Argentina · 03 July 1965
Destacamento Naval Decepcion, 1965
ReportedThe first time a South American government formally admitted its own personnel had seen something it could not identify, and it said the Orcadas magnetometer recorded a field disturbance coinciding with the object's passage.
- Where
- Destacamento Naval Decepcion, Isla Decepcion, Antartida Argentina
- When
- 03 July 1965
- Who reported it
- ~11 Argentine Navy personnel; parallel observations from Chilean and British bases
- Entities described
- None reported
- Handled as
- INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED
- Evidence class
- GOV-1
The record
An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.
UNVERIFIED - only secondary reproductions quoting the communique
No document is attached yet. The retrieval is open work.
What is not settled
Sixty years on the primary communique is not published anywhere reachable; everything circulating is a quotation of a quotation. Three national bases in one bay is also a setting where an unusual re-entry or balloon would be seen by everyone at once.
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