Official Investigation Program
Chile keeps an active public desk for unusual aerial reports
Worth Revisiting: SEFAA accepts evidence from pilots, crews, and citizens, publishes resolved cases by year, and frames its work around aviation safety.
Briefed August 17, 2026 · Aliens in the Clouds
Worth Revisiting
Chile’s Sección de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos operates inside the national civil-aviation authority, DGAC. Its public site invites pilots, cabin crew, and citizens to submit unusual aerial observations and emphasizes that photographs, video, audio, precise location, and other contemporaneous records are essential to a scientific investigation.
SEFAA also organizes resolved cases by year from 2018 through 2026. Publishing the case file and analytical outcome makes it possible to compare the original observation with the evidence used to identify—or leave unresolved—the event. A government investigation is evidence of institutional review, not proof of an extraordinary origin.
Why it matters
Chile’s model connects public reporting, aviation safety, evidentiary intake, investigation, and published outcomes in one visible process that other national programs can be compared against.
What the source establishes
Confirmed: SEFAA is an official DGAC unit with a public reporting channel and resolved-case library. Each case must be assessed on its own record; the office’s existence does not validate every submitted explanation.
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