Chileans suspected that a UFO was hovering over the city of Iquique in the Tarapaca Region of Northern Chile last week.

Residents took photos and videos of the mysterious object that hovered over the city at night, Inquisitr reported. Some believed that their area was being watched by aliens and many took to social media to express their frustrations to the government.

Local authorities, however, said that the city is making a new public clock designed to beam the accurate time onto the night sky, and that the circle of blue light seen by the people was the design's "test run," Inquisitr further reported. National newspaper Soy Chile wrote that the project's construction is almost complete and that engineers are in the midst of conducting tests, though the clock's official unveiling date was not provided.

UFO bloggers insisted that Chilean authorities are covering up that there really is an alien surveying the city, or probably something more ominous, the news outlet added. Paul Seaburn of Mysterious Universe said that the circle of light did not resemble a clock display. He mentioned other alleged UFO sightings in the copper mines of Iquique earlier this year, as well as odd lights in the sky over some areas of Houston, Texas.

Scott Waring, an editor for UFO Sightings Daily, said that circle of lights coming from UFOs is a common occurrence and plenty of people have seen them in the past. He questioned why Chilean authorities chose to design a clock resembling a UFO, and speculated that city officials could have been persuaded by military authorities to fabricate explanations so as to prevent mass panic.

"It seems to me if the Chile military told the city officials to cover it up, they would. This object in the sky rotates and has an uneven form. Many ring UFOs have been seen in the past," Waring wrote on UFO Sightings Daily.

There are also speculations that the circle of light was a test run of Project Blue Beam. According to The Watcher Files, Project Blue Beam is a conspiracy theory which claims that NASA, together with the United Nations, is attempting to implement a New World Order (NWO) system that puts the Antichrist as its leader. This will be done by faking an alien invasion, or a Second Coming of Jesus.

Conspiracy theorists claimed that Project Blue Beam will be carried out through the use of state-of-the-art holographic projection technology, The Watcher Files added. The projected images would be so realistic that millions of Christians globally would be persuaded that the Second Coming has took place, and would fully accept the Antichrist's leadership pretending to be Jesus Christ.