Argentina
Argentina's Comisión de Estudio de Fenómenos Aeroespaciales (CEFAe) was created by the Fuerza Aérea Argentina in August 2011 under Resolución 414/2011. CEFAe sits inside the air force rather than civil aviation, making it the South American counterpart to the U.S. AARO model rather than to Chile's civilian SEFAA. Reports are accepted from civilians, pilots, and ATC. Investigative findings are released as periodic public statements.
Mission (verbatim, Resolución 414/2011)
"Crear en el ámbito de la Fuerza Aérea Argentina la Comisión de Estudio de Fenómenos Aeroespaciales, la cual tendrá por objeto el estudio, investigación y análisis de los fenómenos aeroespaciales que sean denunciados o reportados, a los fines de determinar su origen y características."
Operating model
CEFAe is a part-time multidisciplinary panel of FAA officers, civilian scientists from CONICET, and volunteer investigators. Reports are accepted by email; field investigations are dispatched for cases with corroborating sensor data or multiple witnesses. The commission has no standing budget allocation and runs on volunteer time.
Notable releases
2015 — preliminary report on a 2014 multi-witness event in Mar del Plata.
2017 — joint statement with CEFAA (Chile) and the FAB on cross-border air-traffic-control coordination for unidentified transponder returns.
2019 — public acknowledgement that "un porcentaje significativo de los reportes carecen de explicación convencional tras la investigación".