Brazil · Alleged 1957-11-04; file correspondence 1976

Forte de Itaipu

Official chain

The famous two-sentries-burned-by-a-UFO story exists inside the Brazilian Air Force archive only as a foreign researcher asking Brazil to confirm it, and the file contains no answer.

Where
Forte de Itaipu, coast of Sao Paulo
When
Alleged 1957-11-04; file correspondence 1976
Who reported it
2 alleged Brazilian Army sentries
Entities described
None reported
Handled as
INSUFFICIENT SOURCE PROVENANCE
Evidence class
GOV-4

The record

An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.

The document is attached to this entry.

What is not settled

The strongest available demonstration that archive presence is not verification. The only text asserting the burns is the requester's own 1976 letter. No Brazilian confirmation, no medical record, no unit report.

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