

Operação Prato, a Brazilian Air Force investigation of a prolonged UFO flap in 1977-78, is one of the most important episodes in the history of world ufology. Today, more than a quarter of a century later, the classified files from the operation are still off limits to the public, but many of the secrets are known to Brazilian ufologists. Read on and you can learn what they know.
Operação Prato (“Operation
Plate” in English) was once again in the news on
Furthermore, according
to Brazilian ufology leader A. J. Gevaerd, who was one of those at the meetings,
the Air Force leaders said they (1) recognized the importance of ufology,
(2) pledged to help get classified files opened to the public, and (3) guaranteed
that steps would be taken to form a joint committee of military and civilian
UFO researchers to study the phenomenon.
This was a victory for the “freedom of information” campaign that was started in April 2004by Gevaerd, who is publisher of the Brazilian UFO magazine Revista UFO. Eventually, 36,000 people are said to have signed petitions to the government to get the files opened.
During meetings on May
20 with generals at two different agencies – the
In the
During the operation the
agents themselves saw UFOs numerous times and took hundreds
of
photographs (such as the one at left, taken at 3:25 AM on December 11, 1977;
the sketch below shows what was seen at the time) as well as several hours
of motion picture films. Some of the films reportedly showed UFOs diving into
or coming out of the waters of nearby
During the Brasília meetings,
the ufologists were allowed to examine about 110 photos and 160
documents
from Operation Prato. They were also permitted to examine files about an airliner-UFO
encounter in 1954, and the massive radar detection of UFOs over much of
Although very promising,
the apparent harmony of May 20 does not mean the Air Force’s UFO files will
definitely be available to the public. Before that can come about, the chief
of the Air Force, the Defense Minister and
This is not the first time
the Brazilian government has been open about UFOs. The most widely publicized
event occurred on the night of
Four days later, the government held an unprecedented nationally televised press conference to let the pilots tell the country what they'd seen when they went after the UFOs.
"I watched the lights in front and on each side of my radar screen," said one pilot. "I managed to close to within ten kilometers of one light, but from that moment on I was unable to get closer."
Said another: "I was warned by ground control there were several contacts ahead of me approximately thirty kilometers away. I was also warned that contacts were approaching from behind and they came on until they were three kilometers behind me. I had to dive and as I did the contacts started to climb."
Ground controllers told still another pilot that thirteen UFOs were pursuing him, six on one side of him and seven on the other.
The next day, Octávio Moreira Lima, then the Air Force Minister, went on national TV and said: "Technically, there is no explanation. We shall obtain the CINDACTA reports. We haven't the slightest intention of hiding anything from the press."
Two days later,
That was in 1986 and since
then the government said nothing more about the incident until the
The1986 incident was not
the first time Air Force pilots were permitted to speak publicly about UFOs,
according to veteran Brazilian ufologist Alberto Francisco do
Carmo.
In
November 1954, Colonel João Adil de Oliveira gave a public lecture about UFOs
before influential Brazilians and members of the press in
Colonel Oliveira was personally interested in UFOs and maintained a large collection of case files. He initiated and directed the first Brazilian Air Force study of UFOs, but he died several years later and the study was dropped.
Another study, also according
to Alberto do Carmo, was begun around 1966 after a series of UFO sightings
and encounters northwest of
The most significant instance
in which the government showed such an overt interest in sightings
was
Operação Prato, when the Air Force investigated the Colares-area sightings
in 1977 and 1978, but the results were never made public.
As stated earlier, Intelligence agents spent four months investigating hundreds of sightings and encounters. It was a small team consisting only of Captain Uyrangê Hollanda and six sergeants, who were armed only with a theodlite, cameras and tape recorders.
The men were sent to the Colares area only after several mayors complained that their villages had come under attack by UFOs and appealed to the Air Force for help. Whether the Air Force would have investigated the sightings if the mayors had not pleaded for help is not known, and most of the key officers who could tell us are now dead.
After four months, Brigadier
Protázio Lopes de Oliveira, the base commander in Belém,
shut
down the investigation. Hollanda and his second in command, Sergeant Flávio
Costa, then compiled a final report consisting of about 500 pages of documents
plus several hundred photos and motion picture films of UFOs, and numerous
maps and sketches. Many of the sketches show the paths of several UFOs passing
over an area on the same night.
All of this was sent to
Air Force Headquarters in Brasília and none of the records were made public
until
However, over the years photocopies of many of the Operação Prato documents and at least eighteen photographs were leaked to civilian researchers. These documents contain summaries of more than 300 sightings and encounters in Colares and the other villages. At least half of the reports were about sightings that Captain Hollanda and the sergeants themselves had.
In 1997, long after he had retired as a lieutenant colonel, Hollanda decided he was no longer obligated to remain silent about Operação Prato and publicly discussed Operação Prato.
He gave several interviews,
including one with fellow researcher Cynthia Luce and me. He told us “many
people” had been burned by UFOs during the UFO wave, both on the
few mention any burns or injuries, and there is no mention of anyone dying.
Yet we know the team photographed burn victims, although how many is not known. A doctor once told Belém researcher Daniel Rebisso Giese that a colonel had shown him many photos of people who had been burned. And in 1993, Daniel and I interviewed one victim, Manoel Emídio Campo de Oliveira, who said investigators took photographs of a burn on the top of his left thigh. Daniel, a biologist, has done more research on the Colares flap than anyone else and has published a book about it, Vampiros Extraterrestres na Amazônia.
Wellaide Carvalho, the doctor in Colares at the time, told Daniel and me in 1993 that she had treated about forty people who had been burned and that two of them died. She said members of the Air Force team knew people had been burned.
Operation
earlier,
in April 1977, several hundred miles to the east in the neighboring state
of Maranhão. It then swept west over the Colares-Belém area and continued
far to the west toward
Hollanda was convinced
that the 1977-78 UFO wave covered an enormous area of northern
As for the
number
of times and passed on to others. Today, every one of the 400 to 500 active
Brazilian ufologists probably has copies, and I was fortunate to obtain some
myself. Who leaked the originals is something most of us will probably never
know.
Over the years I was given three batches of documents (in 1991, 1997 and 1999). Altogether I have about 400 pages, including the eighteen photos of UFOs with identifying information and sketches on the backs of the photos. Of this 400 or so, about half were duplicates. Some of the photocopies are a bit faded and hard to read, and no doubt are copies of copies of copies, etc.
The documents are not always
in chronological order, and sometimes a particular sighting will be described
again in other documents but in more or less detail. Captain Hollanda and
Sergeant
Flávio,
who prepared the documents, are now dead and we may never know if they made
second or third sets, adding, deleting or correcting details. It is as if
they were not always satisfied with their reports and revised them without
destroying the originals ― all of which could have wound up in the Air
Force archives.
At the time of the flap Hollanda was the chief financial officer for the Belém air base but under cover was head of operations for A2, the intelligence branch. It was he who selected the name Operação Prato. As he explained to Cynthia Luce and me in 1997:
“Why
the name
That's
why I called it Operação Prato.”
Although I do not speak
Portuguese, I gained a modest vocabulary in fourteen visits to
I translated the documents, hoping to one day write a book about the flap. I probably already have enough material – I have been looking into this flap off and on since 1978 – but much more research is needed, not only in the Colares area but far to the east in the state of Maranhão and far to the west as well, all the way to Manaus and beyond. Now, nearly thirty years after the flap, many of people I would like to talk to are dead or difficult to locate. If the Air Force does one day open its UFO files to the public, the files may help young Brazilian ufologists to someday complete the job of telling the story of the flap.
As it is, I culled well
over 300 cases from the Operação Prato documents and organized them in chronological
order (by year, month, date and time of day), as you will see below. For example,
the report on a sighting that occurred at
Translation notes:
1. The Brazilian “município”
can be translated as “county.” The
2. Many people in the flap area called the UFOs “Chupa” or “Chupa-Chupa” (from the verb chupar, meaning “to suck”) because they believed blood was being sucked (chupada) from them when they were hit by a beam of light from a UFO.
3. The reports on many
of the sightings freely mix “feet” and “meters” in estimating distances and
altitudes. Although
4. “PA-16” refers to the state highway Pará 16.
5. Alfredo de La Õ, the
priest named in several sightings below, was an American and native of
6. Despite having access to half a dozen dictionaries and grammar books, I was not able to translate every word or didn’t understand what was said. Thus, I used ellipses to indicate missing words or phrases …
7. Even though the first agents did not arrive in Colares until mid-October 1977, the compilation below starts with sightings that occurred in August and September that the investigators learned about and documented.
8. Maps and other images are scattered throughout the file and may not be
near the listings telling of those sigthings. That is because many of the
images would be clumped together in one or two areas. So I spread them out
to break up the long blocks of text.
Final Note: The dates of some images (maps, sketches, paths of UFOs) may refer
to sightings not noted in the narrative because, as said before, the documents
that we have are nowhere near the total number of documents sent to the Air
Force archives.
As interesting as these leaked documents are, I feel they are only a fraction of the Operação Prato files, possibly a small fraction.
Some of the Operação
Prato Files
770821/21:30 – Santo Antônio
do Tauá – Nina Martins da Silva, 38, literate, domestic, resident Km. 19,
Highway PA-16, Município de Santo Antônio do Tauá – She says she was alone
in her house when she looked out the window and saw a light or object moving
at low height and speed from east to west, about 20 meters high, over the
trees next to the road. She didn’t hear any noise. The object was observed
for a short distance and appeared to her to be between 1.20 and 1.50 meters
in size. She said she had already seen other lights moving about in the sky.
She
added
that the color was a bright
yellow that was almost red. Dona Nina, according to her neighbors,
has mental problems, probably epilepsy.
770902/22:00 – Santo Antônio do Tauá – Amelia Martins da Silva, 77, literate, domestic, resident Km. 19, Highway PA-16, Município de Santo Antônio do Tauá – Walking from Santo Antônio do Tauá to her home with one of her daughters Odete; when 2 kilometers from the village she saw coming from the right a reddish-yellow light, very bright (like the headlight on a car). Initially the light was cutting diagonally across the road; it abruptly changed direction (45 degrees) coming exactly in the direction of her and her daughter, rapidly crossing to… their left (? faint copy); they sought shelter under a tree… (faint copy)… the object stopped for several minutes, then slowly moved …and returned to its original direction (E/SW) and headed toward Vigia/Belém. Dona Amelia suffered no physical effects nor fear and thought the object was very beautiful and she was pleased to see such a new thing. The altitude was about 30 meters. DESCRIPTION OF OBJECT: Size about 1.30 meters (compared to a table in her home), one meter high, round like an inverted plate with a sharp protuberance sticking out from which came a reddish luminescence, being in turn the color blue from which came bright light giving the impression of being transparent. She did not see any human forms inside the object. Its movement was slow, but at times it accelerated with the speed of a jet plane. Dona Amelia was lucid and very sure of what she saw. (Odete Martins da Silva, 35 – Being by temperament very timid, she agreed with the accuracy of the report of her mother, confirming the facts. She had nothing to add.)
770910/19:30 – Santo Antônio
do Ubintuba - Rio Bituba, side road at Km 32, PA-16
– Beatriz Almada da Costa, 32, literate, domestic,
resident of Vila Nova do Ubintuba-Vigia – She was in her house with her children
when she saw a ray of reddish light penetrating the roof (very faint copy)… spreads through her body with
chills, and in the beginning feeling partly paralyzed and shaking. With great
difficulty she screamed for help from her sister who lives nearby. Her sister
soon arrived but saw and heard nothing. Dona Beatriz then had pain in her
shoulder blades but had no other symptoms. No electricity in locality. NOTE:
A ray of light chased Dona Beatriz, who said she had the same
symptoms three times before, on 770911/03:30, 771013/23:30 and 771020/
770911/03:30 – Santo Antônio do Ubintuba - Rio Bituba, side road at Km 32, PA-16 – Beatriz Almada da Costa, 32 – Reddish lights in interior of house causing fear and anxiety. No electricity in locality.
770914/21:30 – Santo Antônio do Ubintuba - Rio Bituba, side road at Km 32, PA-16 – Abel Soares Trindade, 28 – He was in his home listening to the radio when he saw a bluish light coming through the roof tiles; he felt semi-paralyzed, feeling as if his head was expanding; he screamed loudly for help, then couldn’t say anything (as if his throat was blocked). After the incident passed, he had a headache and hoarseness for several days.
770922/21:30 – Santo Antônio
do Tauá – Raimundo Francisco das Chagas,
36 – Was returning from Santo Antônio do Tauá to his home (side road at Km.
12 PA-16) about 6 kilometers from the highway. Walking on foot, smoking absentmindedly
when he saw a very bright yellowish light coming down in his
direction (about like a car’s headlight). He ran, leaving the path and hid
in the bushes. Chased by the light,
he came to a grove of palm trees, where he hid and stayed immobile. The “apparatus” was searching for him,
emitting rays of
blue light in various directions… He did not see the shape of the
object because he was too frightened. He did not hear any noise from the object
as it moved; he heard a hissing sound that reminded him of an irrigation pump
on a nearby farm. The object moved lower in the direction of the village (NW),
initially proceeding from east to west. He lost everything he had been carrying
home. He felt a slight
numbness
that lasted for several days.
771010/02:00 – Colares
– Orlando Fontenelle Trindade, 40 literate…
resident of Colares – Bright blue light over the water at a height of
1.50 to 2.00 meters, like a traffic light on a small mast. Light was seen
until
771011/03:30 – Santo Antônio do Ubintuba - Rio Bituba, side road at Km 32, PA-16 – Miguel Arcângelo Soares, 32, literate, farm worker – He lives in the locality known as Vila Nova do Ubintuba and was getting ready to go to the village of Vigia when he heard his neighbors shouting "There it goes! There it goes!" He left his house using the back door in time to see a reddish-yellow light moving slowly about 60 meters high, going SE/NW (Santo Antônio do Ubintuba), emitting a ray of blue light; frightened, he yelled to his wife to stay in the house… he went back inside the house and felt as if he had had an electric shock from a ray of light… like a charge of static electricity… He felt partially paralyzed, a numbness which spread from his feet to his head, accompanied by chills and growing heat for some minutes. He was hoarse and felt a pain in the back of his neck.
771012/02:00 – Campo Cerrado, Santo Antônio do Tauá – Manoel Matos de Souza (“Coronha”), 38, literate, farm worker, resident of Colónia Campo Cerrado, side road at Km. 23 PA-16 – Light hovering about 20 meters above the ground over the trees, blue with three vertical black stripes in the center, round (like a farinha oven), lighting up everything around it. Witness pointed his gun at it and was hit by a ray of red light, which felt like electricity, paralyzing him…
771012/23:30 – Santo Antônio do Tauá – Manoel do Espirito Santo, 20, high school student , resident of Santo Antônio do Tauá (town) – Was in front of his house with some friends, Júlio, Paulo, Deca and Carlito) when he saw a yellow light moving E/W, slowing in speed and stopping about 20 meters from the group. He said he could see two crew members inside who appeared to be human, one man and a woman; the “man” was on the left side and the woman on the right side of the “apparatus”; both wore glasses (different shape) and communication gear (earphones)…the one on the left (?)… more attentively to the group of people. At the same time the other, behind a horizontal tube (?) …directed a ray of red light toward the group; having been hit directly, it felt like an electric shock, from the feet to the head; then felt paralyzed (arms and legs immobilized) and semi-conscious. The object gradually began to move away, gaining altitude and speed. Manoel was able to move again, feeling numb for some minutes. DESCRIPTION OF OBJECT: From a distance it seemed like a reddish-yellow star; it turned more yellow as it came closer. He observed a bluish light in the front top part. It had the shape of a barrel with a thin tube (reddish)… and another, more slender, horizontal (45 degrees) one which emitted the ray of blue light. The apparent size was 1.20 to 1.40 meters and gave the appearance of being transparent (in the bluish part) with a division between the two crew members. The movement: It climbed straight up in a wavy motion (like a leaf in the wind) until it reached a certain altitude, abruptly varying its speed (impulses)… (rest too faint to read).
771012/23:30 – Santo Antônio do Tauá – Manoel dos Santos, 40, literate, farm worker, resident of Santo Antônio do Tauá (town) – Was sleeping in his home with his children with the lights (oil lamp) out when the inside of his house was lit up by a light coming through the roof. He tried to get up but wasn’t able to, feeling paralyzed. He tried to scream but wasn’t able to immediately. After some minutes he was able to stand up and listened to hear if his neighbors were calling for help. Manoel spent eight days with the left side of his body numb and sore. He says he still sees lights at low altitude in front of his home that are silent, different from planes; the lights always seem to come from the direction of sunrise (east), their speed varying, arriving at times to stop and suddenly speed up and disappear.
771013/03:25 – Colares – Alfredo de La Õ, 48 (priest) – Reddish light moving 20 meters above the bay N/S emitting a strong light that reflected on the water, moving at great speed faster than a jet plane, about 50 centimeters in diameter, to 75 meters from the witness (a priest)…
771013/03:25 – Colares
– Alfredo de La Õ, 47, priest, resident Santa Rosa da Vigia – After being
awakened by insistent barking of dogs in nearby houses, he saw an object that
caught his attention by emitting a
bright light, moving through the sky… It was a reddish light 20 meters above the bay N/S emitting a strong light that reflected on
the water, moving at great speed faster than a jet plane… (very faint copy)… He heard no sound coming from the object.
Father Alfredo was about 75 meters from the closest point in the trajectory
of the object. He estimated the size at about 50 centimeters (compared to
the top of a barrel). He said the top part of the object emitted a strong red light, and the bottom
part a very
bright blue, lighting up
everything around wherever it passed. Note: The electricity in the town
had been shut off at
771013/23:30 – Santo Antônio do Tauá – Alzira Farias de Campos, 55, literate, Km. 12 PA-16, Município of Santo Antônio do Tauá – Dona Alzira was going into the backyard of her home… and saw a huge light high over a mangrove tree (20 meters), frightening her and she ran inside her house, being hit on the left leg by a ray of reddish light, falling over a stool in the kitchen. She felt a growing numbness and a chill traveling up her body from her feet to her head. She was helped by her daughter. Later she suffered from a headache, shaking and lethargy for eight days.
771014/03:00 – São Braz - Santo Antônio do Tauá – Benedito Ferreira de Figueiredo, 48, literate, farm worker, resident of São Braz - Santo Antônio do Tauá – Intense blue light hovering at low altitude (30 meters) over top of a tree. Witness could not see shape or size, seeing it stopped 30 meters away for some seconds, then moving SE/NW slowly like a leaf (undulating), then gaining altitude. He heard no noise. Witness was badly frightened for some minutes but had no other effects.
771014/03:00 – São Braz - Santo Antônio do Tauá – Elísio de Souza Torres, 28, literate, farm worker, resident of São Braz - Santo Antônio do Tauá – Bright blue light the color of a soldering torch moving slowly above trees (30 meters) about 40 meters away, moving E/W. Could not distinguish shape or size.
771015/04:00 – Colares – Raimundo Galvão Trindade, 36 – Was sleeping in his home in the village when he was awakened by a light in the room… (faint copy)…felt as if he had been pricked by a needle on the inside of his right thigh. He said he then looked out the window but saw nothing unusual, only a bright light like the setting sun; the moon was a in another position. In the morning he got up feeling weakness in the exact same spot where he felt the prick, a numbness. He had a headache and was dizzy. His right thigh had a red area and was hot…
771016/05:30 – Santo Antônio do Ubintuba - Rio Bituba, side road at Km 32, PA-16 – Raimundo Nonato Barbosa (“Birro”), 48 – He said he was returning to his house… and when he was near a friend’s house he felt like he was losing his strength… he lost one of his shoes… but continued walking… looked back over his shoulder and saw a circular reddish-yellow shape with multi-colored tail 30 to 40 meters away … about 1.50 meters in size moving five to ten meters above the ground and emitting a ray of bright blue light that hit witness in the back. No noise. Very frightened, he gathered his strength to run to the home of his friend, screaming for help. In a hurry to see behind him…the object had stopped just over the trees, leaving behind a trail of sparkling flashes of different colors. He complained his body was shaking, he had a headache and felt numbness and partial paralysis and other physical effects for several days. No burns or other symptoms were observed…
771016/18:30 and 771022/19:30
– Colares – Wellaide Cecim Carvalho, 24, doctor and head of
the
Colares Hospital – Dr. Wellaide affirmed having observed on the days and hours
respectively cited a bright metallic object spinning over
the front part of the village (beach of Cajueiro
NE at low altitude, 100 meters) at a estimated distance of 1,500 meters without
producing the least sound. She described the objects this way: Conical-cylindrical
shape (upper part more narrow) having an apparent
size at that distance of 3 meters in width and 2 in diameter. It moved in an irregular manner (vertical
position on its longitudinal axis), accentuated wavy or rocking motion, all the time making swift stops and turning at the same time.
She says she observed closely, being on one occasion
accompanied
by other people in front of the local state hospital. She was interviewed
by elements of Equipe (team); others affirmed what
she said. Staking her ethical and professional reputation, she… made a more
complete communication with reference to people who said they had been attacked by rays of light from
unknown source (four cases were attended). She said, besides “crise nervosa,” her patients had other symptoms… (Partial
paralysis of the body) evidencing a different … clinical picture when having
a crise nervosa where the areas of attack were the extremities.
Her patients reported headaches, debility, dizziness, generalized tremors…
and, more important, first-degree burns
marked by tiny perforations. According to the sex, the
males on the neck (jugular) and the women on the chest (only one case).
I asked for her personal opinion (why these things were happening), she said
she believes the things that have been occurring in the region….
771018/21:00 – Santo Antônio do Ubintuba - Rio Bituba, side road at Km 32, PA-16 – Adelaide Pereira da Silva, 37, literate, domestic, resident of village of Burrega – She saw that her bedroom was lit up by a reddish light that filled the entire house. With the doors and windows closed, she opened the window [probably wooden shutters] slightly and noticed an object of bright blue light moving slowly just above the nearby trees (30 meters). She felt intense pain in her eyes and her whole body was numb, which lasted for several days.
771018/21:00 – Santo Antônio do Ubintuba - Rio Bituba, side road at Km 32, PA-16 – Maria Celeste Pereira da Silva, 20 – At the same time that her mother Adelaide saw the light that invaded her home (see above), she felt pain in her whole body… numbness from the feet up, intense heat from the right shoulder to her head; she believes she was hit directly in the right side of her body by a ray of reddish light.
771018/21:00 – Santo Antônio do Ubintuba - Rio Bituba, side road at Km 32, PA-16 – Emanuel de Souza Farias, 21 – He was in the same room with Maria Celeste (see above) and saw the light but felt no physical effects.
771018/21:30 – Santo Antônio do Ubintuba - Rio Bituba, side road at Km 32, PA-16 – Maria Francisca Furtado, 30 – She lives a little ways outside of the village known as Vila Nova do Ubintuba, where the “light” was frequently seen. She and her companion went daily to the home of Miguel Arcângelo Soares, where a number of families sleep. On the day and hour referred to, she was hit by a ray of light that left her semi-paralyzed. When she was hit, it felt like an electric shock… and she trembled from head to foot, with numbness on the right side of her body. This sensation lasted for one hour, leaving her with a headache and hoarseness. She was not outside the house and did not see the object.
771018/21:30 – Campo Cerrado - Santo Antônio do Tauá – Maria das Graças Souza, 20, primary instruction, domestic, resident of Campo Cerrado, side road at Km. 23, PA-16 – Reddish-yellow light 30 meters above the ground, circular in shape, about 1.20 meters in size 60 meters away, moving slowly. Witness too frightened to see clearly…
771018/21:30 – Rio Guamá
- Bujarú – Adelaide Pereira da Silva, 37, literate,
domestic, resident of
771018/21:30 – Highway PA-16, Km 23 to Campo Cerrado - Santo Antônio do Tauá – Yellowish light moving at low altitude a little above the trees (30 meters), circular in shape, apparent size 1.20 meters in diameter. Witness Gabriel Brasil, 39, military (lieutenant colonel) resident of Belém, did not see any details of object…
771018/23:00 – Colares
– Claudomira Rodrigues da Paixão, 35 – Heard by the chief of the Second Section
(Sgt. Flávio) – She said she was sleeping in a hammock in a room with her
cousin and her children. She saw a
light (the town’s electricity had been shut off at 22:00) that traveled all over her body (like a lantern), striking her on
the left side of her chest, sucking (blood from it), The light went down the
back of her right hand where it felt as if she had been pricked by needle.
She tried to cry out for help, but couldn’t make a sound. Her body was half-paralyzed.
Everything
was totally lit by a greenish light. She felt a strange torpor.
She was aroused by her cousin, who also saw the light and screamed. Claudomira
cried out, “I am ruined (sic), the ‘animal’ sucked
me.’ She felt great heat in the breast and the back of the right hand, a headache,
and pressure on her chest. She was treated by Dr. Wellaide, who sent her to
the IML (Instituto Medico Legal, or medical examiner’s office in Belém). There
she was examined by a
doctor
and told to come back for another examination. [For more on her story,
see Colares.]
771018/23:00 – Santo Antônio do Ubintuba - Rio Bituba, side road at KM 32, PA-16 – Miguel Arcângelo Soares, 32, lives in the village known as Vila Nova do Ubintuba. On hearing shouts warning of an object, Dona Teofila Furtado Soares, Miguel’s wife, observed that on suffering a new crisis, Miguel was pale and standing still like he was stuck to the table … like a young child … Both complained of headaches.
771019/19:30 – Colares
– Antônio Acácio de Oliveira, 53, literate, cabinetmaker, resident of
Colares – Observed the passing of a reddish-yellow light moving above the trees
in front of his house.
The
light dimmed to a small point of light; after suddenly stopping, it
emitted three rapid rays of blue light (like the color of
the Colares beacon) toward the village, at the same time moving N/S. Antônio
then fired two shots at the object with his gun.
771020/04:00 – Colares – Reddish-yellow light about 500 meters high, moving N/S, medium speed, apparent size 2.5 centimeters…
771020/20:00 – Município of Vigia - Santo Antônio do Ubintuba – Reddish light medium speed above 35,000 feet SE/NW, straight trajectory…
771020/20:00 – Santo Antônio,
Município of Santo Antônio do Tauá – Bluish light E/W above
35,000
feet. Great speed, going straight.
771020/20:00 – Município of Santo Antônio do Tauá – Light high moving fast E/W. Trajectory regular and uniform (Probably a satellite).
771020/20:15 – Município of Vigia - Santo Antônio do Ubintuba – Reddish-yellow light moving N/S about 3,600 feet, curving path, 2 to 3 centimeters in size…
771020/20:00 – Município of Santo Antônio do Tauá – Bright blue light S/N above 35,000 feet. Great speed, going straight. (Probably a satellite)
771020/21:30 – Município of Santo Antônio do Tauá – Bright blue light above 35,000 feet moving fast S/N. Trajectory regular and uniform (Probably a satellite).
771022/19:00 – Município
of Vigia -
Santo
Antônio do Ubintuba – Two bluish lights W/E parallel apparent distance
3 meters apart, above 35,000 feet. Great speed, going straight.
(Probably a satellite).
771022/19:15 – Município of Vigia - Santo Antônio do Ubintuba – Bright blue light at great speed W/E above 35,000 feet. Trajectory regular and uniform. (Probably a satellite).
771022/19:30 – Município
of Vigia - Santo Antônio do Ubintuba – Flashing blue light at great speed W/E above 35,000
feet. Trajectory regular and uniform. (Probably a satellite).
771022/20:00 – Município of Vigia - Santo Antônio do Ubintuba – Dull yellow light at great speed SE/NW above 35,000 feet, straight trajectory. (Probably a satellite).
771022/20:15 – Município of Vigia - Santo Antônio do Ubintuba – Flashing blue light at great speed W/E above 35,000 feet, straight trajectory. (Probably a satellite).
771022/22:40 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro) – Yellow light moving NW/SE above 35,000 feet, high speed, straight trajectory.
771023/00:25 – Município of Vigia - Santo Antônio do Ubintuba – White-blue light NW/SE above 35,000 feet, medium speed, trajectory regular and uniform (Probably a satellite).
771023/00:30 – Município of Vigia - Santo Antônio do Ubintuba – Clear yellow light above 20,000 feet NW/SE, great speed, curving trajectory to the right, apparent size 1 centimeter.
771023/01:00 – Colares
– José Jorge dos
771023/01:20 – Município of Vigia - Santo Antônio do Ubintuba – Dull blue light W/E above 35,000 feet, high speed, trajectory regular and uniform. (Probably a satellite).
771023/02:00 – Colares – Emídio Campo de Oliveira, 50 – Said he awakened in the middle of the night feeling weak, tried to get up but couldn’t, fell asleep again and in the morning saw that he had a spot on the inside of his right thigh. He didn’t give it much importance but made a connection with the recent accounts of (UFOs) and the possibility of being “chupada” (sucked) by the object. The weakness did not continue and he went on working normally.
771023/02:35 – Município of Vigia - Santo Antônio do Ubintuba – Clear yellow light NW/SE, trajectory straight until directly overhead, then abruptly making 90-degree turn, changing speed, above 35,000 feet.
771024/03:00 – Colares
– Antônio de Souza, 51, retired Pará military policeman, resident of Colares
– He said he did not believe what people had been saying (about UFOs); was
going into his backyard when he noticed everything was lit up with bluish light which spread out in all
directions. Looking closely, he saw a very bright “star” or “light”. It was
not the moon. Then it was in another location…(faint
copy)… Antônio said he could hear very faintly his wife asking him not to
wake
her up. He saw a ray of light touching him which partially paralyzed him.
He kept calling to his wife without awaking her, giving him the impression
he had something stuck in his throat…like a cat with a fish bone stuck in
its throat…He was then attended to by his wife, and he told her: “The chupa
almost got me…”
771025/01:30 – Colares – Bright reddish-yellow light about 40 meters high, SE/NE, slow, no noise…
771025/04:20 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Yellow light above 20,000 feet, SW/NE, went out when overhead, at which point two smaller yellow lights moved in opposite direction from original light, NE/SW.
771026/01:30 – Colares – Antônio de Souza, 51 – After that experience (see above, 771024/03:00) he paid more attention and believed people about the constant appearance of “lights” in the village. On this night he observed a light moving SE/NE and hovering over the corner of the Unity Hospital at a height of 40 meters (above the mangrove trees)…with the alarm that had been given the people that it was near; the object moved slowly and then gained altitude, rapidly disappearing.
771026/04:00 – Colares – Orlando Fontenelle Trindade, 40, literate, resident of Colares – Bright blue light appeared suddenly near boat. Witness told his companions to extinguish their lights to be safe. Light one to two meters above the water, then moved rapidly toward the sea.
771026/18:35 – Colares
– Ubiratan Pinon Frias, 37, high school, commercial pilot, resident of
Belém
– Reddish-yellow
light at 500 meters altitude, moving N/S, medium speed (500 Km/h)
silent; on reaching over falls of Rio Jejutauá (island
of Colares) at distance estimated at 3,000 meters, curved sharply to left
moving SE; zigzagging.
771026/20:05 – Município of Vigia - Santo Antônio do Ubintuba – Clear yellow light above 20,000 feet, high speed directly overhead, at that point two lights came out and went in opposite directions, SW/NE and NE/SW.
771026/20:05 – Município of Vigia - Santo Antônio do Ubintuba – Observed movement of meteorite of unusual size (apparent size 20 centimeters with a tail 50 centimeters long), gentle descending trajectory (45 degrees to 30 degrees) in relation to the horizon. It was visible only from low altitude…to the level of the trees. Its “tail“ laws ike that of a missile’s breaking free… going out of sight beyond the trees toward Campinas (NE). The same thing was observed by members of Equipe (the Air Force team) who were staying in Santo Antônio do Ubintuba.
771026/22:15 – Colares – Nueza Pereira Aragão, 25 – She was in the kitchen with her sister reading a book… when she saw a light coming through the roof, badly frightening her. She was immediately attended to by military doctors.
771027/00:15 – Colares – Reddish-yellow light, low to SE, slow speed initially, then abruptly without noise disappeared in the sky…
771027/00:35 – Colares – Maria Beatriz Leal Ferreira, 42 – When she was getting ready to go to bed, she saw a light that had been described by many people, and became extremely agitated (fearful)… was immediately attended to by the military doctors.
771027/04:05 – Colares
– Reddish-yellow
light, low, just above trees SE/NE. Information
received
from two witnesses posted on top of water tank.
771029/18:30 – Colares – Reddish-yellow light, low, NE/SE, slow speed, no noise, less than 3 kilometers away…
771029/18:50 – Município of Vigia - Penha Longa – Bright blue light above 35,000 feet at high speed NE/SE; disappeared when crossing at about 60 degrees from point of observation. (Probably a satellite).
771029/18:55 – Município of Vigia - Penha Longa – Yellow light above 20,000 feet, great speed; straight trajectory. (Probably a satellite).
771030/19:00 – Colares – Raimundo Nascimento and others – Reddish-yellow light, low over the beach, NE/SE, medium speed, about 30 centimeters at 600 meters; rising up behind Ponta do Bácuri, then disappearing beyond the point.
771031/18:40 – Colares – Bright reddish-yellow light, moving medium speed, low over the bay toward Belém, N/S, no noise, apparent size at 2,000 meters about 30 centimeters. Went out of sight beyond Ponta do Bácuri.
771031/22:55 – Município
of Colares -
771101/00:30 – Colares
– Orlando Fontenelle Trindade, 40 – He was
fishing in the navigation
channel
(in
771101/01:00 to 01:30 –
Colares – Elias de Oliveira ("Fi"), 42,
literate, fisherman, resident of Colares – He was casting his fish net when
he saw a reddish-yellow
light moving at low height over the water at medium speed without
making a noise, approaching a bluish light (beacon
over a mast) that was in Caroa Vermelha,
spinning around (15 revolutions)
and coming down near
the
blue light, then disappeared. The blue light turned toward the sea and slowly
went away, being visible until
771101/05:30 – Colares – Roberto dos Anjos Silva, 32, literate, fisherman, resident of Colares. Was wide awake from the night before, in front of his house, when he saw, with others accompanying him, a lighted object moving at low altitude (2,000 meters) at slow speed, silent, coming from the west toward Belém (SW), a reddish-yellow color, curving to the right and climbing fast, going out of sight beyond the trees.
771101/19:00 – Município
of Colares - village of Colares – Very bright reddish light, semi-circular, upper half reddish,
emitting very
bright flashes of blue light (compared to running lights of an
Embraer-110), about 4,000 feet high, curving to the right in level flight,
crossing over above at about 1,500 meters; apparent size 8 centimeters, changing
direction to the left but no longer emitting rays of light, light dimming
rapidly, diminishing at the same time its color to ruby red, disappearing from sight at
an angle of 45 degrees; its velocity not too great (less than 800 Km/h)… in
sight about 15 seconds. (Present: Lt. Col. Camilo [head of intelligence for
the air base and Captain Hollanda’s superior officer], Sgt. Flávio and local
residents at corner of cemetery; nearby were two members of the medical crew,
2S Mav. Almeida and 3S ES Pinto, with helicopter crew members
Lt. Col. Gonçalves, Lt. Kuster
and Sgts. Roberto and Dourado.)
771101/19:15 – Colares – Antônio Acácio de Oliveira, 53 – Observed a reddish-yellow light moving almost due east intermittently blinking blue, momentarily disappearing. As soon as a FAB helicopter took off, the light returned… and followed the helicopter, which was moving SW/NE; when it arrived about over the bay, the object abandoned the helicopter and began a curve to the right (NE), disappearing as it climbed at great speed.
771101/20:00 – Colares – Dim yellow light arrived over NE part of Colares, low, apparent size at a good distance (less than 5 kilometers) like a 50-centavo coin, went out of sight beyond the trees.
771102/19:00 to 22:00 – Colares – Luiz Pereira Rodrigues, 28, literate… resident of Rio Guajará (Olaria Keuffer), Município of Belém – Various bright lights over the village, several turns around village, some very high but most low. All described as yellowish colored.
771102/19:00-21:30 – Rio Guajará-Olaria Keuffer – Light moving below tree-top level, lighting up the area like daylight. Because of its brightness the witness couldn’t see the structural details. It was circular with a reddish dome on top… giving the impression it was transparent; at a distance of 70 meters it appeared to be about three meters in diameter and two meters high (base to top of dome). In the bottom a porthole opened and a humanoid-shaped being got out, short but muscular, wearing a tight, dark seamless uniform (light was behind him); it was floating; a reddish beam of light came out of his hand and went straight toward the witness, who ran away. As the witness was running, he saw the being examine his fishing net. Then the humanoid returned to the object, which then moved toward the witness at low altitude with a searchlight seeking the witness. The witness ran away across the mud flats and later arrived at a place where his friends were waiting in a boat. As he was telling them about the incident, the object appeared again with a different color, reddish on top and blue-green below. They all fled the place. The humanoid came out again, inspected the boat and then returned to the object, which disappeared beyond the trees. The witness was examined by doctors and psychologists but no abnormalities were found.
771103/01:30 – Colares – Ivan de Oliveira (“Perema”), 36 – Was fishing in the navigation channel, near Caroa Vermelha, and observed a very bright blue light (visible at a great distance) which seemed to be stopped about two meters above the water…
771103/22:00 – Município of Vigia - Penha Longa – Two yellow lights moving parallel at high speed above 35,000 feet NW/SW trajectory curving to the right.
771103/23:00 – Município
of Colares -
771104/04:30
(estimated) – Colares – Rósio de Oliveira, 36, literate, fisherman, resident
of Colares – He was fishing in the Pedras, beyond
the Colares beacon, when he observed a light moving at low altitude over the
water from north to south, a
clear yellow light, medium speed (like that of a plane), without
noise. Disappeared toward Belém.
771104/22:00 (about) – Colares – Elias Oliveira (“Fi”) – In the navigation channel (in Marajó Bay) he observed a lighted object moving slowly at low altitude, coming from the sea toward land (N/S) at slow speed, arriving near the Colares beach between Ponta do Bácuri and Ponta Machadinho, 6,000 meters away.
771104/23:00 – Colares – Marcelino Ferreira Cardoso, 46, literate, fisherman, resident of Colares – Reddish-yellow light, moving slowly, low SE/NW, toward Ponta do Bácuri, 3,000 to 4,000 meters away.
771104/23:00 (estimated) – Colares – Rósio de Oliveira, 36 – Was fishing in the navigation channel when he saw an object moving at low altitude, crossing the bay N/S, increasing its speed and disappearing in the lights over Belém.
771104/23:00 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light SE/NW, about 12,000 feet high, rising from behind Ponta do Bácuri, straight trajectory, medium speed, accelerating constantly, apparent size at about 15,000 meters away about 3 centimeters. Blinking light of varying intensity.
771104/24:00 (estimated)
– Colares – Rósio de Oliveira, 36 – Was fishing in the navigation channel,
in front of Ponta do Machadinho, when he observed a light over the
771105/01:00 (estimated) – Colares – Rósio de Oliveira, 36 – Was fishing in the navigation channel and saw a light about 2,000 meters from witness slowly moving over the bay (near Colares) at low altitude, S/N, a very bright blue color. It stopped in front of the Colares beacon, then quickly disappeared. (For more about Rósio, see Colares.)
771105/01:00 (estimated) – Colares – Marcelino Ferreira Cardoso, 46, literate, fisherman, resident of Colares – Observed a lighted object moving over the bay about 600 meters high, reddish-yellow but not bright, not making any sound, passing within 500 meters of witness toward Joanes/Baía do Sol W/SE until reaching the beach next to Colares… following the coast until a little before Ponta do Machadinho, where it climbed at high speed and rapidly disappeared in a few seconds into the sky.
71105/01:00 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light W/E, less than 200 Km/h, about 6,000 feet, about 15,000 meters away, apparent size 3 centimeters, straight trajectory; a boat was near the locality at 01:10, a light came out of the water and move across the bay at a lot altitude going north.
771105/01:15 – Município
of Colares - Village of Colares – Stationary
light near Ponta do
Cajueiro,
emitting a strong light of varying coloration (a
bright bluish-violet) reflecting on the water giving the impression
of varying size.
771105/02:00 – Colares – Afonso da Paixão, 40, literate, fisherman, Colares – Light, moving, low; later disappeared in front of the Colares beacon. Witness had no watch, estimated one hour.
771105/02:15 – Município
of Colares - Village of Colares – Circular
blue light moving W/N, low over the water, gaining altitude; varying
its intensity of light; seen by members of Equipe
(Hollanda’s team)…Visible until
771105/03:00 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Amber-reddish light NW/S about 300 feet, slow (less than 200 Km/h) 5,000 meters away, apparent size 8 to 10 centimeters, curving to the left (south).
771105/03:00 (estimated)
– Colares – Rósio de Oliveira, 36 – Observed a yellow light moving from the south, low height
and hovering over the bay in front of the Colares beacon, afterwards approaching
a boat which appeared to be a shrimp boat. It then disappeared… and 20 to
30 minutes later reappeared and then moving off toward Soure (
771105/03:00 – Colares – Marcelino Ferreira Cardoso, 46, literate, fisherman, resident of Colares – Reddish-yellow light 100 meters high, 3,000 meters away, moving S/N, went into the water in front of the Colares beacon. Speed estimated at 300 kilometers an hour (like a small plane)…
771105/04:00 (estimated) – Colares – Rósio de Oliveira, 36 – Was moving from the navigation channel to “Pedras” in front of Colares when he observed a reddish-yellow light moving S/N; a little beyond Ponta do Cajueiro it stopped; its color changed constantly reflecting blue-violet that at times seemed to have a visual effect on the witness (at a distance of 1,500 meters). He was wearing a pumpkin-colored shirt and the light made it appear purple… Some moments later, the light went out in the same spot.
771105/04:00 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light 300 feet over the bay moving S/N, blinks out in front of the Colares beacon.
771105/18:26 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light SW/NE, straight trajectory, about 300 Km/h and 4,500 to 5,000 feet altitude about 1,200 meters away, apparent size 2.5 centimeters emitting flashes of blue light in all directions. Visible for 3 minutes. Using radio equipment with directional antenna, we registered the following effects: absence of static in the 30-degree band; the magnetic needle of the theodolite vibrated from side to side for approximately 20 minutes.
771105/18:50 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Bluish-white light moving NW/SE at great speed at an angle of 36.3 degrees vertically and 041.6 horizontally. Duration of passage 2 minutes.
771105/18:51 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Observed bluish-white light below 20,000 feet moving NW/SE at high speed vertical angle 30.6 horizontal 144.8, its route parallel to previous one above, crossing the other at apparent distance of 4 meters. Duration of passage 2 minutes.
771105/19:30 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-amber light moving NW/SE at about 6,000 feet at great speed, went out when it reached 60 degrees or two/thirds of way across sky, going straight up.
771105/19:30 – Rio Guamá - Bujarú – Ubiratan Pinon Frias, 37, high school, commercial pilot – Moving light about 2,000 meters high, slow (less than 200 kilometers/hour), NW/SE, about 20 centimeters in size at a distance of 500 meters; moving irregularly, stopping at times, made a complete circle until returning to the same spot, then disappearing rapidly.
771105/23:00 (estimated) – Colares – Marcelino Ferreira Cardosa, 46 – Was fishing northwest of Colares between the navigation channel and the Quiririm channel (closer to Marajó Island) at approximately the hour cited when he observed a lighted object (like a balloon) which was moving at low altitude… crossing the bay SE/NW, reddish-yellow. He observed the object for some time over Ponta do Bácuri, initially judging it to be completely stopped.
771106/03:20 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light moving SE/W about 300 feet high about 15,000 meters away; trajectory straight down; disappeared near a boat opposite Ponta da Mossoroca (Marajó Island); gave the impression of going into the water.
771106/05:08
– Colares – Roberto dos Anjos Silva, 32, literate, fisherman, resident of Colares
– In front of his house, he saw a light moving about 100 meters high 3 kilometers
away, apparent size 5 centimeters, very bright red, emitting rays of very bright blue light
(like a soldering iron), S/N, climbing and disappearing in the sky.
771106/05:20 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light moving SW/E about 300 meters high 500 meters away, apparent size 5 centimeters; emitting flashes of blue light; initial trajectory straight at distance of 500 meters, began curving and going down to level of 200 meters; abruptly turning left in a climbing curve, speed growing, until reaching a new level of 3,000 meters in altitude; went straight SSE, being visible from its flashes… Speed faster than a jet plane. Observed for one minute 30 seconds.
771106/05:25 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light moving NW/NE at speed above 800 Km/h flying level then curving upward to the left; at distance of 800 meters turned NE (50 degrees) and rapidly disappeared. Its nearest point to the observer was estimated to be 1,500 meters. Apparent size 3 centimeters. Blue flashes of light.
771106/19:00 – Colares – Antônio de Souza, 51, retired Pará military policeman, resident of Colares – He was watching television when persistent interference made it difficult. He went outside to check the antenna on the roof… and saw a lighted object, color gray, almost white, round with a dome on top, having what he judged to be two tubes of small diameter from which green and red light came out; size estimated at 1.50 centimeters at a distance of about 500 meters.
771107/05:20 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Observed light moving SE/NW at 3,600 feet, straight trajectory; speed estimated at 500 Km/h, clear yellow, emitting flashes of blue light, apparent size 5 centimeters at distance of 1,500 meters. Made no sound.
771107/05:20 – Santo Antônio do Ubintuba-Vigia – Benjamin Amadeu Amin, 56, literate, businessman (lumber yard?), resident of Santo Antônio do Ubintuba – In his home he saw the passing of a lighted object, clear blue in color, moving about 40 meters high, just a little above the palm trees, coming from Belém (SW) toward Colares (NE) in the shape of an oval cylinder at medium speed; about 60 centimeters in size at a distance of 400 meters. Could not see any details because of the brilliance of the light that radiated from the apparatus; knew it was not a plane, then from that height and distance would have heard a “zuada”. The object moved in pulsing fashion and not in a straight line, leaving a small trail of light behind it.
771107/18:15 – Colares – Moving light, low, medium speed, W/SE following beach to Ponta do Bácuri.
771107/18:50 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Bluish-white light above 35,000 feet moving at great speed NW/SE, vertically 36.8 degrees, horizontally 141.0 (turned to left approximately 10 degrees). Trajectory curving to left. (satellite?).
771107/18:51 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Bluish-white light above 35,000 feet moving at great speed SE/NW, vertically 30.2 to 34.0 degrees, horizontally 324.8 and 134.4…
771107/19:30 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light NW/SE about 6,500 feet, high speed, vertical angle 18.6 to 24.9, horizontal 138.2 to 307.8. Disappeared after crossing overhead. (satellite?).
771107/23:45 – Colares – Ubiratan Pinon Frias, 37, commercial pilot – Reddish-yellow light about 100 meters high, moving slowly, about 40 centimeters in size at distance of 200 meters from witness, N/S curving trajectory to the left, disappeared beyond the trees.
771108/00:45 – Chapéu Virado-Mosqueiro – Ubiratan Pinon Frias – Reddish-yellow light moving, low (300 feet), SE/NW, almost stopped, crossing bay in a curving direction toward Colares.
771108/03:20 – Colares – Reddish-yellow light, low, moving slowly over bay from Baía do Sol to Marajó, SE/NW; light went out near a fishing boat that was passing by
771108/05:20 – Município of Colares - Village of Colares – Clear yellow light (tending to white) movingN/S above 35,000 feet, straight trajectory, medium speed about 10,000 meters away; angle vertically 38.8 and horizontal 183.2; disappeared over horizon.
771108/05:21 – Município of Colares - Village of Colares – Stationary dull reddish-yellow light, south 1,200 meters away, altitude estimated between 500 and 1,000 meters; apparent size 8 to 10 centimeters, appearing and disappearing suddenly, not possible to document. The “light” simply rose up in front of observer who was cleaning the lens of the camera; before he could grab the camera, the light disappeared (went out like a light). Estimated position using two palm trees as reference was 12.3 vertical and 05.9 horizontal. Observers at Campo do Lúzio were Sgt. Flávio, three women and a man, Sr. Júlio.
771108/18:15 (estimated) – Colares – Yellow light, medium height, from Soure to Baía do Sol, W/SE, then turning to the SW.
771114/23:15 – Chapéu Virado-Mosqueiro – Ubiratan Pinon Frias, commercial pilot – Reddish-yellow light low, about 100 meters high, near Marajó Island (Rio Arari), slow speed, SW/NE, zigzag motion, crossing Caroa Grande Island, turning east toward Colares, about 8,000 meters away.
771115/00:15 – Chapéu
Virado-Mosqueiro – Ubiratan Pinon Frias – Reddish-yellow
light about 60 meters high, moving very slowly… W/E to arrive over
771118/00:15 – Baía do Sol-Mosqueiro – Ubiratan Pinon Frias – Reddish-yellow light 500 meters, slow. N/S, constantly varying in intensity, crossed observation point about 4,000 meters away.
771118/00:45 – Baía do Sol-Mosqueiro – Ubiratan Pinon Frias, 37, commercial pilot – Reddish-yellow light 300 meters high, about 500 kilometers/hour, curving trajectory, crossing at a distance of 800 meters, about 30 centimeters in size, no noise, disappeared beyond the trees.
771120/23:58 – Município
de Belém - Belém-Mosqueiro (highway) – Reddish-yellow light
moving
medium speed (under 300 Km/h) NW/SE at 1,500 feet 3,000 meters away, apparent
size 5 centimeters; about 30 meters high, totally silent. Crossed
road at a diagonal about 3 kilometers from intersection with main road (
771122/?? – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro Island) – Reddish-yellow light NE/SW, about 900 feet, at great speed about 800 meters away, apparent size 5 centimeters.
771122/01:00
– Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro Island) – Reddish light moving north about 30
meters above the bay in front of Ponta do Machadinho (island of Colares),
1,500
meters
from beach, alternately climbing and
descending (wavy motion?), then disappearing suddenly. At
771122/01:00 – Município
de Belém - Baía do Sol (
771122/03:20 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro Island) – Flashing yellow light 300 to 400 meters high, moving at about 500 Km/h SE/SW, 2,000 meters away, apparent size 10 centimeters; trajectory quickly curving left, arriving within 600 meters of observers, then suddenly appearing 2,000 meters away, where it began making two complete circles (720 degrees); turning SW and disappearing rapidly. Observation: Acceleration constant with irregular changes in speed, higher and lower.
771122/03:23 – Baía do Sol-Mosqueiro Island – F. M Freitas Costa, 39, literate, domestic, and Célia Montenegro, 23, high school, both residents of Belém – Reddish-yellow light low (300 meters), slow, SE/NW, curving to the left 180 degrees, disappeared rapidly beyond the trees.
771122/04:25 – Município
de Belém - Baía do Sol (
771122/05:18 – Município
de Belém - Baía do Sol (
771123/09:30 – Colares
– Ivaldo Viegas Pantoja, 34, high
school, commercial pilot, Taxi Aero
Novacks,
resident of Belém – “Airship” clear
gray color, like dull metal, 30 meters high (altitude of plane 60 meters),
speed about 100 Km/h, 3,000 meters away, about 1.50 meters in size, moving
SE/E. Witness was flying a Cessna 206, taking off from Soure (on Marajó Island
across the bay) for Colares… [Note: This was one of the few daytime sightings.
Pantoja said in 1999 he was so frightened that he returned to Soure and stayed
there until he was calm enough to fly to Colares; see Colares.]
771123/09:30 to 10:30 – Colares – Antônio Ferreira, 35, literate, painter, Colares – Airship, reddish on the bottom and clear gray like metal on top, oval-cylindrical in shape, 1,200 meters high about 1,500 meters away, about one meter in apparent size and 50 centimeters in diameter moving SE/NE, moving faster than a jet… like small, wavy pulsing action, spinning…
771125/19:25 – Município of Vigia - Penha Longa – Bluish-white light moving N/S at great speed above 35,000 feet, straight trajectory.
771125/19:30 – Campinas da Vigia (Km 3 highway to São Caetano de Odivelas) – Alfredo de La Õ, 48 (priest) – Cone-shaped object reflecting light moving SW/NE, slowly, without noise, about 3 meters by 60 centimeters in size at a distance of 100 meters, gradually coming lower. The witness (a priest) stopped his car to get a better look, could not see any structural details; could see lights in a triangular pattern, red, green and yellow… Object made irregular movements, oscillating, changing luminosity and eventually disappearing rapidly.
771125/19:50 – Município of Vigia - Penha Longa – Yellow light SW/NE high speed above 35,000 feet, straight trajectory (Probably a satellite).
771125/23:30 – Município
of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish light moving W/SE about
200
meters high, slow speed, more than 20 kilometers away.
771126/00:55 – Município
of Colares -
771126/01:00 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Light, indefinite color, moving SE/W about 600 feet high, slow, over the beach; disappeared when in front of the Colares beacon.
771126/05:15 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish light tending to amber, medium altitude, great speed moving SW/E, emitting very bright flashes of blue light; apparent size 5 centimeters; silent.
771126/18:05 – Município
of Colares - village of Colares – Clear yellow light very high (above
35,000
feet) moving SW/NW, straight trajectory. Observation: There were two lights,
parallel on the same course about 100 meters apart.
771126/18:12 – Município
of Colares -
771126/18:15 – Município
of Colares -
771126/18:54 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro Island) – Reddish light moving N/S about 600 feet high, emitting big blue light (glow?), with short periods (0.5 to 1 second) of intensity; with the bright periods the light reaching the ground (lighting up everything around); distance less than 2,000 meters.
771126/18:55 – Município
of Colares -
771126/20:35 – Município
of Colares -
771126/20:40 – Município
de Belém - Baía do Sol (
771126/20:40 – Município
de Belém - Baía do Sol (
771127/00:35 – Município
de Belém - Baía do Sol (
771127/01:00 – Colares – Rósio de Oliveira, 36 – Two lights seen over Ponta do Machadinho, apparently stationary about 3,000 meters away… smaller one came near slowly, after a few seconds moving lower toward Belém (SE), where it disappeared. Yellow light…
771127/01:00 – Município
de Belém - Baía do Sol (
771127/02:00 – Colares – Rósio de Oliveira, 36 – Three reddish-yellow lights moving around over Ponta do Machadinho, moving low in different directions: A – Northwest, emitting a ray of blue light toward the water. B – East without emitting ray of light. C – Northeast, without ray of light. Witness estimated distance at 6,000 meters and objects were about 2.5 centimeters in size.
771127/02:30 – Colares – Elias de Oliveira ("Fi"), 42, literate, fisherman, resident of Colares – Reddish-yellow light low, moving slowly SE/NW 400 meters away, 2.5 centimeters in apparent size, emitting at regular intervals very bright rays of bluish-purple lights in various directions; silent.
771127/02:40 – Colares – Elias de Oliveira ("Fi"), 42, literate, fisherman, resident of Colares – Reddish-yellow light 400 meters high moving SE/NE, after passing Ponta do Bácuri changed direction to NW; about 5,000 meters away.
771127/06:05 – Colares – Light below 1,000 meters moving SE/NW, crossing southern part of village and emitting ray of blue light toward the ground.
771127/19:05 – Município
of Colares -
771127/19:10 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Two yellow lights moving NE/W above 18,000 feet; when reaching the zenith one of them made a complete 360-degree turn, returning to original direction; both disappearing suddenly. Observed for about 2 minutes.
771127/19:10 – Município
of Colares -
771127/19:30 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light about 6,000 feet, moving N/SE at great speed, passed over the village and suddenly disappeared.
771128/01:00 – Colares – Rósio de Oliveira, 36 – Two reddish-yellow lights over Ponta do Machadinho 400 meters high, moving slowly 4,000 meters away from witness, apparent size 60X30 centimeters, oval shaped; smaller one indefinite shape; could not see movement before disappearing.
771128/19:00 – Município
de Belém - Baía do Sol (
771128/19:00 – Município
of Colares -
771128/19:05 – Município
de Belém - Baía do Sol (
771128/19:05 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Two reddish-yellow lights moving NW/SE at great speed about 12,000 feet high, apparent size 2 centimeters; one of them emitting dim flashes of blue light; disappeared while curving to the left.
771128/19:15 – Mosqueiro, Vila – Miguel da Silva Moreira, 31, high school, construction foreman, resident of Belém – Reddish-yellow light 700 meters high moving SW/NE, about 500 Km/h … Small plane passed above the object.
771128/19:15 – Município
of Colares -
771128/19:20 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish light moving SW/NE altitude about 9,000 feet, great speed, crossing overhead, then disappearing.
771128/19:30 – Mosqueiro,
Vila – Miguel da Silva Moreira, 31, high school, construction foreman,
resident
of Belém – Various reddish-yellow
lights between 1,800 and 2,000 meters high at a distance of 15
kilometers. Biggest one had apparent size of 20 centimeters (apparently stopped),
emitting in all directions very bright blue rays of light
(from the bottom of the object); from
the bigger one came two small lights moving in opposite directions; about three minutes later five more lights
came from the bigger one. The UFO flashed to the ground three rays of intense blue light, like
flashes, then moved away to the NE at
great speed.
771128/19:30 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro Island) – Reddish-yellow light with very bright bluish center about 900 feet high, initially stationary over point of observation, emitting at regular intervals four rays of light, with flashes of very bright blue-violet color; the light dimmed and finally went out with great speed to the east.
771128/19:30 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Yellow light moving NW/SE at 6,000 feet at great speed, emitting flashes of blue light and disappearing when reaching point overhead.
771129/05:15 – Município
of Colares -
771129/06:05 – Município
of Colares -
771129/18:05 – Município
of Colares -
771129/18:08 – Município
of Colares -
771129/18:30 – Colares – Foles and others – Lighted object moving over bay at low altitude N/S, slow speed, no noise.
771130/19:00 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Light giving off blue flashes in clear sky (no clouds), moving SE. Same thing happened at 20:15.
771130/19:00 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Same as previous.
771130/21:10 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Huge light at low altitude, over the bay to the SW, lighting area to bottom of clouds, about 6,000 meters away for 20 minutes; moved gradually to NW; fishermen in the area confirmed sighting without seeing what shape…
771130/22:15 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light moving SW/N above 35,000 feet, 4,000 meters away, estimated size 1.5 centimeters, medium speed; duration 3 minutes.
771201/19:05 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Bluish-white light moving SW/N about 7,500 meters high, 15,000 meters away, estimated size 0.5 centimeters, medium speed; duration 3 minutes.
771201/19:15 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish light moving W/SE at high speed, above 35,000 feet,
771201/19:20 – Município
of Colares -
771202/18:55 – Município
of Colares -
771202/19:00 – Município
of Colares -
771202/19:05 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Bluish-white light moving SW/N, high speed, above 35,000 feet, straight trajectory.
771202/19:15 – Município
of Colares -
771202/19:22 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light moving SW/NE about 9,000 feet at great speed, about 15,000 meters away, apparent size 2 centimeters, visible to the horizon.
771203/19:02 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light moving NW/SE above 20,000 feet at high speed about 4,000 meters away, apparent size 2.5 centimeters, straight trajectory, emitting flashes of bright blue light.
771203/20:10 – Município
of Colares -
771204/19:05 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Yellow light giving off blue glow moving SW/NE above 35,000 feet, great speed; when it reached zenith it abruptly changed direction 90 degrees to the right (E) to return; at two-thirds of original position (zigzagging) it made the same maneuver…
771204/19:08 – Município
of Colares -
771204/19:25 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light moving NW/S, about 12,000 feet, 10,000 meters away, apparent size 0.8 centimeters.
771207/19:00 to 21:00 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro) – Various lights moving in all directions, all at high altitude.
771207/22:40 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro) – Very bright blue light about 200 feet high, moving at great speed went out of sight beyond the trees.
771209/23:50 – Município de Belém - Rio Guajará (Olaria) – Reddish-yellow light N/S, 150 feet 3,000 meters away over river channel, passing very rapidly; silent.
771209/23:50 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro Island) – Reddish-yellow light at 6,000 feet moving SW/E, light constantly varying in intensity, zigzagging trajectory; distance (but close to point of observation) 3,000 meters, apparent size 5 centimeters; when it arrived over the island of Colares it made a sharp curve to the right, changing direction to the SE. Made no noise.
771210/00:45 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro Island) – Reddish-yellow light moving NW/SE about 6,000 feet high, slow speed, distance estimated at 5,000 meters away, apparent size 10 centimeters; giving off flashes of blue light down toward the ground on the island of Colares. No sound heard.
771210/00:50 – Município de Belém - Rio Guajará (Olaria) – Reddish-yellow light SE/NW, low (150 feet), 2,000 meters away, apparent size 25 centimeters; varying speed, making many turns; varying intensity.
771210/01:50 – Município de Belém - Rio Guajará (Olaria) – Light over point of observation, 300 feet, 500 meters away, apparent size 30 centimeters, reddish giving off bluish-violet glow, varying speed, various turns.
771210/03:20 – Município
de Belém - Baía do Sol (
771210/20:30 to 20:35 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro Island) – Stationary light 3,000 meters away about 900 feet high, undetermined size, seeming to explode like fireworks.
771210/21:30 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro Island) – Yellow light stationary over island of Colares low altitude (10 degrees) at great distance; quick moments of visibility. Gave clear impression of being several elements.
771211/01:30 – Município
de Belém - Baía do Sol (
771211/01:30 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro Island) – Reddish-yellow light about 9,000 feet high medium speed (less than 500 Km/h) moving NW/SE.
771211/03:25 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro) – Pulsing pale yellow light below 2,500 metersm 1,200 meters away, apparent size 10 centimeters; slow speed moving NE/SW.
771213/20:45 – Município
de Belém - Baía do Sol (
771213/21:05 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro Island) – Reddish-yellow light stationary over Ponta do Machadinho 3,000 feet high, apparent size 30 centimeters, giving off intense blue light.
771213/23:55 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro Island) – Reddish-yellow light moving NW/SE, medium speed, medium height, below 6,000 feet about 4,000 meters away, apparent size 5 centimeters.
771214/00:45 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro Island) – Reddish-yellow light moving NW/SE about 9,000 feet high, medium speed (less than 500 Km/h) , 6,000 meters away, apparent size 8 centimeters; emitting rays of very bright blue light (similar to soldering iron).
771214/19:35 – Município
de Belém - Baía do Sol (
771214/20:05 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro) – Bluish-white light moving SW/E above 35,000 feet, trajectory curving to right at great speed.
771214/22:43 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro Island) – Reddish-yellow light moving SE about 7,500 feet high, 1,500 meters away, apparent size 20 centimeters, medium speed; emitting rays of bright blue light but spaced 3 to 5 seconds apart. No sound.
771214/22:45 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro Island) – Reddish-yellow light about 1,500 feet moving NE/SW, varying speeds about 1,000 meters away; apparent size 10 centimeters; making various changes in direction; emitting rays of very bright violet light; no sound.
771215/00:10 – Município
de Belém - Baía do Sol (
771215/03:10 – Município
de Belém - Baía do Sol (
771216/23:50 – Município de Castanhal - Fazenda Jejú – Bright yellow light moving SE/NW at 1,800 feet, falling sharply and leveling off at 200 meters altitude, 300 meters away, apparent size 20 centimeters.
771217/00:10
to 00:30 – Município de Castanhal - Três de Outubro
– Reddish-yellow light 1,200 feet
moving NW/SE… descending to 200 meters altitude, spinning like a top; changing color to bright blue; suddenly the object began slowly climbing
(undulating), passing rapidly through various hues and intensity of light
(from blue
to deep red,
speeding up and disappearing beyond the trees, when at its closet distance,
70 to 100 meters, its apparent size was 50 centimeters. Totally
silent throughout.
771220/23:55 – Município of São Domingos do Capim - “Piçarreira” – Reddish-yellow light moving at about 6,000 feet from NW to SE, slow speed, descending to about 4,500 feet, straight trajectory passing within 4,000 meters of observation point, slow speed (Sgt. Nascimento)
771220/23:58 – Município of São Domingos do Capim - Fazenda Jejú – In company of Lt. Col. Filemon – Reddish-yellow light moving at about 6,000 feet from SE/SW, curving trajectory, slow speed, climbing; crossed observation point at distance of 4,500 meters; apparent size 2.5 centimeters. (Sgt. Flávio)
771221/20:00 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro) – Reddish-yellow light moving W/E at 4,500 feet at great speed; emitting flashes of blue light.
771221/20:40 – Município
de Belém - Baía do Sol (
771221/21:30 – Município
de Belém - Baía do Sol (
771221/21:55 – Município
de Belém - Baía do Sol (
771221/23:30 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro Island) – Reddish-yellow light moving E/W about 6,000 feet high, 1,800 meters away, apparent size 5 centimeters; medium speed, making quick stops and emitting flashes of blue light.
771222/01:30 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro Island) – Reddish-yellow light moving E/SW at 3,600 feet 1,000 meters away, apparent size 15 centimeters; emitting flashes of blue light; when nearly overhead curved to the left… disappearing.
771222/03:20 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro Island) – Reddish-yellow light moving SE/NW at 4,500 feet 3,000 meters away, apparent size 5 centimeters; emitting flashes of blue light …
771222/03:25 – Município
de Belém - Baía do Sol (
771222/05:20 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro) – Reddish-yellow light SE/N at 3,000 feet, 2,000 meters away, apparent size 5 centimeters; medium speed straight trajectory; silent.
780123/23:30 – Colares – Manoel João de Oliveira Filho, 25, literate, fisherman, Colares – Witness left his house to go to the beach to wait for friends to go fishing. When he arrived he observed a strange light over the beach in the area called Areão (Ponta do Bácuri). Looking closely he saw the light was coming from an object that had stopped there, which he described this way: “A short-brimmed hat with two feet, a dark color (brown tending toward red) on top giving the impression of being transparent, being sufficiently lighted on the bottom part which reflected greenish-blue light. Calculated the apparent size to be 2 to 3 meters in diameter and about 1.5 meters high at a distance of 400 meters.” He watched the object for about 10 minutes, and when his companions were slowing in coming he decided to go to his father’s house (near there) and invited one of his brothers to go with him to get close to the object. (When brother declined) he returned to the beach and found his companions, who saw the light leave at high speed and disappear.
780123/23:53 – Município de Belém - Rio Guajará, Benfica (Olaria Keuffer) – Reddish-yellow light N/S about 900 feet high, 1,000 meters away; apparent size 10 centimeters, medium speed (under 500 Km/h) trajectory curving to left, going away without making a sound; duration 1 minute.
780124/00:09 – Município de Belém - Rio Guajará, Benfica (Olaria Keuffer) – Reddish-yellow light NW/S low (800 feet), 3,000 meters away, apparent size 5 centimeters; medium speed; no sound.
780124/01:42 – Município de Belém - Rio Guajará, Benfica (Olaria Keuffer) – Reddish-yellow light moving NW/SE., low (600 feet), 500 meters away; apparent size 20 centimeters; trajectory curving to left and going out of sight over trees.
780127/03:00 – Colares
– Raimundo Costa Leite, 22, literate, fisherman,
Colares
– UFO, darkblue,
round, with lateral stabilizers and
two tubes in the front part, from which it was shining a search light; apparent size 2 meters in diameter 300 meters
away… moving NE over Praia [beach] do Cajueiro and
shining a
blue light toward the ground. Witness abandoned his fishing
gear (800 meters of net) and with his companions hid in the bushes.
780127/23:32 – Município de Belém - Rio Guajará, Porto Laranjeira (Cimatro-Volkswagen) – Reddish-yellow light low (900 feet), SE/W; 1,000 meters away (but close); apparent size 10 centimeters; slow speed, winding trajectory approaching the lights of Belém; made sharp 180-degree turn and disappeared about 3,000 meters away exactly in front of the observation point (water tank 25 meters tall).
780128/01:08 – Município de Belém - Rio Guajará, Porto Laranjeira (Cimatro) – Reddish-yellow light low (900 feet), 1,500 meters away, apparent size 10 centimeters; moving N/S, quick trajectory to the right, avoiding the light from the city; returning to the point of observation and disappearing…
780213/23:40 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro Island) – Sgt. Flávio with friends commercial pilot Virgilio, engineer Aderbal and Lt. Vasconçelos – Light moving at low altitude (500 meters), slow speed initially and gradually accelerating, passing at medium velocity, crossing the road at a diagonal in front of the observers at a distance estimated to be 5,000 meters; color reddish-yellow, apparent size 15 centimeters… No sound was heard.
780218/19:00 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Two bluish-white lights moving W/E above 35,000 feet great speed straight trajectory.
780218/20:10 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light about 8,000 feet high. Straight trajectory.
780218/20:25 – Município
of Colares -
780218/21:10 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light above 24,000 feet, moving NW/SE at high speed; emitting three bright rays of light; going in a straight line to the horizon and disappearing.
780218/23:40 – Município de Belém - Belém-Mosqueiro (highway) – Reddish-yellow light moving NW/SE, low (1,500 feet), 5,000 meters away, apparent size 15 centimeters; slow speed, accelerating across the road at medium speed (500 Km/h).
780222/18:50 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Bluish-white light at high altitude (above 30,000 feet), straight trajectory.
780222/19:00 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Blue light above 35,000 feet, trajectory curving to the right.
780222/19:15 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light about 6,000 feet high moving NW/SE; apparent size 3 centimeters (vertical), about two-thirds of way across sky turned sharply (45 degrees) to the right, moving off to the east.
780222/21:00 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Blue light moving SW/NE above 35,000 feet; straight trajectory.
780225/19:00 – Município
of Colares -
780225/20:25 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Blue light above 35,000 feet moving W/E, straight trajectory.
780226/18:40 – Município
of Colares -
780226/19:15 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light moving NW/SE, low (3,600 feet), 3,000 meters away, great speed; emitting flashes of blue light of great intensity.
780226/19:25 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish light moving NW/S low (4,500 feet), 3,000 meters away; apparent size 3 to 15 centimeters; speed varying; slowing until stopping, its light growing and dimming; disappeared beyond trees toward Ponta do Bácuri.
780226/19:35 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light medium altitude (3,000 feet); visible 30 degrees above horizon; initially slow speed, accelerating as it crossed overhead (1,000 meters) with great speed; emitting rays of very bright blue light; disappeared when reaching 45 degrees after curving to the right; apparent size 10 centimeters.
780226/19:38 – Município
of Colares -
780226/19:45 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light moving NW/SE about 6,000 feet high, high speed, straight trajectory.
780228/20:05 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light stationary in front of Ponta do Bácuri; moving slowly over the water SE/W when reaching a distance estimated at 1,000 meters (away), quickly increased speed and disappeared above the navigation channel; altitude approximately 300 feet.
780228/23:00 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light about 9,000 feet high moving SE/SW 3,000 meters away at great speed.
780301/19:20 – Município
of Colares -
780301/19:25 – Município
of Colares -
780301/20:05 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light moving NW/SE about 900 feet high crossing the bay in front of Ponta do Bácuri, slow speed; at 200 meters from the shore accelerated suddenly, going out of sight beyond the trees.
780302/01:30 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish-yellow light moving NW/SE at 12,000 feet, 5,000 meters away, apparent size 3 centimeters; speed under 600 Km/h; emitting rays of very bright blue light.
780302/19:00 – Município
of Colares -
780302/23:45 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish light moving SE/NE, above 35,000 feet at great speed; emitting rays of faint blue light.
780303/05:25 – Município of Colares - village of Colares – Reddish light moving SE/W about 600 feet high, 2,000 meters away; apparent size 10 centimeters; slow speed over the bay and over the ship channel, slowing speed and almost stopping, approaching a fishing boat.
780326/00:30 – Colares – Alfredo de La Õ, 48 (priest) – Reddish-yellow light moving at medium speed (less than 500 Km/h) 1,500 meters high at distance of 500 meters, apparent size 5 centimeters; straight trajectory.
780328/20:30 – Colares Alfredo de La Õ, 48 (priest) – Reddish-yellow light medium speed 2,000 meters high 800meters away, moving NW/SE in a straight line until arriving near the Colares beacon, then curved off to the north, initially at medium speed then accelerating and rapidly disappearing.
780418/20:20 – Campinas da Vigia – Alfredo de La Õ, 48 (priest) – Road to São Caetano de Odivelas, light apparent size of 3 meters in diameter moving at great speed, low altitude, SE/NE, crossing PA-16 (3 kilometers from where one was seen before at 19:30 on 25 November 1977), slowing and going lower like it might land. Witness (Father Alfredo) abandoned his vehicle to get a better look, noted the airship was circular, with its structure shaped like a triangle, consisting of three lights, green, red and white, going off and on from left to right intermittently. Witness had a camera that was inadequate and photos showed nothing…
780429/19:00 – Baía do
Gurupí, beach of Caracará-Marabá (Vizeu) – José
de Ribamar Viana
da
Costa, 36, high school, commercial pilot, Taxi Aero Marabá, Belém – Reddish-yellow light over the ocean at angle
of 45 degrees, moving SE/NW, very bright; focused three bright blue lights on the water, reflecting on the surface of the sea;
remaining for some time stationary, then moving away to the west at great
speed.
780429/19:30 – Baía do Gurupi (Vizeu) – José de Ribamar Viana da Costa, 36 – Five clear yellow lights of undetermined shape moving in a straight line in wedge formation S/N at great speed and very high altitude (above 11,000 meters), distance not estimated.
780205/05:30 – Colares – Manoel João de Oliveira, 62, literate, fisherman, Colares – Witness was going to the mangrove trees at Cajueiro to get vines for fishing when he observed a very bright light (like the rising sun) in the trees, which made it hard to see. He hid behind a tree and stayed quiet. The light diminished in intensity and slowly began moving, gaining altitude
780205/05:30 – Colares – Manoel João de Oliveira, 62 – UFO, dark red, clearer in the center; semi-circular in shape (like an inverted net) about 30 meters high at 400 meters distance; apparent size 3 meters; moving SE/NW straight as it ascended. Witness said he initially saw a very big light in the mangrove trees, moving slowly above the bushes.
780522/19:30 – Coastal area of Bragança, Sernambi Beach – José de Ribamar Viana da Costa, 36, pilot – Light moving southwest at angle of 15 degrees, distance more than 20,000 meters, crossing horizon below planet Venus… slow speed, remained visible for 10 minutes, suddenly disappearing in the form of an explosion.
780607/20:00 – City of Amapá, Federal territory of Amapá, air base – José de Ribamar Viana da Costa – Two flashing yellow lights moving above 35,000 feet S/NW, parallel about 100 meters apart, medium speed.
780609/19:00 – Benevides, Town of – Antônio Ferreira Favacho, 42, literate, farm worker, experienced with geodesic observation equipment, resident of Benevides – Reddish-yellow light moving NE/SW, slow, 200 meters high 500 meters away, apparent size 50 centimeters, circular in shape like an upside down bowl; witness at first thought it was a balloon but changed his mind when he saw it more closely; it made no noise as it passed relatively close to the witness and move away curving to the left.
780610/18:50 – Benevides, Town of – Antônio Ferreira Favacho, resident of Benevides – Reddish-yellow light moving slowly E/SE, 500 meters high 1,500 meters away, apparent size 10 centimeters, low speed, undetermined shape.
780616/12:30 – Benevides, Town of – Airship, shiny metallic very high (10,000 meters), round with a black projection in front, NW/S, silent; not shaped like a plane, leaving a short contrail behind.
780620/01:00 to 01:30 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro) – In the company of Pilot Pinon, Sgt. Flávio observed a light stopped over the water in front of Ponta do Machadinho, remaining visible for 30 minutes, the light growing and dimming in intensity. Near the end of the period, it climbed straight up with great speed and disappeared beyond the clouds.
780620/04:25 – Município de Belém - Baía do Sol (Mosqueiro) – In the company of Pilot Pinon, Sgt. Flávio observed a reddish-yellow light moving N/S at 1,200 feet 1,500 meters away, apparent size 20 centimeters, speed about 300 to 500 Km/h, silent, zigzagging.
780630/20:30 – Benevides, Town of – Antônio Ferreira Favacho, resident of Benevides – Reddish-yellow light moving E/SW, less than 300 meters high, totally silent, curving to the left (SE) and disappearing beyond the trees.
780630/20:35 – Município de Belém - Rio Guajará (Olaria Keuffer) – In the company of Captain Hollanda, Sgt. Flávio observed the following: A dull yellow light slowly moving (like a balloon) E/W at 3,600 feet 8,000 meters away, went out of sight beyond the trees.
780703/05:30 – Benevides, Town of – Antônio Ferreira Favacho – Reddish-yellow light moving E/SE 100 meters high, slow speed, went out of sight beyond the trees.
780704/05:15 – Benevides, Town of – Antônio Ferreira Favacho – Reddish-yellow light moving slowly E/SE 600 meters high, emitting flashes of blue light, coming within 1,000 meters of the highway, curving to the left (E) and ascending, disappearing in the sky. Apparent size 15 centimeters…
780705/05:30 – Benevides, Town of – Antônio Ferreira Favacho – Reddish-yellow light leaving behind a trail of small flashes when moving; E/SE, curving trajectory, 300 meters high, 200 meters away, about 25 centimeters in size; moderate speed, about like that of a plane; round shape.
780711/21:40 – Município de Benevides - town of Benevides – Dull, reddish-yellow light E/SW 800 feet high, 1,000 meters away to the right of the road, apparent size 6 centimeters, medium speed, trajectory curving and descending to left, heading south; when near road, disappeared beyond the trees.
780711/22:24 – Município de Benevides - town of Benevides – Reddish-yellow light moving E/SE at 600 feet, 800 meters away; apparent size 8 centimeters; medium speed; silent. Went out of sight beyond the trees. Did not cross road.
780711/23:25 – Município
de Benevides - town of
780714/02:10 – Município
de Benevides - town of
780719/23:40 – Município
de Benevides - town of
780720/04:45 – Benevides, Town of – Antônio Ferreira Favacho – Reddish-yellow light moving SE/E, 2,000 meters high, crossing the observation point, apparent size 5 centimeters, slow speed, silent…
780725/19:10 – Município
de Benevides - town of
780725/19:11 – Município de Benevides - town of Benevides – Reddish-yellow light E/NE (70 degrees), very high, great speed; on reaching two-thirds of way across sky, curved to the right headed W/NW (290 degrees).
780725/19:12 – Município de Benevides - town of Benevides – Reddish-yellow light E/W when reaching two-thirds across sky abruptly turned right and moved NW (340 degrees).
780725/19:15 – Município de Benevides - town of Benevides – Reddish-yellow light emitting flashes of blue light above 35,000, high speed; W/SE, zigzagging; apparent size 2 centimeters (vertical). When reaching two-thirds across sky abruptly turned right and moved SE. Emitted intermittent rays of blue-violet light.
780725/19:16 – Município de Benevides - town of Benevides – Bluish-white light very high NE/SW at great speed (probably a satellite).
780725/19:20 – Município
de Benevides - town of
780725/19:22 – Município
de Benevides - town of
780725/19:23 – Município
de Benevides - town of
780725/19:25 – Município de Benevides - town of Benevides – Reddish-yellow light emitting rays of very bright blue light at 1,800 feet distance 8,000 meters; apparent size 5 centimeters; low speed; when crossing overhead quickly increased speed and moved NNE; initial speed estimated at 300 Km/h.
780725/19:35 – Município
de Benevides - town of
780725/19:36 – Município
de Benevides - town of
780725/19:38 – Município
de Benevides - town of
780725/19:44 – Município de Benevides - town of Benevides – Bluish-white light above 35,000 feet NNW/SSE at great speed; straight trajectory (probably a satellite).
780725/19:50 – Município de Benevides - town of Benevides – Bluish-white light at 9,000 feet N/S at great speed; emitting rays of weak blue light; zigzagging.
780725/19:55 – Município de Benevides - town of Benevides – Flashing yellow light above 35,000 feet, straight trajectory.
780725/19:58 – Município de Benevides - town of Benevides – Bluish-white light above 35,000 feet N/S; straight trajectory (probably a satellite).
780726/03:10 – Município de Benevides - town of Benevides – Reddish-yellow light, emitting rays of faint blue light above 30,000 feet, moving E/W, apparent size 2 centimeters…
780726/05:10 – Município
de Benevides - town of
780728/03:45 – Município de Benevides - town of Benevides – Reddish-yellow light moving E/S at 12,000 feet, speed less than 200 Km/h, zigzagging.
780728/05:35 – Município de Benevides - town of Benevides – Reddish-yellow light at 12,000 feet, great speed, SE/NW, straight trajectory.
80813/05:40 – Benevides, town of – Antônio Ferreira Favacho, 42, literate, farm worker, resident of Benevides – Reddish light moving S/N 60 meters high 300 meters away, apparent size 50 centimeters, focusing a strong light toward the witness, causing momentary eye irritation. Speed less than 20 Km/h, stopping from time to time.
780818/19:05 to 19:15 –
Belém – Antônio Lemanski, 41, military, high school,
Belém –
Stationary
light seen initially as a flash about 2,000 meters away at a height of
600 meters, very bright but not blinding; center orange color
tending to red…apparent size 20 centimeters (total diameter of
the luminosity); observed by witness (sub-official) for one minute; disappeared
in a flash of light.
780818/19:10 to 19:15 – Belém – Elias Dionísio de Souza, 42, military, high school, Belém – Stationary light growing and dimming; diameter about 10 centimeters at a distance of 3,000 meters and 300 meters high (angle of 15 to 25 degrees); reddish-orange in color with blue in the center; opening and closing like a diaphragm in horizontal direction; observed for about 5 minutes; grew smaller until it was a tiny point of light. Shining bright red; suddenly disappearing. In SE part of city.
780818/19:15 to 19:25 –
Belém – José
de
Ribamar Viana da Costa, commercial pilot – Stationary reddish
light in SE/S sector, 15-degree angle above horizon 500 to 600
meters away, circular in shape, diameter estimated at 30 centimeters, watched
by witness for about 5 minutes; appeared
to back away in a straight line, based on diminishing size. Light dimmed,
going out at the center. Witness was going in the same direction.
780825/19:45 – Marabá, Município of – Luiz Carlos Gomes Freitas de Vale, 26, high school, private pilot, resident of Belém – Light at first seen at a 45-degree angle 2,000 meters away, apparent size 25 centimeters, coming down rapidly toward the ground, leaving a trail of reddish light, to height of 300 meters then going back up and disappearing in the sky, E/W…
780909/19:20 – Município de Benevides - town of Benevides – Reddish-yellow light moving SW/NW at 12,000 feet, speed about 400 Km/h, curving trajectory; when reached two-thirds of way across sky light went out.
780909/20:25 – Município de Benevides - town of Benevides – Reddish-yellow light at 9,000 feet moving SW/NE, emitting rays of bright blue light, apparent size 1.5 centimeters; when overhead light went out.
780909/21:10 – Município de Benevides - town of Benevides – Bright reddish-yellow (amber) light, zigzagging SE/W medium speed, at 4,000 feet altitude, 3,000 meters away, apparent size 1.5 centimeters; was seen at angle of 30 degrees, leveling off when came near observation point, 3,000 meters, emitted two very strong flashes of blue light …went away at great speed.
781007/22:00 – Município de Benevides - town of Benevides – Very bright pulsing light yellow with small red point on upper part (similar to navigation light on a plane), at 6,000 feet altitude, moving SE/NW, trailing sparkles of red light; distance 500 meters; apparent size 10 centimeters.
781007/22:04 – Belém – Gabriel Brasil, 39, military (lieutenant colonel, aviation engineer), resident of Belém – Light, moving at slow speed at 1,600 meters altitude, distance not known; about 25 centimeters in size, SW/NE; reddish on top lighting up an unknown object which the witness compared to an Opala automobile.
781106/14:30 – City of Amapá – José Rodrigues dos Santos, 38, commercial pilot, high school, resident of Belém – UFO, clear gray tending to clear blue, shiny metallic, shining blue and red on the bottom; oval-shaped… apparent size 6 meters; varying speed; 1,500 meters high at a distance of 100 meters; SE/NW, flying toward the plane, veering sharply and coming alongside plane, maintaining position 100 meters away for a few seconds, then in front of the plane, then ascending vertically… Witness (a commercial pilot) has long professional experience (PLA 7125), being the first case of this kind that has occurred in more than 20 years of aviation, the near collision causing momentary emotional disturbance that later led him to see a doctor. During the first pass (by the UFO) plane was on automatic pilot (120 degrees at 1,500 meters, speed of 315 Km/h) caused strong turbulence, causing plane to lose altitude… UFO left behind bluish slipstream when is accelerated and climbed.
781125/19:11 – Município de Benevides - town of Benevides – Reddish-yellow light E/NE above 35,000 feet, great speed, curving left overhead; apparent size 2 centimeters.
781128/15:15 – Tomé-Açú – Luiz Carlos Gomes Freitas de Vale, 26, high school, private pilot, resident of Belém – UFO, gray, bright metallic, oval about size of Opala automobile, apparent size 4.5 meters at 2,000 meters altitude, 300 meters away moving S/N for four minutes in level flight, rose vertically at great speed, maintained horizontal position… Witness was in command of airplane EMB-710 PT-NCX when traveling from Tomé-Açú (02.22 degrees S-048.44 degrees W) crossing level 80 observed in front and below (more or less 45 degrees) an UFO which was moving in the same direction as his plane; for four minutes the UFO did not change relative position; then the object accelerated rapidly, climbing straight up like a helicopter and disappeared in a few seconds. The speed of the plane was 260 Km/h.