Case: GG-2026-136
Status: Historic
Documentation rating: A
Location: Colares and surrounding coastal communities, Pará
The Colares UFO Wave was a mass sighting and encounter flap that occurred in Pará, Brazil, during 1977 and into 1978. Residents of Colares and neighboring communities reported recurring luminous aerial objects, locally called "Chupa-Chupa," which were allegedly associated with beams of light, burns, weakness, and other physiological effects. The scale of the reports prompted the Brazilian Air Force to launch Operation Saucer (Operação Prato), one of the largest official UFO investigations ever conducted in South America. The operation generated photographs, reports, witness interviews, and mil…
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