“If there is a plane that can develop that speed, I don’t know of it,” he said in an interview a few years later.Įarlier, the first plane that had taken off, at around 10:30 p.m., was an F-5E piloted by Lt. Soon his high-performance warplane hit 1,000mph but as he closed in on the UFO, it accelerated to a speed he calculated as 15 times the speed of sound, or 11,500 mph. Initially, three planes were sent up, including a Mirage F-103, which took off at just before 11 pm with Captain Armindo Sousa Viriato at the controls. “Other times, the radars even picked up the presence of objects, but the pilots could not see them.”įamed astronaut says UFOs filmed by military more than 100 times could be aliens “Sometimes, the pilots had visual contact with the targets, but the radars did not register anything,” said Mota. The air force then swung into action and scrambled its fighters to intercept the objects – but it was not a simple task as the pilots found themselves disoriented by what was happening.

Approximately 2000 Brazilian Air Force cadets witnessed the strange lighting object close to the Guarulhos international airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The lights in the sky were also seen from two passenger planes, including one traveling in the interior of Brazil. Then an hour later, a plane piloted by the president of aircraft maker Embraer reported several objects in the sky as it landed at the same airport.

What I do know is that they behaved intelligently,” he told the BBC.Īround 8 pm around 2000 cadets and officers from an air force training school in the same area, reported spotting the lights. “Whether they were trying to interact with me, I don’t know. Aloisio Mauricio/Fotoarena via ZUMA Press Sergeant Sergio Mota da Silva claims to have spotted a strange light in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo. Mota asked controllers at Sao Paulo’s international airport if any planes were heading to his airfield, to which they replied there weren’t.Īt one point he said he dimmed the lights on the airport’s runway, making the objects come towards the control tower and then, when he turned up the brightness, they moved away. “It doesn’t go up or down, it doesn’t go to the left or to the right, it’s just standing there”, he said He spotted a light in the sky from the control tower of an airport near the city of Sao Paulo. Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray presents footage of unidentified aerial phenomena during a House Intelligence Committee subcommittee hearing on in Washington, DC. The first signs of anything unusual were reported by Brazilian air force air traffic controller, Sergeant Sergio Mota da Silva, on the evening of May 19, 1986. Pilots found themselves looking at objects in front of them that didn’t appear on their aircraft radars – and sometimes the other way around – as the objects played “cat and mouse” with them. Over several hours, hundreds of witnesses, including the elite of the country’s military, saw strange objects that seemed to move at a terrifying speed. The event comes after Congress held a hearing response to footage taken from US Navy fighter planes showing mysterious, unexplained objects darting in the sky – the now famous ‘Tic-Tac’ video.īut the story of what unfolded on a night in Brazil a decade before those videos were taken is every bit as mind boggling. What happened is set to form a part of a hearing taking place in the Brazilian Senate into UFOs this week. Mushrooms ‘talk to each other and have a vocabulary of 50 words’ĭinosaurs survived flu pandemic 100 million years before being killed offįighter jets chased mysterious bright objects – some of them 300 ft wide and traveling at 11,500 mph – in Brazil’s epic ‘Night of the UFOs’.įive bewildered pilots testified to seeing 21 objects appear and disappear, while hundreds of troops on the ground also witnessed them – and air force chiefs admitted: “there is no explanation.” Earth’s core rotates back and forth over a mile every six years, scientists sayĪliens and UFOs were seen in the UK ‘more than 250 times’ last year

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