Peruvian UFO shootdown

Several articles doing the media rounds this week about a 1980 incident where a Lt Huerta was scrambled in a Peruvian fighter jet to shoot down a UFO.

Some quotes from news.com.au -

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"The object then shot rapidly skywards away from the base, prompting Colonel Huerta to activate the plane’s afterburner to give chase 500m behind. As they reached the city of Camana, 84km from the base, the object came to a sudden stop, forcing him to veer to the side." .... "The bottom was a wider circular base, a silver colour, and looked like some kind of metal. It lacked all the typical components of aircraft. It had no wings, propulsion jets, exhausts, windows, antennae, and so forth. It had no visible propulsion system."

The only reference to this incident I can find in skeptical literature is from Skeptical Inquirer in 2011, which dismissed it as a weather balloon without much discussion.

Anyone familiar with a more thorough explanation?

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