Brazilian Navy General Staff report (12 pages)

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712 - That he became profoundly moved with what he saw, having even felt difficulty during the process of developing the film, caused his nervous state;

IX - That he put his negatives at the disposition of the General Staff for all the examinations judged necessary for proof of authenticity.

4. From the declarations made, according to the above report, we summarize the following principal facts:

a) Observed; above the Island of Trinidad, by different persons, the appearance of UFC four times, three in the morning and one at night;

b) Observed, by CC Bacellar and by other persons, in the morning once, what he thought to be a sea gull, in spite of crewmen (SGs and MNs) who were with him and affirmed it to be a UFC;

c) Observed, twice over the island, by his then Military Commandant, Superior Officer of the Fleet, a hydrographer experienced in meteorology and in radiosounding operations, and by other persons, a phenomenon which he, CC Bacellar, could not explain satisfactorily;

c) Obtained, on board the NE "Admiral Saldarba," when it was anchored off the Island of Trinidad, on its return to R.o, four photographs of the UFO, by a civilian professional photographer, in the presence of other persons who affirmed having seen the photographed object.