RETIRED CHILEAN GENERAL DISCUSSES HIS ENCOUNTER WITH A GIANT UFO
INEXPLICATA
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 2, 2003
SOURCE: Ovnivisión (Chile)
DATE: December 26, 2002
RETIRED CHILEAN GENERAL DISCUSSES HIS ENCOUNTER WITH A GIANT UFO
SANTIAGO DE CHILE.- In an interview with Terra.cl., retired
general Hernan Gabrielli Rojas mentioned that he had squared off
against a gigantic UFO while engaging in a training flight in
the skies of northern Chile.
According to the military man, the object was the size of 10 or
15 aircraft carriers, and its presence was picked up by the
radars aboard two F-5 jet fighters as well as the Cerro Moreno
airport in Antofagasta.
- What do you remember about your contact with the UFO?
Over 20 years have gone by (this was in 1978). I was a captain
and was flying a mission with two F-5 fighters. It was noon and
I was flying with captain Danilo Catalán - we were both flight
instructors. Accompanying us was Fernando Gomez, an avionics
tech, and another trainee. The F-5 is radar-equipped, and a line
appeared from side to side - in other words, a trace throughout
the bottom side of the screen. A trace for a surface ship, a
cruiser, is approximately one centimeter long, but this line
went from one side [of the screen] to another. I assumed the
radar scope had failed, and told Danilo Catalán, but his radar
also "failed". I then advised the ground radar at Antofagasta
and they also picked up the line. We were engaged with these
details when we looked toward the east: we were flying from
north to south in the vicinity of Mejillones, and saw a deformed
cigar-shaped object. Deformed, like a plaintain banana. It was
swathed in smoke.
- What was the object's size?
It was large and must have been some 15 to 20 miles away. It
moved in the same direction as us. We had no missiles, guns or
anything. As you can imagine, the fright was more or less
considerable. We could see a large thing surrounded in smoke,
and from which a vapor issued. All of this situation must have
lasted some five minues. We approached the UFO but it was
motionless. It neither approached nor retreated - it merely
sailed parallel to us. It was quite impressive, because it was
truly something strange, and something could be seen in
concealment behind the smoke.
- What happened later?
The object then disappeared toward Easter Island at an
impressive rate of speed. The sky cleared and the lines on the
radar vanished. However, there had been an object physically
flying there. It's not a yarn, let me tell you. It's my only
experience with UFOs.
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Translation (C) 2002. Scott Corrales, IHU
Special thanks to Cristian Riffo M., Ovnivisión www.terra.cl/ovnis
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