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Photographic Dossier (CC_023, Registro 076)

Release
Brazil 2026
Incident Date
Operação Prato, Photographic Dossier (CC_023, Registro 076) is dated 1977-12-17. It was declassified 2009-05-01.
Location
Brazil
Agency
Brazilian Air Force (FAB)
Classification
Declassified (released to Arquivo Nacional, 2009)

This three-page photographic compilation, internal registry CC-023, belongs to the Força Aérea Brasileira's Operação Prato investigation into the 1977-1978 chupa-chupa wave on Ilha de Colares, Pará. Military registry 076 documents an event on Saturday, December 17, 1977, on Rodovia PA-47 at Fazenda Jejú in São Domingos do Capim, where an A2-I COMAR military team logged a circular, funnel-shaped luminous body, yellow-reddish with bluish reflections, described as having landed. The report attaches 26 photographs and notes two ground marks of 40 by 40 cm and 50 cm deep, ringed by an outer circle of approximately 2.5 meters in diameter. Equipment was an Olympus Trip 35 with 100 ASA film; pages 2 and 3 carry annexes 5, 7, and 8 of the military registry.

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