The Ubatuba Magnesium

The Ubatuba Magnesium

On 14 September 1957, by the account of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), a private group in Alamogordo, New Mexico, the columnist Ibrahim Sued of the Rio de Janeiro daily “O Globo” printed a reader’s letter: fishing near Ubatuba, the writer had seen a flying disk explode in flames and had picked up fragments “as light as paper”, a sample of which he enclosed. “The signature was not legible.” The only papers on the event in the Project Blue Book files are a Blue Book list that names it among “NOT CASES”, APRO’s bulletins of 1960, which report analyses in Brazil that found magnesium “of a high degree of purity”, and the correspondence of 1960 in which the Air Force asked APRO for a sample. No laboratory report and no analysis by the Air Force is in the files.

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