UFO Map: South America
As of March 2006, *U* lists 1229 UFO sightings in South America with 563 in Brazil, followed by Argentina (306), Venezuela (115), Chile (90), Peru (66), and Uruguay (36). Other nations logged fewer than 20 sightings each.The busiest UFO year in S. America was 1968 with 136 events .. 49 of these in July alone. Reports from That month came mainly from northern Argentina, central Chile and the southern coasts of Brazil.
15 other countries in South and Central America provided no reports at all in July of 1968.
Other busy years in South America were 1969 (80 cases), 1965 (69), 1954 (65) 1967 and 1992 (55 each).
Like the population, UFO sightings tend toward coastal areas in South America. Argentina is the major exception, with many sightings across its width, even in sparsely populated western ranching and mining areas.
The small busy island at the far North is Puerto Rico. At the opposite extreme, scientific stations in the Palmer Peninsula of Antarctica provided some interesting UFO reports.