SEFAA’s reporting system is online and publicly accessible. The form is at servicios.dgac.gob.cl/reportes-sefaa. It covers Chilean airspace — 32 million square kilometres from Arica to the South Pole. The evidence requirements are specific. Understanding them explains why SEFAA produces credible investigative outputs rather than simply collecting unverifiable reports.
What SEFAA Requires
- Date, time and location: Exact date, time, cardinal direction of the sighting, city and commune, coordinates if available.
- Environmental context: Artificial light sources nearby, geographic reference points (buildings, hills, roads, antennas), meteorological conditions (cloud cover, humidity, wind).
- Personal data: Name, email, phone number. Treated with strict confidentiality, used only for contact purposes.
- Audiovisual evidence: Original unmanipulated files only. No screenshots. No material sourced from WhatsApp or social media — these applications compress and alter files, degrading analysis quality. Files up to 50MB via the form; larger files via Google Drive with editor permissions. For day-time photographs of the sighting location, these are specifically requested as supplementary evidence.
Why Evidence Integrity Matters
SEFAA’s requirement for original, unmanipulated files reflects a forensic standard. Compression artifacts from messaging apps can introduce visual noise that resembles anomalous features. A screenshot of a video is a screenshot of a screen, not the original sensor data. SEFAA is a civil aviation authority’s investigative body — it applies the same evidentiary standards it would apply to any aviation safety investigation.
The Institutional Weight
Reports received by SEFAA become part of the DGAC’s official record. Chile’s DGAC manages an airspace of 32 million square kilometres — one of the largest civil aviation jurisdictions in the world, stretching from the Atacama Desert to the South Pole. A UAP report filed with SEFAA is not a submission to a hobbyist organisation. It enters a government institution that manages some of the most complex and isolated airspace on Earth.
Source: sefaa.dgac.gob.cl/reportar-un-caso/. SEFAA reporting system, DGAC Chile.