- SANTIAGO DE CHILE -- In an
interview with Terra.cl., retired general Hernan Gabrielli Rojas mentioned
that he had squared off against a gigantic UFO while engaging in a training
flight in the skies of northern Chile.
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- According to the military man, the object was the size
of 10 or 15 aircraft carriers, and its presence was picked up by the radars
aboard two F-5 jet fighters as well as the Cerro Moreno airport in
Antofagasta.
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- --What do you remember about your contact with the UFO?
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- Over 20 years have gone by (this was in 1978). I was
a captain and was flying a mission with two F-5 fighters. It was noon and
I was flying with captain Danilo Cataln--we were both flight instructors.
Accompanying us was Fernando Gomez, an avionics tech, and another trainee.
The F-5 is radar-equipped, and a line appeared from side to side--in other
words, a trace throughout the bottom side of the screen. A trace for a
surface ship, a cruiser, is approximately one centimeter long, but this
line went from one side [of the screen] to another. I assumed the radar
scope had failed, and told Danilo Cataln, but his radar also "failed".
I then advised the ground radar at Antofagasta and they also picked up
the line. We were engaged with these details when we looked toward the
east: we were flying from north to south in the vicinity of Mejillones,
and saw a deformed cigar-shaped object. Deformed, like a plaintain banana.
It was swathed in smoke.
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- -- What was the object's size?
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- It was large and must have been some 15 to 20 miles away.
It moved in the same direction as us. We had no missiles, guns or anything.
As you can imagine, the fright was more or less considerable. We could
see a large thing surrounded in smoke, and from which a vapor issued. All
of this situation must have lasted some five minues. We approached the
UFO but it was motionless. It neither approached nor retreated--it merely
sailed parallel to us. It was quite impressive, because it was truly something
strange, and something could be seen in concealment behind the smoke.
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- -- What happened later?
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- The object then disappeared toward Easter Island at an
impressive rate of speed. The sky cleared and the lines on the radar vanished.
However, there had been an object physically flying there. It's not a yarn,
let me tell you. It's my only experience with UFOs.
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- Translation (C) 2002 Scott Corrales, IHU.
- Special thanks to Cristian Riffo M., Ovnivision <http://www.terra.cl/ovnis>
- www.terra.cl/ovnis
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