Chile has just made public an incredible video taken by a high-tech infrared camera mounted on a Chilean Navy surveillance helicopter that is the most convincing proof UFOs exist -- and are doing more than just observing us.

The still unexplained video, which runs for nine minutes and 12 seconds, was taken mostly in infrared (or IR, a wavelength that detects heat) by a helicopter-mounted Wescam infrared camera, which is similar to that seen in a housing beneath the nose of U.S. aerial drones such as the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper.

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In IR, the hotter the material being filmed, the darker it appears on an image.

Filmed Nov. 11, 2014 by a Chilean Navy helicopter west of Santiago, capital of Chile, at an altitude of 1,370 meters (4,500 feet), the UFO was first observed by the helicopter crew at a distance of 35 to 40 miles.

The Chilean Navy helicopter (an Airbus Cougar AS-532) was on a routine daytime patrol mission flying north along the coast. Aboard were the pilot, a Navy Captain with many years of flying experience, and a Navy technician testing a WESCAM's MX-15 HD Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) camera, used for medium-altitude covert intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.

There was a cloud base above at 3,000 meters, and a layer of stratuscumulos clouds below. The helicopter was flying at some 245 km/h (152 mph).

The helicopter crew almost 10 minutes of what it probably the most baffling video ever taken of a UFO. They stopped filming when they had to return to the base and the object disappeared behind the clouds.

The Navy captain described the UFO as a "flat, elongated structure" with "two thermal spotlights-like discharges that did not coincide with the axis of motion."

More ominously, the UFO can be seen emitting what appears to be a chemical plume eight minutes into the video. The darker color indicates high heat, as captured by the infrared lens.

The video was thoroughly studied for over two years by the Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos (CEFAA), a Chilean agency responsible for investigating UFOs. CEFAA couldn't explain the video.

It also shared the video with experts, including a nuclear chemist, astrophysicist and video and image experts.

The video can be viewed here.

Adding more mystery to this mystery is that the UFO didn't appear on radar.

"This has been one of the most important cases in my career as director of CEFAA because our Committee was at its best," said Gen. Ricardo Bermúdez, former CEFAA director.

"The CEFAA is well regarded partly because there is full participation from the scientists of the academic world, the armed forces through their representatives, and the aeronautic personnel from the DGAC (Chile's equivalent of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration), including its Director.

"I am extremely pleased as well with the conclusion reached which is logical and unpretentious ... the great majority of committee members agreed to call the subject in question a UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon) due to the number of highly researched reasons that it was unanimously agreed could not explain it."

TagsChile, Chilean Navy, UFO, WESCAM's MX-15 HD Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) camera, Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos