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UFO case file · UFO-AR-CIAE-030C93541FE4FB2E

ELENA MALDONADO – San Rafael, Province of Mendoza

Argentina

San Rafael, Prov. de Mendoza, mendoza, Argentina

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Case description

Official source account — 2025 annual report, printed page 14: Elena Maldonado discovered an unusual form after reviewing a landscape photograph from San Rafael. CIAE examined a fusiform central body with two blurred fan-like lateral projections and considered it compatible with an insect passing close to the lens. Its conclusion was Type B because neither the event nor a supporting witness account could be reproduced. The case heading provides no exact event date. The summaries distinguish reported observations from the agency’s proposed explanations. Source Type A/B ratings describe explanatory confidence and are not encounter classes. The map uses an approximate GeoNames locality centroid, not the observation point.

Recorded details

Coordinate precision
GeoNames locality centroid; not precise witness position
Date precision
not established

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