On the afternoon of Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, residents of Curarrehue, a small town in Chile’s Araucanía Region near the Argentine border, say they saw something strange over the community stadium. According to a local news report, people there for weekend recreation watched a metallic, disc-shaped object that made rapid moves no ordinary aircraft would make, and then disappeared. The time was given as around 4 p.m. One witness, Joaquín Brevis Morales, described the scene. Another resident, Fermín Panguilef, recorded the main images.

An Argentine news site picked up the story, and a post linking to it on Reddit’s r/UFOs drew more than 2,000 upvotes within a few days. The object has a classic saucer shape, which is a big part of why it spread.

That’s about all that’s known. The report doesn’t give a direction, a duration or any estimate of size or distance, and the full video hasn’t been widely shared. One commenter asked whether the last image had been enhanced with AI. No one answered.