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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. 7 …Abandoned after the end of the Second World War, the island remained deserted except by sea…
  • p. 8 …The sky was thinly overcast, the sea was rough, and waves dashing against the ship and…
  • p. 10 …Suddenly Vieira remarked on "a big sea g ull" in the sky. Looking up, Teo- baldo…
  • p. 11 …I am sure it was not a balloon, an airplane, or a sea gull." This de…
  • p. 12 …Frame 1 sho\' Ie UFO'-.../ . -' above the sea, sorne distance frorn the island; Frame 2 shows…
  • p. 14 …speed, an accident seeming imminent- in other words, a cras h into the sea. At the…
  • p. 16 …the atmos- phe re and into the sea. A Geiger counter and an Atomic Scaler were…
  • p. 18 …The UAO was first seen over the sea, coming toward the island. The (irst pllOl0 was…
  • p. 19 …It was movin g again toward the sea, in the direction from which it had come…
  • p. 20 …In fact , he was almost thrown into the sea. He got so nervous after the sighting…
  • p. 21 …There are a lot of sea-gulls in th:lt region. In any case, Com. Bacellar…
  • p. 26 …guidcd missile, nor a plane or a sea-gull. ." ( Rio de Janeiro (J JORNAL, February 26…
  • p. 27 …low speed from the direction of the sea. Photo 2, middle page, left, shows the object…
  • p. 28 …ex- cited people around him-showed the sea and part of the Island's mountains; " (d…
  • p. 29 …A bCCl lll of light was emitted from its bottom pro- jecting toward the sea below…
  • p. 44 …r ,-!as the altitude determined, etc •• u) Sea gull •• • Meteor??? Ale a11nost anything form this limited…
  • p. 53 …In one movie I even saw Moses hold back the waters of the Red Sea. These…
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• 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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