NUFORC UFO Sighting 179282
Occurred: 2023-11-04 01:00 Local
Reported: 2023-11-05 18:04 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 2

Location: Barra del Chuy, Rocha Department, Uruguay
Location details: Fue en la playa, parada 3 de barra del chuy

Shape: Light
Color: Like a star
Estimated Size: Like jupiter size
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Parada 3 barra del chuy
Angle of Elevation: 30
Closest Distance: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

We saw many lights moving in diferent directions, not lineal movment, changing its bright intensity.

I was on the beach with my partner, watching the sky, and towards the south of the Southern Cross constellation, we began to notice lights, about the size of a planet, moving in different directions, sometimes one alone, other times two, even four at the same time; in a short period of time these would appear, move at different speeds, and fade away.

Me encontraba en la playa con mi pareja, observando el cielo, y hacia el sur de la constelación de la Cruz del sur, empezamos a apreciar luces, del tamaño de un planeta aproximadamente, moviéndose en distintas direcciones , a veces 1 sola, otras 2 , incluso 4 al mismo tiempo ; en un pequeño periodo de tiempo estas aparecían, se movían a distintas velocidades , y se desvanecían.










Posted 2023-12-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 165591
Occurred: 2021-11-15 12:00 Local
Reported: 2021-11-29 09:35 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 1

Location: Piriapolis, Maldonado Department, Uruguay
Location details: On the seafront, looking towards the Rio de la Plata river, in front of the Argentino Hotel.

Shape: Other


The object was not noticed at the moment of taking the photograph, but only when it was enlarged.

This photograph was taken from the seaside front in the city of Piriapolis in Uruguay, on the coast of the Rio de la Plata river. The coordinates are: -34.863468773203735, -55.27964588674423.

It was taken at midday, Uruguay time, on November 15, 2021, using the camera of an iPhone 12 cell phone.
The person who took the photograph did not notice anything strange, he just liked the great view of the water, the clear sky and a sailing boat. A few days later, he looked at it again and noticed something strange in the sky, something he had not seen at the moment of taking the photograph. He enlarged it using the Let’s Enhance app. It is not possible to confirm if it was moving or not, but by the image it seems to be still.

I am attaching four photographs, the original one and three stages of amplification.

Using the normal UFO classification names, I would say it is cigar shaped, but it actually looks like a fish. The front half looks like a shark of a whale, and the back half like a metallic object, an airplane with no tail.

I completely trust the photographer, and I know it is not a hoax.







Posted 2021-12-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 185988
Occurred: 2019-02-15 21:30 Local
Reported: 2024-12-25 12:32 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Artigas, Departamento de Artigas, Uruguay

Shape: Triangle
Color: Black
Viewed From: Land
Angle of Elevation: 45
Characteristics: Lights on object

Triangle object travelling from southeast to northwest

The triangular object made no sound; it glided over the sky. It was travelling at low altitude. It's dimensions were similar to those of a large airplane.

Posted 2025-01-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 122334
Occurred: 2015-09-27 22:55 Local
Reported: 2015-09-27 20:56 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 4

Location: Montevideo (Uruguay), , Uruguay

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Electrical or magnetic effects

3 GRAY CRAFTS SEEN BY 4 PEOPLE IN MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY.

To whom it May concern,

I want to report the sighting of three unidentified flying objects tonight, 27.09.15, during the lunar eclipse in the city of Montevideo. There are 4 direct witnesses. The phenomenon occurred between 22:50 and 22:55 and lasted no more than 10 seconds.

Three oval objects appeared flying in formation changing course and altitude abnormally, they had no lights, lost sight heading south. I have enough aeronautical knowledge to confirm that there was no drone or aircraft of any kind because of the speed and type of maneuvers. The ground fault interrupter disconnected electricity about 4 minutes before the event (maybe this is a coincidence).

Thank you.

Posted 2015-09-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 70048
Occurred: 2009-05-14 19:20 Local
Reported: 2009-05-15 11:45 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Rocha (Uruguay), , Uruguay

Shape: Fireball


Crossing the Palmera bridge, south of Rocha and noticed a bright sun-ball moving silently over some trees to my left. The ball was yellow in color and varied in its brightness (one second it was dull, the other it was blinding). I stopped at the end of the bridge and watched it for a little and saw it change direction towards the river. I then quickly lost sight of it. It was the size of a large helicopter. It was not the sun, it was too late and moved.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2009-06-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 182008
Occurred: 2005-02-15 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2024-06-23 13:24 Pacific
Duration: 5-10 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: San Luis, Departamento de Canelones, Uruguay
Location details: Ruta Interbalnearia, right before arroyo La Tuna

Shape: Triangle
Color: White
Estimated Size: Cannot determine exactly
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: South
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: Unable to determine, seemed to be kilometers up
Estimated Speed: Cannot remember, hard to determine


Two-triangle shaped craft seen at night

It was a summer night, was going back to Montevideo with my parents from holidays in Piriapolis. I was on the backseat of our car. When we were around Santa Lucia del Este, I saw a strange object in the sky towards the south-south west above the horizon. It was composed of two white isosceles triangles, united on their vertex angle by a small white dot. This dot was smaller than a star. I asked my parents what was that thing and they were amazed by it. This object gained altitude in the sky, when we stopped our car in the side of the road (this was right before the bridge that passes over La Tuna creek) it was close to the zenith. My father and I stopped looking at this for a second, but my mother was able to see that it did a very fast movement before disappearing. I am unable to provide an approximate altitude from ground, no sound was emitted. Nobody else seemed to have seen this though there were many cars in the route. Cameras were not common back then, let alone smartphones, so there is no photo register.

It could be easily seen, it was not a small UFO, the triangles were bigger than the moon to take as reference.

The date is approximate.


Posted 2024-06-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 33466
Occurred: 2002-12-25 19:00 Local
Reported: 2003-11-29 07:26 Pacific
Duration: 9 seconds


Location: Montevideo (Uruguay), , Uruguay

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail

it was light when i have seen the 2 ufo it were red small and circular

small, red ,circule ufo

Posted 2003-12-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 23031
Occurred: 2002-05-27 07:30 Local
Reported: 2002-05-27 14:42 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Montevideo (Uruguay), , Uruguay

Shape: Diamond


Algo raro y penetrante

Estaba con un amigo llendo al colegio, etaba un poco oscuro y nublado. cuando fuimos a cruzar Av. Italia sentimos un ruido muy agudo que nos penetro los oidos y cuando miramos para arriba vimos una especie de nave con forma de diamante.

Nunca antes habiamos visto algo igual.

Posted 2002-06-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 12818
Occurred: 2000-01-25 17:00 Local
Reported: 2000-05-08 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 3 min


Location: Montevideo (Uruguay), , Uruguay

Shape: Fireball


One fireball orange.red, in slow motion. Direction est-west.

One fireball orange.red, in slow motion. Direction est-west.

Posted 2000-05-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 172460
Occurred: 1996-10-01 19:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-10-20 21:51 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Salinas, Canelones Department, Uruguay
Location details: Salinas

Shape: Light


2 brights stars. First 1, then 2. Then none.

UFO happened in Salinas, slightly rural area, Uruguay 1996, just going on dark and on the spare property of mis abuelos. I was wanting to take a photo of this beautiful big bright star that caught my attention (I had grabbed my Olympus wind up camera and walked into the middle of the empty property). On the corner of my eye it would shake around. I thought 'bizarre' and looked up and it went still - but I felt like it was mocking me strangely ?. I lifted my camera to take the photo and it did it again. It would be still but shake around when I held the camera up. At first I thought 'oh, ok, the lens in the camera can't make focus at such a distance' - but it wasn't shaking through my lens, only when I actioned to focus my camera it would shake. A feeling of being mocked was starting to weigh on me. A little perplexed, I tried different settings on the camera and this happened 4-5 times until the last time I took the camera away, it continued to shake around in the high heavens above. Then it would stop and start and move around the sky - do a shake and stop.
On the ground looking up - it was shaking around 2 cm either way but this would have been a huge magnitude in the sky. I looked over to my grandparents place wondering to go over and call for them to come see or are my eyes affected somehow, at the same time I thought I might loose this phenomenon, I'll stay ?. I would look to the ground to make sure my eyes were not playing up but my eye sight and everything was normal except this big bright star. I rubbed my eyes, I patted them. I then looked up and it zoomed left - paused, then zoomed right - then paused. A smaller, colourful one appeared zooming in (bright with reddish / pink-green outer colour (not all the way round, just to two sides) zoom up close to the one I was watching (which was paused at this time), it came from the west, paused, did a shake, paused and took off in a split second. I thought 'ok, I'm not seeing things because now there's 2, the larger one is clearly not shaking and the newer one is. I can't remember where it took off but it zoomed off fast and I didn't want to loose sighting of the bigger one by following or searching for the littler one. Then the one I had been focusing on, zoomed to the south-east a little (20cm - ground measurement), stopped approx 5-10 seconds, shook about as of to say 'bye' I think, then took off south and disappeared. I was left there looking back at where this star initially sat, and why I was there - well, I was there to take a photo of this big bright star' and was now left with nothing. Nothing sat in the place in the sky of where this big bright star was approx 10 - 20 minutes ago. I looked to the south and waited, nothing. I walked back over the fence and told no-one. I printed my photos - and there it is, a shaken star. But I hope I still have it. I can't explain anything else. I know what drove me to pick up my camera, walk over to take a picture of this big bright star, now I walked back with no big bright star in its place in the sky, and baffled to what just happened.

Posted 2022-12-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 40762
Occurred: 1995-06-15 04:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2004-11-25 06:02 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Fraile Muerto (Uruguay), , Uruguay

Shape: Sphere


Small glowing ball doing violents moves up and down into a truck loaded with cows a few feet away from me



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2004-12-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 103361
Occurred: 1973-06-30 23:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2013-10-18 23:22 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 8

Location: Salinas (Uruguay), , Uruguay

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects

Uruguayan Spheres

While camping at the beach (not near a city, at night, very clear and calm) with my dad, his friend, my sister and other friends we observed a sphere of intense, blueish light appearing on the water (calm ocean that night) at about 100 meters from shore. It was perhaps 10 meters in diameter (30 feet). No sound emitted.

We could see it clearly and close at about 500 meters away from us. My dad looked at it with binoculars but could not discern a mass on it, the light hurt his eyes like the sun does.

After a few minutes about 5 or 6 other smaller spheres came out of it. They lit up the water!

In time they lined up parallel to shore and began moving in our direction over the water, not touching it. They stopped on shore right in front of us, very close at a distance of about 160 meters or less. They just stood there, shining, we got very scared.

My dad and his friend (both psychologists who worked for the Uruguayan government) thought it prudent to leave the beach in a hurry back on our way home. We did!.

My dad and his friend could never find an explanation for what we saw that night. It was a very traumatic experience!




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2013-10-23