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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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That, after having taken the above-mentioned photographs, the photographer, in the presence of CC Bacellar and other persons, took the roll of film from the machine; later, in company of this official he went to the dark room of the ship (improvised in the head of the infirmary), dressed as he was in suit and shorts, and where he remained only ten minutes, presenting at once the negative of the film to CC Bacellar, who affirms having seen the above-mentioned UFO represented on the negative, although with much less clarity because the film was somewhat dark; V111- That, posteriorly, when the above-mentioned photographs were shown to persons on the ship who witnessed the phenomenon, they recognized the image represented in the photograph as identical to that which they saw in the air; XII - That the person who called the attention of the photographer to take the photographs was a retired Aviation Captain of the Brazilian Air Force, then on the ship coordinating an amateur group of divers specializing in submarine fishing, also a specialty of the photographer; X- Thai the whole process of taking photographs must not have lasted more than thirty seconds; X1 - That, finally, there was observed, in a marked way, a strong emotional state in the photographer as well as in the persons who saw the UFO.
Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 12 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.