Person
Sérgio Mota da Silva
Also known as Sérgio Mota
- Air traffic controller (sergeant), São José dos Campos tower, Brazilian Air Force
Sérgio Mota da Silva was the Brazilian Air Force sergeant on duty as controller in the São José dos Campos tower on 19 May 1986, and gave the first alert of the "Official UFO Night". He later became a civil air traffic controller, and gave his first television interview, without showing his face, to TV Globo in 2016.
Sources: TV Globo, Fantástico (2016) · Government of Brazil (2022)
Facts and claims
- claimed As duty controller in the São José dos Campos tower on 19 May 1986, he gave the first alert. He says that through binoculars the light was intensely scintillating and multicoloured, and that the objects moved away when he raised the runway lights and approached when he dimmed them. — Sérgio Mota da Silva Source: Fantástico: A Noite Oficial dos OVNIs — 30 anos depois (TV Globo, 2016) at 4:38
Connected files
Incidents
- Official UFO Night (Brazil, 1986) (witness)