Trindade Island, 1958: Almiro Barauna's Disputed UFO Photographs
On January 16, 1958, at approximately midday, a series of photographs were allegedly taken by freelance photographer Almiro Barauna aboard the Brazilian Navy survey ship Almirante Saldanha, anchored…
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Over volcanic Trindade Island a Saturn-shaped craft crossed the midday South Atlantic sky.
January 16, 1958: the Brazilian Navy survey ship Almirante Saldanha anchored 600 miles east of Rio.
Crew and officers crowded the deck, watching a phosphorescent disc tilt and arc silently overhead.
The Saturn-shaped craft banked hard over Trindade Island's basalt peaks, its phosphorescent equatorial ridge blazing.
Project Blue Book stamped Serial 39-58 a probable hoax, the negatives never forensically examined.
As the Saturn-shaped craft vanished over Trindade Island, no one confirmed who saw the shutter fall.