CaseLight1989

Santiago (Chile), Chile

A light went up into the sky, hoovered around for awhile, changed color, and moved around. The light was bright red and eventually fade

Report quality: Moderate65/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1989-12-25
Where
Santiago (Chile), Chile
Shape
Light
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
-33.457, -70.648 · exact
Slug
light-over-santiago-chile-1989-853570
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

In context

  • Santiago (Chile), Chile has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 1989 brought 2 reports from Chile.
  • The 1980s skewed 11% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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