Iquique, Chile
Round object, changing colours from red, blue to white, with electric currents running through, releasing something into the air, blue
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-01-25
- Where
- Iquique, Chile
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 60 mins
- Geo
- -20.213, -70.150 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-iquique-2008-aa4b28
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Iquique, Chile has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 2 reports from Chile.
- The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.