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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.

  • p. 8 …his aim as they ran about excitedly. Never- theless he managed to take six shots of…
  • p. 12 …The Brazilian Naval ~lini stry never accepted the pictures as authentic records of a flyin g…
  • p. 14 …T never read a bou t a flyin g saucer having been found, or about frilg…
  • p. 16 …submitting the material to Sued, who had never exhibited any interest in UAOs, and who was…
  • p. 19 …They never tried to get the negatives from me. "Q. What happened ' whcn the ship came…
  • p. 25 …big part in this; perhaps we will never know just how mu~h. We do know…
  • p. 29 …it was so methin g he had never see n before. He was a lso interviewed…
  • p. 44 …f) 1'ne photos ,';ere never a "Top Secret" subject, having been !'eleased to the press…
  • p. 51 …and gossip, their \'11311 knovffi propensity for never 1ettE'lI:g the truth stand in the…
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