Type: Published First-Person Account
Source: Leslie Kean, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record
A first-person account by retired Peruvian Air Force Commander Óscar Santa María Huertas describing his reported April 11, 1980 encounter at La Joya Air Base. Santa María describes the object, the decision to intercept it, his Sukhoi Su-22, the firing of 64 rounds of 30-mm ammunition, and the subsequent aerial pursuit.