The Ministry of Defense declassified the documents pertaining to the Bariloche case that took place on July 31, 1995, under the file, 2020-60053899-apn-dnaip#aaip, dated September 9, 2020, of the law 27275 of access to public information. This file is the first official declassification by the Argentine Government of a case related to the UFO phenomenon.
Commander Jorge Polanco, while landing, was intercepted by an object that forced him to perform a high-risk escape maneuver. On the other hand, a National Gendarmerie aircraft, which was performing a sanitary flight, piloted by Commanders Juan Domingo Gaitan and Rubén Cipuzak, were protagonist witnesses of the episode. The event was recorded by the Control Tower where the Chief of the Airport, Deputy Officer Daniel García, was located, generating communications between air traffic controllers and pilots, being also observed by multiple witnesses and personnel of the Meteorological and runway services.
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COPY OF CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE CAIRP FOUNDATION AND THE ARGENTINE AIR FORCE (AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 1995)
Buenos Aires, August 8, 1995.
Mr. Commander in Chief
Argentine Air Force
Brigadier General Juan Paulik
Yours sincerely
As is public knowledge, last July 31, between 19:00 and 22:00 hours, an incident occurred in the area of Bariloche airport involving a Boeing 727 aircraft of Aerolineas Argentinas, a Cheyenne aircraft of the National Gendarmerie, the personnel of the Control Tower and Meteorology of the airport and an alleged unidentified aircraft.
According to what was reported by the Commander of the Boeing 727, Mr. Jorge Polanco, the alleged aircraft had "a well-defined shape", "a kind of inverted plate", "a solid shape"... "with two green lights at the ends"..... "an orange light in the center"... "and it began to approach and accompany us in the descent" "at about 60 to 80 meters (from the Boeing 727)"..."
(sources: program Memoria, Channel 9, Buenos Aires, broadcasted on August 2, 1995 and Clarín newspaper published on the same day).
Considering the shock caused by the public dissemination of the incident and the potential possibility that this unidentified aircraft has endangered the aviation safety of the Boeing 727 (despite no objective evidence so far to our knowledge), we request you to make public the results of the investigation that your Institution is conducting or planning to conduct on the case. As well as to make known if possible confusions with conventional aerial objects (e.g. airplanes, helicopters, satellite re-entries), natural objects (e.g. stars, planets, meteor showers, the Moon) or others (e.g. lights from incident searchlights on clouds) have been evaluated and ruled out.
Our Foundation is interested in the clarification of this type of incidents from a strictly scientific and educational point of view, and in case your Institution does not have competence on this incident, we would be very grateful if you could inform us to whom we should address.
Without further ado, we thank you in advance for your kind attention, and remain at your entire disposal, and send you our best regards:
Orlando Liguori
Heriberto Janosch
CAIRP Foundation.
Buenos Aires, September 5, 1995.
Dear Sir:
I am writing to you in relation to your kind note dated August 9, 1995, referring to the incident that occurred on July 31, 1995, in the area of the Bariloche International Airport.
In this regard, I inform you that the Air Regions Command, through the Chief of the Airport, took the pertinent statements to the persons involved in the incident. These statements served as the basis for a later analysis of what happened, ruling out a priori a possible confusion with conventional aerial objects, although the possibility of a confusion with natural objects, or reflections of lights on the cloud base or some other optical phenomenon of non-immediate explanation is not eliminated.
The Air Force investigation was terminated when it was determined that there was no invasion of jurisdictional airspace by known conventional aerial objects.
In this opportunity I reiterate the expressions of my most distinguished consideration.
Brigadier Major Horacio Ernesto Genolet.
Commander of Air Regions.
In Buenos Aires, seat of the Air Traffic Directorate, on the 28th day of the month of December 1995, at 12:45 a.m., this record is drawn up for the purpose of recording the delivery to Mr. Heriberto Janosch, who identifies himself with National Identity Card number 12892447, of the documentation duly requested on behalf of the Argentine Center for the Investigation and Refutation of Pseudoscience, and which includes: a) Photocopy of the transcription of the communications made between the Bariloche Control Tower and the aircraft identified as Argentinas 674 and Golf November 705 between 23:20 Universal Coordinated Time (20:20 Argentine Official Time) on July 31st of the current year and 00:24 on August 1st of the same year (21:24 Argentine Official Time on July 31st). b) Photocopy of the statement made before the Bariloche Airport Headquarters by the Commander of flight Argentinas 674 Mr. Jorge Néstor Polanco, c) Photocopy of the statement made by Chief Warrant Officer Daniel Alberto García, Operations personnel of the aforementioned airport, d) Photocopy of the statement of Auxiliary Warrant Officer Ramón Alfredo Blanco who was working as air traffic controller at the Bariloche Control Tower on the aforementioned occasion, e) Photocopy of the statement of Mr. Nicolás Enoe Araya who was also working as meteorological observer on the aforementioned occasion.
It is also stated for the record that the Argentine Air Force does not gather information related to the UFO phenomenon.
Signed at the bottom of the original and one copy of the same tenor and to the same effect, the aforementioned Mr. Heriberto Janosch, and as personnel of the Air Traffic Directorate, Captain Roberto Enrique Muller and Mr. Juan Carlos Domingo Gonzalez, signed at the bottom.
DICTAPHONE tape recorder transcription from 23:20 UTC 31/07 to 00:24 UTC 01/08
Operation of flights ARG 674 and GN 705
BAR TWR - Airlines, Tower.
ARG 674 - Aerolineas from six seven four to Bariloche tower, do you copy?
BAR TWR - Hello sir, good night, go ahead.
ARG 674 - Ok, received sir, we are forty eight, fifty miles releasing three one zero to two hundred and initiate procedure.
BAR TWR - Okay, for one hundred continue your descent, one zero zero, one thousand fifteen pressure, we have zero degree, uhm.... with two charlie sierra at three thousand feet. You're going to forecast chart number one for runway two eight, normal radio aids, the runway is with braking number five, okay, and with thirty meters of your width and your... its entire length clear.
ARG 674 - Very well sir, we descend from three one zero to one hundred and return on the vertical initiating procedure.
BAR TWR - We are standing by and we have generator equipment on, there was a momentary power outage.
ARG 674 - Yes, we have acknowledged it, thank you.
ARG 674 - Aircraft calling Aerolineas six seven four.
ARG 674 - Do I understand the weather in Bariloche?
ARG 674 - The Q A M of Bariloche is with wind from the two seven zero eighteen, it is with two eighths of cloudiness nothing more at four thousand feet, and it is with good visibility, it had a power cut but it is normalized, the temperature is zero degree one thousand fifteen.
BAR TWR - Airlines, tower.
ARG 674 - Go ahead Aerolineas receives you, Argentina six seven four.
BAR TWR - Sorry, I was calling your company, I was telling you that you are going to have the platform lights restricted to the minimum, ok?
ARG 674 - Ok, thank you.
BAR TWR - We have you in sight six seven four.
ARG 674 - Copy that Bariloche.
BAR TWR - It has VOR and DME normal no?
ARG 674 - Affirmative, six seven four.
BAR TWR - Block and initiate sir, or join standby?
ARG 674 - We go right for subsequent clearance on one hundred and twenty if authorized.
BAR TWR - Authorized sir and notifies leaving the VOR.
ARG 674 - Authorized, I return abandoning the VOR Argentina six seven four.
BAR TWR - Six seven four, Bari.
ARG 674 - Here we are, go ahead.
BAR TWR - Yes, excuse me, uhm..., I have been asked by the technical people that once your flight arrives and on the platform all the passengers remain in the aircraft so we make the power change from the city to uhm..., to reestablish normal power.
ARG 674 - We keep then all the passengers on board when arriving to the platform.
BAR TWR - Right, thank you.
ARG 674 - At the moment we start to move away for chart number one track two eight Argentina six seven four Bariloche.
BAR TWR - Roger Argentina six seven four wind holding two seventy twenty, stand by for procedure turn and six thousand four hundred.
ARG 674 - We are returning procedure turn, Argentina six seven four.
ARG 674 - Bariloche Argentina six seven four, do you have a transit in front of us reported?
BAR TWR - Not in front of you, sir, it is coming and estimates to enter in four minutes through Limay.
ARG 674 - The one we spotted... we are seven miles out releasing seven five hundred and we have a transit to the left of us.
BAR TWR - You guys bridged right?
ARG 674 - There it is, eleven o'clock, there it changed course at this moment.
BAR TWR - Okay, received, that other transit would now have to be forty miles from Bariloche.
ARG 674 - Ok.
BAR TWR - That's the Golf November that you heard and passed the runway data to you.
ARG 674 - Ok.
BAR TWR - Once facing the tracker I'm going to turn on the beacon, not before, eh?
ARG 674 - Ok, I confirm.
GN 705 - Bariloche, Bariloche, seven zero five I am entering Limay with one six zero.
BAR TWR - Roger Golf November seven zero five, descent is cleared to flight level one one zero, one hundred ten and Bariloche with wind two seventy eighteen zero degree temperature and Q N H one thousand fifteen, with two sierra charlie at three thousand feet, you are going to forecast chart number one for runway two eight, I am receiving you very bad.
BAR TWR - We stand by fifteen miles out for instructions.
GN 705 - Bariloche, (ILLEGIBLE).
BAR TWR - Golf November seven zero five Bariloche, received, notified fifteen miles out, descent for one one zero one thousand and fifteen the Q N H.
GN 705 - One one zero, I will notify fifteen miles (ILLEGIBLE).
ARG 674 - Bariloche Argentina six seven four turn of procedure.
BAR TWR - Received six seven four notify established localizer and glide path.
ARG 674 - Will do so Argentina six seven four.
GN 705 - Bariloche for seven zero five, do you repeat the Q N H? and at the moment abandoning one six six zero.
BAR TWR - Now I receive you better seven zero five, good night, two seventy twenty thousand and fifteen Q N H and for one one zero.
GN 705 - One one zero, at the time of abandonment one six zero and one thousand fifteen the Q N H.
GN 705 - Bariloche Golf November seven zero five.
BAR TWR - Seven zero five, Bari.
GN 705 - May be a direct approach to I L S?
BAR TWR - Roger, you are cleared sir, for seven thousand feet, I have seven twenty-seven traffic on final now.
GN 705 - Seven twenty-seven on final, okay, then I understand authorized I'm descending for seven thousand feet and I'm going to then look for the I L S twenty-two miles at the moment.
BAR TWR - What distance? Confirm?
GN 705 - Twenty-two.
BAR TWR - Repeat distance please.
GN 705 - Twenty-two miles out.
BAR TWR - Two. Two. Is that correct?
GN 705 - Affirmative.
BAR TWR - Roger.
ARG 674 - Argentina six six seven four intercept locator eleven miles and I have a transit here to the right of me.
BAR TWR - I have you in sight, the other traffic is not in sight sir, uhm.... the other traffic is
entering at zero thirty-eight and is twenty-two miles out now.
ARG 674 - We are ten miles intercepting localizer and with track in sight.
BAR TWR - Final and authorized landing wind two eight zero degrees fifteen knots, six seven four.
ARG 674 - Six seven four.
BAR TWR - Golf November seven zero five, Bari.
ARG 674 - Yes, we have an object to the right forming us and above we're seeing the other aircraft, the object has two bright intermittent lights...this...I don't know, we think it's a flying saucer.
BAR TWR- Let's see, stand by.
GN 705 - Bariloche, Golf November seven zero five.
BAR TWR - Seven zero five, Bari. Stand by.
RECORDING INTERRUPTION
(THE TAPE KEPT RUNNING FOR ABOUT FOUR MINUTES WITHOUT RECORDING, THEN STOPPED)
BAR TWR - Six seven four, confirm procedure initiated, I understand you are on approach six seven four, abandon chart one for track two eight, light reestablished.
ARG 674 - Roger, abandon for chart one two eight on six seven four.
BAR TWR - Reports releasing one hundred, we just saw the light again.
ARG 674 - We at this time are seeing traffic that is with one hundred and ten, but the light is out of sight.
BAR TWR - Okay. It was behind you.
BAR TWR - At the moment you leave the VOR, correct six seven four?
ARG 674 - Well, at the moment I abandon VOR, we initiate procedure number one letter two eight descending for six four hundred.
BAR TWR - Roger, notify procedure turn, two seventy twenty.
ARG 674 - Roger, I will return.
BAR TWR - Golf November seven zero five, will descend for one zero zero, one hundred, stand by.
GN 705 - Roger, as of this moment abandon one one zero for one zero zero and always standby.
BAR TWR - Ok.
ARG 674 - Procedure turn, six seven four.
BAR TWR - Roger, notify established flight path and localizer six seven four.
ARG 674 - Established on I L S return six seven four.
BAR TWR - And for Golf November seven zero five your estimated time of approach is going to be in two minutes sir, at zero zero zero four.
GN 705 - Zero zero zero four, in two minutes, received sir. We are on standby with level one hundred on the time-controlled side.
BAR TWR - Ok.
ARG 674 - Eleven miles intercepting I L S with runway in sight Argentina six seven four Bariloche.
BAR TWR - Final and landing authorized two eight zero eighteen, in short I inform you.
ARG 674 - Ok.
BAR TWR - Seven zero five you are cleared to initiate letter one for runway two eight, notify abandoning VOR.
GN 705 - Roger, letter number one for runway two eight, will notify abandoning VOR.
GN 705 - Blocking VOR on seven zero five initiating procedure.
BAR TWR - Notifies on procedure turn seven zero five the
the Q N H one thousand fifteen point three and the wind two seventy now two eighty twenty knots.
GN 705 - Received, I will notify in procedural turn, one thousand fifteen point three the Q N H.
BAR TWR - Two eight zero twenty six.
ARG 674 - Copied.
BAR TWR - Two eighty twenty six.
GN 705 - Bariloche Golf November seven zero five on procedural turn.
BAR TWR - Roger, established on glide path and localizer seven zero five.
GN 705 - Established on glide path and localizer, zero zero five.
BAR TWR - Argentina six seven four your arrival zero nine, first on your right.
ARG 674 - Six seven four, copy, first right.
BAR TWR - Cautiously on platform six seven four, with signaler in sight, frequency.
ARG 674 - Six seven four.
GN 705 - Bariloche Golf November seven zero five on localizer and glide beam.
BAR TWR - Roger sir, report on oscar mike.
GN 705 - Roger, will return oscar mike.
BAR TWR - Authorized landing sir, two eight zero sixteen.
GN 705 - Two eight zero sixteen on mike, oscar mike the seven zero five at the moment.
BAR TWR - Ok, received.
GN 795 - Train down and locked.
BAR TWR - Overnight zero seven zero five?
GN 705 - No, we're boarding the patient, it's a... sanitary. And we continue to Buenos Aires, Aeroparque.
BAR TWR - Received.
BAR TWR - The ambulance is here November.
GN 705 - Roger, thank you.
BAR TWR - Golf November seven zero five your arrival one eight, hold for runway up to street one rear apron.
GN 705 - To fairway one rear apron, copy that.
BAR TWR - On your right now sir, with caution, do you have the runway in sight?
GN 705 - Affirms.
BAR TWR - Ok.
BAR TWR - Caution for ice patches seven zero five.
GN 705 - (ILLEGIBLE)
BAR TWR - Continued to your front, parking position number two in front of sleeve one, below tower.... (ILLEGIBLE)
GN 705 - Ok.
BAR TWR - ... (ILLEGIBLE)
GN 705 - ... (ILLEGIBLE)
BAR TWR - Now start the turn to your left.
GN 705 - Five.
BAR TWR - More to your left, now to your front... a little bit further ahead so we leave it.... (ILLEGIBLE) perfect seven zero five, frequency, see you later.
GN 705 - Thank you.
Argentine Air Force
Air Regions Command
Central Air Region
Bariloche Airport
San Carlos de Bariloche, August 3, 1995
OBJECT: Submit UFO report.
To the Chief of the Central Air Region
1) I submit this file to the Chief, enclosing the requested report:
- Doc. Arg. Statement of Commander Jorge Polanco (Flight ARG 674).
- Statement S.P. Daniel Alberto García (P.V 14957)
- Statement S.A Ramón Alfredo Blanco (P.V 16634)
- Declaration S.P.V 1 Nicolás Enoe Araya (OSFA 43245)
Major Jorge Luis Oviedo
Chief of Bariloche Airport
Statement
From: Commander Jorge Polanco (ARG 674)
To: Airport Headquarters.
Subject: Sighting of unidentified flying object in Bariloche.
Having initiated departure in procedure number 1 and descending towards 6400 FT. We observed in opposite trajectory the approach of lights with strong intensity, at our request we were notified and the tower confirmed that it was not an identified aircraft.
When making the procedural turn, this object is approaching from the south and is on our right and approaching continuously, verifying green lights at its ends and a strong orange light in the center of the lights.
Close to 5500 FT. and with the object next to us, all the radio aids of the airport were cut off at the precise moment when the object abruptly moved away in a southeasterly direction at a speed impossible to determine.
We proceed to the escape for 10,000 FT. for further procedure without any news.
NOTE: The tower reports that all their instruments went out of control during the power outage.
NOTE: Gendarmerie aircraft confirms sighting of the object, it was above our aircraft.
Jorge Nestor Polanco Commander (ARG 674)
Carlos Dortona Pilot (ARG 674)
Jorge Allende Flight Engineer (ARG 674)
Statement
S.P. García Daniel Alberto
P.V 14957
At approximately 23:15 UTC, while I was in the Operations Headquarters, I observed towards the minor aircraft parking sector, a reflection similar to a flash (bluish white color), producing a flicker in the airport lighting, which produced the initial shutdown of the lighting towers in the parking sector.
After a few seconds/minutes the power cut becomes general, leaving the whole area (city/airport) in darkness.
The meteorological observer goes to the meteorological field, when he observes it totally illuminated by the described lights and looking towards the building/TWR.
When I look through the window located in the central section I observe a white/amber light moving towards the south where I lose sight of the above mentioned (apparently it stops the movement at a height with respect to the horizon of 30 to 60 meters).
In the meantime, the power supply is reestablished by the local power plant, which causes the airline flight (ARG 674) to start the normal instrumental approach.
When this happens I go to the Airport Headquarters office to maintain good link with the power plant personnel while I observe the passage of ARG 674 when it leaves the vertical and starts the procedural turn, I observe again the very bright light in the opposite direction of the flight, placing it to the right of the B 727 (I can not specify the distance between the ARG 674 and the light/object) although it is relatively close.
The ARG 674 continues the approach, always "accompanied" by the light, I observe the same color (white/amber), when the ARG 674 was already in final approach, the personnel of the power plant (3, auxiliary Andrada and Technician Bressa) the latter with an alarmed voice, by means of the HT informs "my group is dying" and the runway lights turn off, which makes the commander of the ARG 674 to start the escape procedure, always with the light/object following the same course.
When the escape took place, I stopped observing what was described to focus on solving the problem of lack of energy.
I cannot see what happened in the opposite sector (Nahuel Huapi lake city area), since I had left the Headquarters office.
When the power was restored with the supply of the Bariloche electric cooperative, the Aerolineas Argentinas flight restarted its approach in a normal way.
Once arrived and already on the platform and after the descent of the passengers, I go up to the ACTF's cabin where I ask her to take us to the company's operations office to talk about what happened.
The aforementioned (conversations) is witnessed by company personnel Mr. Gustavo Bianchi, Mr. Ezquerra who acts as the company's carrier.
The commander of the flight Mr. Polanco, related what happened and agreed at all times to what I observed, adding to the conversation Mr. Ezquerra, who affirms what was said since he was arriving at the airport by the access route, who corroborates what happened when the flight was "accompanied" by the light or object.
I ask the commander of the aforementioned flight if he would like to make a written report, and he agrees without any inconvenience.
While he was writing his report, I went down from the office to the hall of the airport to ask the commander of GN 705 if he could explain what he saw while he was approaching the vertical (already in the office of the company) and corroborated what he had already said, with the exception that while he was waiting and observing the Aerolineas flight when he made the approach turn from the lake area towards the airport, the object/light made a climb almost ahead and slightly to the side of his aircraft at a speed impossible to determine, disappearing WSW.
Once arrived at the ARO-AIS office, there was the Gendarmerie personnel (nurse) who also explained what they had seen when they approached the airport in their vehicle.
Later, when the ARG and the Gendarmerie aircraft took off, the power plant/technical personnel told me what had happened with the generator, that initially the cause of its shutdown was due to a
mechanical failure of the unit, but that they had carried out a check-up of the unit and proceeded to start it up again, which happened without any inconvenience.
I inform the Chief that I cannot identify at any time any silhouette, shape or other strange thing to the one mentioned.
Statement
S.A Blanco Ramón Alfredo
P.V 16634
At 23:15 UTC there was a total power outage.
23:20 UTC the auxiliary electric power is reestablished, generator 1 (one), at this time the ARG 674 enters the TMA in communication with TWR BAR, informing this control the news of the AD, who notifies after the abandonment of the fixed (IAC No. 1 Runway 18) of procedure to have transit in convergent direction.
He is informed that the only aircraft that is at forty NM entering the IMA and that it does not constitute essential traffic.
Being in a procedure turn (after coordination with the operations assistant and the plant technician), this aircraft notifies to have traffic in its trajectory with very strong light, again he is informed that the aircraft that is in the control zone is approximately 15 NM at three o'clock of his aircraft with flight level 110.
23:47 this control communicates to ARG 674 to make the corresponding escape due to light cut in RWY.
On the vertical of the aerodrome this control sees the aircraft in question moving away towards the lake, as well as the other aircraft GN 705 soon to the vertical. At that moment he corroborates what ARG 674 reported about the light he had seen, now he informs the commander that the light is behind his aircraft and also informs GN 705 that he sees the light between the lake and ARG 674.
I inform him that at all times I was in communication by HT with the S.P Garcia and the technician Bressa and I ask him to listen to the main frequency, answering that he was in the office of the Chief of the Airport seeing what was happening, also seeing the light that C.P. Cantero was ascending at that moment, which also corroborates what happened.
Notifying to the Headquarters by this means that in the precise cut of illumination of the RWY I see that: anemometer out of service, VOR in normal service, ILS in normal service, luminous platform north serctor normal service, stoves in tower out of service, luminous tower table out of service.
Later the cooperative energy was restored, arriving ARG 674 and GN 705 without any news.
Statement
SPVI Araya Nicolás Enoe
OSFA 43245
It happened as follows: At 7:30 p.m. there was a power outage, making loud noise in the general light boards of the hallway and radio workshop.
When I heard the noise, I verified that the parking lot lights had been turned off, notifying the officer on duty Garcia of this news.
After approximately 20 minutes had elapsed, I went out to take the temperature in the field, and on my way back to the middle of the platform I was blinded by a strong yellow light. Observing towards the control tower, thinking that they would be illuminating with a reflector, checking that it was not so and observing that the light was moving at high altitude in a West-East direction behind the tower.
Arriving at the office I began to perform the meterro when there was a power outage, being the operations NCO Garcia in the vicinity of the stairs descending at high speed, entered the meteorology office to communicate to communicate with the tower by the light observed earlier, believing that they were two aircraft that crossed.
At 8:30 p.m., the barometer went out of calibration, it went up and down continuously, after 15 minutes it returned to normal. That is all.
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