Argentina Bariloche LAN Chile Encounter 1995

On July 31, 1995, a LAN Chile Boeing 767 on approach to Bariloche Airport in the Argentine Andes was tracked by a large luminous object ahead of the aircraft. The crew reported navigation system anomalies and partial electrical failures while the object maintained position ahead of the aircraft. Simultaneously, the lights at the Argentine Air Force base in Bariloche went dark in a base-wide power outage, and personnel at the base observed the same luminous object from the ground. Bariloche ATC confirmed the radar contact and the coincident Air Force base power failure. The aircraft landed safely, and the crew filed detailed reports with Argentine civil aviation authorities. Argentina's Commission for the Study of Aerospace Phenomena (CODOVNI) investigated the case and concluded it was a genuine unexplained encounter. The simultaneous aircraft electronics failure and Air Force base power failure over the same geographic area at the same time was considered particularly significant. The Bariloche case is considered one of Argentina's most credible civil aviation UAP encounters.