gargamel
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Saw this mentioned by somebody in Mick's Twitter timeline and thought it'd be worthy of a thread as it seems to be a rather popular sighting.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iysifYguvZ0
I'm fairly certain they're Chilean Air Force trainers, ie the slow, piston-driven T-35 Pillan, coming in for landing at Santiago International (there is a military detachment there as well), or at El Bosque (their actual home base, on the outskirts of Santiago). A look at Google Maps show about 20 of them parked at the latter.
The domed structure that can be seen from about 2:10 in is almost certainly Palacio Elguin, on Libertador Bernando O'Higgins avenue. Difficult to make out the filming location and/or direction though.
I discovered a reference elsewhere to "identical" UFOs being seen in December the previous year (2014), during the same week to boot:
Unfortunately the video link to the previous instance is now dead.
So, some Chilean Air Force annual exercise or holiday-related performance? The Swedish Air Force performs a few "Christmas tree" flights every December here, with fighter jets in a festive formation, so stuff like that does happen.
Before posting this thread, I searched MetaBunk for "Chile" and saw that the forum received a Chilean member rather recently, so perhaps @KanonLucas could provide some additional research/insight, to test this idea.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iysifYguvZ0
I'm fairly certain they're Chilean Air Force trainers, ie the slow, piston-driven T-35 Pillan, coming in for landing at Santiago International (there is a military detachment there as well), or at El Bosque (their actual home base, on the outskirts of Santiago). A look at Google Maps show about 20 of them parked at the latter.
The domed structure that can be seen from about 2:10 in is almost certainly Palacio Elguin, on Libertador Bernando O'Higgins avenue. Difficult to make out the filming location and/or direction though.
I discovered a reference elsewhere to "identical" UFOs being seen in December the previous year (2014), during the same week to boot:
https://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/2015/12/ufo-fleet-over-santiago-chile-leave.htmlThis UFO event is not unknown to Santiago, but is actually a yearly thing, when fleets of UFOs leave the underground base in the mountains along Santiago.
Unfortunately the video link to the previous instance is now dead.
So, some Chilean Air Force annual exercise or holiday-related performance? The Swedish Air Force performs a few "Christmas tree" flights every December here, with fighter jets in a festive formation, so stuff like that does happen.
Before posting this thread, I searched MetaBunk for "Chile" and saw that the forum received a Chilean member rather recently, so perhaps @KanonLucas could provide some additional research/insight, to test this idea.
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