Argentina UFO files (disclosure documents) are still missing despite the nation having a large history of military investigations into UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena), also known as “OVNI” in Spanish-speaking countries. Military authorities have been involved in the controversy of unidentified flying objects since the 1960s. Unfortunately, the declassification of the archives has not yet been fully achieved in Argentina. But despite that, some documents are in the open.
Disclosure documents
One document I found is not a PDF file, but photos of the document. In Argentina´s X-Files article on openminds.tv website, there is two photos of a 2-page document with the heading Informe Oficial O:V:N:I: Dokumento Confidencial De Objectos Voladores No Identificados. This is about the 1962 sighting where both pilots and top Navy officers at the Naval Base in Puerto Belgrano saw a luminous UAP.
In January 2009, the first declassified official UFO document was delivered to the group Vision Ovni, and their researcher, Silvia Perez Simondini, decided to deliver it to CEFORA for analysis. Delivery was made to the Coordinator of CEFORA, the researcher Raul Avellaneda, who left the original documents deposited at the CEFORA headquarters.
But on the Vision OVNI and CEFORA websites, there do not seem to be any released disclosure documents. There are articles talking about the releases, but the documents themselves seem to be impossible to find.
CIA documents about UFOs in Argentina
I found some documents from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) via their FOIA library. One is dated back to July 5th, 1965, and mentions flying saucers in red, green, and yellow colors seen over Deception Island, Antarctica (source 1). Another CIA document talks about unidentified flying objects over the city of Bahia Blanca, south of Buenos Aires, on May 21st, 1962 (source 2). A third CIA document mentions an article about UFOs (OVNI´s) in the local newspaper La Razon in Buenos Aires, July 2nd, 1968 (source 3).
- Source 1: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000015255.pdf
- Source 2: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000015254.pdf
- Source 3: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100070019-5.pdf
Wikileaks documents about UFOs in Argentina
The WikiLeaks document is a cable originating from the so-called Global Intelligence Files, which are internal emails between departments in the Texas company Stratfor.
In this cable, you´ll find a bad translation from Spanish to English about the creation of an official commission to study UFO phenomena. It is the Committee on Research of Aerospace Phenomena (Link 404 on March 31, 2019), which consists of civilian staff and experts from the Air Force Argentina (FAA). It is nothing more than just a report about the birth of that committee (source 4).
Professor Oscar A. Uriondo
A document titled Preliminary catalogue of Type 1 cases in Argentina was written by Professor Oscar A. Uriondo. This paper attempts to categorize so-called Type-1 cases where unidentified flying objects have landed or are in close proximity to witnesses on the ground (source 5).
Professor Uriondo is a professor in Geography and a graduate of the Instituto Nacional Superior del Professorado. He is a member of Dr. Oscar A. Galiendez´s Argentinian UFO study group, Argentine Circle of Ufological Investigations, and he has written some books about the “OVNI” phenomena. Try this search
Researcher Fabio Zerpa
Another interesting person in the Argentinian landscape of ufology is Fabio Zerpa. He has written a lot of books about the “OVNI” phenomenon.
Commissions dealing with unidentified flying objects
They have a commission for the Study of the OVNI Phenomenon, Argentinean Republic Committee for UFO Phenomena Studies (Spanish acronym CEFORA). Another commission is the Commission for the Investigation of Aerospace Phenomena (Spanish acronym CIFA), which has been set up by the military. There also seems to be a commission created by the Chief of the General Staff of the Argentine Air Force, and that is the Study Commission of Aerospace Phenomena (Spanish acronym CEFAE) (Link 404 on March 31, 2019).
Argentina’s X-Files
The openminds.tv website offers two pages titled “Argentina’s X-Files” part 1 and part 2. The first part reveals Argentina is one of the few nations with a large history of UFO military investigations. There are photos of two documents and some UAP pictures to see in the Argentinian X-Files.
Pilots and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) in Argentina
Encounters between pilots and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) in Argentina number more than 100 cases, with about 50 cases in flight. The National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP) made a report about some of those Argentinian pilots’ encounters in the NARCAP International Air Safety Report IR-5,2013
Argentina UFO websites and blogs
The Alternativa Ovni blog is very interesting. It has an archive with clippings and magazines related to the UAP phenomenon in Argentina. There is also unifaweb.com.ar, visionovni.com.ar, and Orbita Cero: Mendoza, and all three sites are in Spanish.
Furthermore, there is Inexplicata – The Journal Of Hispanic Ufology in English about observations in Spanish-speaking countries. Also, the Spanish researcher Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos wrote an article titled Argentina, the year 1965 in photos on his UFO FOTOCAT blog, which is non-existent today, but a copy is available on archive.org.
Sources
Argentina UFO files missing?
If you have knowledge of additional resources on the Argentina UFO files that have not been addressed in my article, please drop a comment.
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