UFOs’ Official Evening

[JMA]

Do you know this case? Do we have an explanation for it?

The second case was notoriously known as The UFOs’ Official Evening: on May 19, 1986, over 20 unknown flying objects were seen, tracked on radar and persecuted by fighter planes, as the then minister for the Aeronautics, Octávio Moreira Lima, stated. He later refrained from restating that the Air Force had actually tried to persecute UFOs. These two incidents help illustrate the level of interest from the authorities in the UFO phenomenon, which obviously is readily admitted.

From:

http://www.ufo.com.br/text02.php

[songstress]

No ldea whatsoever.

[IXP]

"persecuted by fighter planes"

"persecuted by fighter planes"

This is very disturbing. Just because they are aliens does not mean we should persecute them. I think we should prosecute those responsible. Or pursue them, or something.

IXP

[JMA]

Originally posted by songstress
No ldea whatsoever.

Me too. I never eard of that case before, it's why it's so puzzling...

[Astrophotographer]

Originally posted by JMA
Do you know this case? Do we have an explanation for it?



From:

http://www.ufo.com.br/text02.php


This might help:

http://ufologie.net/htm/brazil86.htm

Sounds like a lot of spurious radar contacts and some excited individuals associating lights with them. The pilot could easily have been chasing a star or planet. It has happened before. That is my take on it after briefly reading the link above.

[JMA]

Thanks for the link!

One of the more plausible was offered by British space researcher Geoffrey Perry. According to Perry, the Soviet space station Salyut-7 ejected several boxes of debris on that night, which re-entered the earth's atmosphere around central-western Brazil.

Sounds like a good explanation to me...

[Astrophotographer]

Originally posted by JMA
Thanks for the link!



Sounds like a good explanation to me...

This kind of UFO event sounds vaguely familiar. The 1990 Belgium UFO intercept is a good example of how false radar returns suddenly become UFOs that can execute radical maneuvers and not be seen. As best I can tell from the link, only one pilot reported seeing one of the UFOs and he chased it clear over the atlantic, which means it was in the east. Just by coincidence, Mars was approaching opposition around this time and was a brilliant orange "orb" in the ESE about this time slightly brighter than -1 magnitude. Could the pilot chased a planet? One can never tell. Like so many UFO events, this is a bunch of UFO stories with very little in the way of details for most of what was reported.