Saturday 3 April 2010

UFO TV Series:
“Encontros Imediatos - Ep. 10: Dossier Ota”
(“Close Encounters - Episode 10: The Ota Dossier”),
15 June 2008 (RTP 2)

The “Encontros Imediatos” (“Close Encounters”) UFO TV series is produced by Portugal’s state broadcaster, RTP.

Episode 10 is about a UFO sighting made by three Portuguese Air Force pilots who were stationed at Ota Airport. They sighted the UFO over the Serra do Montejunto mountain range, situated north of Ota:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzepq6fk1Q8 (1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNUodYQ9SQo (2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp76HYXO5tk (3)

Comment by the video source (machine translation):

“Tenth episode broadcast on June 15, 2008 dedicated to the UFO phenomenology in Portugal. On the morning of November 2, 1982 Julio Guerra, Portuguese Air Force pilot, participated in a flying exercise over the Serra do Montejunto mountain range. It was there he observed an object that aroused his curiosity. When he tried to approach the object, it skyrocketed to his altitude, and he realised that it was a discoid object with two hemispheres, metallic coloured and reddish on the bottom. After radio contact, another plane approached. Two other pilots, Carlos Garces and Antonio Gomes, also witnessed this strange event.”

UFO News Article:
“Dr. Hynek - The Rock in ‘Scientific Wilderness’ of UFOs”,
4 November 1973 (The Palm Beach Post-Times, Florida)

This news article gives an in-depth presentation of Dr. J. Allen Hynek:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=byUuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9c0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1601,1676693

The article can be found on pages C1 and C4.

The late Dr. J. Allen Hynek was a U.S. astronomer, professor (at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois), the U.S. Air Force's scientific consultant on UFOs and ufologist.











Dr. J. Allen Hynek (left) and Dr. Jacques F. Vallee
(wikimedia.org photo)













Dr. J. Allen Hynek acted in the movie, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977) (3.bp.blogspot.com photo)