CONGRESS ACKNOWLEDGES IMPORTANCE OF UFO RESEARCHSOURCE: www.ovnivision.net
CONGRESS ACKNOWLEDGES IMPORTANCE OF UFO RESEARCH Chilean parlamentarians have acknowledged the importance of UFO Research. Members of the Defense Committee of the Chamber of Deputies analyze the UFO problem for the first time in history. VALPARAISO, Aug. 27 - Members of the Defense Committee of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies analyzed for the first time ever information concerning the UFO phenomenon. During its session yesterday, they heard from representatives of the Comité de Estudio de Fenomenos Aereos Anomalos (CEFAA) and the director of the OVNIVISION Chile research organization. The session was held on the third floor of the national congress building and started after 18:30 hours with a presentation by Cristian Riffo, director of OVNIVISION, whose opening words were that "UFO" is not synonymous with "alien". "I wish to make clear that UFO is not synonymous with aliens, Martians, or little green men from Mars. UFO is an unknown phenomenon that cannot be explained in conventional terms. Whether or not UFOs are alien in origin has not been ascertained. But that is a subject for another discussion." Later on, Riffo made known a series of cases involving pilots and air traffic controllers. All of these cases involve eyewitness reports. Events occurred at the Chacalluta, Tepual, Pichoy, Tobalaba, Arturo Martinez Benitez, Cerro Moreno and El Loa events were discussed. Riffo handed the deputies a 15-page dossier containing the details of these events. Ultimately, OVNIVISION's director asked parliamentarians to create a multidisciplinary committee to study the phenomenon. "We believe that it is necessary to create a Civilian Research Committee of the UFO phenomenon, made up of an intedisciplinary team of researchers. Its goal would be to perform a serious and detailed study of unknown phenomena in the skies and seas of Chile." Deputy Arturo Cardemil, chairman of the Defense Committee, told the media that the UFO phenomenon must be studied and that it has sometimes distrupted the normal operation of air traffic operations. "We must place ourselves at the level of the developed nations which have establish comissions to deal with this subject. We are not prepared to deal with a contingency related to this subject," he said. The remaining parliamentarians were very interested in hearing further details regarding the phenomenon and requested OVNIVISION's director to submit information regularly.
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