Chile’s official aerial-anomaly investigators published eleven case files on September 10, offering a detailed view of how reported lights and unusual shapes are assessed. The SEFAA release includes reports from 2021 alongside cases submitted between June and August 2026. The publication date should not be mistaken for the date of every sighting.
Several files reach conventional explanations, while others retain qualified conclusions or document an investigation ending without enough original material.
Different evidence, different conclusions
For an August 13 observation in La Florida, investigators examined a phone video showing a light with changing colours. Case 2268 concludes that its behaviour and navigation-light characteristics were consistent with a drone-type aircraft capable of hovering and turning about its vertical axis.
In a separate Reñaca report, witnesses described multiple lights. The material supplied for examination showed one luminous object. Case 2270 identifies that filmed object as Venus, while explaining how camera movement affected its apparent position.
An August 21 photograph from Zapallar prompted a check beyond a public flight-tracking display. Investigators obtained radar information from air-traffic control and compared candidate aircraft with the image geometry. Case 2274 concludes that the photograph showed an aircraft contrail, possibly associated with a LATAM Airbus A320.
Closed does not always mean identified
A Calama report reached a different endpoint. The witness described several moving lights, but supplied no audiovisual files or precise observation location. After repeated requests for original material went unanswered, SEFAA closed Case 2271 under its evidence requirements.
That distinction matters when interpreting a collection labelled as resolved cases. An explanation supported by image and positional analysis carries different information from an administrative closure caused by missing evidence.
The files also demonstrate why a finding should remain attached to the material actually examined. Identifying one filmed light does not automatically reconstruct everything a witness reports seeing. Publishing the reasoning, confidence and limitations gives readers a more useful basis for judging a case than a headline count of solved or unsolved UFOs.
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