01-02-2017, 10:19 PM
I hadn't heard of this previously. What do you guys think?
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Quote:This is one of the biggest UFO stories of all time, it happened in Brazil in 1977 and I'll try to post the full story, with details, pictures, documents, etc.
Rumors started at 1977, in the city of Coláres, Pará in northern Brazil. A lot of people started to see OVNIs in the skies, but the weirdest thing started to happen. People saw blue lights, but those blue lights started to get closer and it actually caused injuries on the population. 400 witnesses had scars in the same shape, they called the lights Sucker-Sucker because of how the injury appear to be caused. After so many people had witnessed the blue lights or had injuries on them, the mayor of the city requested help from the Brazilian Air Force, and the population organized night vigils and used fireworks at night to keep the blue lights away.
So the biggest operation for OVNIs started, called "Operation Saucer", militaries from the Air Force started to arrive on 3 cities on Pará, with medical help as well to treat the injuries. The operation lasted a few months, everything was registered, pictures, documents, testimonies... There's a document that says there is 82 sightings in 1977 and 48 in 1978, from the militaries. There is rumors that people died because of the injuries caused by the light, this was not confirmed.
In 1991, an UFO magazine from Brazil leaked a few documents from the government, and in 2004 the Brazilian UFO Researchers Committee (CBU) started a petition to release the documents to the public. It gathered thousands of signatures, and in 2009 more than 1,400 classified documents were released to the public, including pictures and films, documenting the whole military mission. (In these documents, there is information about thousands of other cases, in other states, it is not about this mission only, but the government released everything related to UFOs I think, the cases go from 2005 to 1977).
In the internet you can found all the documents, pictures and everything, I'll link some of those:
There is a lot more material out there, there is testimonies from doctors, physicians, colonels, etc. There is also documentaries, articles, magazines, interviews, it is a really famous case and I think it's one of the most important, because the government confirms it happened.
- A doctor examining an injury similar to other witnesses, she claimed it was caused by a blue light
- Drawings on an official document, describing the location where the light was seen, the size of the light, colors (blue and red), weather in the time of the sighting, etc.
- Another drawing describing the movements of the light, and how it was seen from other angles
- You can find all the documents released to the public here, but it's all in portuguese.
This is it, this is my first post about it, I can post more about it if you guys are interested, I can translate some documents. Sorry for my english (cliche thing to say) but I thought it was worth posting, what do you think the lights were? Do you think this is real?
PART 2 IS AVAILABLE HERE.
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