UFOs seen by Portugal Air Force
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On September 4, 1957 at 19:21, four bombers aircraft took off the Ota Air Base, in Portugal. They were under Captain José Lemos Ferreira control. The others pilots were sergeants Alberto Gomes Covas, Salvador Alberto Oliveira e Manuel Neves Marcelino.
It was a common mission to practise a nocturnal flight at 25.000 feet high between the Ota Air Base, the Spanish city of Granada, the Portuguese city of Portalegre and finally the Portuguese city of Coruche. The night was clear and the moon was almost full. The first part of the operation was successful, and so they turned towards the city of Portalegre.
At this point, Captain Ferreira noticed a strange light above the horizon. After observing it for 3 or 4 minutes, he warned the others about what he had just seen. The pilot on his right had already seen it.
The object looked like a very shining star, but much bigger than normal. It’s center changed colors constantly, going from green to blue, and also some yellow and red tones.
Suddenly the object increased its size, becoming 5 or 6 times bigger than before. Right after doing so, the object decreased its size until becoming an almost invisible shining point. The UFO kept on increasing and decreasing its size, and was holding position at 40° left.
After 7 or 8 minutes, the object started getting smaller, going down at the horizon, now at 90° left.
Little before reaching Portalegre, at 22:30, Captain Ferreira abandoned his mission, and turned 50° left. However, the object was still at 90° left. Captain Ferreira said it to be impossible, as the object was stopped. At this moment the object was red and much deeper than 25000 feet. After several minutes on this route, the pilots noticed a small yellow circle getting out of the craft. Just some seconds later, 3 more circles appeared.
Captain Ferreira could not calculate the distance between him and the objects, but he believed they were below and next to him. The main object seemed to be 15 times bigger than the smaller ones, and it was probably the mother ship, as the others were flying around it.
When the UFOs were next to Coruche, the big one suddenly descended and then climbed very quickly, intending to cross the pilots way. The pilots become very excited, and as they got relaxed, they could see the big UFO passing through them, as the smaller ones disappeared.
The bombers landed without any problems, after an extraordinary flight that took them 40 minutes. They all agreed that there wasn’t any easy explanation to the objects. Captain Ferreira declared: “Do not come with those histories of Venus, balloons, planes, or things like these that have been used to explain most of the UFOs sightings.”
Captain Ferreira was interviewed at the Ota Air Base by the magazine Flying Saucer Review in Lisbon, and also was photographed with his pilots.
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