Sightings1971

Lake Cote aerial survey photograph, Costa Rica

Name: Lake Cote aerial survey photograph, Costa Rica
Start: 1971-09-04
Location: Lake Cote, Costa Rica

When: 4 Sep 1971
Where: Lake Cote, Costa Rica
Sources: 1 public source

The September 1971 aerial survey photograph of Lake Cote, Costa Rica Sergio Loaiza, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

A Costa Rican government mapping aircraft at 10,000 feet photographed a disc-shaped image over Lago de Cote that no one aboard saw; the frames before and after did not show it. Researchers Richard Haines and Jacques Vallee analyzed copies in 1989 and could not identify it.

Sources

OtherPhoto Analysis of an Aerial Disc Over Costa Rica, J. Scientific Exploration 3(2):113-131 (opens in a new tab)Journal of Scientific Exploration (Haines and Vallee); archived copy, Internet Archive / 1989

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