Chilean Navy film unidentified object

[ukaskew]

Thought this was a pretty interesting case as 'unidentified flying objects' go, excellent witnesses, thorough investigation, lots of footage. My first thought would be an as yet unknown military aircraft of some kind, but the complete lack of radar signature and the plume make it an odd case.

It's not being reported in mainstream news outlets but seems like a genuine story as far as I can tell:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/after-two-y...

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_586d37bce4b014e7...

[rsbmw]

After two years of investigation they have concluded that this unidentified object is in fact an unidentified object. Brilliant.

[jmorgan]

kerist. Kean again.. It was a bug last time and demonstratively so.

Going to be a simple explanation here.

[karma mechanic]

Looks like a distant twin-engined jet to me, which at one point has a contrail due to the local air temperature. You can see that short contrail in the visible light view.
It says it wasn't a plane because it wasn't seen on primary radar, but then that depends where they were looking on that radar - it may have been much further away.

This reminds me of that 'missile launch' off the Pacific coast in 2010 that turned out to be a scheduled airliner. I just refreshed my memory of that one and found a site that does some good analysis of it:

http://contrailscience.com/los-angeles-missile-con...

Lots of good stuff on that site, perhaps they need to do a similar job on the Chilean video...

(Debunking of 'chemtrails' too, a bonus!)

Edited by karma mechanic on Saturday 7th January 13:33

[4x4Tyke]

Doh, _unidentified_ therefore not an alien flying saucer.

[Crumpet]

That looks thoroughly unremarkable and just looks like a twin engine jet, as mentioned before.

One thing to note, the article says aircraft don't eject water. They can and do eject water when purging the potable water - mainly for winter ops to stop it freezing in the system on the ground.

[karma mechanic]

The HuffPost article also contains the following: "In fact, if - hypothetically - water was expelled, it would have immediately plummeted to the ground given the warm air temperature."

Sure.