The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is investigating claims that a mysterious aircraft was spotted over Port Kaituma, North West District last Thursday.
Stabroek News has been reliably informed that the GDF is in receipt of a report, the contents of which will be used as a basis for an investigation into the matter.
Stabroek News had been told of sightings of an unidentified aircraft by residents of Fitzburg and Canal Bank, Port Kaituma.
A Fitzburg resident, who asked not to be named, told this newspaper he first saw the strange aircraft “circling” in the airspace above the Port Kaituma Airstrip before heading down the river to an area called Canal Bank.
“… As it went down the river, it descended lower,” he said, before adding that the area where it was next spotted was in proximity to where the local authorities had discovered a makeshift submarine suspected to have been used to convey drugs from Colombia to Guyana two years ago.
With all of this in mind, the man said he contacted the Port Kaituma Police Station and relayed what he had seen. However, he was told that there was no transportation available for the ranks at that time to investigate.
The following day, the resident said, “I call a friend who living down the river and when he come by me the next day, he told me the workers on his farm see the plane as well as what they say look like four objects falling from the aircraft. They weren’t sure if it was objects or paratroopers.”
A similar account was given by another resident from Canal Bank, who described the aircraft as a “small jet” that did not resemble any aircraft he would have seen in Guyana before.
Meanwhile, Commander of ‘F’ Division Ravindradat Budhram told Stabroek News that several ranks in the area reportedly saw an unidentified aircraft in the Port Kaituma airspace on Thursday. Like the residents, they too had not seen any markings on the aircraft that could be used to possibly identify it.
Nevertheless, he stated that the police are investigating the matter.
