25
May 1986
(The
Canberra Times, ACT, Australia
Source: Trove, National
Library of Australia , Canberra , ACT, Australia
The whole article:
“Further sightings of unidentified flying objects were reported inBrazil
“Further sightings of unidentified flying objects were reported in
Brazilian
television showed film of a glowing, round object in the sky which was said to
have been taken on Thursday night by a freelance cameraman near Maringa
On
Wednesday afternoon an airforce base in Fortaleza ,
capital of the north-eastern State of Ceara
The
Air Force Ministry has summoned pilots of three F-5s and two Mirage jets
ordered into the air on Monday from bases in southern Brazil
The
head of the State oil company Petrobras, Colonel Ozires Silva, said in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday that he had been piloting a
light aircraft on Monday night when he was advised by Brasilia
Colonel
Ozires, who was preparing to land at Sao Jose dos Campos ,
just outside Sao Paulo
He
said that in normal conditions they were the sort of lights that could often be
seen by pilots, but these lights, which were orange and red and moved at a
great speed, had also appeared on radar.
Colonel
Ozires said he had felt reluctant to mention the incident.
‘People
who speak about flying saucers are normally not taken very seriously,’ he said.
‘If
it were not for the appearance on the radar, which is a concrete fact, I would
not have had the courage to mention the subject.’ ”
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