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The Trindade Isle Photo /AR/ E-M Case
Trindade Island
January 16, 1958


updated: 13 Aug 2009
Fran Ridge:
The Trindade Island incident provides us with some of the best photos ever taken of what many have referred to as a "flying saucer". And, there were as many as 60-100 witnesses. And on April 29, 2002, noted researcher, Wendy Connors, found evidence supporting earlier claims. In an audiotape of an interview of the photographer, Almiro Barauna, by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, conducted on April 19, 1982. On the recording Barauna states that the object
1) Undulated (wobbled) and tipped, twice.
2) The object was picked up on the Almirante Saldanha's radar 15 minutes before it came into view. (unverified *)
3) All power aboard the ship failed at the same time the object came into view and power returned suddenly as the object departed.
4) That all the sea gulls, etc. disappeared just before the object came into view.
Our thanks to the Center for UFO Studies for providing information on this case, and Wendy Connors for her excellent research skills which helped transform this already significant Category 8 (Photographic) incident into a Category 3 (E-M), Category 4 (Animal Reaction), and Category 9 (Radar) incident. And last, but not least, we want to thank Perry Petrakis and Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, whom provided all four full resolution images scanned from the original photos.

NICAP UFO EVIDENCE, Section VIII:
"Weighing all the facts, we conclude that the pictures appear to be authentic. They definitely are one of the potentially most significant series of UFO photographs on record, so that clarification of the incident and additional analysis is strongly desirable."


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