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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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3 - That the testimonies presented are fallible, owing principally to the little preparation of the majority of the observers and the rapidity with which the phenomenon passed, nothing can be stated conclusively, therefore, as to positive data about the UFOs. C. That the strongest and most valid testimony offered: that of the photographer, loses its definitively convincing character given the technical impossibility of proving if there was or not previous photographic montage. 2. That, finally, the existence of personal testimonies and of a photographer, of some value given the circumstances involved, permit the admission that there are indications of the existence of the U30.
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