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5 Bermúdez wrote in an e-mail These details about the ceremony come from a personal e-mail communication with General Bermúdez in January 2010.
6 In the last days of March Sections of this piece were translated from the Spanish by Gustavo Rodríguez Navarro, Oscar Zambrano, and Andrea Soares Berrios.
7 The aviation branch of the Army of Chile Brigada de Aviación del Ejército de Chile, the aviation branch of the Army of Chile, is known as BAVE.
CHAPTER 20: UFOS IN BRAZIL
1 by the Navy, which compiled a report Carlos Alberto Ferreira Bacellar, Commander of the Oceanographic Station at Trindade, “Clarification of the Observation of Unidentified Flying Objects Sighted on the Island of Trindade, in the Period of 12/5/57 to 1/16/58.”
2 experts in America conducted further analysis The information on the Trindade photos was obtained from Don Berliner, UFO Briefing Document (Dell Publishing, 1995), pp. 71–77. This report is available at http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/
ufo_briefingdocument/1958.htm#50.
3 many of them concerning the Air Force’s “Operation Saucer” The Brazilian files can be viewed online. See the National Intelligence Agency report of Operation Saucer: http://www.ufo.com.br/public/prato/ACE_3370.83.pdf; also, the Brazilian Air Force report of Operation Saucer: http://www.ufo.com.br/public/prato/ACE_3370.83.pdf. More recent files can be accessed at www.ufo.com.br/public/abertura_2; and more through these links: www.ufo.com.br/public/abertura_1, www.ufo.com.br/public/brasil, www.ufo.com.br/public/documents, and www.ufo.com.br/public/prato.
4 All was translated from Portuguese Translation services were provided by Eduardo Rado of Brazil and Andrea Soares Berrios of New York.
5 “to fly in formation, not necessarily manned” Air Brigadier José Pessoa Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, commander of the Aerial Command of Aerial Defense, to Aerial General Command, “Occurrence Report,” June 2, 1986. Both the original document in Portuguese and an English translation can be seen at www.ufo.com.br/documentos/night.
6 Brazilian Airspace Defense Command Comando de Defesa Aérea Brasileiro, known as COMDABRA.
7 to the air defense operations center Comando de Operações de Defesa Aérea, known as CODA.
CHAPTER 21: FIGHTING BACK
1 “Unidentified Flying Objects and related phenomena” Dept. of State Teletype, “Grenadian UFO Crusade: Déjà vu,” November 18, 1978, released through the Freedom of Information Act. Sourced from Clifford E. Stone, UFOs Are Real (SPI Books, 1997).
2 “and scientists, including astronomers” Dept. of State Teletype, “Grenadian UFO Resolution,” November 28, 1978, classified Confidential and released through the FOIA. Sourced from Clifford E. Stone, UFOs Are Real (SPI Books, 1997), Doc. 5–21a.
3 a “blitzkrieg sales pitch” Dept. of State Teletype, November 18, 1978, op. cit.
4 “U.S. nationals on the Grenadian delegation” Ibid.
5 “and gamble on the results” Dept. of State Teletype, “Grenadian UFO Resolution,” December 2, 1978. Sourced from Clifford E. Stone, UFOs Are Real (SPI Books, 1997), Doc. 5–22.
6 “of this French investigation are profound” J. Allen Hynek, speech to the United Nations, November 27, 1978. His speech is summarized in a State Dept. Teletype, “Grenadian UFO Resolution,” November 28, 1978.
7 then it “disappeared” Sighting Report for the International UFO Bureau, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, September 18, 1973.
8 “ought to be NASA” Dr. Frank Press, letter to Dr. Robert Frosch, July 21, 1977. Richard C. Henry, “UFOs and NASA,” Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 2, no. 2 (1988), p. 109.
9 NASA name a “project officer” Dr. Robert Frosch, letter to Dr. Frank Press, September 6, 1977. Full letter included in the appendix: Richard C. Henry, “UFOs and NASA,” Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 2, no. 2 (1988), pp. 110–11.
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