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Chile creates CEFAA to study anomalous aerial phenomena

Name: Chile creates CEFAA to study anomalous aerial phenomena
Start: 1997
Location: Santiago, Chile

When: 1997
Where: Santiago, Chile
Sources: 2 public sources

Emblem of Chile's DGAC, the civil aviation directorate in which CEFAA was set up Direccion General de Aeronautica Civil, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Chile set up CEFAA, a committee within its civil aviation directorate (DGAC, part of the Air Force structure), to study anomalous aerial phenomena reported at airports and by aircrews. It became one of the longest-running official UAP study bodies in the world.

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PressBuscadores de ovnis (opens in a new tab)La Tercera / 2016-07-02
PressLos OVNIs son muy diferentes a los que se ven en la Guerra de los mundos (opens in a new tab)The Clinic / 2012-06-22

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