Correa calls declassified report UFO

June 27, 2007

Research.

The early hours of last Thursday, ufologist Jaime Rodriguez made a 'plantonera' on the outskirts of the headquarters of the National Security Council (Cosena), north of Quito.

Under the mist, with a sign in hand, awaiting the arrival of President Rafael Correa asking for the declassification of information about the phenomenon ovni (unidentified flying object) that possess the Armed Forces.

Correa dropped glass of the vehicle that led him to the site. What greeted Rodriguez, but was unable to speak but had already had an informal contact on 17 May, at the end of a public event.

The governor asked him to meet with his personal adviser Mario Latorre him to explain his concerns.

It also had audiences with the vice president Lenin Moreno and the Minister of Defense, Lorraine Escudero.

Yesterday, the ufologist received an official letter signed by General Patricio Cardenas, secretary of Cosena, in which he announced that "the President authorized the Ministry of Defense and the three branches of the FF.AA. You surrender any information that may exist on UFO file, which must get closer to these offices. "

The Ministry of Defense confirmed that, indeed, the Secretary of State reported that portfolio of the case to military commanders.

Rodriguez made that request through the Ecuadorian Committee for the Investigation of UFO Phenomenon (CEIFO), an agency attached to the Area Ecuadorian Force (SAF) of which he is chairman. This was created in 2005.

Rodriguez says that FF.AA. Have records of some 40 cases of UFO sightings. 50% corresponds to the Ground Force, 25% of the SAF, and the rest to the Navy.

And reports have said two prominent cases. In the first, a platoon of 25 military detachment Tiger (on the border with Peru) would have seen a ufo which even shot him. In the second, a submarine officers Ecuadorian allegedly observed a metal plate that easily mobilized both in the water and in the air.

The spokesman of the SAF colonel Mauritius Campuzano, said that the military branch already had authorization to release information to CEIFO.

"Mr. Rodriguez already requested information; What dispatched to intelligence, but from what I remember they had nothing in archives, "said the official.

Nice to see some country being up front and honest with it citizens.