FAB CENDOC Envelope 09 (1978)

FAB CENDOC via The Black Vault · 86 pages · text by OCR

This FAB CENDOC file, released through The Black Vault, holds material from 1978. Part of it is an issue of International UFO Reporter, edited by J. Allen Hynek, with a long report on the October 21, 1978 disappearance of pilot Fred Valentich over Bass Strait. That report includes his radio transcript, the search, and the competing explanations. The file also has a Brazilian newspaper clipping and a Fourth Regional Air Command investigation of a July 1978 landing report by eleven-year-old Dalton Legnaioli in Penha, São Paulo.

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“Sea”6 pages

p. 3 …SEA Metal clue in Gosford UFO expert probes Bass Strait mystery VORLD CALLS ON MISSING sea…
p. 5 …Reports from the search area indicated the sea temperature to be around eight degrees above freezing…
p. 6 …He, too, developed engine trouble and was believed to have crashed into the sea. No trace…
p. 7 …The radar conditions are variable; sometimes King Island itself, only 215 meters above sea level, shows…
p. 9 …An air and sea search was established but no source of the flare-like lights was…
p. 11 …Seen 70° up in sky; moved out of a cloud, east to west toward the sea…

PARTE NO 004/DO-41/78

Brasília-DF, 12 de dezembro de 1 978

R E S E R V A D A

Do: DO-41

Ao: DO-1

Assunto: Ocorrência no ACC Brasília.

Anexo : 1) 01 (uma) fita K-7 gravada

2) 01 (um) relatório.

I - Encaminho-vos a documentação ane

xa, relativo a ocorrência no ACC Brasília dia 07 de dezembro de 1978,

envolvendo objeto voador não identificado e as aeronaves PT/SBD e

PT/SBJ.

ALDO AUGUSTO VOIGT - CAP ESP CTA

Chefe da DO-41

AAV/vps.78

RESERVADO

Cited by

The Colares Flap and Operação Prato 1977

Cases discussed

Travis Walton Abduction 1975
similar to the Travis Walton abduction episode, where Walton's mother exhibited calmness
The Valentich Disappearance over Bass Strait 1978
FRED VALENTICH: THE MISSING AUSTRALIAN PILOT; flying across the Bass Strait toward King Island

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