PERU – Game wardens combed Peru by ground and air Saturday after receiving reports of a low-flying military plane trailing a plume of smoke.
But investigators found no plane and called off the search after a few hours.
Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the state Public Safety Department, said police receiving numerous calls about the plane around 4 p.m.
Witnesses said the aircraft was flying in or around Peru and looked in trouble.
Wardens and police officers quickly began searching for the aircraft. Investigators said they also contacted a number of groups that deal with airplanes, including the Brunswick Naval Air Station and the FAA, but no one reported a late, missing or downed plane.
Wardens called off the search around 7 p.m. after concluding there was no plane crash.
McCausland said the reports were not a hoax.
“What it was, I don’t know,” he said.
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