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UFO case file · UFO-AR-CIAE-BEBBA679D73A44E8

San Nicolás de los Arroyos — Province of Buenos Aires.

Argentina2021-02-20

San Nicolás de los Arroyos — Province of Buenos Aires., buenos aires, Argentina

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Case description

Official source account — 2021 annual report, printed page 31: A witness at San Nicolás de los Arroyos photographed a bright point and attributed movements to it. CIAE compared the surrounding stellar pattern with a Stellarium reconstruction and matched the object to Sirius. The agency explained the apparent motion as an autokinetic effect, in which an isolated stationary light seems to move in darkness. It classified the stellar 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.

Recorded details

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

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