1975 to 1995 - Rio De Janeiro & Cruzerio, Brazil – Various UFO Sightings
Author: Dave Hodrien
Release Date: 17/04/2014
Note:
For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used
Introduction
Jack now lives down in London, but grew up
living at various properties at Rio De Janeiro in Brazil. Since his childhood
he has had a number of interesting sightings of unidentified objects in the
sky. This report covers each of his sightings before drawing final conclusions.
Fiery
Black Sphere
One evening in 1975 when Jack was 6 years
old he was in the back of his mother’s car. It was about 7pm and they were
driving in the centre of Rio De Janeiro. Jack was looking out of the rear right
window. It was a clear evening with very little cloud in the sky. They were in
front of Rio Sul shop when he suddenly saw a black spherical object covered in
fire, with a fiery trail behind it. He estimates it was about 1500m high,
definitely within the atmosphere. It was at a far distance and flew across the
sky horizontally at a very fast speed in the direction of the ocean. Due to the
speed he only observed it for a fraction of a second.
He immediately told his mother, saying
“Look mum, I just saw a meteor or a UFO.” His mother responded “Jack I’m
driving. Besides those things do not exist!”
Looking back at the incident Jack believes
the object may well have been an optical illusion in the car window, but he has
informed me of it anyway for interest. I
would agree that the UFO could have been down to a reflection, but find it more
likely that it was a meteorite crossing the sky. This may have looked more
impressive to Jack than it actually was due to his young age.
Three
Distant UFOs
The following year Jack was lying on his
bed round his grandparent’s house in Botafogo, in front of Baia Do Flamengo. It
was night time and he was still awake, looking out of the window. It was
between 1-2am, and a warm, clear night
with the stars visible. Jack noticed several distant objects in the sky. They
were on the far side of Guanabara Bay. The objects were moving then stopping
for periods of time. They would move independently and were going up and down
as well as left and right in the sky. Sometimes they would vanish from view off
the edge of the window, and then come back into view after a short while. They
continued to perform these manoeuvres for half an hour.
Aerial
map of Botafogo (A) and Guanabara Bay (B):
At first Jack thought they may be
helicopters. However they seemed too high altitude for this, and there did not
seem to be any purpose for them to perform these flight patterns for such a
long period of time. They also seemed to move faster than helicopters would fly
at. Jack says that the Brazilian military did not have many helicopters back
then, and he does not believe they would have spared this many for so long to
perform a nocturnal exercise. While I would agree that the manoeuvres seemed
unusual I do not feel that helicopters can be completely ruled out.
Due to his age he did not have a camera at
the time, and did not want to wake his grandparents in case they were angry
with him. After watching for about half an hour he thinks he must have fallen
off to sleep. The following morning he told his family but they did not listen
so he soon forgot about the incident.
Glowing
Orb
A year later in 1977 Jack had another UFO
sighting. At the time he was living in a house in Barra Da Tijuca, close to a
hill known as Pedra Da Gavea.
Aerial
map showing Barra Da Tijuca (A) and Pedra Da Gavea (B):
Photograph
of Pedra Da Gavea from ground level:
During one night he woke up for no apparent
reason at around 3am. He doesn’t know why but he pulled back the curtains,
opened his bedroom window and looked outside. Up in the sky in the direction of
Itanhanga to the North East alongside the hill was a glowing white orb. It was
much brighter than the stars in the background and was moving slightly in the
air, floating back and forth gradually. It was quite high up, Jack estimates about
800 metres, and was at an angle of about 39 degrees from his location.
Jack observed the object for about half an
hour. He feels that it was much too bright to be a distant helicopter. He did
not call his parents as they would have just dismissed it as a balloon or
something similar. He did wonder if it could have been some kind of atmospheric
phenomenon. However earth lights do not last for long periods of time and do
not usually appear over urban areas, so I feel this can be discounted.
The
“Ghost Aeroplane”
By 1993 Jack was living in a house on the
top of a mountain near Cruzerio, Sau Paulo, which he informs me is known as a
UFO hot spot. This location afforded him a fantastic view of the sky and
surrounding land.
Around 9pm one evening he was standing
outside admiring the view. It was a clear evening with only high level cloud.
He suddenly noticed an object moving in his direction. It had a red light and a
flashing white light characteristic with an aircraft, but it seemed to be much
too low down in the sky, only 75 metres above the top of the mountain. It was
also completely silent as far as he could tell. Jack was surprised to see it,
as it was not a normal flight path for aircraft to take.
The object was moving in his direction. It
got to about 500 metres from his location when suddenly without warning it
turned 180 degrees in a very tight arc and began moving away from him. The
whole scenario was quite eerie to Jack so he did not keep watch too much
longer. He just told himself it was a plane and went back indoors. But looking
back at the incident he feels there was a lot that was wrong with it.
Return
Of The White Orb
The following year after the incident with
the “ghost aeroplane”, Jack had another sighting of an unidentified glowing
white orb. He thinks it took place in March but cannot be certain. It was about
9.30pm when he happened to look to the North. Roughly 2km away in the direction
of Varginha he saw a brightly glowing white light hanging in the sky, much too
bright to be a star. It looked very similar to the one he had seen back in
1977.
Jack watched the object for about 30
minutes. It appeared to be hovering motionless. After this time he actively
chose to stop looking at it. He did not have a camera on him at the time so did
not take any photographs. As noted by Jack, the village of Varginha over which
the object seemed to be hovering is where a very impressive incident involving
a UFO crash and retrieval of live ETs is said to have taken place in 1996.
While it may be very easy to dismiss Jack’s
sighting as simply a star, he lived at that location for a number of years, so
surely he would be used to how the stars looked at that altitude and would be
aware of the locations in the sky of the brightest stars. Yet he is certain
that this was something else within the atmosphere.
Moving
Light
Just as with his initial 3 sightings, Jack
had 3 further sightings on consecutive years in the early 90s. This is likely
just down to coincidence. In April 1995 he had arguably his most impressive
sighting yet. He was on his way back home one evening and walking up the road
that led to his house. He looked to the North and noticed what he first assumed
was a star in the sky. It was a little brighter than how stars would normally
appear. He estimates it was about 6km away and around 1500 metres high. However
he then noticed that the star appeared to be slightly oscillating in the sky. A
voice inside his mind told him “look, this is important.”
Suddenly without warning the light shot
right across the sky, abruptly stopped for 1 second, then returned to the position
it had been at! It moved extremely fast, much faster than a plane would be able
to fly at. Jack estimates it had travelled about 50km. He was immediately
convinced that this was something highly unusual. The object then seemed to
produce a fog of some kind around itself before vanishing, either disappearing
from the location it was at, or flying away extremely fast, it was hard to tell
which. In total the sighting had lasted for about 20 seconds.
Looking back at the incident Jack feels
certain that the object was showing itself to him on purpose, perhaps
indicating that he was being observed. At the time he attributed the voice in
his head to himself, but now thinks that some kind of telepathic communication
took place.
Conclusion
Jack has had some interesting sightings
over the years. Although some of them could certainly be down to
misidentification of mundane objects, others such as his 1995 sighting have
more impressive aspects to them which suggest a more unusual explanation. Due
to the number of sightings he has had, Jack suspected he may be a contactee. I
put him in touch with a regressive hypnotherapist in London who regressed him
on two occasions to try and find out further details about his experiences.
Although he did come back with some interesting memories and feelings, there
was nothing definite enough to suggest he had been abducted or contacted by
ETs. If Jack has any further sightings and decides to stay in touch they may be
added to this report.
Copyright
Dave Hodrien 2014