Document · D-OC-01
The Chilean file on the FLIR video recorded by a Navy helicopter on November 11, 2014
«Caso Cougar» / «Caso Armada de Chile»: fascicolo del CEFAA (DGAC)
Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil (DGAC, Chile) – CEFAA, Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos · Nov 11, 2014 · Chile · FOIA release
Documented provenance
The files are hosted by The Black Vault, which states that it saw the release emails between the DGAC and Omega Click; they do not appear to be published on an official Chilean site. On November 1, 2026 the emails signed by Ricardo Bermúdez, the reports by Alberto Vergara, Luis Salazar and Ulises Fernández, the account of the interview and the GEIPAN analysis in English were downloaded and read (with OCR): the content is consistent with the description of the archive, except for the differences noted above.
- What it contains
- Six compressed archives: emails among the CEFAA, its consultants and the Navy (January–May 2015), the forms of the pilot and of the FLIR camera operator, the account of the interview with the crews of April 24, 2015, the consultants' reports (including a meteorologist and an image analyst), the analysis by the French group GEIPAN/IPACO of November 26, 2015, the flight track and the full high-definition video (about 1 GB).
- What it shows and what it does not
- Shows how a government body studied a military video for about a year: the meteorologist rules out a meteorological phenomenon, a CEFAA collaborator concludes that the object has the characteristics of an unidentified aerial phenomenon and asks for further studies, while the GEIPAN/IPACO analysis concludes that it was most likely a twin-engine airliner in the landing phase, an explanation also supported by Mick West (flight IB6830). It does not demonstrate an anomalous origin and does not contain a definitive official conclusion by the Chilean government. In presenting the files from The Black Vault, Omega Click inserted into the quotation of the technical report the sentence “it is not an airplane,” absent from the original 10-point list, called the author, who signs as a CEFAA collaborator, “director,” and described as “secret meetings” what the emails present as analysis sessions with the committee of scientific advisers; none of the files read maintains that the Chilean government judges the airplane explanation “absurd.” It does not concern Grusch or Elizondo: it is linked to G-046 only as an example of a government that handed a private party a complete military video with the related analyses.
- How it came to light
- Omega Click, with a formal access request sent to the CEFAA through the email address published on the agency's website: the DGAC shared the files with it about ten days later (in 2022, according to Omega Click's website). Omega Click passed them on to The Black Vault, which published them on January 13, 2023 after seeing the DGAC's release emails.
- The document
- Open the document (theblackvault.com)
Sources
- The Black Vault, “Documents Released on the November 11, 2014, Chilean Navy Helicopter UFO Encounter” (January 13, 2023), with the files and Omega Click's text (primary source)
- Technical report by Alberto Vergara, CEFAA collaborator (PDF, The Black Vault copy) (primary source)
- GEIPAN/IPACO analysis in English, November 26, 2015 (PDF, The Black Vault copy) (primary source)
- Omega Click, “THE BLACK VAULT & OMEGA CLICK - ARMADA X-FILES” (YouTube, January 13, 2023) (video/audio, pro-disclosure)
On this site
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