The second is a short video clip ( which seems to get repeated in the article though multiple recordings are claimed ). The context is that this object is claimed to be small ( less than a few metres across ) and alternately flashing yellow and orange, and either hovering just above the trees or entering the forest.....
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMakrd-fQek&t=3163s
Reminds me a little of the
Langley AFB video on Reddit & Twitter stuff- a blinking light on what appears to be a steady path,
and claims of unusual things that are not supported by the video.
I've
tried to time the frequency of the flashes, but won't pretend to have an accurate result; the start of the footage seems a bit glitchy.
The light
might be flashing at the lower end of the range used by aircraft anti-collision lights, around 40 flashes / minute;
External Quote:
As far as regulations are concerned,
14 CFR 23.1401 - Anticollision light system states that:
(c) Flashing characteristics. The arrangement of the system, that is, the number of light sources, beam width, speed of rotation, and other characteristics, must give an effective flash frequency of not less than 40, nor more than 100, cycles per minute.
"
Airplane Strobe Light Pattern?" Stack Exchange Aviation (a Q & A group).
As
@Scaramanga has pointed out, the light or lights could be on a drone.
Googled Rony Vernet, he's an active UFO enthusiast in Brazil. Here's his Facebook page,
https://www.facebook.com/canalronyvernet/; I don't use Facebook (or speak Portuguese) but you don't have to look far to find a Luis Elizondo quote,
...I can't read it but I'm sure it's something sensible, e.g. there's no reliable evidence that UFOs are ET spacecraft.
@Scaramanga helpfully posted some of Rony's Twitter/"X" descriptions of strange phenomena he encountered.
As well as the mysterious sounds- all the more mysterious because he didn't record them- he encountered
External Quote:
Poltergeist activity (sounds of heavy furniture against ground, sounds of people walking on forest, lamps blinking, battery drainage, radio communications, smartphone freezing, camera shut down)
Trees, branches and deadfalls can creak surprisingly loudly, and we're often more aware of it in the dark when we rely more on hearing; sound can also travel further at night.
External Quote:
Temperature inversion is the reason why sounds can be heard much more clearly over longer distances at night than during the day—an effect often incorrectly attributed to the psychological result of night-time quiet.
Britannica website, Refraction (sound),
https://www.britannica.com/science/sound-physics/Refraction
The area is densely forested, and there's a village, so I think I have a possible hypothesis for why Rony heard "people walking on forest", he might have heard people walking in the forest.
"...lamps blinking, battery drainage, [poor] radio communications, smartphone freezing, camera shut down" might all be part and parcel of being outside in a damp, remote area of dense forest for a few days. Many campers in less challenging places might have had similar experiences. It's why the military use environment-proofed equipment, which is often heavier (and more expensive) than civilian equivalents (and
still breaks down in the field!)
Indigenous people in Brazil (and neighbouring Peru) have been persecuted and mistreated for centuries, and this continues today, albeit not officially by state actors.
The people in the area Sr. Vernet visited are called the Asháninka,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asháninka
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For over a century, there has been encroachment onto Asháninka land from
rubber tappers,
loggers,
Maoist guerrillas,
drug traffickers,
colonists, and
oil companies.
The Asháninka in Acre wish to remain in their current territory. It might be understandable that some would react dramatically, and with fear, at any signs or rumours of an incursion by mysterious or hostile outsiders; it is a
real threat that some, or some of their relatives, have experienced.
I'm sure Sr. Vernet is a sincere sort of guy who would hate the idea that he might inadvertently be tapping into or exacerbating local fears, but I'm not sure his forays into an indigenous reserve in pursuit of UFOs are entirely well-considered or responsible actions.
Re.
Apiwtxa, it might not be the name of a village as such, or at least not just a village.
External Quote:
The Ashaninka Association of the Amônia River – Apiwtxa (a term that means union) was created in 1991 as a strategy to strengthen our community. It functions as an operational arm of the community so that we can manage our projects and articulate ourselves from a social and political point of view. It is through the Apiwtxa Association that we, Ashaninka of the Amônia River, carry out our projects, which aim at the well-being of our community and the communities surrounding our land.
Apiwtxa International Congress: Threats, Protection, and Development on the Amazon Frontier,
https://apiwtxa.org.br/
(English translation from Portuguese). The website is informative and has some nice photos.
Map from the above website showing the Apiwtxa "HQ",
(Maybe worryingly, "permanentemente fechado" means permanently closed.)
External Quote:
APIWXTA ASSOCIATION
...Apiwtxa, the the first Ashaninka association was founded over 20 years ago as an example for other tribes and communities, to safeguard their cultures and wisdom, while maintaining their economic freedom.
Website
The Ashaninka People,
https://www.aquaverde.org/en/the-ashaninka-people/
It seems the settlement might be called Samuel Piyãko, after a local (fairly recent) shaman by that name. His grandson Benki Piyãko is thanked in the 2017 Equator Initiative document (see below) and has been interviewed in
Time magazine.
Some sources use Apiwtxa for the settlement, like the
Scientific American article maps posted by
@Scaramanga,
@deirdre and
@flarkey (from
This Amazonian Indigenous Group Has Lessons in Sustainable Living for All of Us).
Maybe Apiwtxa has become the de facto popular name for the settlement due to a concentration of resources/ local political power brought by the Apiwtxa association and UN funding;
in 2017 Apiwtxa won the UNDP's Equator Prize, see
ASSOCIAÇÃO ASHANINKA DO RIO AMÔNIA APIWTXA, The Equator Initiative (United Nations Development Programme),
https://www.equatorinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/APIWTXA-Case-Study-English-r4.pdf
There aren't many Asháninka in Brazil, the 2017 Equator Initiative document implies around 2100, Wikipedia "...more than 1,000" in small settlements along the Breu, Amônia, and Arara rivers in the state of Acre.
Maps to put the location in a wider context- Julia Maria is highlighted as a "landmark" present on both maps.
