Documents Released on the November 11, 2014, Chilean Navy Helicopter UFO Encounter

The following documents were sent to The Black Vault by the popular YouTube channel “Omega Click“. The records were obtained from the Air Force of Chile.

Note: The Black Vault did not receive these documents directly, and full credit for that is given to “Omega Click” for the release and the permission to host the records for others here on this archive. Although not included here for privacy reasons, emails between the DGAC and “Omega Click” were seen to verify the release.

Also please note: The Black Vault holds no view on what the object is. Some have pointed that this is an explainable case, and the going theory is post below the newly released data.

The full description from “Omega Click” about this case, and the records released, is below, followed by the document and video releases.

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On November 11, 2014, A Chilean Navy helicopter, an Airbus Cougar AS-532 was engaged in a routine daytime patrol mission flying north along the coast,west of Santiago. On board were the pilot, a Captain of the Navy with many years of flying experience, and a Navy technician who was testing a FLIR infrared camera, military camera often used for covert mid-altitude intelligence operations, surveillance and reconnaissance device, which on this occasion, resumed a UAP.

The aircraft was flying at an altitude of approximately 4,500 feet on a clear afternoon with unrestricted horizontal visibility and air temperature about 10 C. 

The Chilean Navy helicopter was flying at about 240 kilometers per hour when something unusual was picked up by the Chilean Air Force FLIR camera. 

The video in question has been circulating on the internet for years and has often been considered as an airliner landing (a conclusion that the Chilean government considers absurd) once the case was addressed, I contacted the email on the SEFAA website who replied giving me all the information to make a formal request for access to the documents. About 10 days later I had the material released by a DGAC government mail shared me a drive which I pledge to send you in full. There are internal letters, forms (from the pilot and the official who used the FLIR camera) information (with all the analyzes done by external consultants), the flight track and the high resolution video. I manage the largest Italian youtube channel of ufology and related phenomena. I translate documents pursuant to the FOIA and in my country it has never happened that a foreign government has granted UAP documents to an ordinary citizen.

The government release kindly granted by the Air Force of Chile includes internal letters between members of the DGAC (General Directorate of Civil Aviation) and some letters are written by General Ricardo Bermudez himself, director of SEFAA (Sección de estudios de fenómenos aéreos anómalos – Anomalous Aerial Phenomena Studies Section of the Government of Chile) which confirms and organizes SECRET MEETINGS by a committee specially created to study the UFO case. One letter also includes a transcript from the helicopter operator who used the FLIR MX HD WESCAM camera to film the object. I was shared the helicopter flight tracks (Airbus Cougar AS-532) the meteorological data and the analysis of the Chilean Air Force Photogrammetry Department. The file of the French GEIPAN which ran to help SEFAA to study the phenomenon (it concluded in a very inopportune way that the phenomenon was PROBABLY due to a landing plane) Not that a whole series of accessory documents. In the meteorological report it is written in black and white “a meteorological phenomenon is excluded” In the report of the department of photogrammetry of the air force it is written that “it’s not a bird. It’s not a hang glider, it’s not an airplane, it’s not a flying insect, it’s not an unmanned aircraft, it’s not a parachute, the object has control of its movements, you observe that has a volume, is not disturbed by the wind, the object reflects light, emits a certain type of energy”

In a PDF in my possession and presented in my latest video where I translate document by document (I am attaching the video subtitled in 6 languages) the Photogrammetry Department demonstrates with data in hand that the object has a structure, exists in three dimensions and that it has reflected the light. The GEIPAN file also demonstrates that the object was traveling at almost the same speed as the helicopter that filmed it. about 240 kilometers per hour. Alberto Vergara (director) comments at the end of the PDF writing “Finally it can be concluded that the object has all the characteristics to be classified as an unidentified aerial phenomenon”

Some documents present forensic analyzes carried out by external consultants, such as the pdf drawn up by Mario Avila, nuclear physicist and scientific consultant of SEFAA who, after various analyzes regarding the brightness of the object, concluded that it is a sort of UAP apparently composed of two rotating spheres. Documents in the release include letters presenting the case to government officials and other VERY interesting documents that help clarify the seemingly UNIDENTIFIED nature of the object captured by the Chilean Navy.

In my country the news hasn’t had THE MINIMUM CIRCULATION and I hope that by being published on your site, the media in my country will also start to seriously address the issue. I think this new release can put a big question mark on the convenient conclusion that the debunkers have drawn.

I think it’s a very interesting case that remains open for me.

If you can let me know a little in advance when the story and the documents are published on your site, I advertise a lot on my social networks and invite people to come to your site to view the story.

I am attaching my links and my video analysis. The files and the screenshot e-mail. 

Document Archive

The following files were obtained originally in 6 .zip files. The Black Vault uncompressed them, and offers a directory listing of the contents of each file, headed by the original file name.

CORREOS (English: Post)

CORREO MARIO AVILA.pdf 498K
CORREO MARIO AVILA 2 1.1M
CORREO RICARDO BERMTDEZ 1 424K
CORREO RICARDO BERMTDEZ 2 420K
CORREO ROBERTO BORE 1 756K
CORREO ROBERTO BORE 2 480K

FORMULARIOS (English: Forms)

DIBUJO CARLOS RODRIGUEZ 289K
FORMULARIO CARLOS RODRIGUEZ 1.1M
FORMULARIO MARCELO NEIRA 1.4M

INFORME GEIPAN (English: GEIPAN Report)

INFORME GEIPAN EN ESPANOL 4.9M
INFORME GEIPAN EN INGLES 5.0M

INFORMES ASESORES (English: Advisory Reports)

Caso Armada Mario Avila 4.0M
INFORME ALBERTO VERGARA 3.9M
INFORME ARMADA LUIS BARRERA 1.4M
INFORME CARLOS GONZALEZ 2.9M
INFORME LUIS BARRERA 37M
INFORME LUIS SALAZAR 2.1M
INFORME MARCELO MOYA 7.8M
INFORME MARCELO SCHONHERR 366K
INFORME RICARDO BERMTDEZ 864K
INFORME ULISES FATNDEZ 1.1M

TRACK DE VUELO (English: Flight Track)

TRACK DE VUELO ACOUGAR (PowerPoint) 5.1M

FAA

Download the UNEDITED and RAW video, as released: faa.ts 1.0G

Video Analysis by Omega Click

Possible Explanation?

Noted debunker Mick West has long put forward a theory that the above incident was flight IB6830. In January of 2017, he put out the below video. The Black Vault checked with Mick to ensure his explanation still was the going theory, given the new information above. He says he still believes this explains it all:

The plane theory is refuted, and some Twitter posts by “Omega Click” were posted to refute the above explanation. The Black Vault holds no stance on what the above is, or isn’t.

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This post was published on January 13, 2023

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