Brasilia, the capital city of Brazil, was the scene of a major UFO
flap on Thursday, August 22, 1996. According to the August 23
issue of Correio Brasiliense, the city's daily newspaper, a crystalline
UFO pursued a car near Lagoa da Paranoa (Lake Paranoa) in the
city's south end, then hovered above the lake, where it was videotaped
by a corporal of the Policia Militar.
The incident began at 1 a.m. Banker Agamemnon Nascimento
was driving back to Brasilia from Palmas with two companions,
Sr. Leite de Oliveira and another unnamed man. As the Beemer
reached Ceilandia, a suburb near the lake, one man noticed "strong
glowing lights" on his right. Turning, he saw a UFO that "seemed to
be made of crystal. It was 2.5 meters (8 feet) in size and had red
and blue lights."
At first the witness thought he was hallucinating, but Nascimento
saw the UFO, too. Immediately he stepped down on the gas pedal.
The UFO kept pace with the car, flying an estimated 30 meters
(100 feet) above and behind them.
As they reached the lake shore, Nascimento swerved off the road,
and the men got out of the car to observe the object. Nascimento
described the UFO as "two upside-down pyramids joined together."
Grabbing his cellular phone, he called the police. Senhor Leite de
Oliveira then used the phone to call his son, Marcelo, a photographer,
and described what was happening.
"The light was so intense that the road seemed to be lit up,"
Nascimento said.
The UFO hovered over the lake about 35 degrees above the
horizon. Eight police cruisers converged on the scene. The tumult
drew about 15 civilian eyewitnesses to the area, as well. All of
them watched as the UFO retreated to an altitude of 250 meters
(825 feet) above the lake.
The UFO was videotaped by Corporal Jose Raimundo Galdino
of the Policia Militar. Galdino shot 8 minutes, 56 seconds of
videotape before the object zipped away. Still photographs were
also shot by Marcelo Leite de Oliveira.
Prof. Wilson Gerardi de Oliveira (no relation), an anthropologist
and director of ufological studies at the University of Brasilia viewed
the Galdino film and said, "It was a very provocative detail, very
interesting. The UFO appears to make a vertical movement, as if
it were diverting its route of flight."
However, Eduardo Dorneles Barcelos, director of the Brazilian
space agency, dismissed the sighting as "a routine meteorological
phenomenon."
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