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Chilean Navy helicopter infrared video
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Primary commissioned analysis of the Chilean Navy recording. A reusable authoritative video transfer was not established. Analysis — context, not new footage.
François Louange / IPACO for CEFAA ↗Link only — rights with the publisherFox News report with the CEFAA-released video (2017)
Fox News's January 2017 report replaying the nine-minute infrared recording the Chilean agency CEFAA released as unexplained after a two-year review. Broadcaster's own upload of Chilean government footage; later analyses attribute the object to an airliner's contrail. Timecode not marked.
Fox News; footage CEFAA / Chilean Navy ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player from the broadcaster's own channel; not relicensedLicence terms ↗Mick West · 0:05:54
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedA nine-minute infrared recording made from a Chilean Navy helicopter on 11 November 2014, released by the Chilean government agency CEFAA in 2017 as unexplained after a two-year review. Mick West and other analysts say it was a distant airliner departing Santiago, and in the corpus he describes it as the case that started his UFO video work.
The recording
| Shot | |
|---|---|
| Shot by | FLIR operator aboard a Chilean Navy Airbus AS532 Cougar helicopter Chilean Navy |
| Released | 5 January 2017 — CEFAA (Chile) via Leslie Kean, Huffington Post |
| Official status | Chile's CEFAA released the nine-minute video in January 2017 saying its analysts could not identify the object; independent analysts later matched it to Iberia flight IB6830 climbing out of Santiago. |
| Kind | infrared-video |
| Where | -33.300, -71.900 region |
| Media rights | See each item in the visual record |
Mentioned in the corpus
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UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate 26 January 2025
- 0:05:54 ▶ Mick West
it really kind of took off in I think it was 2016 or perhaps the start of 2017 with this this case from from Chile Chilean Navy uh video and this is uh a video looks
- 0:06:24 ▶ Mick West
It was released by Alyssa Keane, who you mentioned, uh, in the Huffington Post in 2016 or 2017, and she was very affusive about how amazing it was. And me and a few other people looked into it, and we very quickly determined that she was wrong about that. It wasn't that amazing. And uh, it was
- 0:05:54 ▶ Mick West
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- 0:05:54 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate · Mick West ▶
it really kind of took off in I think it was 2016 or perhaps the start of 2017 with this this case from from Chile Chilean Navy uh video and this is uh a video looks
- 0:06:24 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate · Mick West ▶
It was released by Alyssa Keane, who you mentioned, uh, in the Huffington Post in 2016 or 2017, and she was very affusive about how amazing it was. And me and a few other people looked into it, and we very quickly determined that she was wrong about that. It wasn't that amazing. And uh, it was
- Groundbreaking UFO Video Just Released By Chilean Navy
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