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originally posted by: Samuel336
originally posted by: IndieA
a reply to: Samuel336
One thing I learned on ATS is that, lenses have signatures that can be used to identify them via lasers and fancy software.
It makes sense that reflective coatings, similar to what we see on some reflective sunglasses, could be used as a countermeasure to this technology.
I'm sorry I don't follow.. Lenses?
Unmasking the Pintuyacu “Pelecaras”
Update?
Don’t know what to call this one.
There is a huge push to discredit the Peru story. A bunch of accounts are JUST IN THE LAST 24 HOURS pushing very hard that it was miners in jet packs.
If you search “Peru alien" on twitter and click the latest tab up top instead of top stories you will see a glut of random accounts trying to change the narrative.
originally posted by: IndieA
a reply to: pianopraze
Boluarte Authorizes the Entry of US Military Into Peru
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The U.S. military will carry out operations with the Peruvian Joint Intelligence and Special Operations Command (CIOEC), the Joint Special Forces (FEC), the Navy's Special Operations Forces (FOE), the Air Force's Special Forces Group (GRUFE), the Anti-drug Directorate (DIRANDRO), and the Police's Special Forces Directorate (DIROES).
The training will take place in Lima, Callao, Loreto, San Martin, Santa Lucia, Huanuco, Ucayali, Pasco, Junin, Huancavelica, Cusco, Ayacucho, Iquitos, Pucusana and Apurimac.
The U.S. military will arrive in various groups, between June 1 and December 31. The largest group will be made up of 970 members of the U.S. Air Force, Space Force, and Special Forces.
Besides carrying their personal regulation weapons, they will arrive in Peru with planes, trucks and rapid response boats to take part in the "Resolute Sentinel 2023" maneuver.
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originally posted by: theshadowknows
a reply to: KKLOCO
Everyone is welcome
The Amazon forest and watershed shared by Peru, Colombia, and Brazil provide ideal cover for coca cultivation and processing. As a result, a coc aine trafficking chain has emerged there — one that begins with coca grown in Peru. The criminal infrastructure created to feed this trade also protects and promotes environmental crimes, such as illegal deforestation, timber trafficking, and illegal gold mining. The remote areas have little state presence, and the dense forest canopy makes illicit activities and armed groups largely invisible.
The tri-border where Colombia, Brazil, and Venezuela meet has continued to maintain its longstanding role as a transit corridor for coc aine. Though it’s not known as a drug production hub, the Venezuelan side may be seeing new coca cultivation.
For a decade, a faction of the Shining Path guerrilla force has holed up in the VRAEM, securing coca crops and moving coc aine on behalf of different clans. The government has, at times, tried to eradicate coca in the VRAEM with little success, yet the military presence appears to have pushed coca cultivation to other parts of the country — most dramatically, the Amazon wilderness along Peru’s tri-border with Colombia and Brazil. Previously, coca growing had been minimal there.
An official from Mariscal Ramón Castilla’s municipality mayor’s office, who asked to remain anonymous for security reasons, said he feared that the Amazon province has become another VRAEM for traffickers. Coca cultivation has doubled there over the past four years, and its 6,362 hectares of coca accounted for nearly all the illicit crops in Bajo Amazonas in 2021, according to the latest drug report. Bajo Amazonas was the third-largest area for cultivation in the country. “We are in an area that for the state is not a priority,” he said. “That is one of the reasons behind the increase in coca crops. We are on our own here.”
For years Peruvian authorities have focused their counternarcotics efforts in the VRAEM. Meanwhile, authorities have ignored the tri-border while criminal networks have taken advantage of the area’s natural infrastructure. Its numerous river arteries and thick jungle connect Colombia and Peru, the main drug-producing countries, with one of the major international coc aine exit points, Brazil.
It is unclear who controls coca cultivation and processing labs in Peru’s northeastern Amazon region. Colombian law enforcement officials mentioned a group called Clan Chuquizuta. The Indigenous and rural communities in Mariscal Ramón Castilla described the traffickers who are paying them in general terms as “narco-benefactors.” The most likely scenario is that the Peruvian traffickers in this region are freelancers who supply Brazilian and Colombian groups.
The Amazon River and its vast network of tributaries and streams provide smuggling routes from Peru into Colombia and Brazil. The withdrawal of the FARC after 2016 ended the Colombian group’s hegemony in the region, paving the way for an evolving mix of armed groups to compete for territory and nodes in the drug trafficking chain. Groups’ names change in this fluid criminal landscape. National and political allegiances are largely irrelevant. Alliances and enemies are made easily. Reaching deeper into this corner of the Amazon to control drug corridors, these armed groups have broadened into environmental crimes, particularly illegal gold mining.
The Indigenous leader said the gunmen who threatened her community called themselves the Sinaloa. Human rights officials and the representative of the National Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the Colombian Amazon, said they had also taken declarations from people who had been threatened by representatives of the so-called Sinaloa group.
The name Sinaloa doesn’t appear to have any connection to the notorious Mexican cartel. Instead, it has been used at times by members of the Border Command, a confluence of ex-FARC cells and remnants of the Colombian drug trafficking organization La Constru. The Border Command emerged in 2017 in the wake of the dissolution of the FARC’s Southern Bloc. Members have described themselves as opposed to injustices committed by FARC commanders, including not sharing wealth with the rank and file.
he Border Command, which the Colombian military has dubbed “residual structure 48,” controls much of the corridor along the Putumayo River, according to officials. The group’s sway stretches to the western Colombian department of Nariño, a key coc aine production and trafficking center, via Putumayo.
At some 300-strong, the extent of the Border Command’s influence in the deep recesses of Colombia’s Amazonas department is unclear.
originally posted by: KrustyKrab
a reply to: pianopraze
I need to go back and read this whole thread, read first part but thinking I’m missing some info in between. This is one of the most bizarre stories I’ve read. Watched all three of the girls testimonies, very bizarre. The powder and lotion was really weird, any ideas on that? And the cutting of her neck WTH? She seemed pretty certain that one was a native from Peru and other was a gringo that spoke poor broken Spanish. What purpose would they have for taking a 15 yr old girl? Apparently they dragged her by her legs and then gringo had her by the hair not wanting to let her go, but her brothers were coming to help and he did let go. This is just some really strange #. You could tell she wasn’t making any of it up.
I would like to hear what her brothers witnessed, because I believe she said they saw them flying away?
Something else that was weird is that the control panel seemed to be on the shin area, she said they had buttons there. Seems like a strange place to have a control panel of sorts. I’m wondering if it was part of their suit but linked up with the flying machine when they would step on it?
Another question… was the interviewer the guy that was headed there a few weeks ago to investigate?
Anyways maximum weirdness to say the least.