BR Programme Brazilian Air Force, First Regional Air Command
Operação Prato: the Air Force investigates the Colares reports
The Ministry of Aeronautics' First Regional Air Command (I COMAR), through the second section of its staff, kept a confidential register of reports of unidentified flying objects (OVNI) in the state of Pará, catalogued under Arquivo Nacional reference ARX.0.0.184. The surviving entries record sightings from 2 September 1977 onward around Santo Antônio do Tauá, Colares, Vigia and Mosqueiro, each giving place, time, colour, shape, movement, estimated altitude and distance, and the observer. Several witnesses described luminous bodies; some reported physical effects, including one man who said he was paralysed after trying to shoot at an object. One entry, dated 22 October 1977, records a sighting by the A2/I COMAR team itself.
2 documents·5 points·1 story
- The register is headed Ministério da Aeronáutica, I Comando Aéreo Regional, 2ª Seção do Estado Maior, and is marked confidential.
- Record no. 001 describes a luminous body shaped like an inverted plate seen on the PA-17 road, Santo Antônio do Tauá, on 2 Sep 77 at 22:00.
- Record no. 003 notes that Manoel Matos de Souza tried to shoot at the object and was struck by a red beam of light, leaving him paralysed and bedridden for two weeks.
- Record no. 008, from Colares on 16 Oct 77, gives Dra Wellaide Cecim Carvalho as observer of a grey, metallic, cylindrical object with no sound.
- Record no. 011 lists the observer as the A2/I COMAR team, which saw a body at supersonic speed with no noise or sonic wave on 22 Oct 77.
Documents
- Document Registro de observações de OVNI na região do estado do Pará, set/1977 a nov/1978 (ARX.0.0.184) Arquivo Nacional· 160 pp.
- Document 1977 Operação Prato SNI file SNI, published by Fernando Rodrigues (UOL)
In the archive