Pacific off Chile: Chilean Navy destroyer tracks six objects by radar, power fails

At 12:43 a.m. a Chilean Navy destroyer moving north at 20 knots about 350 miles south of Valparaíso reported a radar target approaching at an apparent 213 miles per minute; at 12:47 a.m., 12 miles away, it split into six targets, and the officer in charge and five others saw one massive box-like object, larger than the 360-foot ship, and five bluish egg-shaped objects no more than 8 feet long. The smaller objects flew in ellipses between the ship and the large object, which made a humming noise and showed moving red lights through a half-circle on its underside and pulsating green or turquoise lights on its side. The ship's power and instruments went dead as the large object passed overhead and came back when it was 600 feet away; all six objects vanished about 2 miles away after at least 8 minutes, tracked by three radar technicians. The commander ordered silence, the sighting was struck from the log, and the six witnesses were debriefed for two days in Valparaíso by two Chilean Navy officers and four Americans allegedly serving as naval attachés at the US Embassy. Bill Chalker published the case in the International UFO Reporter (1985) and the APRO Bulletin (1986–1987). The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.