Brasilia, Brazil, November 1958November 1958

Insufficient Data

Summary

On November 9, 1958, at about 4 p.m., about 500 people in Brasilia, Brazil, reported an object in the sky. The future capital was the site of the sighting. The account reached the Air Force through a foreign news report.

The object was thought to be a flying saucer. A Brazilian air force plane went up to about 3,000 meters to investigate but came back with no results. The plane commander said the object was flying at an altitude of about 12,000 meters. No direction or motion was reported, and the duration was not given.

The Air Force noted the data was not sufficient for a firm conclusion. It listed the case as insufficient data. The record suggested the object was probably a balloon at a high altitude but said the information could not support that conclusion. This case is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports.

Reported location

Brasilia, Brazil, November 1958

Date of incident

November 1958

State / country

? / XX

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 34

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 2

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] PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
8 | 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
OD Vos Balloon
iB | 9 MNovembsr 19538 Brasilia, Brazil fail fig Lronaphy. Roleon
| | 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION stil Adal |
: Local Sed lp 15101 Pe ® .Ground- Visual O Ground-Rodor B Erchakls Aver
GMT 09/190Q7 Air Visual O Air-intercept Radar 0 Possibly Alrcraft
J O Yes 3 Probably Astronomical
: CX No Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical
8 | 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE GNOMES at a Re :
XIX Insufficient Date for Evaluation
0 Unknown
in not reported one | not reported )
(10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
| Unidentified object thought to be a Object observed by many people.
| flying saucer observed by 500 people, AF plane went up & saw object.
‘| AF plane went up to 3,000 masters and Came back & could add no addi-
I object was estimated to be at 12,000 tional data other than that the
1 meters, No other information, ohject was well above at esti-
| LS mated altitude near 35,000 ft,
; Probably a balloon but data is |
| not sufficient to support this
bi conclusion, Duration not reporte
| but object must have been in |
4 area for some time, Also no
bi motion rptd., Insufficieat data
for analysis,
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