Person
Uyrangê Hollanda
Also known as Hollanda, Captain Hollanda, Uyrangê Bolívar Soares Nogueira de Hollanda Lima
- Captain (later Colonel), Brazilian Air Force; commander of Operação Prato (1977)
Brazilian Air Force officer who commanded Operação Prato. His official report was cautious. In a long 1997 interview with ufologists, shortly before his death, he described close observations of structured craft. The contrast between the two accounts is part of the record.
Sources: Arquivo Nacional (UFO Fund) · 1997 testimony (video)
Facts and claims
- claimed Hollanda said that in 1977 his commander handed him the case file on lights over the Amazon, and he led the Brazilian Air Force investigation code-named Operation Prato (“plate”). — Uyrangê Hollanda Source: LAST TESTIMONY OF OPERATION SAUCER COMMANDER UYRANGÊ HOLLANDA -BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE UFO INVESTIGATION at 9:30
- claimed He described a dark object about 30 m across hovering some 200 m above his team at Baía do Sol, and later a craft he estimated at about 100 m long. — Uyrangê Hollanda Source: LAST TESTIMONY OF OPERATION SAUCER COMMANDER UYRANGÊ HOLLANDA -BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE UFO INVESTIGATION at 29:00
- claimed He said the team took about 400–500 photographs and film, which were sent to the Air Force General Staff and taken away; he never saw the films again. — Uyrangê Hollanda Source: LAST TESTIMONY OF OPERATION SAUCER COMMANDER UYRANGÊ HOLLANDA -BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE UFO INVESTIGATION at 1:20:00
Connected files
Claims
Incidents
- Operação Prato (Colares) (investigated)
People
- A. J. Gevaerd (interviewed by)
Videos
- Citizen Hearing 2013: South American Encounters, Part 1 (discussed in)
- Citizen Hearing 2013: South American Encounters, Part 2 (discussed in)
- LAST TESTIMONY OF OPERATION SAUCER COMMANDER UYRANGÊ HOLLANDA -BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE UFO INVESTIGATION (appears in)