Peruvian UFO shootdown

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Several articles doing the media rounds this week about a 1980 incident where a Lt Huerta was scrambled in a Peruvian fighter jet to shoot down a UFO.

Some quotes from news.com.au -

"The object then shot rapidly skywards away from the base, prompting Colonel Huerta to activate the plane’s afterburner to give chase 500m behind. As they reached the city of Camana, 84km from the base, the object came to a sudden stop, forcing him to veer to the side."
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"The bottom was a wider circular base, a silver colour, and looked like some kind of metal. It lacked all the typical components of aircraft. It had no wings, propulsion jets, exhausts, windows, antennae, and so forth. It had no visible propulsion system."
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The only reference to this incident I can find in skeptical literature is from Skeptical Inquirer in 2011, which dismissed it as a weather balloon without much discussion.

Anyone familiar with a more thorough explanation?
 
icerat said:
Several articles doing the media rounds this week about a 1980 incident where a Lt Huerta was scrambled in a Peruvian fighter jet to shoot down a UFO.

Some quotes from news.com.au -



The only reference to this incident I can find in skeptical literature is from Skeptical Inquirer in 2011, which dismissed it as a weather balloon without much discussion.

Anyone familiar with a more thorough explanation?
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I recall this incident being mentioned in a UFO documentary of some sort several years ago.

As for my opinion, ...

Given the fact that the alleged incident happened over 35 years ago and that there has been very little coverage of it since then, then I conclude that there was no shoot down of any sort of extra-terrestrial space craft.
 
Crossbow said:
I recall this incident being mentioned in a UFO documentary of some sort several years ago.

As for my opinion, ...

Given the fact that the alleged incident happened over 35 years ago and that there has been very little coverage of it since then, then I conclude that there was no shoot down of any sort of extra-terrestrial space craft.
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Well, as per the article he shot at it and nothing happened, so yeah, I should have said "attempted shootdown" in the subject. :thumbsup:

I was wondering though if there was any 35 yr old coverage that might be more pertinent. The pilot in question seems to still be doing the rounds promoting it, and I'd be interested in learning what the original story was and how much has been embellished.


Gawdzilla Sama said:
Checked with Curtis Peebles?
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Not being a UFO aficionado I had to google him :o
 
icerat said:
Several articles doing the media rounds this week about a 1980 incident where a Lt Huerta was scrambled in a Peruvian fighter jet to shoot down a UFO.

Some quotes from news.com.au -



The only reference to this incident I can find in skeptical literature is from Skeptical Inquirer in 2011, which dismissed it as a weather balloon without much discussion.

Anyone familiar with a more thorough explanation?
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I read several years ago that the reason there are so many sightings of UFOS in south America is because of tectonic activity such as volcanoes and earthquakes cause a type of energy they called at the time plasma energy which tends to shape itself into round structures resembling a glowing ball or whatever.

Its difficult to shoot a ball of light down.
 
Cainkane1 said:
I read several years ago that the reason there are so many sightings of UFOS in south America is because of tectonic activity such as volcanoes and earthquakes cause a type of energy they called at the time plasma energy which tends to shape itself into round structures resembling a glowing ball or whatever.

Its difficult to shoot a ball of light down.
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piezoelectric effect on quartz deposits in the earth creating an electric discharge and subsequent ball of plasma. Basically ball lightning from the earth rather than the clouds. Its a theory, I don't know if its ever been proven to exist.

There is this though
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjuo5LoyYbKAhVLGR4KHaBvCbUQFggfMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fprofile.usgs.gov%2Fmyscience%2Fupload_folder%2Fci2010Nov2222285142871139.pdf&usg=AFQjCNES_AiJe36R_3sV0MYBjXZcFt5aSQ&sig2=iuWYum8jS75P8VmnpiXdrQ
 
jaydeehess said:
piezoelectric effect on quartz deposits in the earth creating an electric discharge and subsequent ball of plasma. Basically ball lightning from the earth rather than the clouds. Its a theory, I don't know if its ever been proven to exist.
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That is what they tell you just after the neuralizer flashes.
 
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