Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: AERIAL ENCOUNTERS IN BRAZIL
Numerous encounters with unknown flying machines were reported worldwide by military and civilian pilots in 1957, some of the more disturbing encounters occurring in Brazil. Just before 21.00 on the night of 14 August, Commander Jorge Campos Araujo was at the controls of a VARIG airlines C-47 cargo plane,en route from Porto Alegre to Rio de Janeiro, when the co-pilot, EdgarOnofre Soares, spotted a luminous object left of the plane. Suddenly the object manoeuvred so that it was ahead of the plane, crossed to the righton a horizontal trajectory, stopped momentarily, then abruptly dived anddisappeared in the cloud bank below. All the crew described the object as saucer-shaped, with a dome on top that glowed with an intense greenlight while the flattened base emitted a less intense yellowish luminosity. Commander Araujo estimated the saucer’s speed to be several times the speed of sound.
Although the encounter made headline news in Brazil, the most important part of the event was not publicized. After landing, Commander Araujo and the crew told a colleague, an air traffic chief for another airline company, that when the object had reached the right side of the airliner, the engines began coughing and missing and the cabin lights dimmed and almost went out. Fortunately, everything came back to normal when the object disappeared.
Another disturbing incident also occurred in Brazilian airspace on 4 November 1957 at 01.40, when a C-46 cargo plane of VARIG, boundfrom Porto Alegre to Sao Paulo, encountered an unknown flyingmachine. At first, it looked like just a red light to the left side of the aircraft. Commander Jean Vincent de Beyssac joked to his co-pilot that atlast they were seeing a real flying saucer, but then the object seemed to become larger, and de Beyssac decided to investigate.
Commander Auriphebo Simoes, who interviewed de Beyssac, reported as follows:
He started to put his plane into a left bank, but just before he pressed his rudder the object jumped a 45-degree arc on the horizon and became larger. De Beyssac started pursuit and was about midway on his left 80-degree turn when the object became even brighter and suddenly he smelled something burning . . . all at once his ADF [automatic direction finder], right generator and transmitter ‘burned’ out. The ‘thing’ disappeared almost instantly, while the crew looked for fire. De Beyssac turned on his emergency transmitter and reported the incident to Porto Alegre control; then he turned his ship around and headed back to Porto Alegre, where he landed an hour later.
After submitting a written report, de Beyssac went home and ‘got soused’.
That same day, VARIG issued an order forbidding its pilots to discuss UFO sightings with the media