On the record

Uruguay's Air Force UFO Commission

Catalog FG-054When 1979 – presentWhere Montevideo, Uruguay

One of the longest-running official UFO investigation units in the world.

Uruguay's Air Force set up the Comisión Receptora e Investigadora de Denuncias de Objetos Voladores No Identificados (CRIDOVNI) in 1979 to collect and investigate reports. It continues to take public reports and issue findings, and most of its cases are resolved as aircraft, satellites, planets and other ordinary objects.

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The ledger

What the record shows, what people say, and the best explanation available so far.

What's documented

  • The commission's public statements and press coverage in Uruguay.

What's claimed

Nothing on this side of the ledger.

Best explanation so far

A quiet example of a government treating UFO reports as routine work for decades.

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