Arequipa UFO incident
The Arequipa UFO incident was an aircraft-UFO incident in April 1980 in the Arequipa Region of Peru involving a Sukhoi Su-22 (Sukhoi Su-17 Fitter).
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Position[edit]
The encounter took place in the south of Peru, towards Bolivia, and along the Peruvian coast near Quilca District, part of Camaná Province.
Encounter[edit]
On 11 April 1980 at 7.15am[1], 23-year-old Lieutenant Óscar Alfonso Santa María Huertas took off in his Sukhoi-22, to intercept a UFO, from the La Joya Air Base (Mariano Melgar Airport or Aeroporto Mariano Melgar) in La Joya District.[2] The pilot had been flying military missions since the age of nineteen.
The UFO was spherical and around three miles from the base, and around 600 metres (2,000 ft) above the ground. He followed the object to an altitude of around 2,500 metres (8,200 ft), and aimed his weapons at the UFO, firing sixty four 30mm shells. The shells seemed to be absorbed by the object, and had no effect on it.
At this point, the object moved rapidly upwards. Lt Huertas followed the spherical UFO, around 500 metres behind it using the aircraft's Lyulka AL-21 afterburner, until it was around fifty miles from the base, near Camaná. The object came to an abrupt halt, forcing him to take evasive action. He locked on to the object, and was about to launch another burst of 30mm shells, when the object suddenly moved upwards. Twice more he closed in on the object, locked on the object's position, and when about to fire the object rapidly moved upwards, evading the intended attack. He decided to attack it from above, and climbed to around 14,000 metres (46,000 ft) metres, but the object conversely took a similar trajectory to a similar .
He followed the object up to around 19,000 metres (63,000 ft) feet, when he was able to have a much closer look at the object from around 100 metres, noticing that it was around thirty feet in diameter and had an enamelled cream colour, with a wide circular silver base; similar to an incandescent lightbulb, but with a much wider base. The object had no visible exhaust or obvious means of propulsion.
He then broke off the engagement as he was running short of fuel, and at this point he realised that this object was nothing like anything that he had witnessed before. The craft had seemed to anticipate every move that he had made, but never retaliated. He flew back to his base, being so low on fuel that the aircraft had to glide. The pilot looked in his rear view mirror to make sure that the UFO was not following him, and took a zig-zag course to avoid any retribution by the UFO.
Report[edit]
The incident had taken twenty-two minutes. The incident was logged by the U.S. Defense Department in a June 1980 report entitled UFO Sighted in Peru. The incident is the only one known of a military pilot that has fired on a UFO.[3] The case has been shown on the History Channel.
UFOs in Peru are reported to the Dirección de Intereses Aeroespaciales (DINAE) and the Comisión Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Aeroespacial (CONIDA).
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