THE COLARES UFO FLAP
Beginning in August of 1977, in the island of Colares, a strange
phenomenon began to occur, that the Brazilian call Chupa-chupa.
Strange luminous objects appeared over the few towns of the region.
These objects were often projecting thin rays, seemingly of light,
directed at the people. The touched people fainted and woke up with a
strange anemia. They stated that they felt as if some of their blood
was removed by the strange rays.
A fisherman, Manoel João de Oliveira Filho, aged 44, married and
residing at No. 64 rua Carneiro de Mendonça, was strolling towards the
beach early one morning with some companions, to spend a day at sea
fishing. Before they had arrived at their boats, they saw - above the
Rio Novo beach - an object shaped "like an umbrella" stationary at about 4 meters from the ground.
From its under-part came a vivid white light. No sound was detectable from it from where they were
standing. The object then moved away silently towards Machadinho, turning off the light as it went.
A carpenter named João Dias Costa (aged 44) and a fisherman, Joao da Cruz Silva (aged 54), both of
Colares town, saw the notorious "luminous spheres" so greatly feared on account of their "low skimming
swoops".
Another man from Colares town, Sr. Zacarias dos Santos Barata (74) saw the glowing balls on two
nights. The first time, the object came from the direction of the Bay of Marajo, and rapidly vanished
towards the interior of Colares Island. On the second night another ball, blue in color, flew over the local
football field. "It lit up all the trees around the field and then vanished towards the town's center,” said
Sr. Zacarias.
Sr. Sebastiao Vernek "Zizi" Miranda described his experience as follows: "I was there with my wife,
Palmira, in front of the church on the sea-front, when at about 8.00 pm, we saw an intensely vivid
"orangish" light coming in from the sea towards the town. As it approached, it climbed, and then, moving
rapidly, vanished towards the inner part of the Island."
A barber named Carlos Cardoso de Paula (aged 49), living at Travessa Deodoro da Fonseca No. 231, had
a still closer encounter with the "lights", as he himself relates: "Everybody else was asleep. I was just
still having my last smoke when suddenly a ball of fire entered our house up near the ridgepole of the
gable. It started shooting round and round the room, and then finally came right close to my hammock.
It ran up my right leg as far as the knee (without touching my skin). I watched with much curiosity as it
then moved across to the other leg. Then I started to feel feeble and sleepy. My cigarette fell from my
hand and I came to and let out a yell. The fireball quickly vanished and everybody woke up. I think it had
been searching for a vein in my body but didn’t manage to do so. As its brightness grew, I felt a sort of
heat coming from it."
Worker Raimundo Costa Leite, very well known in the town of Colares for his skill in making and repairing
fishing nets, described his own experience: "At about 4.00 in the early morning, I
went with my pal “Baixinho” (Orivaldo Malaquias Pinheiro) to fish off the beach at
Cajueiro. As I recall it, Baixinho shouted, 'Look! There it is!' and took to his heels,
leaving me alone on the beach. The craft was of the size and shape of a helicopter,
made no noise, and was flying very high. I could have taken a pot-shot at it if I had
had a gun with me. I was terrified when the machine shone a sort of searchlight
down on the beach. That light was sweeping the ground, illuminating everything! It
was a bluish light (sort of ‘cold light’). It made it easier for me to see this because
the craft had several small reddish lights beneath its front part... The craft seemed
to be seeking something on the ground. I was scared that it would touch me and, despite my poor
physical condition, I managed to run quite a distance, and then Baixinho returned and helped me. The
object had come from the direction of the sea and it headed off into the inner part of the Island."
On October 20, three women were hit in the breast by the beams of light: "All three were overcome by
tremendous nervous tension and an unknown sort of lassitude as though they were receiving constant
electric shocks," wrote a newspaper.
On the evening of October 29, Benedito Campos and his seventeen-year-old wife Silvia Mara were at
home when "…they spotted an oval, silvery object emitting a greenish beam like a searchlight towards
the room where they were lying. Filled with curiosity, they approached a small window and, as they did
so, the beam shot in through it, and made straight for Silvia, throwing her into a sort of benumbed
trance-like state." Silvia, who was pregnant at the time, then fainted, whereupon two entities apparently
entered the house carrying something resembling a golden torch and "once again the beam struck Silvia,
this time hitting her in the left arm at the level of the wrist. Her veins seemed to 'rise up out of the body'
so swollen were they by the beam striking them." Later, while at a neighbour's house, Benedito was also
briefly paralyzed by a light beam. Fearing a miscarriage, husband and wife were taken at night by boat to
the Mosqueiro Medical Clinic, followed all the way by the UFO, which made no further attempt to harm
them. They remained there for three days while the wife recovered, but Benedito "was in a state of
severe depression for some days, his motor functions disturbed and, as his mother reports, weeping
frequently."
The UFO activity over Colares Island was so intense that the people began to think the "Chupa-chupas"
were trying to make some sort of contact with them. Such was the view expressed by Sr. Raimundo
Ferreira "Mimi" Monteiro. He still believes the craft were coming up out of the sea or out of some
underwater base located in the Bay of Marajó, possibly in the region of the Caldeirão.
Alfredo Bastos Filho, a former town mayor, confirmed this and said: "Yes, indeed I can tell you, there
wasn’t a moment of peace. The populace were terrified by that "Chupa-chupa" affair. I even managed to
see one of the injured victims myself - Dona Mirota, a lady who was receiving medical treatment at the
Health Clinic."
The locals became so frightened that many of the women and children left town. The men that remained
lit bonfires to mount guard at night, letting off fireworks and banging tins whenever they saw the Chupa-
chupas approaching. Others locked themselves in their homes for fear of the phenomenon. It was
mentioned later that the more din people made and the more bonfires and fireworks, the closer the craft
By November 1977 doctor Wellaide Cecim Carvalho, the physician in charge of the health unit on Colares
Island, took care of to some 35 people claiming to have been touched by the strange light.
She took blood samples, and concluded that the victims suffered from generalized hyperthermia,
superficial chronic headache, burnings, intense heat, nauseas, tremors in the body, giddiness, asthenia
and presented very small orifices in the skin where they were hit by the rays. She wrote: "All of them
had suffered lesions to the face or the thoracic area." The lesions, looking like radiation injuries, "began
with intense reddening of the skin in the affected area. Later the hair would fall out and the skin would
turn black. There was no pain, only a slight warmth. One also noticed small puncture marks in the skin.
The victims were men and women of varying ages, without any pattern." In describing their experiences
with these light beams, most victims claimed that "They were immediately immobilized, as if a heavy
weight pushed against their chest. The beam was about [seven or eight centimetres] in diameter and
white in color. It never hunted for them but hit them suddenly. When they tried to scream, no sound
would come out, but their eyes remained open. The beam felt hot, 'almost as hot as a cigarette burn,'
barely tolerable. After a few minutes the column of light would slowly retract and disappear. Most
symptoms usually disappeared after seven days. "
At Agulhas Fincadas, Mrs. Maria Lopes, inhabitant of Vila Gorete, to the margins of Rio Tapajós, in the
neighborhoods of Santarém (Pará), tells her case involving "strange devices" that absorb energy from
human beings, known as Chupa-Chupa. "I saw an object to settle quiet in the bushes here close... It had
left two men and a woman, who had started to move with two fishing," counts Maria. Other people in the
place had been paralyzed when observing the scene. Many had hurt themselves when trying to escape
one of the strange objects. In many cases, the marks left by the rays on the victims skin were marks
that could have up to eight small holes. In these occurrences, the Chupa-Chupa term was proven right as
many of them had lost up to approximately 300 ml of blood, from these wounds.
This was the case of Claudomira, resident in the Island of Colares. She
claims that her family already did not sleep right with fear of the devices.
"In one of these days, after midnight, I woke up because of a strong flash,
a sort of focussed bright green light ray that came down from the top roof
to my left chest. I tried to shout, but my voice did not function. I felt an
esquisite heat... Later, that beam of light diminished and I saw that I was
burnt." Claudomira told that she sighted a strange object, much similar to
an umbrella, from which a being of clear skin, oriental eyes, and great
ears. According to her, the creature was dressed in tight green clothes and had a sort of pistol in the
hand, which emitted the luminous beam. At this moment, Claudomira felt perforated as by needles on
her breast. "After this, I felt a migraine headache and a great weakness, that left me collapsed for
several days." The next day, she had been directed to the Sanitary Unit of the town, where she was
taken care of by Doctor Wellaide Cecim Carvalho, who sent her to the Medical Institute Renato Chaves, in
Belém, for backup examinations. Her ill-being and the constant migraines lasted many days, followed by
fatigue and weakness. Years later, Claudomira still did not feel cured. "My health never came back to be
the same since that night." She is not the only one to have passed for such situation. Some estimate that
thousands of people, also men, had suffered the attacks of the Chupa-Chupa in the years between 1970
and 1980, and they still occur today, though less frequently. "Emotional and physical sequels are very
common in these cases," affirmed Dr. Wellaide Cecim Carvalho, who took care of Claudomira.
Although she was skeptical and she believed that the occurrences of Chupa-Chupa were popular belief or
some witchcraft, Dr. Wellaide ended up convinced of the veracity of the cases when she was confronted
with their increasing frequency. "With the increase of hurt people, I started to give more attention each
time in the existing injuries. I saw things that do not exist in my medical books," she said. According to
her, the victims of Chupa-Chupa presented strangest burnings, not as those provoked by fire or hot
water, as she thought herself, but very similar to ones produced by cobalt irradiation. The injuries varied
in intensity. First it started with an intense reddishness in the hit area, known as hiperemia. Later, the
skin of the affected region started to fall (alopecia) and days later the skin peeled off. In this period of
development, said Wellaide, it was possible to note holes, similar to perforations by needles.
One of the most interesting cases she took care of happened with a lady who had cardiac problems. She
arrived at the doctor's office very nervous and immediately she showed her left breast, in which were two
strange holes. She complained of giddiness, shortness of breath, and weakness - characteristic
symptoms already known by people hit by the phenomenon. The doctor tried to calm her and she
returned to her home. But at about 03:00 pm, however, Dr. Wellaide was called to the residence of the
woman, who had become very sick. Her whole body was still, and she gasped for air, but she did not
have fever and did not vomit. Seeing the seriousness of the situation, the doctor took her to a hospital in
Belém. Hours later, she received the medical papers and the certificate of death forwarded by the Medical
Institute Legal Renato Chaves, which stated a heart stroke as cause of the death. The intriguing fact is
that at no time, doctors in Belém had mentioned something about the injuries on her body and did not
even say if they had effected backing examinations.
Regarding the possible effects of the UFOs on the supply of electricity, Sr. Geraldo Aranha de Oliveira
(aged 37) of the C.E.I.P.A. (Pará Electricity Plant) explained: "In 1977 the C.E.I.P.A. sub-station
consisted of three Scania 125 kw engines supplying light to the city from 6 pm till midnight. I don’t recall
having ever seeing a UFO over the plant. I merely remember that, at that period, lots of lightning
conductor rods were burnt out and, at times, some fuses too."
COMAR (Comando Aéreo Regional, the Regional Air Command of the Brazilian Air Forces), arrived in
Belém, and made a series of researches in the region, under the project name "Operation Plate."
(Operation Saucer). Captain Uyrangê Bolivar Soares Nogueira de Hollanda Lima, head of information
office, directed all the operations in the region. During the investigations, the Air Force obtained four
films and hundreds of photographs of flying disks in the basin of Marajó. They also were a great help to
the population, providing psychologists assistance, to eliminate the panic that sized the entire region.
The beams of light from the craft were described as being so bright that they resembled those used to
illuminate night sporting events. They were "always sharply defined, directed with perfect precision
towards any target – houses, people, boats, trees, even the Brazilian Air Force's helicopters deployed
over the island during the investigations." On one occasion, one of these powerful beams is reported to
have forced one of the helicopters to land, although the exact technical reason is not given. According to
a statement by Sr. Sebastião V. Miranda, former resident of Colares, "the Brazilian Air Force spent more
than 35 days in the town, and installed various devices near the Bacurí beach."
Mrs. Alba Câmara Vilhena, a married lady living at 683 rua 15 de Novembro, added: "At the time of the
"Chupa-chupa" everybody was scared to sleep at night, and so almost every night we went away to be
with relatives. On one occasion some people saw one of the craft. It was round, and all luminous. Just at
that moment, a helicopter of the F.A.B. (Brazilian Air Force) was flying quite near to our house. Then we
saw the UFO direct a very powerful beam on to the helicopter, obliging it to land on the São Pedro
Airfield. That happened at about 8.00 pm one evening."
Professor Raimundo Sebastião Aranha said: "At that period I was closely connected with some of the Air
Force's enquiries. They were seeking more information about the "Chupa-chupa." He said the Air Force
had with them masses of equipment: cars, helicopters, radio transmitters, cameras, powerful glasses,
etc. He recalls that, “In addition to the rank and file Air Force recruits, there was a whole group of
officers, and he had the impression that there was a foreigner among them. The helicopters that
appeared from time to time, bringing materials and personnel, attempted to chase the UFOs but without
much success. Indeed, on the contrary, it was the UFOs that chased them!"
One night several months later, on May 24 1978, a journalist and photographer, who had been sent to
cover the local UFO encounters, were in their car when despite the heavy rain they were woken up "by a
powerful beam of light which – however unbelievable, it may seem – passed through the metallic
structure of the roof of the vehicle. Not surprisingly they leapt out of the car to see that "a tube-shaped
light beam, [about 10 inches in diameter] was coming down from above onto the roof of the car and
passing through the metal paneling." On this and other occasions, they managed to take numerous
photographs which they claim that their newspaper later sold to "a North-American group."
On another night while trying to use flash equipment to photograph one of these craft "the UFO emitted
such a vivid beam of light that it smashed the windscreen" of their car. Several newspapers started to
write that the alleged UFOs were weather balloons, or secrets satellites, although there was no possible
reason to think that. Local authorities were of course extremely angry because of such articles. Elói
Santos, councilman of the old Enclosure for bullfighting stated: "It is not possible to deny that Belém is,
today, a frightened city. We are not technicians, and we do not argue with the conclusion of the
authorities. But we did surprise them with declarations of the witnesses who saw light crossing their roofs
to penetrate in their skin, removing a little of blood and leaving visible marks of needles and burnings on
their epidermis."
In 1981, one woman who had been exposed to the UFO beams in Colares died, although it is not clear
that her death was clearly related to the attack. In 1993, again in Colares, a 32-year-old missionary and
a 40-year-old domestic worker died, a month apart, as a result of close encounters with UFO; according
to Ufologist Bob Pratt, these women were "both burned on the throat and the chest, as were most of the
other people the doctor treated." Said Pratt: "I know of about ten deaths that have some connection with
UFO close encounters."
According to the USAF, there is not one proof of the reality of UFOs, and there is no evidence that they
can be a danger. According to the skeptics... According to the skeptics? To tell the truth, skeptics never
express anything in such cases. And the majority of the general public does not know about such cases.
https://www.ufocasebook.com/colares1977.html
OLORON, FRANCE ANGEL HAIR CASE
France in the fifties was overwhelmed with UFO reports.
One of the lesser known and more mysteries anomalies
connected to this wave was the collection of white fibrous
material that fell from the heavens. Dubbed Angel Hair
because it falls from the sky, it was seen in conjunction
with UFO sightings, but more often without. Even the
Condon Report, a UFO study done by the University of
Colorado in the late sixties at the behest of the U.S. Air
Force, examined the issue. They described angel hair as
“fibrous material which falls in large quantities, but is
unstable and disintegrates and vanishes soon after
falling.”
One of the earlier more fantastic reports of angel hair took place in Oloron, France in October of 1952.
Many witnesses reported seeing over 30 red, spherical UFOs flying overhead, along with what local school
superintendent Jean-Yves Prigent described as “a narrow cylinder, apparently inclined at a 45-degree
angle… slowly moving in a straight line toward the southwest… A sort of plume of white smoke was
escaping from its upper end.” Their smaller objects movements were described as “following a broken
path characterized in general by rapid and short zigzags. When two saucers drew away from one another,
a whitish streak, like an electric arc, was produced between them.” Witnesses estimated there were
about 30 of these objects. Falling from these objects was a white hair-like substance. When picked up
and rolled into a ball it turned into gelatin and then disappeared. From these craft came a white, hairlike
substance, which covered telephone wires, tree branches and the roofs. When people rolled the hairs into
into a ball, it turned into a gelatinous substance and vanished. One man claimed to have been trapped by
the material. On freeing himself, it rose back into air. This entire scenario repeated itself 10 days later in
Gaillac, France.
One newspaper report claimed the following: On October 17, 1952, in Oloron in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques
in France, Mr. Prigent, college supervisor, with his family, saw weird
things in the sky, some sort of long white cigar and tens of "balls".
Using a binocular, Mr. Prigent described them as luminous (in fact
refracting the sunlight), and thought they zigzagged (his own movement
mixed with the winds agitating the gossamer threads).
As the doctor told, it was a spiders migration, usually occurring in
autumn, and the "trails of outgoing vapor" of the "saucers" described in
all good faith by Mr. Prigent was the fraying of their gossamer threads,
called "angels hair" or "threads from the Blessed Virgin" in France; which
ended up falling on the ground and being considered hard evidence of the flying saucers.
Although the explanation was found rather quickly by the doctor, another witness of another observation
that day strongly disputed it, although the doctor did not talk at all about this other sighting, and still
today the "Oloron saucers with angel hair" are sometimes claimed to be a mystery, or an alien invasion -
and the doctor of medicine presented as doctor of physics.
https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/attic/1952-10-17-oloron-dr.htm
DEXTER, MICHIGAN SIGHTING
On March 20, 1966, in Dexter, Mich., Frank Mannor saw a domed, oval-
shaped object with a quilted pattern. He said it had lights in the center and
noted that the thing landed in a swamp. He called the Police and Deputies
Fitzpatrick and McFadden came to search for the object. They found the
object and as they walked closer, it started to rise. Fitzpatrick said, “While
in the woods area, a brilliant light was observed from the far edge of the
woods and upon [our] approaching, the light dimmed in brilliance…the
brilliant light [then] again appeared and then disappeared. A continued
search of the area was then conducted, through swamp and high grass,
with negative results.” The UFO moved to where the Deputy pointed his
flashlight, and it took off at a high speed. As more officers arrived, Officer
Robert Hartwell of the Dexter division, saw a UFO buzz the top of his car.
Samples from around the area of the March 20 sighting were sent to a lab
to be tested. Tests were done on the soil, plants, water, and animals. The
results came back and read:
SOIL: The soil had above normal radiation and also had abnormal content of Boron.
PLANT: The plants had above-normal radiation. Blue pigment did not show up in the tests and were
presumed to be destroyed, but this did not seem to affect the life junctions of the plants.
POND LIFE: Crustacean and Amphibious radiation was higher than normal but the highest radiation was
recorded in the Amphibian. Also the Amphibian was affected noticeably where the Crustacean was not.
MINERAL: Sedimentary rocks were slightly higher in radiation than either igneous or metamorphic rocks.
There was no change either chemical or structural.
WATER: All microscopic plants and animals were dead. The water had above-normal radiation and
abnormally contained Boron.
ENVIRONMENT: The environment had above-normal radiation and it contained a small amount of Boron
which is foreign to this soil.
CONCLUSION: The area contained an abnormally high amount of radiation from some unknown source.
The area also strangely contained Boron which was found in both water and soil. These two facts are the
only ones which would substantiate the claim of a UFO. In our opinion, we’re not saying there was a UFO,
but we also don’t know how to account for these two facts. However, we believe it could not be swamp
gas because of the high winds of the night of the sighting. With these high winds the gas could not have
formed a mass and remained stationary. We also do not believe it was pranksters because we searched
the area thoroughly fo0r any sign of evidence to explain the phenomenon.
NOTE: Radioactive decay took place at 0.6 milliroentgens per hour over a period of three hours.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek of Project Blue Book was sent in to investigate. At first he agreed that something weird
was going on, but when he consulted Blue Book headquarters, he
quickly change his mind to the explanation of “swamp gas”. The
Washtenaw County Sheriff Douglas Harvey said, “Dr. Hynek was
sent in from the U.S. government. He came into my office. We went
out to the site where supposedly this object came down on the
ground. Dr. Hynek in the car said, “There is something. We just
can’t put our finger on it. We’ve been investigating this for quite a
while.”
http://michigansotherside.com/1966-michigan-ufo-swamp-gas-
case/
JAMES FLYNN EVERGLADES ENCOUNTER
On the night of March 15, 1965, James W. Flynn was camping in
the Everglades after training some hunting dogs. Shortly after
midnight, Flynn saw a brightly lit object descending
approximately a mile away. Flynn thought it was a helicopter
until he looked at it through binoculars. Thinking it may be some
kind of a plane in trouble, or 'some new device from Cape
Kennedy' he drove his swamp buggy towards the light, while it
was visible through the trees. About a quarter of a mile away,
he got out and headed towards the light on foot.
As he neared the object, Flynn saw the craft was not a plane,
but a large, cone-shaped machine hovering a few feet above the
ground. The craft was about 75 feet in diameter at the base and
25-30 feet high. Four rows of ports of windows were visible, with yellow light shining through them.
Flynn heard a whirring like 'a diesel generator,' which disturbed one of his dogs 'who was howling in his
cage and trying to get out', but could observe no equipment or occupants.
After several minutes, Flynn approached the craft, Within 200 yards of the UFO, jumped out of his swamp
buggy, stepping into the circle of light and raising his hand as a friendly gesture in case he was being
watched. As he did this, the UFO emitted a jet-like noise and a blast of wind that knocked him off-
balance. As he continued to approach within a few yards, the UFO emitted a light beam like a welder's
torch, striking him on the forehead and knocking him unconscious. Later he told the local newspaper "I
felt a blow like a sledgehammer between the eyes, and that's all I know."
When he came to hours later, he found himself partially blinded, and a painful bruise was left on his
forehead where the light beam had struck. The craft was gone, but there was a charred circular area
where it had hovered, and the tops of nearby trees had been burned.
Flynn sought aid from an Indian acquaintance who helped him back to Fort Myers. He required medical
treatment and had a small dark spot on his forehead. In addition to the painful bruise on his forehead
and the effect on his vision, doctors determined Flynn also had an impairment of deep muscle and
tendon reflexes, numbness and loss of hearing. During the five days when Flynn was in the hospital,
intelligence officers, under the orders of General O’Keefe, phoned him from nearby Homestead AFB. After
obtaining a basic report, they informed him they would interview him again when he was released from
the hospital.
Flynn's doctor found impairment of muscle and tendon reflexes which he believed could not have been
faked, and the NICAP investigation concluded that the account of the event was supported by the
physical evidence: extensive physical trace evidence was found at the site, including a circular area of
burnt sawgrass 72 feet in diameter where the object has been hovering, and burns of the nearby trees.
Unfortunately Flynn's encounter came at a time of maximum difficulty for the Air Force, indeed during a
major flap in the locality, and they were doing their best to play down the sighting. Attempts were made
to discredit Flynn which backfired when many leading citizens, police officers and doctors vouched for
him. The Air Force's suggestion that Flynn may have hoaxed the encounter ignored the remarkable
ground and tree traces and his own physical impairments which his doctor believed "could not have been
faked". In the end the Air Force settled for the somewhat useless statement that, when questioned, they
had nothing on their files concerning the Flynn incident.
https://www.ufoinsight.com/the-james-flynn-incident-ufo-over-the-florida-everglades/