The Burning on Forte Itaipu Sentinels UFO Incident took place on November 4, 1957, on the Itaipu Fort, in the city of Praia Grande, São Paulo, Brazil.
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At 2:00am, two sentinels of the fort noticed an intense brightness in the sky, and they realized it was actually an object that was descending at high speed directly towards the fort. 300 m (1000 feet) above the fort, it stopped.
At this moment, the sentinels could see that the UFO was circular and about 30 m (100 feet) in diameter. Each of them was armed with a sub machine gun, but they didn't shoot the UFO, nor raised the alarm.
Suddenly, the UFO started to emit a strong humming, and a strong heat wave hit the sentinels, even though there wasn't any visible flame or light.
The sentinels' clothes burned in flames, and one of them fainted. The other one took cover under a cannon. Their screams alerted the troops that were around there, but the lights went out before they could do anything.
A minute later, the lights came back right after the heat wave stopped. Some soldiers could see the UFO going up towards the sky.
The burned sentinels were taken inside the fort and received medical attention. The fort's commander sent a message to the head quarters of the Brazilian Army.
As the United States had more knowledge about UFOs, Brazilian authorities asked the American embassy for help on the investigations. As soon as possible, Brazilian Army and United States Air Force personnel flew to the fort, along with investigators of the Brazilian Air Force.
After listening the sentinels' descriptions of the UFO and of the situation, the investigators discussed why the sentinels were attacked.
To date, the Fort Itaipu incident still remains without any official explanation. An official of the USAF, searching for the reason which lead the UFO to attack the sentinels, reminded of a report by Project Sign in which members expressed their beliefs about an advanced race that has been observing Earth. He expressed his opinions on the case:[1]
"Such civilization could see that in Earth we now have atomic bombs and that we are quickly improving our rockets. Given the past history of mankind - frequent wars showing a belligerent human race - they must have become alarmated. We should, therefore, expect, specially at this times, to receive such visits. According to this, the main objective of the aliens would be to watch our space improvements, fearing we could become a threat to other planets. If this hypothesis is exact, it could be expanded to link the launching of the Sputniks with the attack to the Fort Itaipu. However, this sounded absurd for all investigators. It would mean that the aliens would be worried about our firsts steps in space, and by small space ships so primitive that would look like a canoe if compared to a transatlantic liner. It would also mean that those burnings had the purpose of demonstrate the superior weapons they could use against the aggressive explorers coming from the Earth. However, we were still far from the piloted space flight, even to the Moon. According to the human logic, we would not be able to threaten a superior space ship - not now nor later."
In 2008, a document reporting the incident was written at the Brazilian Embassy in the United States.[2]
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