Mass interactive UFO encounter, Calomares Brazil 1977

Just having come to my attention has been very extensive and interesting documentation now available (including a long interview viewable on YouTube) on ‘Operation Saucer’, a Brazilian Military investigation into an extraordinary and somewhat frightening series of reported UFO encounters in 1977, when residents in Colares Brazil claimed that they not only witnessed "flying saucers" but they were also attacked by them with physical injuries resulting. As usual there was no physical crashed UFO vehicle evidence, but there is still an ample amount of evidence that these were real physical vehicles in the interactions with the residents and from photographs. The investigation revealed that there were many photographs, and some sketches of the objects were obtained (generally with the objects having saucer shape with some cylindrical). Some witnesses even observed small humanoid beings, apparently the pilots. Examination by medical and psychiatric personnel showed that the injuries were real and resembled radiation burns, and that the experiences could not have been mass hysteria or visual hallucinations.

The interview on YouTube was with Brazilian Air Force Captain Uyrangê Bolivar Soares Nogueira de Hollanda Lima, the head of Operation Saucer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hdaW6a9CbY). It is in Portuguese, but with English subtitles.

The following is a partial summary of the encounters, which has been appended to the YouTube video:

‘Operation Saucer’ was an investigation into a terrifying series of reported incidents in 1977 when residents in the Brazilian city of Colares claimed that they not only witnessed flying saucers - but they were also being attacked by them.
Bright objects of differing shapes, sizes and colours were said to have been flying at low altitudes - just a few metres above the tops of trees - and firing light beams at people on the ground below.
Several witnesses claimed to have seen beings piloting the crafts, describing them as no more than three to four feet tall.
What separates these sightings from the usual glimpses of UFOs in the skies are the numerous and recurring injuries that people suffered.
The beams gave off intense beams of radiation that caused puncture marks and lesions, with some reporting to local media at the time that it felt like a “heavy weight pushed against their chest”.
A report into the claims made by the victims stated: “The beam was about seven or eight centimetres in diameter and white in colour.
“It never hunted for them but hit them suddenly. When they tried to scream no sound would come out, but their eyes remained open.
“The beam felt hot, almost as hot as a cigarette burn.”
Describing the injuries, Doctor Wellaide Cecim Carvalho - who worked in a health care unit in the area during the 1970s - wrote: “All of them had suffered lesions to the face or the thoracic area.
“The lesions, looking like radiation injuries, began with intense reddening of the skin in the affected area.
“Later the hair would fall out and the skin would turn black. There was no pain, only a slight warmth.
“One also noticed small puncture marks in the skin. The victims were men and women of varying ages, without any pattern.”
The saucers were quickly dubbed ‘chupa-chupa’ - meaning ‘sucker-sucker’ - and with reports of more sightings and more incidents of people being injured or losing blood, panic soon started to set in and women and children left the area while local men stayed to look after their homes or possessions.
With no reasonable explanation offered as to what exactly was behind the so-called attacks from UFOs, the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) was tasked with finding out what was going on on the island, with the investigation officially named Operation Saucer.
A 2,000-page military report was soon compiled, featuring 500 photographs and 16 hours of film that the FAB reportedly witnessed with their own eyes.
Ufologist Daniel Rebisso Giese claimed in his book Vampiros Extraterrestres Na Amazonia (Extraterrestrial Vampires of the Amazon) that several military personnel suffered nervous breakdowns, while others went completely insane during the course of the investigation.
The documents were kept classified until several pages were released in 2004, showing drawings and photographs of what the military saw.
Bright, cylindrical lights feature in the photographs, while several drawings show similarly-shaped objects witnessed by people on the island at the time.
Despite this, the operation never explicitly stated that UFOs or aliens were the official cause of the sightings and injuries.
However, high-ranking officials from FAB reportedly told a group of ufologists in 2004 that they had discreetly been studying the existence of UFOs since the mid 1950s.
But what could the explanation be if the aliens theory is dismissed?
Some think the area was simply being used as a test site for top secret military craft - something people have also used to explain away the secrecy behind Area 51.
However, there are yet more strange occurrences aside from the sightings that make this case an ongoing mystery - and catnip for conspiracy theorists.
Dr Carvalho, who treated islanders for their injuries after the ‘attacks’, later said she was “compelled” to lie to them about their injuries - and to tell them they were simply hallucinations.
She said: “This is what the Air Force always asked me to say.
It did not happen any kind of mass hysteria or visual hallucinations.
“The psychiatry proves it didn’t happen. It may happen mystic collective problems when people commit mass suicide.
“But nobody can have the same delirium, the same visual, sonic and synthetic hallucination at the same time and in different places.”

All of the pile of documentation of this Brazilian military UFO encounter investigation is available now in Portuguese; this has been summarized and in part translated and reproduced along with some of the photographs and sketches in the following:

https://andyjwells.tumblr.com/post/14069...h-for-ufos

I have to interject that it occurs to me on further examination of this extensive UFO encounter, that it just might have been a deliberate scientific psychosocial reaction test accomplished in order to evaluate the reactions including fear of a relatively isolated island human population to a deliberate display of certain  capabilities, perhaps as a preparation for possible further more seriously impactful contacts. Fortunately, there has been no apparent massive follow-up visitation/interactions in the years since then, which might indicate these humans either failed the test, or simply that the beings obtained the information they were looking for.

Following are some excerpts from the summary translations and sketches document file.

"...residents in the Brazilian city of Colares claimed that they not only witnessed flying saucers - but they were also being attacked by them.

Bright objects of differing shapes, sizes and colours were said to have been flying at low altitudes - just a few metres above the tops of trees - and firing light beams at people on the ground below.

Several witnesses claimed to have seen beings piloting the crafts, describing them as no more than three to four feet tall.

What separates these sightings from the usual glimpses of UFOs in the skies are the numerous and recurring injuries that people suffered.
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Describing the injuries, Doctor Wellaide Cecim Carvalho - who worked in a health care unit in the area during the 1970s - wrote: “All of them had suffered lesions to the face or the thoracic area.

Incidents: Numerous residents in Colares said they were attacked by flying saucers

“The lesions, looking like radiation injuries, began with intense reddening of the skin in the affected area.

“Later the hair would fall out and the skin would turn black. There was no pain, only a slight warmth.

“One also noticed small puncture marks in the skin. The victims were men and women of varying ages, without any pattern.”
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Bright, cylindrical lights feature in the photographs, while several drawings show similarly-shaped objects witnessed by people on the island at the time.
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Dr Carvalho, who treated islanders for their injuries after the ‘attacks’, later said she was “compelled” to lie to them about their injuries - and to tell them they were simply hallucinations.

She said: “This is what the Air Force always asked me to say.

It did not happen (due to) any kind of mass hysteria or visual hallucinations.

“The psychiatry proves it didn’t happen. It may happen mystic collective problems when people commit mass suicide.

“But nobody can have the same delirium, the same visual, sonic and synthetic hallucination at the same time and in different places.”

Dr. Carvalho also claims to have seen a UFO herself, adding: “I could see the UFOs bright metal and it wasn’t a dish-like object (seen in many other sightings), but much more like a cone or a cylinder.”
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Captain Uyrangê Bolivar Soares Nogueira de Hollanda Lima in his YouTube interview recounted how terrified his men were during their investigations.

He went on to reveal eyewitness statements which described residents waking up to beings wearing protective clothing shooting coloured beams at their heads, as well as several officers reporting seeing strange lights emerging from and diving back into coastal waters around the area - leading some to assume this was the location of a UFO base.

Artist's illustrations of 6 of the different shaped UFOs seen attacking people at Colares during the Brazil wave of 1977-78, investigated under Operation Saucer:














One of the photographs of the saucer-shaped vehicles