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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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