Declassified UFO / UAP Document
CELESTIAL BODY OBSERVED OVER ANTARCTICA
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This 1965 State Department airgram reports on unidentified flying objects observed over Argentine Antarctic stations. It notes that the La Plata Observatory suggested the sightings might be related to the Echo II satellite.
This Department of State airgram, dated September 4, 1965, from the American Embassy in Buenos Aires, addresses reports of unidentified flying objects observed over Argentine Antarctic stations. The document serves as a follow-up to a previous communication (CA-1887) and provides information regarding a translation of four reports received by the Argentine Navy Hydrographic Service. The Embassy indicates that additional details are not currently available and will likely remain so until the summer personnel exchange at the Antarctic stations. Furthermore, the document references a statement issued by the La Plata Observatory in response to public interest generated by a Reuters dispatch from July 7. The Observatory suggested that the sightings may have coincided with the orbit of the Echo II satellite over the Antarctic region.
The La Plata Observatory issued a statement to the press following the public interest aroused by the Reuters dispatch of July 7 that it had no theory on the unidentified flying objects sighted in Antarctica although it would point out that the sightings occurred at the time that Echo II was orbiting over the Antarctic zone.
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Official Assessment
The Embassy reports that the Argentine Navy Hydrographic Service received four reports of unidentified flying objects over Antarctic stations. The Embassy notes that further information is unlikely to be available until the summer exchange of personnel. Additionally, the La Plata Observatory issued a statement regarding public interest, noting that Echo II was orbiting over the Antarctic zone at the time of the sightings.