Unexplainable Sightings – Trindade, Brazil 1958
While the subject of UFO's is very popular in the United States, it is in fact a worldwide phenomenon. Many times those who insist on debunking any reported sighting of an unidentifiable aircraft will pour over any photographs or video, constantly on the lookout for trace evidence of wires or out-of-place shadows that can be used to show a photograph as being faked.
Regrettably, when all else fails to show the reality of an object, these skeptics and debunkers will fall back to attempts at destroying the credibility of the witnesses. They put forth the theory that only professionals like policemen, pilots, or military officers are capable of credibly reporting a UFO sighting. So it was with utter disgust that they could not whisper a word of calumny against the forty-seven member crew of the Brazilian Navy's "Almirante Saldanha" when they reported a UFO sighting off the island of Trindade.
During 1957 the Brazilian Navy had set up a weather station on this small, rocky island in the South Atlantic. By January of 1958 there had been many reports by observers of unusual and very fast-moving aircraft over the island. These reports took on a much more meaningful turn on January 16th of that year. On board the "Almirante Saldanha" was the civilian photographer Almiro Barauna. During the time the unidentifiable was seen by the crew, he managed to snap six pictures of the object.
The craft was saucer shaped, looking much like what you would get if the planet Saturn could be squashed down to an oval egg shape. There was a distinctive equatorial "ring" around the craft. The photographs show a distinct rounded solid body to the craft that tapered toward the edges and was round when viewed from below. Barauna turned the negatives over to the Brazilian Naval Ministry which carefully studied them and declared that they showed an unknown object about 50 foot across. Time indicators and triangulation formula were used to extract the estimate that the object was travelling at about 600 miles per hour.
Second-guessing the photographs and witnesses, the Harvard University astronomy professor, Donald Menzel, put forth that it was merely an airplane flying through fog. More intense study in 1978 by an independent film laboratory using the most current digital analysis ruled out any possible evidence of tampering. The debunkers were once more shown to be inventing their information while the sightings by an entire navy crew continues to be continue to be beyond earthly explanation.
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