By Richard H. Hall, April 2009
“From: Journal of UFO History; March/April 2009; Vol. VI, No. 1”
(NICAP.org)
The whole UFO case report:
“FORMATION OF DISCS PASSES BELOW BRAZILIAN AIRLINER
By Dr. Olavo Fontes
The date was November 21, 1954. The Douglas PP-ANM from National
Airlines was flying from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
State, toward Rio de Janeiro. Good visibility. Blue sky
above the airliner and some clouds below.
The plane was at 9,000
feet, flying over the Paraiba
Valley near the town of Paraiba do Sul, when the copilot saw the UFOs. The time
was 11:30 a.m. Commander Armando Braulino (copilot), Commander Pedro Luiz
Teixeira (pilot), Mr. Vicente B. Marques (steward) and Jose E. Caldeira
(radio-operator) were the chief witnesses.
The UFO formation came from the northeast flying at 7,200 feet, passed just
below the airliner at high speed, and disappeared toward the southwest. ...The
plane was moving [in a North-South] direction and the UFO formation crossed just
under it.
The objects did not rotate, seemed to be of aluminum (or a similar
metal) and under the sunlight showed a bright, polished surface. They were
shaped like disks with a kind of cupola (or dome) on top. They might be
compared (in shape) to a soldier helmet with a large rim around the convex
part.
There was a larger one at the center of the formation - the ‘squadron
chief’ - and the others were grouped around it at close distance. The whole
formation was about 120
feet in diameter and each object measured about 15 feet in diameter. There
was a strange bluish glow around each UFO and around the whole formation. .
The UFOs showed no propellers, jet-tubes, wings, tails or protruding
fins. ... Some passengers came to the airliner windows still in time to watch
the fleet of 15 disk-shaped objects, but others came too late and saw nothing.
The sighting lasted about 40 or 50 seconds.
It was said that the passengers panicked, but the pilot (talking to the
press) dismissed this version as false. ... there was no hysteria.
(From a letter to Alexander D. Mebane, Nov. 23, 1958)”
My comment:
The late Dr. Olavo Fontes was one of Brazil’s most prominent UFO
researchers.
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