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Project Blue Book file: Trinidade Island, 16 Jan 1958

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This Project Blue Book file from the USAF, released via The Black Vault, covers the 16 January 1958 sighting at Trindade Island. Its record card says two Rio de Janeiro newspapers printed photos of an alleged flying saucer taken from a Brazilian naval ship, and that ONI analysis judged them a hoax. The file also holds galley proofs from a Menzel book arguing the Barauna photographs were faked, plus APRO Bulletin and NICAP material.

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  • p. 5 …Called down to Intelligence headquarte rs for an interview, Barauna underwent a four·hour inte rrogation…
  • p. 15 …been r eceived but routed to USAF headquarters and the Secretary of the Air in Washington…
  • p. 16 …Barbosa's re- port and the chemist's report , are on file at APRO' s headquarters…
  • p. 19 …according to ord ers from the Navy Headquarters, at Rio. But noth- ing happened. No,\-, 1…
  • p. 20 …Almirante Saldanha,' at the Navy's Intelligence Headquarters. A few days later, the nega- tiv es…
  • p. 24 …Corre- spondence from headquarters will come to a virtual ha lt until the new headqua rters…
  • p. 54 …ormer Air Force" Headquarters" Y,onito r of AF Project Blue Book FO investigation, prepared analyses…
ROB MERCER'.,1> '.
• P ROj!?CT 10073 RECORD CAW ..
1. DATE 12. LOCA! IO N ~..'
... 12. CONCLUSi ONS
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I Tr ir) i drrde, 0 Wa s Ba lloon
16 Jan 58 I sland 0 Probo bly Bo[ [oon
0 Possi:'1 y Balloon \3. DA TE·TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF oaSE •. VAT ION
1200 )Q'"'{ Ground~ Vi su cl o Groun d ~ RodQr 0 Was Ai rcraft
Loca l 0 Probably Aircraf t
GMT o Ai~Visua[ o Air-Intercopf Radar 0 Possibly Air craft
5. PHOTOS 16. SOURCE 0 Was Astronami col
G Yos 0 Probably Astronomlcol
~!ili t a ry 0 Po ssi bl y Astronom i cal
o No
7. LE NGTH OF OBSEi'lVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS I 9. COU RSE e:5X Othe r !:lQ" 2(
0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
I 0 Unknown
UnknOV/l1 one u nknown
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTs
Two leading newspapers in Rio De Jan - Upon investigation" the Brazil ian
eiro pr in ted photos of a ll eged "flyin{ Navy refused to make an official
saucers" photographed fm a Brazilian statement, and this Center has
naval ship . been una!ble to obtain copies of t 1 e
photos . Analysis at ONI is that p
photos are hoax .
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4T%C FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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. g . Ana l :,rsic of the Brazil pic ·cure by Ar, I'i"
that it was Dr b bl" ~.-~ led to t he c onclusion
the '" u a ' ~ a hoox . ATI C doco not have nn, informa..c.io
ultness ubo t OO K this pi c ture could 'be contoctcd. I ... n a s to hoy!

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