A tourist captured images of a supposed UFO while visiting Costa Rica’s Irazu Volcano National Park in Cartago last month.

The tourist reported the sighting and sent images to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), an organization that maintains a database of UFO sightings around the world.

According to the witness, he and his girlfriend were taking pictures of the volcano and the landscape shortly after 11 a.m. on February 24^th when he unknowingly captured the images.

“The clouds looked like a white sea, but I noticed close to one of the mountains some clouds with different forms, so I started to take pictures there,” the witness states in the report.

Later, while heading home, the man began reviewing his snapshots. “While I was checking the pictures, I noticed one black circle above the mountains I noticed before. It looked like a circular saucer with two little antennas – one on the top of it and like one on its tail. On the moment while taking the pictures, I did not see it. I took the pictures in a burst. On one picture you can see the object completely clear. On the next one it vanished – almost in seconds. All the pictures have less than one-minute difference,” the tourist reported.

 

Not the first UFO sightings in Costa Rica

Last month’s UFO sighting is far from the first in the country.

In August 2011, a series of strange lights in the night sky captured the attention of dozens of people in the San Jose neighborhood of Moravia. A video of the event was even broadcast on the nightly television news.

A number of UFOs have also been reported and photographed around the Arenal Volcano, in the northern part of the country.

Perhaps the country’s most famous UFO sighting occurred in 1971, when a professional team of aerial photographers, geographers, and topographers conducted a flyover of Lake Cote, also in northern Costa Rica, and captured an image of what appeared to be a large disc either emerging from the lake or hovering just slightly above it. Experts who analyzed the 1971 photograph say that neither the image nor the film had been in any way altered and was not the result of double exposure.