Caso: Mathias Rudloff | La Luz del Enladrillado
Nombre del testigo: Mathias Rudloff
Ciudad y País: Altos de Lircay, Región del Maule, Chile
Fecha del incidente: 6 de diciembre de 2008
Hora aproximada: 20:00 horas, aproximadamente una hora antes de la
puesta de sol
Cantidad de Testigos: 3 personas (dos ingenieros y un arquitecto)
Dirección o Coordenadas: El Enladrillado, sector Valle del Venado,
Reserva Nacional Altos de Lircay, Región del Maule, Chile.
Coordenadas de referencia: 35.578627° S, 70.965970° O.
Mathias Rudloff,
ingeniero de profesión y aficionado desde hace años al estudio del fenómeno
OVNI, viajó en diciembre de 2008 junto a dos amigos desde Concepción hasta El
Enladrillado, en los Altos de Lircay, Región del Maule, Chile. El propósito del
viaje era realizar trekking y conocer uno de los paisajes cordilleranos más
singulares de la zona.
Durante la tarde del 6 de
diciembre, después de completar el ascenso y mientras los tres permanecían en
las alturas contemplando el Valle del Venado, una situación inesperada
transformaría aquella excursión en una experiencia que Mathias continuaría recordando
y tratando de comprender muchos años después.
Ponte cómodo, porque aquí comienza un nuevo Testimonio
OVNI.
Todo comenzó el viernes 5 de diciembre de 2008.
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Case: Mathias Rudloff | The Light of El Enladrillado
Witness Name: Mathias Rudloff
City and Country: Altos de Lircay, Maule Region, Chile
Date of Incident: December 6, 2008
Approximate Time: 8:00 p.m., approximately one hour before sunset
Number of Witnesses: 3 people (two engineers and one architect)
Location / Coordinates: El Enladrillado, Valle del Venado sector, Altos de Lircay National Reserve, Maule Region, Chile
Reference Coordinates: 35.578627° S, 70.965970° W
Research by Ivan Vega
Mathias Rudloff, an engineer by profession and a longtime enthusiast of the study of the UFO phenomenon, traveled in December 2008 with two friends from Concepción to El Enladrillado, in Altos de Lircay, Maule Region, Chile. The purpose of the trip was to go trekking and experience one of the area's most remarkable mountain landscapes.
On the afternoon of December 6, after completing the ascent and while the three of them were high in the mountains overlooking Valle del Venado, an unexpected event would transform that excursion into an experience Mathias would continue to remember and try to understand many years later.
Make yourself comfortable, because a new UFO Testimony begins here.
It all began on Friday, December 5, 2008.
I left Concepción with two friends, heading for El Enladrillado. Our goal was fairly simple: we wanted to go trekking, climb up to the site, and enjoy the experience of being deep in the mountains. Although the UFO phenomenon has long been one of my passions, my companions did not share that interest, so this trip was certainly not conceived as an expedition to look for UFOs. We were simply going to hike, explore the area, and spend a different kind of weekend.
That same Friday, we arrived at the CONAF sector and set up camp at approximately 10:00 p.m. Our intention was to rest during the night so that we could begin the ascent at dawn on Saturday.
Up to that point, everything had been completely normal.
We started early on Saturday, December 6.
We were fortunate with the weather. It was one of those days with perfect conditions for hiking in the mountains, and we completed the ascent without any major difficulties.
Throughout the entire hike, we neither saw nor noticed anything remotely unusual.
After several hours of trekking, we managed to reach El Enladrillado a couple of hours before sunset.
We had planned to stay there, although we knew there were restrictions on camping in the area because of the need to protect the natural environment at the summit. For that reason, we made every effort to move around carefully and treat the place with the utmost respect.
Once we had settled in, we did something fairly obvious after such a long hike: we began taking the customary photographs.
We photographed the landscape and anything else that caught our attention. Then we put our cameras away.
That detail would later become important.
Mine was inside its case. It was one of those small digital cameras that were widely used at the time, with an SD card. We did not have phones with today's photographic capabilities, nor were we constantly prepared to record something unexpected. We had finished taking pictures and simply put our equipment away.
We then sat down to look out over Valle del Venado while preparing something to eat.
I particularly remember how peaceful that moment was.
We were high in the mountains, surrounded by an immense landscape, looking down toward the valley as the afternoon slowly drew to a close.
There was one thing about the place that particularly caught my attention: the acoustics.
Looking toward the far end of Valle del Venado, we could make out a river. Somewhere along that river there was a waterfall and, despite being quite a long distance from us, we could faintly hear it from where we were.
That detail stayed with me.
There was a sense of silence and vastness that made it possible to hear sounds coming from places quite far away.
We were sitting there peacefully, preparing food and looking at the landscape.
Then, suddenly, one of my friends said:
“Look, look!”
I raised my head.
And there it was.
I saw a yellow light.
It appeared to be floating and moving slightly below our horizon line.
What first allowed me to visually gauge its position were the mountains behind it. We were not looking at something isolated in the middle of a completely empty sky; the terrain provided a backdrop, and we could see that light apparently moving below the horizon line.
Since El Enladrillado is located at an altitude of approximately 2,200 meters, my impression at the time was that the light might have been at around 2,000 or 2,100 meters.
I want to be precise about this: it was entirely a visual estimate.
We had no instruments with which to measure its altitude.
The same was true of the distance.
I estimated that it might have been approximately three or four kilometers away from us, but again, that was simply an estimate made by eye, using the landscape in front of us as a reference.
All three of us began watching it.
And we fell silent.
That is something I remember very clearly.
None of us immediately said:
“It’s an airplane.”
“It’s a helicopter.”
“It’s a reflection.”
No.
We simply stared at it.
Speechless.
I think part of our reaction was precisely because, during those first few seconds, none of us could find an obvious explanation for what we were seeing.
The light continued to move.
It was yellow and, from where we were standing, it appeared round.
I do not remember seeing any structure around it. We saw no wings, fuselage, or recognizable silhouette. What our eyes perceived was simply a yellow light moving against the backdrop of the mountains.
The entire event lasted approximately twenty seconds.
That may seem like very little time, but when you are looking at something you cannot identify, twenty seconds is enough time to observe, think, and begin asking yourself questions.
As I watched it, I thought again about something that had caught my attention just minutes earlier: the acoustics of the place.
We could faintly hear a waterfall that was quite far away.
So I wondered: if what we were seeing was some kind of vehicle or craft that produced a significant amount of noise, shouldn't we have heard something?
But we heard nothing that we could associate with that light.
No engine.
No humming or buzzing that we could identify.
Nothing that drew our attention apart from what we were seeing.
That silence was one of the things that impressed me most.
Another aspect that particularly caught my attention was the apparent size of the light. From where we were, it seemed considerably large and remarkably intense. Even today, I find it difficult to understand what kind of source could have produced such luminosity from the distance at which we estimated it to be.
Naturally, we began looking for explanations.
I am an engineer, and my first reaction when confronted with something strange is not necessarily to assume an extraordinary explanation. I try to consider alternatives and ask myself what known phenomenon might produce what I am observing.
So I began considering possibilities.
One of my first thoughts was that it might be a light similar to a car headlight, like a high beam.
But its apparent position did not make sense to me.
The light did not seem to be moving along any road or path that we could distinguish. From our perspective, it was moving in a position that we could not associate with the normal movement of a ground vehicle.
And there was still the issue of the sound.
We could not hear an engine or anything similar.
Then I considered another possibility.
Could it simply have been a reflection of the Sun?
Yes.
That was a possibility.
The Sun was setting to our left and behind us. Therefore, it made sense to wonder whether some distant object might have been reflecting sunlight directly toward our position.
I thought about that as we continued watching it.
However, there was something that made me uncertain.
The intensity of the light appeared to remain fairly constant.
I do not remember it clearly becoming brighter and dimmer as it moved. Nor do I remember any intermittent flashes. During those seconds, we perceived it as having a fairly steady brightness.
If it was a reflection produced by a moving object, I wondered why the intensity did not change more noticeably as the angle between the Sun, the object, and our position changed.
But I could not rule it out either.
I simply could not make that explanation fully fit what I was seeing.
The light continued on its path.
From our perspective, it was traveling approximately from south to north.
We continued watching it until we finally lost sight of it.
From the moment my friend alerted us until the moment we could no longer see it, approximately twenty seconds must have passed.
That was all.
Twenty seconds.
Afterward, we inevitably began wondering what it might have been.
It is also important to put this into the context of the year in which it happened.
It was December 2008.
Consumer drones were not part of everyday life as they are today. At that time, at least for us, it was not natural to see a light moving through the sky and immediately think of a small drone equipped with lights.
The area also seemed quite isolated to us.
During our time there, we had not observed any air traffic that would have immediately made us think of a conventional aircraft.
I kept trying to find an explanation that made sense.
And I remember that, somewhat ironically, I ended up imagining something rather absurd.
I thought:
“For this to be something conventional, there would have to be, I don't know, someone on a paraglider with a fifty-centimeter-diameter spotlight aimed directly at us for twenty seconds.”
It was simply a way of expressing how difficult I found it to reconcile what I was seeing with anything I could recognize.
But we saw no paraglider.
We could not make out a person.
We saw no wings.
We observed no structure around it.
We saw nothing we could recognize as an aircraft.
All we saw was that round, yellow light.
After the sighting, we took a photograph.
That image shows something else I remember clearly: the weather began changing quite rapidly.
A bank of clouds began moving in from the west.
The landscape, which had been clear shortly before, began to change.
For us, this detail was important because the sighting had occurred before those clouds moved in. From our perspective, moreover, what we had observed was above the apparent level that the cloud bank would later occupy.
Everything had happened very quickly.
Just minutes earlier, we had simply been sitting there looking out over Valle del Venado and preparing something to eat. Our cameras were packed away, and the entire day had passed without anything unusual happening.
There were three of us: two engineers and an architect. All three of us saw the same thing, from the same location, during the same period of time.
Over the years, I have mentally returned to those few seconds many times. I have considered a reflection, some type of aircraft, a conventional light source, and even the possibility that we had incorrectly interpreted its distance or position.
I am also aware that the estimates I made were based solely on visual observation. We had no measuring instruments, so I cannot claim that it was exactly three or four kilometers away from us, nor that it was at an altitude of 2,000 or 2,100 meters.
What I can tell you is what I remember seeing.
A yellow, apparently round light moving in front of the mountains in an approximately south-to-north direction. We perceived no sound that we could associate with it, and its intensity appeared to remain fairly constant for as long as it was visible to us.
I cannot say with certainty what it was.
We went to El Enladrillado simply to go trekking. We were not conducting an investigation, and my companions did not even share my interest in the UFO phenomenon. Nothing led us to believe that afternoon would turn into an experience we would still be remembering so many years later.
To this day, none of the three of us has found an explanation that completely satisfies us.
And after all this time, I still ask myself the same question:
What was it that we saw over Valle del Venado?
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