Operação Prato — Photographic Dossier (CC_023, Registro 076)

Brief

Military file CC-023, Registro 076 is part of the Força Aérea Brasileira's Operação Prato investigation into the 1977–78 chupa-chupa UAP wave on the northern Brazilian coast. On December 17, 1977, a military A2 team from I COMAR photographed a circular, funnel-shaped object — described as yellowish-red with bluish reflections — that landed on Fazenda Jejú along Rodovia PA-47 in São Domingos do Capim, Pará. The landing left two ground impressions measuring 40×40 cm and 50 cm deep, surrounded by an external ring approximately 2.5 meters in diameter. The dossier compiles 26 photographs organized across annexes 5, 7, and 8 of military record 076.

Metadata

Agency

Força Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacional

Release

2009-05-01

Type

PDF • .pdf

Length

3 pages

Classification

UNCLASSIFIED

Programs

Operação Prato

Tags

landing trace, circular funnel shape, luminous body, yellowish-red with bluish reflections, chupa-chupa, Pará Brazil, 1977, Operação Prato, physical ground trace, São Domingos do Capim

Key points

• A UAP described as circular and funnel-shaped, yellowish-red with bluish reflections, reportedly landed on Fazenda Jejú (property of Sr. Expedito) on December 17, 1977.p.1
• The landing left two ground impressions measuring 40×40 cm each, 50 cm deep, encircled by an external ring approximately 2.5 meters in diameter.p.1
• The trajectory field records 'Pousou' (landed), making this one of the few Operação Prato records to document an actual landing event.p.1
• The military A2 team from I COMAR served as both photographers and observers; ground-level observation height is logged as 0 m.p.1
• The military report for this registration comprises 26 photographs, compiled across Anexo 5, Anexo 7, and Anexo 8 of record 076.p.1
• The Olimpus Trip 35 with 100 ASA film was the capture equipment; lens, aperture, shutter speed, distance, apparent size, and velocity are all recorded as unknown.p.1
• The dossier was digitized by the Rede Brasileira de Pesquisas Ufológicas (PortalBURN), indicating civilian ufological researchers played a central preservation role after the 2009 declassification.p.1
• Pages 2 and 3 contain only provenance headers and annex labels (Anexo 5, 7, 8); substantive content on those pages is photographic and not text-extractable.p.2

Verbatim

• OVNI pousou na Fazenda Jejú, do Sr. Expedito, deixando marcas no solo.

  p.1

• Foram encontradas duas marcas de 40 X 40 cm, de profundidade de 50 cm, margeadas por um círculo externo de aproximadamente 2,5 metros de diâmetro.

  p.1

• Compõem o relatório militar: 26 fotografias.

  p.1

• COR: Amarela avermelhado, com reflexos azulados

  p.1

• FORMA: Circular (afunilada)

  p.1

• FOTÓGRAFO E/OU OBSERVADORES: Equipe de militares do A2 – I COMAR

  p.1

Most interesting

• The chupa-chupa phenomenon drew its name from local witness accounts describing lights that attacked people and left burn marks or puncture wounds on their bodies — 'chupa-chupa' means 'suck-suck' in Portuguese.
• Captain Uyrangê Hollanda, who commanded Operação Prato, gave a lengthy recorded interview to Brazilian UFO researcher A.J. Gevaerd in 1997 describing military encounters with the phenomenon at close range; Hollanda died shortly after the interview.
• The two 40×40 cm impressions, each 50 cm deep and encircled by a 2.5-meter ring, conform to a multi-point or tripod landing-trace pattern documented in physical-trace UAP cases across multiple countries during the same era.
• Operação Prato ran from September 1977 to January 1978 and generated one of the most extensive official UAP investigation archives in Latin American history, running to hundreds of photographs and witness statements across multiple I COMAR detachments.
• The digitization credit to PortalBURN reflects that civilian Brazilian UFO researchers, not the FAB itself, were responsible for converting much of the Operação Prato corpus into accessible digital form after the formal 2009 release.