by Arjun Walia, The Pulse:
Between 1977 and 1978, the Brazilian Air Force conducted an investigation into the UFO phenomenon after citizens in the city of Colares were reporting multiple sightings, with many being at close range.
It was called “Operação Prato,” or “Operation Saucer.” Since then, the government of Brazil has actually admitted to having an Unidentified Aerial Object Investigation system called “SIOANI” which was created in 1969 to investigate the phenomenon. It’s safe to say that they were well aware of the phenomenon before Operação Prato.
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In 2004 the Brazilian Air Force released official documents pertaining to Operação Prato. The documents detail what many citizens and the military witnessed at the time. The issue is many UFO researchers believe there are still classified files from the operation that are still unavailable to the public. But the Brazilian government claims that all of the documents have been released.
Regardless of what might still be classified and in the hands of Brazilian government officials, the ‘official’ declassified information and investigations of these incidents between 1977 and 1978 are already quite startling as you’ll see below.
The Incidents
Hundreds of citizens in Colares and surrounding areas like Mosqueiro and Ananindeua, among other towns in Belém, claimed to not only have seen and had encounters with the objects, but to also have been “attacked” by “rays of light” coming from them.
Dr. Wellaide Cecim Carvalho, who at the time was the director of the Colares Health Unit, described a common mark left on people by the objects as “two parallel holes, as if needles had penetrated people’s skin.” According to the doctor’s reports, patients arrived at the health centre with common symptoms as well. Symptoms included anemia, dizziness and fever, not to mention first-degree burn marks all over their bodies. Dr Carvalho saw over 120 patients over a period of a couple of months related to these incidents.
One of the most common reports by experiencers was that they believed blood was being sucked from them when they were hit with beams of light from the UFOs. As a result, the incident developed the nickname “Chupa-Chupa” from the verb chukar, meaning “to suck.”
Dr. Carvalho also claims to have observed a bright metallic object spinning over the front part of her village. She described the objects as: Conical-cylindrical shape (upper part more narrow) having an apparent size at that distance of 3 meters in width and 2 in diameter. It moved in an irregular manner (vertical position on its longitudinal axis), accentuated wavy or rocking motion, all the time making swift stops and turning at the same time. She says she observed closely, being on one occasion accompanied by other people in front of the local state hospital.
“I was ordered by the Brazilian Air Force to convince locals that the lights attacking them were mass hallucinations and that what they saw never happened…But, being true to what I see with my eyes, and not what I hear, I kept talking. Despite the risk of losing my job.
“Brazilian Physician Compelled To Lie About UFOs”, article by Carlos Mendes, February 2005.
Victims had puncture marks on their skin from what they said were light beam attacks.
Hearing From The Commander of Operação Prato.” Colonel Uyrangê de Hollanda.
A Captain at the time, Urangé de Hollanda was the commander of Operação Prato. According to him, the Brazilian Air Force detected 9 forms of objects. He classified them as probes and crafts that were “shaped like flying saucers” and that “all reports went to Comar – 1 Air Force Base, then to Brasilia.”
He himself went public and described incidents witnessed by the military while investigating. For example, at a distance of 70 meters from the vessel where they were one night, the said object, in the shape of an American football had been photographed and filmed by the military. It had little windows on it and he said it was approximately 500 feet long, approximately the size of two Boeing 747 airplanes.
In August 1997, editor of the popular UFO magazine in Brazil, Ademar José Gerard, received a call from Hollanda. Hollanda wanted to schedule an interview. Below is a picture of that interview where Hollanda revealed more details about the operation.
This interview was significant, because all of the soldiers who participated in Operação Prato were now dead. At the time of this particular interview in 1997, Hollanda was the last one alive. I could not find details regarding the deaths of all of the other soldiers involved.
In the interview Hollanda revealed that the phenomenon was documented extensively. He revealed that there were more than 500 photographs and more than 16 hours of video footage (in Super-8 and Super-16 formats), and a 2,000-page pile of reports, which directly contradicted the Air Force claims that all of the information related to the operation had already been declassified.
