Mystery in Uruguay: Air Force investigates sighting of unidentified lights in the sky

There Uruguayan Air Force is carrying out an investigation in the department (province) of Paysandú, in the west of the country, after receiving complaints about observation of flashing lights in the sky.

This was confirmed this Saturday in a press release, in which he informed that in view of this situation, the intervention of the Commission for the Reception and Investigation of Complaints of Unidentified Flying Objects (Cridovni).

“This commission has deployed investigators to this region of the country to gather information and interview witnessesfor the purpose of opening the investigation, ”says the text.

This Saturday, the local media The Telegraph posted a note titled “UFO in Almirón? Surprised by lights in the sky”.

In this he indicates that At one festival, a dozen people “enjoyed the startling flashing lights emitted by a low-flying, red-colored craft that cycled on and off.”

He adds that “although it seemed to be seen low because it was seen near the horizon”, it is something which was “at a great height and distance” and is not a phenomenon that has occurred punctually in the town of Almirón”, since was observed simultaneously from geographically widely separated locations”.

The National Defense Chief of Paysandu Airport, Captain Carlos García, said that in the area of ​​the Tydeo Larre Borges saw four objects of which local air traffic control has no trace, after being consulted by the Tourism Director of Paysandú, José Manuel Galván. According to the description, the flashing lights were red in color.

Some fans have pointed out that it could be the remains of the Progress MS-22 cargo ship, which was launched Thursday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, bound for the International Space Station.

In addition, the ISS itself had scheduled a pass over the southern cone of South America overnight.

The questions raised doubts whether it was another Chinese surveillance device, after a balloon was shot down in American skies and another was detected in South America. However, these devices had shown no lights and were only visible during the day, so they would not be the same type of object.

(With information from EFE)

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