB-47, Tehran 1976, a Russian missile-base case, Belgium), several French ground cases investigated by GEPAN/SEPRA (Trans-en-Provence, the 'Amaranth' case, a 1979 close encounter with reported humanoid figures), and recommends French and EU government action, stating the extraterrestrial hypothesis 'cannot be ruled out.'

  Open the original on war.gov

• Patrick Gross: Bariloche 1995ufologie.patrickgross.org
• Buenos Aires Times (2026): Bariloche sighting in Pentagon filesbatimes.com.ar