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Date of Sighting: May
6, 1994
Time of Sighting:
0330 (3:30 a.m.)- 0415 (4:15 a.m.) Local Time.
Location of Sighting:
near Guarantingueta, (20 KM)
Closest town:
Cachoeira Paulista (5 KM) State of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Number of witnesses:
4
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects:
Domed disk.
Full Description of
event/sighting: Background: I am an airline pilot (now retired) and I am also a
qualified meteorologist and air traffic controller. I consider myself an
excellent aircraft observer.
A group of us were
returning from flight simulator training in Rio de Janeiro on the road to Sao
Paulo, Brazil.
We departed Rio late
at night and drove along the main highway and at about 3:15 a.m.. I was
sleeping in the rear of the car which was traveling at high speed.
The car was being
driven by a local chauffeur and inside it was me, a senior airline captain at
the time, an older flight engineer from the U.S. and my girlfriend who was a
flight attendant and a pilot also.
I was awakened by my
girlfriend who pointed out a light in the sky which had been following us for a
while, according to her. It was a bright red light in the sky and my first
impression was that it was a radio antenna obstacle light high on a mountain.
However we were
traveling fast on a flat area and there were no mountains around and the light
was keeping up with us. (Initially the light was at our 7 o'clock position on
the left side of the car and then advanced to a 9 o'clock position)
The light was moving
erratically in a side ways and up and down motion, but keeping its relative
position to us, impossible for a stationary object.
I thought of a
helicopter flying out there, but there were no position lights or strobe
visible and the light was moving in a very odd way for a helicopter. I am a
helicopter pilot as well.
The lights started to
change from red to yellow to white, green and even blue. The lights were of
changing intensity and reminded me of a dance room rotating light sphere or
"disco ball."
This continued for at
least five more minutes and we slowed down from 80-90 miles per hour to 40 and
the light kept its relative position to us.
Traffic on the
highway was light, but we reached a point where there was a bus, two or three
trucks and several cars parked on the side of the road and people were outside
of their vehicles watching the object in the sky.
It was a clear, but
dark night with no moon, there was a cloud cover, but it was high probably over
10,000 feet and apparently the object was initially flying at 3-4000 feet and a
mile away from us.
I asked the driver to
pull to the side of the road and I came out of the car, followed by my
girlfriend. The object was now descending and at a much lower altitude and
closer.
After a few minutes
it was real low and hovering to the south side of the highway. The top lights
were dimmed and the object was hovering but moving closer to our position.
I could not hear any
sound and the lights were now dimmed but still changing colors and I could see
the shape of the object and it was the familiar "flying saucer" dome
shaped object.
I walked two hundred
feet on the side of the road towards the object which was hovering low, no
sound came from it and the night was absolutely still except for an occasional
vehicle passing down the road. There were several vehicles stopped on the side
of the road further down and I walked back to the car quickly to get a camera.
We had an excellent
professional Nikon camera with us. I opened the trunk to get the camera but we
had taken many pictures in Rio and we had no film left.
My girlfriend joined
me and we walked back towards the object which was floating three or four
hundred feet away from us, dimly lit now and probably at less than two hundred
feet above the ground.
She stood back
frightened by the sight but I was not afraid and walked quite close to the
object maybe within two hundred feet. I actually crossed the dangerous highway
to get a closer look.
I walked into some
grassy area until I was stopped by a barbed wire fence. At this point, my
closest approach to the object I was probably two hundred feet away.
There were a few dim
lights on the edge of the object which pulsed slowly every few seconds, the
lights looked square and they grew bigger when the brightness increased and
smaller when they dimmed.
The object was not
illuminated but the bottom emitted some kind of bluish vapor and when I got the
closest to the object I felt like a soft breeze was blowing into my short hair,
though it was not windy at the time.
It felt like an
electrical charge was coming out of the object which moved slowly with a
rocking motion not unlike that of a boat going through small waves.
My girlfriend had
walked back to the car and was standing behind the car. Even though the object
was not lit other than the small lights pulsating on the edge, I could see its
outline and it's top clearly. In the darkness the color looked like a reddish
gray.
The object was quite
large and I estimated it to be at least 70 feet in diameter and about 30 feet
high. It was just hovering in the air at about 120-150 feet high.
Some of the other
spectators, probably a truck driver, shone a powerful spot light on the object
and there were a couple of flashes of light, maybe someone using a camera
flash. The second group of people was quite distant probably over 800 feet.
Shortly after the
spot light illuminated the object, which looked metallic gray, not unlike the
color of an aircraft, when illuminate the object started to move more
noticeably and the slight rocking motion built up to become a swinging movement
which reminded me the movement of an aircraft coming in for landing on a
crosswind.
There was a change of
position and the object was not totally upright but rather listing about 20-30
degrees to one side.
Suddenly, there was a
few flashes of multicolor lights from the top of the object and a faint
bluish-greenish glow showed from the bottom part and the object started to
float away quietly towards the south gaining altitude slowly at first and then
increasingly fast. When the object started to move I felt some vibration and
heard a faint, low pitch humming sound.
After another
multicolor light display the object climbed straight up very fast and still
silently. It changed direction several times in a series of sharp, right angle
turns and then disappeared.
While I was close to
the object there was a faint smell of ionization, not unlike that smell present
in high power radio station transmitting rooms, when they used vacuum tubes and
there was also a taste of metal in my mouth.
The cars and trucks
started leaving after the object flew away and we climbed in the car and drove
on until we reached a truck stop restaurant further down the road were several
other witnesses who had stopped for coffee. Our driver, who had stayed inside
the car, told me that there was a lot of static in the car's radio while the
object was nearby.
Some people at the
restaurant told us that sightings are common in that area. I also remembered
that in 1972 I was flying near the same area one night and an airliner ahead of
my airplane reported a UFO.
I did not see the
object myself, but listened to the radio conversation between the airliner, the
air traffic controllers and other airplanes on the area. There was a U.S.
military aircraft in the area that night in 1972 and after landing I talked to
the crew which had seen the object.
The subject never
came up again after that night. In 30 years of flying and being a control tower
operator for some time, I heard many UFO stories but had never actually seen
one until that night in Brazil in 1994.
Upon my return to the
U.S. some weeks later, I filed Reports of this sighting to every possible
government agency but never received any reply.
The next day after
arriving in the city of Sao Paulo I was at the airport and after identifying
myself as a visiting airline pilot I reported the sighting to the Brazilian
aviation authorities who listened to the report and took some notes. I made a
couple of sketches of what the object looked like and its apparent path of
flight in the area of the sighting.
Thank you to the
witness for the report.
If you have seen anything like this in the
same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at houstonbri7@gmail.com
with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept
confidential.
File your UFO
sighting to Brian at: houstonbri7@gmail.com
Brian Vike,
Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: houstonbri7@gmail.com
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