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Operação Prato
Operation Saucer ( pt, Operação Prato; literally, ''Operation Plate'') was an investigation carried out between 1977 and 1978 by the Brazilian Air Force following alleged UFO sightings in the city of Colares. The investigation was closed after finding no unusual phenomena. History Precedent events In 1977, numerous UFOs were reported in the Brazilian city of Colares, Pará. Local residents claimed that scars on their bodies were caused by the lights in the sky, and named the lights "Chupa Chupa" (literally ''Sucker-Sucker''). Believing it would keep the lights away, residents of Colares organized night vigils, lit fires, and ignited fireworks. Mayor José Ildone Favacho Soeiro requested help from the Air Force. The Operation The operation was commanded by Captain Uyrangê Bolivar Soares Nogueira de Hollanda Lima. During late 1977, several pictures of lights were recorded but the military remained skeptical. After approximately four months, the operation was closed after findin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colares, Pará
Colares is a city in the north part of Pará, Brazil. The city became famous because of the Colares UFO flap, which later originated the Operação Prato Operation Saucer ( pt, Operação Prato; literally, ''Operation Plate'') was an investigation carried out between 1977 and 1978 by the Brazilian Air Force following alleged UFO sightings in the city of Colares. The investigation was closed after f .... References Municipalities in Pará {{Pará-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 In Brazil
Events in the year 1978 in Brazil. Incumbents Federal government * President: General Ernesto Geisel * Vice President: General Adalberto Pereira dos Santos Governors * Acre: ''Vacant'' * Alagoas: ** Divaldo Suruagy (until 14 August) ** Ernandes Lopes Dorvillé (14 August-14 September) ** Geraldo Mello (from 14 September) * Amazonas: Henoch da Silva Reis * Bahia: Roberto Santos * Ceará: ** José Adauto Bezerra (until 28 February) ** Waldemar Alcântara (from 28 February) * Espírito Santo: Élcio Álvares * Goiás: Irapuan Costa Jr. * Maranhão: Oswaldo da Costa Nunes Freire * Mato Grosso: ** Jose Garcia Neto (until 14 August) ** Cássio Leite de Barros (from 14 August) * Mato Grosso do Sul: ''Vacant'' * Minas Gerais: **Aureliano Chaves (until 9 July) ** Levindo Ozanan Coelho (from 9 July) * Pará: ** Aloysio Chaves (until 1 August) ** Clóvis Rego (from 1 August) * Paraíba: ** Ivan Bichara (until 14 August) ** Dorgival Terceiro Neto (from 14 August) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 In Brazil
Events in the year 1977 in Brazil. Incumbents Federal government * President: General Ernesto Geisel * Vice President: General Adalberto Pereira dos Santos Governors * Acre: ''Vacant'' * Alagoas: Divaldo Suruagy * Amazonas: Henoch da Silva Reis * Bahia: Roberto Santos * Ceará: José Adauto Bezerra * Espírito Santo: Élcio Álvares * Goiás: Irapuan Costa Jr. * Maranhão: Oswaldo da Costa Nunes Freire * Mato Grosso: Jose Garcia Neto * Mato Grosso do Sul: ''Vacant'' * Minas Gerais: Aureliano Chaves * Pará: Aloysio Chaves * Paraíba: Ivan Bichara * Paraná: Jaime Canet Júnior * Pernambuco: Francisco Moura Cavalcanti * Piauí: Dirceu Arcoverde * Rio de Janeiro: Floriano P. Faria Lima * Rio Grande do Norte: Tarcisio de Vasconcelos Maia * Rio Grande do Sul: Sinval Sebastião Duarte Guazzelli * Santa Catarina: Antônio Carlos Konder Reis * São Paulo: Paulo Egídio Martins * Sergipe: José Rollemberg Vice governors * Acre: Omar Sabino de Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UFO Sightings In Brazil
This is a list of alleged sightings of unidentified flying objects or UFOs in Brazil. 1947 * On 23 July 1947, topographer José Higgins was working with many laborers in Bauru, São Paulo. Suddenly, they heard an extremely sharp sound. Some moments later, they saw a lens-shaped object landing near them. The workmen ran away, leaving Higgins alone. The man reported that three humanoid figures emerged from the UFO and spoke to him in an unknown language; after about a half-hour, they returned to the UFO which then took them away. 1952 * On 5 May 1952, the journalist Joao Martins and the photographer Eduardo Keffel claimed to have seen a flying disk in the vicinity of Barra da Tijuca. Keffel took some photographs of the UFO, which were published by the magazine ''O Cruzeiro''. 1957 * On 13 September 1957 The journalist Ibrahim Sued received an envelope containing a letter and three fragments of metal. The author of the letter wrote that he saw a UFO which exploded in the sky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chupacabra
The chupacabra or chupacabras (, literally 'goat-sucker'; from es, chupar, 'to suck', and , 'goats') is a legendary creature in the folklore of parts of the Americas, with its first purported sightings reported in Puerto Rico in 1995. The name comes from the animal's reported vampirism—the chupacabra is said to attack and drink the blood of livestock, including goats. Physical descriptions of the creature vary, some describe it as reptilian and alien-like (in Puerto Rico and Latin America), generally as a heavy creature the size of a small bear with a row of spines reaching from the neck to the base of the tail. Others depict it as more dog-like (particularly in Southwestern United States). Sightings have been reported in Puerto Rico since the 1970s, and this creature has since been reported as far north as Maine, as far south as Chile, and even outside the Americas in countries like Russia and Philippines. All of the reports are anecdotal and have been disregarded as u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Vallée
Jacques Fabrice Vallée (; born September 24, 1939) is an Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist and astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California and Paris, France. His scientific career began as a professional astronomer at the Paris Observatory. Vallée co-developed the first computerized map of Mars for NASA in 1963. He later worked on the network information center for the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet, as a staff engineer of SRI International's Augmentation Research Center under Douglas Engelbart. Vallée is also an important figure in the study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), first noted for a defense of the scientific legitimacy of the extraterrestrial hypothesis and later for promoting the interdimensional hypothesis. Early life Vallée was born in Pontoise, France in 1939. He completed his undergraduate degree in mathematics at the University of Paris in 1959 and received the equivalent of an MS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
