Collahuasi mine disc
- Date
- Apr 2013
- Place
- Collahuasi copper mine, Tarapacá, Chile
- Record
- Curated case
- Assessment
- Unexplained
- Evidence strength
What was reported
Workers at the Collahuasi copper mine photographed a silvery disc, which CEFAA put at about 10 metres across and 600 metres up, that they said stayed in view for one to two hours with vertical and horizontal movements; they submitted the images only in February 2014, fearing ridicule. After about a year of analysis CEFAA and the civil aviation authority (DGAC) classified it in 2014 as unidentified, excluding drones, balloons, experimental or military aircraft, and, with the meteorological office, a lenticular cloud. The witnesses are anonymous and no independent analysis of the original images has been published.
What officials concluded
Unresolved
CEFAA/DGAC (2014): unidentified, not a weather phenomenon or known man-made object
Strongest ordinary reading
none established
Evidence profile
- Yes: Visual
- No: Infrared
- No: Radar
- No: Video
- Yes: Photo
- No: Film
- No: Audio
- No: Night vision
- No: Other sensor
- Yes: Civilian
- No: Military aircrew
- No: Military ground
- No: Airline crew
- No: Sensor operator
- No: Law enforcement
- No: Scientist
- No: Astronaut
- No: Intelligence official
- No: Other
- No: Light only
- No: Orb or sphere
- Yes: Disc
- No: Triangle
- No: Cylinder
- No: Cube
- No: Other shape
- No: Physiological
- No: Physical trace
- No: Electromagnetic
- No: Sound
- Yes: Silent
Outside sources
- BioBioChile (2014): DGAC oficializa avistamientobiobiochile.cl
- The Black Vault: Chile UFO not made by mantheblackvault.com
On the map
20.99° S, 68.64° W, plotted at the site
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