In the far south of Chile, where Patagonia folds into silence and ice, a camera trap set to watch cats caught something much stranger. At 12:22 a.m. on January 21, the device snapped three photos in two seconds. Instead of a puma or fox, it recorded blazing lights seemingly dropping out of the sky.

The trap belongs to the University of Magallanes’ Public Baseline project, which has 65 cameras scattered across Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego to track local wildlife. Since launching in late 2023, the network has gathered hundreds of thousands of images. Only these three stand out.

“On a camera located at the edge of a meadow, quite far from any public road and focused on a flat horizon, some lights appeared that we cannot explain,” biologist Alejandro Kusch said in a university podcast. “Ap

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