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Brazilian Navy General Staff report (12 pages)

Estado-Maior da Armada via NICAP · 12 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This Brazilian Navy General Staff report, released via NICAP, examines unidentified flying objects sighted at the Island of Trinidad between 12/5/57 and 1/16/58. It gathers statements from the oceanographic station commandant, CC Bacellar, and from photographer Almiro Barauna, who took photographs aboard the ship Almirante Saldanha. The negatives were examined by DHN and Cruzeiro do Sul technicians, who found no sign of later montage. The report concludes that the testimony is fallible but admits there are indications that UFOs exist.

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That with respect to the negatives, they were submitted to examination by the technician of the DHN and by technicians of Aerial Photography Survey Service of airline Cruzeiro do Sul, with the following results:

I - The technician of the DHN, after making the examinations, affirms: the negatives are natural, of the object photographed;

II - The technicians of Cruzeiro, after more complete and thorough examinations, including microscopic, for the verification of signs, luminosity and details of contour, affirm:

- There was on the above-mentioned negatives no sign of mortage, all indicating it to be a negative of the object really photographed;

- Any hypothesis of posterior montagem was removed;

- It would be impossible to prove either the existence or nonexistence of anterior montage, which requires, however, extreme technical skill and circumstances favorable to its execution.

## CONCLUSIONS

1. In view of the presentation of the facts and the analysis carried out: and expressed above, it can be concluded:

A - Thal Here are innumerable witnesses who affirm having soon UFOs over the Island of Trinidad. Those witnesses are of various categories, and the appearances occurred on different days.

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