Colares UFO flap
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The Colares flap refers to an outbreak of UFO sightings that occurred in 1977 on the Brazilian island of Colares. During the outbreak, the UFOs allegedly attacked the citizens with intense beams of radiation that left burn marks and puncture wounds. These sightings led to the Brazilian government dispatching a team to investigate under the codename Operation Saucer (Portuguese: Prato), but the government later recalled the team and classified the files until the late 1990s.
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[edit] Witnesses
One of the many witnesses of the Colares UFO attacks was a woman physician named Wellaide Cecim Carvalho. She took care and made medical tests on the victims, finding the following symptoms:
1) Feeling of weakness; some could hardly walk. 2) Dizziness 3) Headaches 4) Low arterial pressure. 5) Anaemia, with low haemoglobin levels. 6) Burned skin at the zone where the light had hit. 7) Little puncture marks inside the burned zone. 8) Permanent hair loss in affected zone.
According to Wellaide Carvalho, she attended about 35 people with these symptoms, 2 of them died.
[edit] Researchers
This incident was thoroughly studied by Brazilian ufologist and philosopher Daniel Rebisso Giese, who made an extensive report of it.
Later in 1988, French scientist and ufologist Dr. Jacques Vallee travelled to Brasil to investigate tales of injured people and UFO sightings. He met Wellaide Carvalho and other UFO witnesses. The conclusion of his trip to Brazil was that: this kind of incidents are not uncommon and deserve a scientific study. His conclusions can be found in his book "Confrontations" (1990).
Other investigators that have reviewed and researched Colares UFO incidents are Ademar Gevaerd (Brazil) and Bob Pratt (USA).
[edit] Operation Saucer
Since 1977 there were many witnesses testimonies and stories about a military group resarching in 1977 and 1978 the UFO sightings/attacks at Colares and other villages.
However, In May 2004, Brasilian Air Force (FAB) high ranking generals met a group of brasilian ufologists (headed by Ademar Gevaerd) and released, to the examination of ufologists, a bunch of documents from the "Operation Saucer". This release confirmed officially the research made by the military group in Colares in 1977. According to these released documents of the events of 1977, the military men took photos of UFOs, interviewed UFO witnesses, and personally witnessed many UFO sightings, making drawings of them and their trajectories.
In that meeting, FAB representatives explicitly stated that FAB was discretely studying UFOs since year 1954.
[edit] External links
- Colares flap discussion forums.
- About.com site about the incident
- ufologie.net's page about the Colares flap
- Site containing the declassified government report (Portuguese)
- Site containing the research made by Bob Pratt
- About "Operation Saucer" meetings
- Wellaide Carvalho Interview
