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UFO case file · UFO-AR-CIAE-BE0831EEA198D634

Gustavo Rivas — Avellaneda, Province of Buenos Aires

Argentina2011-12-20

Avellaneda, Province of Buenos Aires, buenos aires, Argentina

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Case description

Official source account — 2020 annual report, printed page 145: Gustavo Rivas saw and photographed a shaped object until it passed behind a sign. CIAE found a form consistent with a commercially sold decorative balloon, a steady wind-driven course and a hanging vertical string revealed by IPACO. Those features supported a helium balloon that had escaped or been released. The agency classified the conventional identification Type A. 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.

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

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