UFO Photo was taken over Florida, Uruguay on July 25, 1977 by Hor­ti­cul­tur­ist Hec­tor Delgado.

Daniel Igle­sias reports, “The UFO phe­nom­e­non has man­i­fested itself many times in Uruguay, South Amer­ica. The Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) high com­mand has declas­si­fied its files and allowed EL PAIS (The National News­pa­per) to access its UFO records and eye­wit­ness accounts.. While the Air Force com­mis­sion that stud­ies these cases has been oper­at­ing for only a few decades, the UFO phe­nom­e­non in Uruguay began in 1947, and con­tin­ues a rich his­tory of see­ing UFOs, accord­ing to Col. Ariel Sanchez, an Air Force offi­cer with 33 years of active ser­vice and who pre­sides over the UFO com­mis­sion. The agency oper­ates out of a small office in down­town Mon­te­v­ideo and has a com­puter data­base and print archives. There are hun­dreds of files in green binders under the head­ing “Con­fi­den­tial”, con­tain­ing eye­wit­ness accounts, pho­tographs, sketches, draw­ings, doc­u­ments and eval­u­a­tions made by offi­cials. The files con­sist of reports that accrue at a rate of 100 cases per year with 2100 solid reports the com­mis­sion has researched and dis­missed many for var­i­ous rea­sons. Thirty years after research began, forty cases remain unex­plained. These files have been kept open, and range from sight­ings and land­ings of alleged craft to abduc­tions, where peo­ple claim to have been kid­napped by extrater­res­trial entities.

The mil­i­tary commission’s task is to com­pile a record of cases and draft guide­lines or con­clu­sions regard­ing their verac­ity and ori­gin. They have obtained solid results: “The com­mis­sion man­aged to deter­mine mod­i­fi­ca­tions to the chem­i­cal com­po­si­tion of the soil where land­ings were reported. It could be a phe­nom­e­non that occurs in the lower sec­tors of the atmos­phere, the land­ing of air­craft from a for­eign air force, up to the extrater­res­trial hypoth­e­sis. It could be a mon­i­tor­ing probe from outer space, much in the same way that we send probes to explore dis­tant worlds,” stated the offi­cer. “The UFO phe­nom­e­non exists and I must stress that the Air Force does not dis­miss an extrater­res­trial hypoth­e­sis based on our sci­en­tific analy­sis,” said Col. Sanchez. The Uruguayan Air Force has now declas­si­fied all of its infor­ma­tion and only the iden­tity of the wit­nesses remains undis­closed. In a case in the Depart­ment of Durazno, a wit­ness reported a UFO land­ing and soil analy­sis showed an increase in the val­ues of min­er­als such as chrome, man­ganese, phos­pho­rus and car­bon, enabling researchers to con­clude that the event had indeed been real.
In another case two red­dish spheres, flew silently over the heads of two team­sters dri­ving cat­tle. The objects moved at high speed in oppo­site direc­tions and the van­ished toward the west at high speed. UFOs are most likely to be seen in Feb­ru­ary, March, July and Octo­ber in Uruguay. In Feb­ru­ary of 2009, the com­mis­sion received numer­ous reports accom­pa­nied by dig­i­tal pho­tographs. Pho­tographs or film are not a deter­min­ing fac­tor in any case, but rather a con­tri­bu­tion, explains Sanchez, given the cur­rent tech­ni­cal pos­si­bil­i­ties for hoax­ing images.

Unsolved cases have a con­sid­er­able high strange­ness quo­tient for exam­ple, the 1986, pur­suit by two Pucara jet fight­ers over the Pal­mar Dam in response to the maneu­vers of a lumi­nous sphere. The pilots chased it and were about to inter­cept it, when the sphere flew off at a dizzy­ing rate of speed toward Argentina. When the pilots returned to their base, the sphere reap­peared over the dam. They chase it again and it van­ished from sight, chang­ing col­ors from red to yellow.

A sim­i­lar case occurred to a group of mil­i­tary pilots in 1996, engaged in exer­cises over the Santa Bernar­dina Base in Durazno. They saw two lumi­nous spheres at 10,000 feet (3,000 meters), whose pres­ence was cor­rob­o­rated by the airport’s con­trol tower. When the objects flew away, they main­tained their shape and lumi­nos­ity, which enabled the spher­i­cal shape to be con­firmed. Min­utes later, the pilots noticed their glow dimin­ished, and only their out­line was illu­mi­nated.
In 1979, a crew of a com­mer­cial air­line was pur­sued by a pow­er­ful light that was pho­tographed by pas­sen­gers and remains unex­plained. The Air Force also has visual reports of a dozen muti­lated ani­mals that may be related to Argentina, where 700 muti­lated ani­mals were found. FAU does not dis­miss the pos­si­bil­ity of an extrater­res­trial event. Mil­i­tary sta­tis­tics show that most peo­ple report­ing sight­ings involve young men up to 45 years of age. They also indi­cate that cases occur in the early hours of the evening, 49% of sta­tis­tics are made up of reports of lumi­nous spheres; barely 2% include occu­pant sight­ings. Also sev­eral cases of the abduc­tion of humans remain unex­plained. One of them occurred in Playa Pas­cual in 1980 and involved a camper, who was sud­denly taken by sur­prise by short beings who immo­bi­lized him and con­veyed him to a vehi­cle, where he was sub­jected to a med­ical exam­i­na­tion. Another “miss­ing time” case involved a fam­ily that was dri­ving along the road when an air­craft flew over their vehi­cle and landed in front of them. They were unable to account for what had occurred to them for sev­eral min­utes. (Trans­la­tion © 2009, S. Cor­rales, IHU. Source:www.elpais.com.uy

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