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UFO case file · UFO-AR-CIAE-DC92F767684DE64B

Mar del Tuyú balloon video

Argentina2016-05-28

Mar del Tuyú, Buenos Aires Province, buenos aires, Argentina

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Case description

Official source account — 2016 annual report, printed page 35: At Mar del Tuyú on 28 May 2016, a witness filmed a white object moving steadily from west to east. CEFAE matched it to a NASA superpressure balloon launched from New Zealand on 17 May. The report states that the balloon's recorded route crossed southern Buenos Aires Province at the matching time and direction. The agency therefore attributed the visual and video observation to the documented high-altitude balloon flight. 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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