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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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2. Immediately CC Bacullar related a phenomenon observed by him personally during his stay on the Island, twice, with the aid of a precision theodolite, during the day and witnessed by other persons, in the following terms:
I - That he was observing a sounding balloon when he became aware of the falling of the transmitter, a failing clearly recognized by the signals heard on the receiver and by the line traced on the recorder;
II - That after the above-mentioned falling the sounding balloon must have burst, since the average duration of a balloon is 40 minutes, after which it bursts because of having reached great height;
III - That the sounding balloon in accompaniment was concealed, at 14,000 meters of altitude, approximately, when it lost the transmitter, and that immediately afterward he observed a point in the sky at about $ 3 0^{\circ} $ , on the horizontal of the point in which the balloon had disappeared upon passing behind a cloud;
IV - That seen through the theodolite the point observed presuried a strange shape of a half moon, with a certain reflection of light, the phenomenon remaining for 3 hours and a half, the object apparently moving with the same angular velocity as the sun;
V. That the point only failed to be seen when the sky began to be covered with cirrus clouds: 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.