- 27 years later, the UFO phenomenon is still under taboo
to the Brazilian military. A petition requires Brazilian president Lula
da Silva to disclose the secret files...
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- Introduction
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- In the months of October, November and December
of 1977, and during the first half of 1978, the Brazilian state of Pará
was invaded by UFOs. And it wasn't simply sightings and had nothing to
do with mysterious lights wandering at high altitudes. It was about bright
objects, in several shapes and sizes, flying over the Marajó Bay
region at low altitude, only a few meters above the trees and firing strong
light beams at the people. The people were harmed by the phenomenon - one
of the most important ones in world ufology and still under research today
- and gave several names to the silent and bright objects: "vampire
light", "bug", "the thing" and mainly "chupa-chupa"
(the sucker). They said the objects pilots were beings with a height of
1.20 or 1.30 meter.
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- The people called it chupa-chupa because of the weird
scars the victims bore on their bodies. The light beam used to leave tiny
holes on the skin. Among women, the scars were on their breasts. They seemed
to loose blood during the attack. Men and women complained of giddiness,
body numbing and headache after the attacks. The inhabitants of the cities
of Colares, Santo Antonio do Tauá, Mosqueiro and Baía do
Sol panicked on these days of bitter remembrance. The panic took over even
the state's capital, Belém, with a sequence of strange lights reports
and chupa-chupa attacks in several quarters of the city, astonishing the
authorities.
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- High mystery
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- In the end of the 70s, scientists from all over the world
came to Pará, Brazil, but they all failed to explain the phenomenon.
Twenty-seven years later, documents from the Brazilian Air Force's secret
service reveal that these lights from space were something much more unsettling
than we can imagine.
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- The explanation to the phenomenon is: there's no explanation.
It is still a big mystery and a huge challenge to the science community
and to the Air Force's experts. Ufologists, scientists and researchers
from Brazilian universities are collecting signatures to a petition that
will be delivered to the Brazilian president Lula da Silva. It requires
the Air Force to reveal the conclusions of the investigation on the chupa-chupa
case. The petition already have thousands of signatures: physicists, biologists,
journalists, officers and politicians among them. The campaign is called
UFOs: Freedom of Information Now [www.ufo.com.br/secrecy.php].
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- The military report, called Operation Saucer, has 2,000
pages, 500 photographs and some 16 hours of films. It has been sent to
the highest rank officers of the Air Force. At that time, the country had
a dictatorship government and, because of this, these documents have been
kept classified for more than 23 years. The report's conclusion wasn't
revealed. The military were afraid of some relationship between the objects
invasion and the communists, maybe a new weapon to destabilize the military
regime. The national information service (note: SNI in Portuguese) and
the Air Force's secret service decided to keep the results classified.
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- But through a brave Air Force's officer, captain Uyrangê
Hollanda, part of this report came to the public, through an interview
he gave to Brazilian UFO Magazine's editor A. J. Gevaerd. He was the operation
commander, sent by the government to this secret operation to investigate
the facts and interview the chupa-chupa victims. Researchers got a copy
of the report, and from all the victims told to the officer, the most interesting
story was one from a farmer named Claudomira Paixão.
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- She lived in Baía do Sol and told that, on the
night of October 18th, 1977, she woke up when a strong light appeared through
her house's window. "The air got warmer. At first, the light was green,
touched my head and crossed my face. I woke up completely and the light
became red. I could see a creature, like a man, wearing something like
a diver's outfit. It had a device like a pistol. It aimed at me and the
object blinked three times, as if shooting at my breast, almost always
on the same place. It was hot and hurt me. I felt like there were needles
piercing me. I think they collected my blood. I was terrified. I couldn't
even move my legs. I was shocked."
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- What she said to the military was very important because,
for the first time, someone mentions a being leaving the flying object
to extract blood. Almost all stories talk about lights causing giddiness,
weakness and "body shivering". The only exception is a case,
also in Baía do Sol, talking about the appearance of a space couple
that shot at a fisherman with a light-beam pistol, leaving him fainted
for several minutes.
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- Uyrangê Hollanda - Brazilian UFO Magazine files
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- Carpenter shoot at flying saucer
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- The captain Uyrangê Hollanda told to on his Operation
Saucer report the alien aircrafts flying over the region caused panic among
the locals and drove some people to despair. They used to use fireworks
to warn the neighborhood when chupa-chupa was coming. They often shot,
with their hunting rifles, at the UFOs, said the captain to the Brazilian
UFO Magazine [www.ufo.com.br]. "We always told them: don't shoot,
don't shoot. Once, a strong light has been aimed at a carpenter. The man
had 50 or 60 years old. He took his rifle and shot at the flying saucer.
The light surrounded him and he fell to the ground, almost paralyzed. For
15 days the carpenter could hardly move. In the first day the man didn't
move at all. He could see, hear and speak but it was very difficult for
him to move." Said the captain in an interview to the Brazilian UFO
Magazine, the only magazine interested in hearing his impressive story.
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- A Colares fishermen also saw UFOs coming in and out from
the waters of the Marajó bay. Sometimes, they could see their bluish
light moving under the water. "Once, I was sleeping when the sergeants
- members of the operation - told me they took a photograph of a flying
saucer diving into the water close to a boat. I went to the beach and waited
for the fisherman. When he came back he told me what happened. He was terrified.
Several weeks later I saw a light close to a fishing-boat. It was blue
and surrounded the boat once or twice, by 300 meters, then it dived into
the water. There wasn't any sound. It was like a blade passing through
the water." said the captain.
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- No explanation to the injuries
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- The captain also heard from Wellaide Cecim Carvalho,
the town doctor of Vigia in 1977. She said she took care of more than 40
victims and she saw burnings on their bodies. Because of her job, she asked
him to keep her interview under secrecy. She was afraid of being considered
ridiculous if people find out she had no explanation for the injuries.
The locals, the vast majority fishermen and farmers, couldn't understand
why they were chosen by the lights. They had just one certainty: they were
terrified for being guinea-pigs to unknown beings from another planet.
And they didn't know whether they would survive this weird experience.
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- The captain and his team were tired of seeing bright
objects flying in front of them. The objects even stopped, waiting for
them when they were taking photographs or filming. He couldn't disguise
his astonishment. In the report he admits these are weird phenomenon. When
he developed the crafts photographs, taken from a distance of 20 m, he
had a surprise: the objects didn't appeared on some of them. They could
only be seen on the negatives. "I think these objects were doing a
show for us", the captain said in the report. In fact, on a very good
shot taken on the Mosqueiro island, one can see very well the shape of
the UFO that came close to the team at very low altitude. Hollanda said
he could see "low height humanoid beings" inside the craft.
And this, if said overtly by him, the operation commander, could seriously
affect the Operation Saucer credibility. Although Hollanda's superior,
commander Protásio Lopes de Oliveira, already dead, believed in
the existence of extraterrestrial beings, said the military to the Brazilian
UFO Magazine [www.ufo.com.br].
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- Captain Hollanda also said commander Oliveira would have
been "very happy" knowing that chupa-chupa was something so interesting
and unexplained to the human science. And what the military saw wasn't
unknown to the locals. A fisherman from Ponta do Cajueiro said one of the
beings had 1.20 m height.
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- Priest witnessed object appearing
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- The priest Alfredo de La Ó, responsible for the
Colares church at that time and already dead, was also heard by the military.
One of his stories: one night when he was driving he saw a bright object
cone-shaped far away. It was at 100 meters of altitude more or less and
coming down. it seemed it was landing. "I stopped and came out of
the car to see it better. It's lights were green, red and yellow and turned
on and off clockwise. It was swaying but, suddenly, the lights became stronger
and it went up. It disappeared and did not land", said the priest.
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- At two o'clock in the morning of November 27th, 1977,
the Air Force agents were paying attention to three bright objects, with
different sizes, on a place called Ponta do Machadinho. Apparently they
were landed at a distance of 3.000 meters from them. Suddenly, the smaller
object came closer to the bigger one. Few seconds later, it flew northeast,
towards Belém. The other two stayed for some seconds more and then
rised up fast, disappearing while taking different ways.
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- Another five bright objects could be seen in November
28th at 5000 meters, over the city of Colares. After some time, they came
closer to a bigger one. They had yellow, red and green lights. One object
left the others and started to emit a strong blue light against a place
called Ponta do Bacuri. Later, they came together again and left towards
Baía do Sol, Mosqueiro, at high speed. A fisherman, terrified, reported
to the military the sighting of a dark UFO reflecting a bluish light. He
was then interviewed by a crew of the Brazilian UFO Magazine [www.ufo.com.br].
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- Object fires a light ray at the locals and fly away
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- One of the reports describes a yellow to red object flying
at low altitude and without noise. Suddenly, it emitted a long bluish light
beam hitting the victim on the lumbar region. This part of the body became
numb. The victim also complained of paralyzing, muscular pain, and others
for several days. Another story talks about a flying object of more or
less 100 meters in size described by a Colares local. He said the object
emitted strong light beams against the city. When it stopped the local
aimed his rifle at the object and shot once. Then, he run away and hided
in the bushes. Several locals spoke of a sighting over the Jejutauá
estuary. A big, bright object at more or less 1.500 m and flying faster
than a jet plane. The object turned suddenly and disappeared within the
dark night of the Marajó bay.
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- On November 1st, 1977, the military set up an UFO observation
post on the Colares water-tower, when a strange event caught their attention:
at midnight, a blue light, already saw in previous sightings, was moving
from south to north and stopped above the sand bank called Coroa Vermelha.
Another bright object, yellow to red, came closer and became dark when
it touched the light. Half an hour later, another object did the same,
disappearing after "landing" on the blue light. Captain Hollanda
said that a huge bright object, which seemed to be the 'mothership', has
been a 100 meters from them. "I was terrified. At that moment I didn't
know what could happen. They could have taken us. They could have done
anything they want to us. Another time, they were at Baía do Sol
and it was around 7:00 in the morning, Hollanda says, soon after the sun
rising. "We didn't see anything when, suddenly, a huge disc-shaped
object, with more or less 30 meters of diameter and 50 meters in height,
hovered above us".
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- Collecting materials
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- The Operation Saucer never came to an end. The Air Force
canceled the work without explanation. Hollanda's conclusion (he was found
hanged with his own bathrobe belt by his daughters in 1997, on the second
floor of his expensive house, a death officially called "suicide by
asphyxia"): "the space beings called chupa-chupa by the locals
were not attacking people but "collecting materials. Covering the
Brazilian air space in bands, the same way aerial photography does. They
started on Maranhão, then Colares, Marajó, Monte Alegre,
Santarém, Manaus, covering all the region as if they had a schedule".
Why did the Air Force cancel the operation? Hollanda's answer: "I
don't know why they took it for granted. The Air Force wasn't interested,
but I was".
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- The Brazilian UFO Magazine [www.ufo.com.br] carries in
his site over 500 pages of official secret documents of the Brazilian Air
Force, most of them never admitted by the military or the government. About
230 pages of that amount are docs from the Operation Saucer, that were
obtained through several sources. All these files are free to download
as an example that the Brazilian government, although still in denial,
does have an strong interest by the UFO Phenomena and has conducted serious
investigation about the matter.
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- A. J. Gevaerd, editor of the Brazilian UFO Magazine,
can be contacted at: gevaerd@ufo.com.br.
- Operation Saucer official secret documents can be downloaded
at: www.ufo.com.br/documentop.php.
- Other Brazilian Air Force official secret documents can
be downloaded at: www.ufo.com.br/docPrincipal2.php.
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