Declassified UFO files reveal giant glowing sphere over military base that's been hidden for 35 years
Declassified documents from over three decades ago have revealed how an encounter with a suspected UFO at the south pole was covered up.The records unsealed this year by Argentina's Ministry of Foreign Affairs have confirmed an eyewitness account from 1991, when military personnel and civilian researchers in Antarctica detected and then saw a large flying saucer over their base.Miguel Amaya, a retired Argentine Air Force non-commissioned officer, told UFO investigators in the early 2000s that he was stationed at General San Martín Base, a small scientific and military station on a tiny island in Antarctica in April of that year.At the start of the polar night, when the sun stays down for months, an alarm went off on the station's riometer, a machine that measures changes in the upper atmosphere.Despite the three needle pens measuring different heights of the ionosphere, the part of the atmosphere where solar radiation ionizes atoms, all of the needles began drawing the same pattern, which is scientifically impossible.According to Amaya, outpost personnel claimed that the strange readings could only have been caused by something producing the same energy as a nuclear aircraft carrier or a large city floating over Antarctica.Hours later, another base member was walking outside during a snowstorm when they allegedly saw 'a huge circle of light' moving slowly and silently right over the building.The 1991 incident has finally come to light after Amaya claimed he and the other members at General San Martín Base were told never to talk about what they had seen by their superiors.
General San Martín Base, a small scientific and military station in Antarctica used by Argentina Over 120 feet of paper was reportedly used during the four-and-a-half hour incident at General San Martín Base, with Amaya revealing that the needles were moving so violently they went off the paper multiple times.'This equipment started registering normally, but after five minutes, the three indicator needles began to make the same marks, which the engineer explained was impossible,' Amaya said in his CEFORA interview, translated to English.'At times, these "signals" would cut out, and everything would continue as normal. Then, for periods of ten or fifteen minutes, it would start again, sometimes with such force that the needles would jump off the belt.'The incredible readings started around 1am local time and carried on through the night. Roughly 16 hours later at 10pm, Amaya said a radio operator from the Argentine Army saw the mysterious craft as he left the base on a walk.'He noticed a huge circle of light, very dim due to the cloud cover, passing above the base, but still visible, and moving very slowly and silently towards the sea,' Amaya claimed in his testimony.The meteorological observer noted that by the time the man who saw the UFO could call for the rest of the base to come out and view it, the craft had disappeared.The three needles on the riometer's graphic recorder were supposed to show independent readings because they measured different aspects of radio wave absorption in the ionosphere, which sits 30 to 600 miles above the surface.Normally, natural events like solar flares or auroras cause different patterns on each needle, since absorption varies by frequency, with lower frequencies getting absorbed more or at different altitudes than higher ones. Riometer papers from General San Martín Base in 1991 which recorded a strange atmospheric disturbance over Antarctica Argentina's Ministry of Foreign Affairs revealed that nine rolls of records from the 1991 incident still exist and have been stored in the Argentine Antarctic InstituteThis means the needles should have been drawing distinct patterns on the night the UFO was allegedly spotted. For example, one might have shown stronger spikes while another showed milder changes if this had been a normal phenomenon.This synchronization could only have taken place if a massive, external energy source was directly overhead, overriding the separate signals of the riometer.An Argentine civilian UFO research group known as CEFORA pushed for the records to be released under the nation’s public information law.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that the original paper rolls, which recorded the strange readings over Antarctica, still exist and have been stored at the Argentine Antarctic Institute.CEFORA interviewed Amaya about the incident prior to going public with his story on a Spanish radio program in 2009.CEFORA's director, Andrea Simondini, had been fighting to have the official records of that UFO encounter and others released for more than 15 years.Now that the records have been unsealed, images proving something unexplainable interfered with the base's riometer have been shared for the first time.'Now we are going to pursue other cases linked to Antarctica,' Simondini told Uno Entre Ríos.'This is just the first test case we can verify under this method, and it raises expectations for the continued declassification of other files,' she stressed in a statement translated to English. In the US, UFO disclosure has also reached a fever pitch, with President Trump ordering Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon to release all documents related to government investigations on the UFOs and extraterrestrial life.To this point, however, the US has maintained that there has never been any physical evidence found proving that aliens or non-human spacecraft exist.
