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Project Blue Book file: Trinidade Island, 16 Jan 1958

USAF via The Black Vault · 54 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • 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…
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Your telegram of 16 August 1960, :tddresscd to the Secretary
of State, concerning a Brszil i an U:<'O p icture has b",m referred to
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Cincinnati 20, Ohio
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