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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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ROB MERCER- .. _. . . , . \ UNCLASSIFIED INF ORIlATION REPORT OPNAV FOR"" 38JtO.Jt Ie) I RIo:V. e · lJ lJ) .' REPORT N O. D ATE , U.S . Naval Attache, Rio 39-58 11 Harc h 19~)8 50 Public:!.ty. The press reports after the publication of the photo- graphs covered a great deal of newspaper space for about a week, tending to prove or disprove the authenticity of Baralin8's photographs. DTARIO CARI9CA reported that personnel of SALDANHA were under rigid orders of sile~ce. 0 GLOBO published a story .,ith photographs by photographeI'~ Jeap ' l1anzon 7 of flying saucers (china) ta1ren a·c Cabo Frio. , Federal Deputy Sergio Magalhaes sent a note to the Navy Ministry on 27 February protesting the Navy's failure to secure Sl-lOrn statements of \...-itnesses. "For the first time in flying saucer history, the phenomenon ,·las attended by large numbers of persons belonging to a mili~ary force 'IThich give these latest photographs an official stampo Threats to national security require greater official attention and action," said the Deputy. In the middle of all the publiCity, other IIfl.ying saucer" sighting reports carne out including a naval officer "rho saw a flying saucer a month before sighting from SALDANHA off the coast of' Espirito Santoo CO and e re,>, of KJ'.A TRIDENTE sal-r flying sauc",r several days befora S~ANHA sighting but kept information secreto DOWNGRADED AT DECLASSIFIE.D ~FYTEEARR' ·· I?\'TERVA.L9'.">.' 1" "!<'.< '" • DOD DIS 5200.1 o~ :, ~""-R0 . UNCLASSIFIED
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