A Portuguese historian, and director of the civilian scientific group CNIFO. In the 1982 Ota Air Base case, General José Lemos Ferreira released the Air Force files to his group. CNIFO's team estimated the object's horizontal speed at about 2,500 km/h. Lemos Ferreira also told him about his own 1957 encounter with a formation of F-84G jets. With Fina d'Armada, Fernandes went back to the original documents on Fátima. In Heavenly Lights (2005), they argued the 1917 events were close encounters, not Marian apparitions. Eric Ouellet called that reading very biased.
Stories3
Caso Lemos Ferreira: Portuguese Air Force F-84G formation encounter
24Thinly documented
Portuguese ufologist whom Lemos Ferreira told about the case
The Ota Air Base Encounter: Júlio Miguel Guerra's Chipmunk Circled by a UFO
26Thinly documented
Historian, director of CNIFO, which investigated the case; writer of the RTP2 series Encontros Imediatos