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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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## ANALYSIS:

1. The analysis of the preceding facts shows:

a) Test of the five observations of the UFO four were during the day and one at night;

b) Thal of the five observations of the UTC only one was wilroused by CC Bacellar, who prefers to accept the hypothesis of having seen a gull;

c) That the persons who affirm having seen the UFO are of various qualifications -- workmen, sailors, dentist, doctor, aviation officer and professional photographer;

d) That no officer of the Fleet saw the phenomena related above, with the exception of those narrated by CC Bacellar;

e] That in all cases a very strong emotional state was noted on the part of those who witnessed the appearance of the UFO, including the professional photographer, a man accustomed to submarine photographs. (There was even a case of a workman, a young man considered normal, who ran away in iright;)

i) That the testimonies, in spite of the great difficulty in obtaining them from personnel for the most part of rudimentary education, are in agreement as to;

Norm -- from the new classic Disc, although irregular, tending to tear-shaped. Seen from below, according to observers who saw it when it passed over the Island on 12/31/57, it presented a hexagonal-ruvinating abra. Seen from a distance, it presented

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