Operation Saucer at Colares: A Military Operation and Missing Photographs

In 1977, people on Colares Island and in the coastal villages of Pará, in northern Brazil, repeatedly saw bright objects flying low over their rooftops at night. They called the lights chupa-chupa, and some said a beam hit them and left burns, weakness, or fainting.

In 1977, people on Colares Island and in the coastal villages of Pará, in northern Brazil, repeatedly saw bright objects flying low over their rooftops at night. They called the lights chupa-chupa, and some said a beam hit them and left burns, weakness, or fainting.

In 1977, people on Colares Island and in the coastal villages of Pará, in northern Brazil, repeatedly saw bright objects flying low over their rooftops at night. They called the lights chupa-chupa, and some said a beam hit them and left burns, weakness, or fainting.

In 1977, people on Colares Island and in the coastal villages of Pará, in northern Brazil, repeatedly saw bright objects flying low over their rooftops at night. They called the lights chupa-chupa, and some said a beam hit them and left burns, weakness, or fainting.