Brazil · Sighting 1958-01-16; file correspondence 1976

Ilha da Trindade

Documented

A 1976 file in which the Brazilian state, asked to declassify Trindade, restates that the photographs are genuine and that the object was not a weather balloon nor an American guided missile.

Where
Ilha da Trindade, aboard NE Almirante Saldanha
When
Sighting 1958-01-16; file correspondence 1976
Who reported it
Photographer plus, per the Navy's wording, about twenty of the ship's company
Entities described
None reported
Handled as
INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED
Evidence class
GOV-3

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

Administrative correspondence, not the 1958 investigation. The photographer took the negatives home unsupervised; marks were recorded on only three plates; Blue Book judged the photos fabricated, and a detailed Brazilian hoax reconstruction exists. Officially unresolved but evidentially very weak.

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