Section B · FAP Commander · OIFAA founder · 1957–

Julio César Chamorro

Commander (ret.) of the Peruvian Air Force · pilot and radar specialist · founder and director of OIFAA

Biography

Commander (ret.) of the Peruvian Air Force, pilot and radar-operation specialist (trained in the then-USSR). He founded and directed OIFAA (Office for the Investigation of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena), the FAP's official unit for assessing reports of unidentified aerial phenomena —reopened in 2013 as DIFAA. Under his leadership the office investigated cases such as the Chulucanas wave (2002) and the Pucallpa 'lights' (2008). He is the military, institutional face of official Peruvian ufology.

Why they're here · 2 pieces

  1. 1975

    Ingreso a la Fuerza Aérea del Perú

    FAP pilot; in 1977 specialized in air defense and radar operation

  2. 2001

    OIFAA (Oficina de Investigación de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos)

    Founded and directed the FAP's official office to investigate anomalous aerial phenomena (reopened in 2013 as DIFAA)

Sources

Associated cases (3)

Peru.

Pucallpa · San Juan (light-beam lights)· 2008

In April 2008, residents of the San Juan hamlet near Pucallpa (Peruvian Amazon, Ucayali) reported 'lights' that flew over the area at night and shot beams of light at people, causing terror. The Peruvian Air Force's OIFAA, led by Commander Julio César Chamorro, received the report and had personnel in the region; the civilian inquiry was carried out by three Communication Sciences students from the University of Lima. It is a low-documentation case —mostly testimonial and secondary— that echoes, on a smaller scale, the Colares pattern.

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Chulucanas · DIFAA wave· 2001

In October 2001, hundreds of residents of the Chulucanas district (Piura, northern Peru) reported a wave of orange spheres maneuvering silently, splitting into smaller spheres and recombining; the Peruvian Air Force's Department for the Investigation of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (DIFAA) opened an official study.

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OIFAA / DIFAA · Peruvian Air Force office· 2001

The Peruvian Air Force's official office for anomalous aerial phenomena: born in the late 1990s as OIFAA (driven by Commander Julio Chamorro), formalized as DIFAA (Department for the Investigation of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena) in 2001, closed in 2005 for budget reasons and reactivated in October 2013. It investigated cases such as the Chulucanas wave (2002), the Pucallpa 'lights' (2008) and the radar double sighting off Lima airport (2019). It completes the quartet of Latin American official commissions alongside CRIDOVNI, CEFAA and CIAE.

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Synthesized bio from the UAP disclosure ecosystem — categorized by epistemological section (A-F).