By Carl W. Feindt, 8 September 2010
(NICAP.org)
The whole UFO case report:
“The following report has been extracted from the Carl Feindt Water UFO
web site for security purposes. To get to the original page with potentially
more current working links, click on the link below, hit "Enter",
click on "List of Sightings", then select "radar" in the
search box.
http://www.waterufo.net/
10-24-1969
An extraordinary UFO incident off Chile
by Bill Chalker
Bill Chalker, an industrial chemist by profession, is one of Australia's
leading UFO investigators. He lives In New South Wales.
Editor's note: Incredible tales of military UFO encounters and cover-ups
are legion in the ufological literature. Most depend on the testimony of a
single informant. This one is no exception and for that reason must be viewed,
unless and until verifying evidence comes forward, as no more than an
interesting anecdote. We are publishing it not because we consider it
"evidence" of anything -- it clearly is not --but because it
resembles other such stories in a remarkable way. That means that either the
claimant is drawing on a body of widespread folklore or he, like other
claimants telling like tales, is speaking the truth. Chile, a military dictatorship,
does not have a Freedom of Information Act to which inquirers seeking
verification can turn. Readers who might have access to information that could
shed light on this claim are urged to write IUR.
Because of a series of chance events and an overseas trip, I had the
opportunity to interview an alleged witness to an extraordinary event that
supposedly took place in the Pacific Ocean, about 350 miles to the south of
Valparaiso Port, off the coast of Chile. The incident involved a Chilean Naval
destroyer and was witnessed by crew members and the commander of the vessel. Up
to six UFOs, including one large object, were observed. The objects were
verified on radar and observed visually. As the main object moved over the
ship, the vessel's power went out.
As extraordinary as the event itself is its alarming aftermath.
According to my informant, a cover-up followed and the witnesses were held in
confinement in port for two days, subjected to intense psychological pressures
to force them to believe they saw nothing out of the ordinary.
The name of my informant cannot be revealed. He says, however, that he
was on duty during the incident and observed the whole event. The location of
the interview, even the country in which it took place, also cannot be given.
The witness fears that disclosure of either detail could cause him to be
recalled to active service in the Chilean Navy. Although he has already served
his term of service, he is concerned that enforced military service could be
used as a form of punishment.
I must point out that from the very beginning I have been skeptical of
many UFO cover-up claims. From my experience as the first civilian researcher
to have comprehensive access to the Royal Australian Air Force UFO files,
however, I have become more open-minded about such allegations. In this regard
I was willing to consider the testimony of my Chilean informant, who to all
appearances was sincerely frightened by the events he described to me. That
does not mean I have become a 'believer,' only that I believe such claims
deserve a fair hearing.
The event
Just after midnight, on or about October 24, 1969, a Chilean Navy
destroyer, a week out of dry dock at Talcahuano Port (where the ship's axle had
been removed and replaced), was navigating at 20 knots and heading north 20
degrees portside from NNW). The incredible events that followed took place over
the next eight minutes.
At 12:43 A.M. the radar officer reported a long-range flying contact. A
minute later the “contact" was at 400 miles. Because of the
"object's" speed, the operator suspected a malfunction in his
equipment. In the next minute the contact was approximately 150 miles away closing
from 331 degrees of true north. But the operator and officer in charge during
the late night duty (an officer of second-class rank) speculated that the
contact was a "plane flying southeast” --but at 213 miles in a minute: 12,780 mph!
The officer in charge advised the ship's commander, who asked that an
eye be kept on the object.
At 12:47 the contact was only 12 miles away. Suddenly the single contact
became six “targets.” The “thing spread .... Little dots appeared in the fire
of the light on the radar....”
The officer in charge informed the commander just as the objects making
the returns came into view. Both eyewitnesses and radar were reporting six
objects approaching the ship. The commander came up to the ship's bridge to see
what was going on.
It was a fantastic sight. One massive object and five small objects were
approaching at high speed. The “big thing looked like a big box [with] semicircles
in the side” looking as if they had been scooped out. It was bathed in
brilliant light. “The thing must have been metallic,” my informant told me. “It
was bigger than the destroyer, which was about 110 meters long.” He
thought it might be at least twice the length of the ship but it was difficult
to tell because “the light was bright."
The five smaller objects were egg-shaped and appeared to be no bigger
than eight feet long and five to six feet wide. They were bluish in color.
At about 2000
yards out from the destroyer the smaller objects left
the proximity of the larger object. Three went portside and two went starboard.
The smaller objects at times seemed to be flying in "elliptical circles
backwards and forwards between the big one and our vessel ....
"The main thing did not change direction -- if it had been in the
sea there would have been a collision."
A humming noise was audible when the large object got to within 300 yards. It was at this
point that the power went out. For a couple of seconds all instruments went
dead as the huge craft passed overhead.
At this point the commander came on to the bridge, asking, "What
the hell is that?” My informant remarked that the commander "was very
calm, because probably he knew what he saw. We didn't.
"You could see the whole thing, the light was so strong. You could
see the water, the funnel head, the head of the ship, the towers, everything...
Everybody on the bridge was sort of listening to the noise. I don't know how
long this thing took to go across."
The bright red lights underneath the main UFO seemed to be moving back
and forth inside the "box,” shining through a half-circle or crescent
shape on the bottom of the object. On the side were what looked like "corn
cobs," with green or turquoise pulsing lights. These lights, my informant
said, "went right through your head."
The large object passed over the powerless ship. When it was 200 yards away,
everything returned to normal. The smaller objects, never coming closer than
500 to 1000 yards,
flew around the ship and joined up with the larger object on the other side.
The main object continued on its way until it Was about two miles beyond
the ship. At that point, along with (we assume) the smaller-objects, it
vanished. "It was like somebody opened a big door; then it closed and it
was darkness. The only thing that was left behind was like floating little bits
of metallic paper."(!)
At least eight minutes had passed. Three persons had tracked the UFOs on
radar. Five persons saw the objects themselves. The ship's commander ordered
everyone to keep silent about what they had seen.
The cover-up
The "cover-up" started immediately, According to my informant,
the officer in charge (the second-class officer) had made several entries
concerning the UFO incident in the ship's log.
The entries at midnight and on either side of the UFO entries-were
routine. Duty proceeded normally for the rest of the morning.
Awakening after he had retired from his shift, the officer rechecked the
log, only to find normal entries in what appeared to be his own handwriting.
The UFO incident was not mentioned. The officer had been left-handed but an
accident had forced him to use his right hand. Because writing was difficult
for him, he had to press down hard on the paper. He had to press down so hard,
in fact;-that the outline of what he wrote was always visible on the page. But
when he checked, it was not. In other words, someone had forged his handwriting
but neglected this telltale physical detail.
At 6:45 that morning the destroyer arrived in Valparaiso Port.
After eating breakfast, the men on duty during the UFO event were asked to
report to the commander. He told them that some people were coming to talk with
them and that they were to go with them. The visitors turned out to be two
Chilean Navy officers and four Americans in civilian clothes. The Americans,
who spoke Spanish, were identified as naval attaches with the U.S. embassy.
The six witnesses were taken to a mine- or torpedo-storage area at the
port. Each was taken to a separate room.
My informant was directed to explain what happened last night. When he
told them, they said, “No, you didn't see that!"
“I said that's what we saw," my informant related to me. "They
started getting very cranky. They said, 'No, you didn't see it. You didn't see
anything. You know nothing.'
“I spoke to the highest-ranking officer there, a tactic commander in the
Chilean Navy: 'Are we under arrest or what?' He said, 'No you are not.’ “
Asked why they were there, the Chilean officer replied, 'You are under
orders. These people just want to talk to you, to put you on the right track.”
My informant claimed, "While the men never asked us to go through
the story in detail, they knew what had happened by the questions they asked.
They also had the radar-plot blueprint." They were more interested in
securing his silence than in getting information about the event from him.
For two days the harassment continued. “Every two hours,” the informant
said, “this guy would come up. 'What do you think now?' he'd say... We had
arguments. They didn't have any right to do what they were doing.”
My informant threatened to complain when he got out. He was told that if
he did so, that would be the end of him. He did not see the other witnesses at
any point during the two day interrogation. He was not allowed to sleep until
he signed a document. Finally, after he had done so, he was put in a jeep and
driven to another location. One week later he was transferred unexpectedly from
destroyer duty. He never saw the others again.
Discussion
As I listened to this man tell his story, I was struck with the passion
of his tone. If he was making this up, he was an excellent actor.
His claim that he had been placed in confinement following the sighting
was especially interesting to me. In fact, the account sounds exactly like
something out of the NBC-television movie The Disappearance of Flight 412, said
to have been based on the real life experience of one of the scriptwriters,
Neal B. Burger. Burger's experience supposedly took place in 1951. (My
informant claimed not to have seen the movie.) A similar story, involving a
U.S. Navy man who allegedly was subjected to similar pressures in Panama in 1973, is recounted in Fawcett and Greenwood's Clear Intent
(1984).
Such reports, if taken seriously, clearly imply an official desire to
suppress at least some UFO experiences. But why?
This reference: International UFO Reporter September/October 1985, pp.
4-6
UFOCAT PRN NONE
South America - Chile
Valparaiso Port: Latitude 33-02 S, Longitude 71-37 W (D-M) [Bahía Bay]
Talcahuano Port: Latitude 36-42 S, Longitude 73-02 W (D-M) [Bahía Bay]
Reference: Chile
Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.,
January 1967”
http://www.nicap.org/reports/691024chile_rep.htm
Related posts:
realtvufos.blogspot.com/search?q=October+1969
realtvufos.blogspot.com/search?q=1969
realtvufos.blogspot.com/search?q=Radar
realtvufos.blogspot.com/search?q=RadarsSatellite photo of Talcahuano,
Chile (tageo.com)
(Photo: tageo.com)
