CEFAA — Committee for the Study of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena
Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos (hoy SEFAA)
Component of Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil (DGAC)
Chile's standing official UAP office, created in 1997 inside the civil-aviation authority — itself under the Air Force — and reorganised as SEFAA around 2020.
No scorecard yet
Aletheca has not filed with this body, so there is nothing to measure. A zero here would read as “releases nothing” rather than “never asked”, which is why the row is absent instead of empty. Filing outside the United States is not yet supported, so for now this record is for reading and routing.
How it takes requests
- 01portalDGAC — links to SEFAA and the transparency portalverified
https://www.dgac.gob.cl
- 02portalPortal de Transparencia del Estadounconfirmed
https://portaltransparencia.cl
Routes marked verified were fetched and confirmed against the body’s own official pages; those marked unconfirmed are well documented but have not been checked here, and none has been proven by a delivered letter. Aletheca cannot yet originate a request outside the United States — this record exists so a request about these holdings can be routed to the right door.
What it holds
- Case studies of anomalous aerial phenomena reported by pilots, controllers and radar operators since 1997
- The 2014 Navy helicopter FLIR case analysis
- Selected case publications and technical analyses
Record classes this kind of body normally keeps. Useful for drafting a request a records officer can act on without guessing — a request describing records the agency does not hold is refused as no-records, which costs a filing fee and teaches nobody anything.
Filing tips
- CEFAA was reorganised as SEFAA (Sección de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos) under the DGAC around 2020 — address the DGAC and name SEFAA.
- File through the state Portal de Transparencia against the DGAC; the 20-business-day clock is among the better-kept in the region.