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The "Night of Lights" refers to the yet unexplained events that occurred in Brazil, starting at sunset on August 18 until the dawn of August 19, 1986. The observables were described as "scintillating, bright stars that sparkled with high intensity and shifting colors while performing incredible maneuvers". Witnesses include Air traffic controllers, Radar operators, Civilians, Commercial Pilots, and Brazilian Airforce Pilots. The Lights and radar plots were observed over 5 Brazilian states: Goiás, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, and Paraná. The lights were filmed by several civilians, including professional cameramen from Newstations and Advertisement agencies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Brazilian_UFO_incident
On the night of that Monday, 21 unidentified flying objects were observed across the country. The "OVNIs", the Brazilian acronym used to designate "unidentified flying objects," were initially detected by radars from the Integrated Air Defense and Air Traffic Control Center (Cindacta - Brazil's NORAD).
Around 8 PM, about two thousand military personnel, including cadets and officers from the Aeronautics Specialist School (EEAR), witnessed the phenomenon, either with the naked eye or through binoculars. The phenomena were detected by radar and by sight by the São José airport's control tower. Air traffic controller, Sergeant Sérgio Mota da Silva, noticed the mysterious spectacle and alerted a twin-engine Xingu aircraft, which was prompted to attempt identification on the lights. The pilot was Colonel Ozires Silva, founder of EMBRAER, who was returning from a meeting with the President of the Republic. The attempt at identifying the crafts ceased after the lights suddenly vanished, as "lights that were turned off". Ozires would later state that if the objects had not been confirmed and detected by radar, he would rather never have confirmed or commented on his sighting. "I was a pilot for many years and had never seen anything like that. It was too agile; it was impossible for a human to be inside it. I don't know if it was a disc, but it had a very strong glow." At least two other commercial aircraft reported sightings that night.
The emergence of new and dynamic moving UFOs led the head of the Air Defense Operations Center (CODA), Major Ney Antunes Cerqueira, to order two interception operations by F-5E Tiger II and Dassault Mirage III fighters, one departing from the Santa Cruz Air Base (BASC) in Rio de Janeiro, and the other from the Anápolis Air Base (BAAN) in Goiás. In total, five fighters were dispatched: two F-5Es from BASC and three Mirage F-103s from BAAN. The combat aircraft received the same mission: non-aggressive interception—meaning that, although they were equipped with heavy armament, they would attempt a peaceful approach. They were unsuccessful.
According to the airmen, the multicolored points were able to hover statically in the sky, fly in a zigzag pattern, make right-angle turns, change color, trajectory, and altitude, reaching speeds of up to 15 times the speed of sound. One particular flight, the Mirage F-103 named Jaguar 98 piloted by Rodolfo da Silva Souza, was tailgated by a UFO. The radar operators reported through radiocom: "The (radar)plot is always at your 6 o'clock, okay? When you turn, it's always turning in front of you, coming towards you, passing above or below you— we can't detect altitude— and it stays on your tail the whole time. When you turn, it disappears from that position and always reappears in front of you."
About 800 km away, in Goiás, Captain Viriato flew the Mirage F-103 named Jaguar 116. After flying at subsonic speed for seven minutes, the pilot was informed of a contact 13 nautical miles (24.07 km) ahead. The aircraft's radar also detected the target. Viriatp turned off the navigation lights and attempted to approach, managing to get to just 1 nautical mile (1.85 km) from the target after eighteen minutes of flight when the point inexplicably disappeared from the onboard radar screen. Guided by this, the pilot performed a 360° scan of the area, and a new contact appeared on the radar 12.5 miles (23.15 km) away. Accelerating to Mach 0.9 (1,100 km/h), the pilot reduced the distance to 10 miles (18.52 km); for a moment, the separation between the fighter and the UFO increased again but soon decreased to 5 nautical miles (9.26 km) when the object abruptly accelerated, increasing the distance to 21 nautical miles (38.89 km) within seconds, thus going out of the interceptor's radar range. The captain managed to repeat the feat of getting to just 1 nautical mile (1.85 km) from another UFO after accelerating to a supersonic speed of Mach 1.05 (1,296.54 km/h), but the object also accelerated and quickly disappeared. Despite the close proximity, the hunter saw nothing with the naked eye. Near the end of the flight, frustrated, Freitas asked the controller if the other hunters had the same contacts under the same circumstances, which was confirmed by the interlocutor: "Affirmative. The same conditions: there's a contact, you get close to the contact, and it increases the distance."
The Phenomena was last sighted and detected heading towards the Atlantic Ocean.
As the sightings were widespread, so was the news. Several newspapers honed in the story, of which the armed forces still had no official say. Many camera crews were able to register part of the events on videotape. The best image was done by Heraldo Canalles, who was filming an advertisement with his crew on the rooftop of a building on São João Avenue, in the center of São Paulo city. The shape of the object appeared to be a full moon. The cameraman made sure to also film the Moon, which was in the waning quarter that night. The UFO was observed (both in video and by the witnesses) as a stationary "rotating sphere" suspended in the night sky that spanned on its own axis while its color shifted from green, to orange and pink.
On May 23, the then Minister of Aeronautics, Brigadier General Octávio Júlio Moreira Lima, held a press conference with the five fighter pilots and 2radar operators, confirming the occurred events. Moreira Lima was arguably 'mocked' by a journalist, who asked if he believed in "Little Green Men, ETs and Flying-saucers"; his response was "It's not about believing or not [in extraterrestrial beings or flying discs]. We can only provide technical information. There are various assumptions. Technically, I would tell you that we have no explanation." By the end of the confidence, an official report was announced to be addressed to the press, but such a document was never received. As a result of the authorities' first official statement on the subject, the incidents of that night became known as the "Official UFO Night."
On September 25th 2009, after the 2004 "Brazilian FOIA on UFO Files" request, the official report from the Brazilian Air Force on the case that was promised in the conference back in 1986, was declassified and released. It was indeed written but withheld, for reasons undisclosed. On its final page is written: "As a conclusion of the observed facts, in almost all presentations, this Command is of the opinion that the phenomena are solid and, in a certain way, reflect intelligence due to their ability to accompany and maintain distance from the observers, as well as to fly in formation, not necessarily being piloted." The official report is available to be read in the National Archives.
In October 2015, the National Archive made 16 audio recordings available. Among these are eight recordings of conversations between pilots and air traffic controllers, as well as the Brazilian defense system, from the night of May 19, 1986. The audios indicate that dozens of objects were detected by radar, observed multiple times, and chased by pilots, demonstrating unusual behaviors throughout the entire episode. The recordings are available to be listened to in the National Archives, and some are uploaded on YouTube.
Sources:
This one is a hard nut to crack.
Moreira Lima once stated that this could be an advanced enemy cyber-warfare tactic, which could explain the amazing radar plots - but he had no hypothesis for the observable lights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Brazilian_UFO_incident
On the night of that Monday, 21 unidentified flying objects were observed across the country. The "OVNIs", the Brazilian acronym used to designate "unidentified flying objects," were initially detected by radars from the Integrated Air Defense and Air Traffic Control Center (Cindacta - Brazil's NORAD).
Around 8 PM, about two thousand military personnel, including cadets and officers from the Aeronautics Specialist School (EEAR), witnessed the phenomenon, either with the naked eye or through binoculars. The phenomena were detected by radar and by sight by the São José airport's control tower. Air traffic controller, Sergeant Sérgio Mota da Silva, noticed the mysterious spectacle and alerted a twin-engine Xingu aircraft, which was prompted to attempt identification on the lights. The pilot was Colonel Ozires Silva, founder of EMBRAER, who was returning from a meeting with the President of the Republic. The attempt at identifying the crafts ceased after the lights suddenly vanished, as "lights that were turned off". Ozires would later state that if the objects had not been confirmed and detected by radar, he would rather never have confirmed or commented on his sighting. "I was a pilot for many years and had never seen anything like that. It was too agile; it was impossible for a human to be inside it. I don't know if it was a disc, but it had a very strong glow." At least two other commercial aircraft reported sightings that night.
The emergence of new and dynamic moving UFOs led the head of the Air Defense Operations Center (CODA), Major Ney Antunes Cerqueira, to order two interception operations by F-5E Tiger II and Dassault Mirage III fighters, one departing from the Santa Cruz Air Base (BASC) in Rio de Janeiro, and the other from the Anápolis Air Base (BAAN) in Goiás. In total, five fighters were dispatched: two F-5Es from BASC and three Mirage F-103s from BAAN. The combat aircraft received the same mission: non-aggressive interception—meaning that, although they were equipped with heavy armament, they would attempt a peaceful approach. They were unsuccessful.
According to the airmen, the multicolored points were able to hover statically in the sky, fly in a zigzag pattern, make right-angle turns, change color, trajectory, and altitude, reaching speeds of up to 15 times the speed of sound. One particular flight, the Mirage F-103 named Jaguar 98 piloted by Rodolfo da Silva Souza, was tailgated by a UFO. The radar operators reported through radiocom: "The (radar)plot is always at your 6 o'clock, okay? When you turn, it's always turning in front of you, coming towards you, passing above or below you— we can't detect altitude— and it stays on your tail the whole time. When you turn, it disappears from that position and always reappears in front of you."
About 800 km away, in Goiás, Captain Viriato flew the Mirage F-103 named Jaguar 116. After flying at subsonic speed for seven minutes, the pilot was informed of a contact 13 nautical miles (24.07 km) ahead. The aircraft's radar also detected the target. Viriatp turned off the navigation lights and attempted to approach, managing to get to just 1 nautical mile (1.85 km) from the target after eighteen minutes of flight when the point inexplicably disappeared from the onboard radar screen. Guided by this, the pilot performed a 360° scan of the area, and a new contact appeared on the radar 12.5 miles (23.15 km) away. Accelerating to Mach 0.9 (1,100 km/h), the pilot reduced the distance to 10 miles (18.52 km); for a moment, the separation between the fighter and the UFO increased again but soon decreased to 5 nautical miles (9.26 km) when the object abruptly accelerated, increasing the distance to 21 nautical miles (38.89 km) within seconds, thus going out of the interceptor's radar range. The captain managed to repeat the feat of getting to just 1 nautical mile (1.85 km) from another UFO after accelerating to a supersonic speed of Mach 1.05 (1,296.54 km/h), but the object also accelerated and quickly disappeared. Despite the close proximity, the hunter saw nothing with the naked eye. Near the end of the flight, frustrated, Freitas asked the controller if the other hunters had the same contacts under the same circumstances, which was confirmed by the interlocutor: "Affirmative. The same conditions: there's a contact, you get close to the contact, and it increases the distance."
The Phenomena was last sighted and detected heading towards the Atlantic Ocean.
As the sightings were widespread, so was the news. Several newspapers honed in the story, of which the armed forces still had no official say. Many camera crews were able to register part of the events on videotape. The best image was done by Heraldo Canalles, who was filming an advertisement with his crew on the rooftop of a building on São João Avenue, in the center of São Paulo city. The shape of the object appeared to be a full moon. The cameraman made sure to also film the Moon, which was in the waning quarter that night. The UFO was observed (both in video and by the witnesses) as a stationary "rotating sphere" suspended in the night sky that spanned on its own axis while its color shifted from green, to orange and pink.
On May 23, the then Minister of Aeronautics, Brigadier General Octávio Júlio Moreira Lima, held a press conference with the five fighter pilots and 2radar operators, confirming the occurred events. Moreira Lima was arguably 'mocked' by a journalist, who asked if he believed in "Little Green Men, ETs and Flying-saucers"; his response was "It's not about believing or not [in extraterrestrial beings or flying discs]. We can only provide technical information. There are various assumptions. Technically, I would tell you that we have no explanation." By the end of the confidence, an official report was announced to be addressed to the press, but such a document was never received. As a result of the authorities' first official statement on the subject, the incidents of that night became known as the "Official UFO Night."
On September 25th 2009, after the 2004 "Brazilian FOIA on UFO Files" request, the official report from the Brazilian Air Force on the case that was promised in the conference back in 1986, was declassified and released. It was indeed written but withheld, for reasons undisclosed. On its final page is written: "As a conclusion of the observed facts, in almost all presentations, this Command is of the opinion that the phenomena are solid and, in a certain way, reflect intelligence due to their ability to accompany and maintain distance from the observers, as well as to fly in formation, not necessarily being piloted." The official report is available to be read in the National Archives.
In October 2015, the National Archive made 16 audio recordings available. Among these are eight recordings of conversations between pilots and air traffic controllers, as well as the Brazilian defense system, from the night of May 19, 1986. The audios indicate that dozens of objects were detected by radar, observed multiple times, and chased by pilots, demonstrating unusual behaviors throughout the entire episode. The recordings are available to be listened to in the National Archives, and some are uploaded on YouTube.
Sources:
- https://www.gov.br/en/government-of-brazil/latest-news/2022/official-ufo-night-in-brazil
- https://g1.globo.com/ciencia/notici...ro-e-foram-perseguidos-por-cacas-da-fab.ghtml
- https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noite_dos_discos_voadores
- https://vigilia.com.br/brasilia-boa-noite-bem-vindo-ao-festival-dos-discos-voadores/
- https://tokdehistoria.com.br/2016/0...completa-30-anos-sem-ter-misterio-desvendado/
- https://economia.uol.com.br/todos-a-bordo/2021/05/18/noite-oficial-ovnis-35-anos.htm
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYEGLlulW2w
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neUQC0rd60I
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbW8xsJakA
This one is a hard nut to crack.
Moreira Lima once stated that this could be an advanced enemy cyber-warfare tactic, which could explain the amazing radar plots - but he had no hypothesis for the observable lights.
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