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The Brazilian Air Force's Operação Prato team saw and photographed structured craft of unknown origin over Colares in 1977

Also known as Operação Prato claim, Colares claim

Open. Capt. Hollanda's official report found no indication of extraterrestrial beings; twenty years later he said his team had seen and photographed structured craft. Part of the records are at the National Archives of Brazil; the films have not been released. (LAST TESTIMONY OF OPERATION SAUCER COMMANDER UYRANGÊ HOLLANDA -BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE UFO INVESTIGATION)

In 1977 the Brazilian Air Force sent a team under Capt. Uyrangê Hollanda to investigate months of reports of lights and beams around Colares, in the Amazon delta, where residents said the lights injured them.

Who has said it, in order

  1. 1977 — context, documented: The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) sent a team under Capt. Uyrangê Hollanda to investigate months of reports of lights and beams around Colares and the Amazon delta, including residents with burn-like marks. The team investigated at least 130 cases and gathered photographs and film. Source: querepublicaeessa.an.gov.br (archived)
  2. 1997 Uyrangê Hollanda — says so, first-hand: Hollanda's official final report found no indication of extraterrestrial beings. Twenty years later, in a 1997 interview, he said he and his team had seen structured craft and that he believed they were not of human origin. He died months later. Source: LAST TESTIMONY OF OPERATION SAUCER COMMANDER UYRANGÊ HOLLANDA -BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE UFO INVESTIGATION at 1:12:30
  3. 1997 Uyrangê Hollanda — says so, first-hand: At Baía do Sol, with SNI intelligence colleagues present: an object about 30 m across, dark, with a yellow light in the middle, hovering about 200 m above them. Source: LAST TESTIMONY OF OPERATION SAUCER COMMANDER UYRANGÊ HOLLANDA -BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE UFO INVESTIGATION at 29:00
  4. 1997 Uyrangê Hollanda — says so, first-hand: A bright light switched off, revealing the core: a craft shaped like an American football with many small windows, which he estimated at about 100 m long (“two Boeing 737s”). Source: LAST TESTIMONY OF OPERATION SAUCER COMMANDER UYRANGÊ HOLLANDA -BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE UFO INVESTIGATION at 1:04:00
  5. 1997 Uyrangê Hollanda — says so, first-hand: Developed film showed what the team had not seen: an open door at the top of the craft and a beam of light directed at their boat. It was screened frame by frame for officers at the regional Air Command. Source: LAST TESTIMONY OF OPERATION SAUCER COMMANDER UYRANGÊ HOLLANDA -BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE UFO INVESTIGATION at 1:17:30
  6. 1997 Uyrangê Hollanda — says so, first-hand: About 400–500 photographs: various craft shapes, including a “mother ship” with smaller craft leaving and returning. The report went to the Air Force General Staff, with part kept in Belém, and remains inaccessible. Source: LAST TESTIMONY OF OPERATION SAUCER COMMANDER UYRANGÊ HOLLANDA -BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE UFO INVESTIGATION at 1:23:00
  7. 2012 — context, documented: In his final appeal the requester said the Operação Prato reports, videos and images “não se encontram disponíveis no Arquivo Nacional” (are not available at the National Archives). The Joint Commission for the Reassessment of Information (CMRI) unanimously rejected the appeal, accepting the Comptroller General's reasoning that the documents had been passed to the National Archives according to the Air Force. Source: doc-cmri-operacao-prato-2012.pdf
  8. 29 April 2013 A. J. Gevaerd — says so, relayed: Gevaerd on the Brazilian Air Force's “Operation Saucer” (Operação Prato) of 1977 in the Amazon: over 500 photographs and 16 hours of film of UFOs, some at close range. Source: Citizen Hearing 2013: South American Encounters, Part 1 at 15:15
  9. 29 April 2013 A. J. Gevaerd — says so, relayed: Gevaerd describes the beams of light that attacked people and animals around Colares, and craft “like a can” with “two human-like creatures inside of it”. Source: Citizen Hearing 2013: South American Encounters, Part 2 at 44:37
  10. 29 April 2013 — says so, relayed: He says the commander, Col. Uyrangê Hollanda, told him over two days of interviews that he and his men had “a close encounter with the creatures”. Source: Citizen Hearing 2013: South American Encounters, Part 2 at 47:34
  11. 8 June 2018 Hal Puthoff — says so, relayed: Puthoff cites the Brazilian Air Force's 1977–78 investigation, with about 1,000 pages, 500 photographs and 15 hours of film, and a list of medical injuries. Source: Hal Puthoff Presentation 06/08/2018 at 25:01
  12. 1 May 2025 Hal Puthoff — says so, relayed: Colares, Brazil: weeks of activity investigated by the Brazilian Air Force, with beams that harmed people. It is the one clearly hostile case he knows. (He dates it to the 1980s; Operação Prato was 1977.) Source: Joe Rogan Experience #2314: Hal Puthoff at 1:44:02

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