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07-17-1992
Taking on Water
The other vacuum case took place over
the Atlantic Ocean around six-thirty at night on July 17, 1992. Three shrimp
fishermen in a boat were about two miles out to sea off the coast near Iguape, forty-five miles southeast of Fortaleza in Ceará. It was dark and the men saw a bright light
approaching them on the horizon.
"It was so low they thought it
was a ship that was going to collide with them," said investigator Reginaldo Athayde, citing a
report submitted by Colonel Liberato Andrade, who
interviewed the fishermen. 1
They pulled their sail' down to slow
their boat to avoid a collision, but when the ship approached their boat they
realized it wasn't a ship. It was a UFO with a lot of lights on it. It was sucking water up into
it and passed slowly within twenty meters of the boat, but the
fishermen don't think the UFO saw them. It just went by them about six meters
above the water, sucking
up a column of water almost as wide as the UFO. The water didn't fall
back into the ocean. The UFO went past them and disappeared in the distance.”
Colonel Andrade may have seen the UFO
himself. He reported that the same evening he and three other people saw a
lighted object pass through the sky just off the coast near Andrade's house
on the Iguape beach.
1 Andrade, a military police official and a professor, is
a member of the Center for Ufological Research, the Fortaleza UFO
group that Athayde heads.
This reference: UFO Danger Zone, by Bob Pratt,
Published 1996, pp. 231-232
UFOCAT PRN – 129989
UFOCAT URN – 129989 UFO Danger
Zone, by Bob
Pratt, Published 1996, pp.
231-232
UFOCAT URN –
171430 *U* UFO Computer Database by Larry Hatch,
# 15768 © 2002
South
America – Brazil, Ceara
Iguape
Latitude 3-56 S, Longitude 38-16 W (D-M)
Fortaleza
Latitude 3-43 S, Longitude 38-30 W
Ceará Latitude 5-00 S, Longitude 40-00 W [State]
Reference:
Brazil Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the
Interior, Washington, D.C., January 1963
UFO Location (UFOCAT) Latitude
3.92 S, Longitude 38.25 W (D.%)
Latitude 4.13 S, Longitude 38.25 W [URN
171430]
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