CRIDOVNI
Comisión Receptora e Investigadora de Denuncias de Objetos Voladores No Identificados
Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya (FAU)
CRIDOVNI is the longest continuously operating military UAP investigation body in South America, founded in 1979 inside the Uruguayan Air Force. Its case archive is one of the few state-run UFO records in the region with formally published statistical summaries.
About the program
CRIDOVNI was established by Air Force decree in 1979 with a brief that has remained essentially unchanged ever since: receive citizen and aviation reports of unidentified aerial objects, conduct investigations with the participation of meteorologists and astronomers from the Universidad de la República, and publish case dispositions.
By the mid-2010s the commission had reviewed several thousand reports, of which roughly 40 had been classified as unexplained after analysis — a Class D-equivalent rate broadly in line with the GEIPAN figures. CRIDOVNI's senior investigator Col Ariel Sánchez has periodically given interviews in the international press summarising the agency's standing.
The agency does not maintain a public case database in the GEIPAN sense, but periodic statistical summaries and individual case files are published through the FAU.
Landmark documents
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- Investigation report · Ongoing statistical reporting
CRIDOVNI — Resumen estadístico de denuncias
Periodic statistical summaries of CRIDOVNI investigations, including the share of cases that remained unexplained after analysis. As of 2021 the commission had logged 1,570 reports, of which roughly 3% remained unexplained after analysis.
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