PROJECT 10073 RECO~D CARD l1i\> de J:mcri o , l azll I 3. o.-.n:..T:,c cr.cv; ! 4. TYPE or obst::~vATtoN 12. CONCI.U51CI S Wos Hollo " Probu~l y Bul lo~ll Po''' hly f\,..JilcOII Wo$ A~rcrch Probu~ly " i r c r oft PCJ~,r.,lAy "rrrtJh Wo'!> A!>horoo mi cu! P t oLo!Ji y A!.lto ncomic<ll Possibly A.trnnornicol 1. l.ENCT!1 Of C11HRVATI\JN S. N:.JIIGCR O F OOJECTS ' 9 . COUf{SE 10. BRIEF SUMM~P.Y OF SICHTIUG ll. COMMi:t~H Disc n!lapec1. ln-.uffic~tnt Dot o fo r (vcoluotio n for dct,ails. r epo1 ll . Photoo' shol/ oh~dowo on object "'hat do not appear ~rom "trees 1n print.. 'roo c noy to &~c rc:port Oric;ln~lly for c:s.ecli t lir:..e. YDJ3ULI!~X TiC 1 ci.5 PP JEDEN JED~JEPHQ 333 DE BEPIA 4 l\CltO!t lo ... M USJ\ IRA J1 10 DE JANER .dJ . Tf. JE N/C~ AIR DEFENSE CO~HAND ENT AFll COLO JtDtlP/CHIF;F ,AIR TECHN.t( J.. INTELLIGENCE CENTER URI( ~-PATTERSON AFil INFO/ JEPHQ/ DIRECTOR OF INTELLI,GENCE DCSI0 HQ USAF WASH DC AillAT 1~g4. A "FLYING DISC" IS REPORTED TO HAVE dEEN SEEN AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY T\110 REPRESENTIVES OF "O CRUZE!ROn HJ\GAZINE AT APPHOX 1830Z 16.3~ LOCAL 7 MAY 1952 AT PbSITION 2.5 DEGHEES 0! I1IN SOUTH 43 DEGREES 2\) NIN ~EST. PHOTOGRAPHS AND NZGATIVES HAVE tiEEN r INSPECTED AND APPEAR TO BE UNTOUCHED AND StiOW FAIRLY CLEAR A ROUND Fl.YING DISK THE OBJECT HAS REPORTED TO H:\VE BEEN IN VI'.1 FOr1 l\oOUT ONE NINUTE. IT APPROACHED FRON THE SC'llTHEAST I1AD::: A 180 D:::GREE TURN AND t~ENT OUT OF SIGHT TOHARD THE SEA.AT HHAT Hf\S DESCRIBED AS HIGH SPEED. FIVE PHOTOGHAPHS HERE TAKEN BY THE PAGE TWO OF dEPIA4 OBSERVERS COPIESSOF WHICH WILL BE FORWARDED IF THEY BECOME AVAILABLE THE OBJECT SHOWN IS A ROUND FLAT DISK Dl~1E~lSIONS AND DISTANCE NOT D~TERMINABLE BUT ESTIMATED TO BE APPROX 200 FEET IN DlAMETEn. THERE WAS NO EXHAUST TRAIL oa SOUND REPORTED 09/16~02 MAY BEPIA c:u~tiano. 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'II, t'-6 ea. 6 e 1 ndt,tl ef:J The Isle of Lovers 11 oax Some photographic h oaxes arc m ore cleverly executed. Iu May 1952, n f ew weeks after Ufc maga7.ine h ad ul anned the world with its article "Hnve \Vc Visitors from Outer Space?" [ 15], the Brazilian weekly picture magazine 0 Crttzciro publish ed startlingly clear photographs of an alleged fly ing saucer [16]. According to the accompanying story, a reporte r and a pl1otographer on the stnfi of t11c magazine on May 7 had visited Ilha dos Amorcs, an island not far from Rio d e Janeiro, to d o a feature nssignmt'nt. Late in tlw . FINAL GALLEY PROOF CaJJcy 78-TIIE \VORLD OF FLYING SAUCEHS afternoon, at a moment when tl1e photographer just happened to have his camera pointe d at the sky, the reporter sudde nly eallf'd his attt>ntion to a 1>assing UFO. D uring the minute or so th~ ohjec:t was in vie w h e obtained fiv<' p ictures whic:h, along with the re- porkr's eyewitness story, w ere released to the public: o n May 17 . If tl1c editors actually b elieved in the n alit)' of tlw sauccr, the ten day delay hfforc informing the world of its v isit is remarkable. The magazine has nc>\er admitteu that the photogra phs were a h oax, hut tlwy inspired doubt e-ve n in sympathetic: investiga tors [17]. Tl1e UFO appears in a dull sky above a mountain p eak. In the first pic-tnrc tl1c ohject looks like a je t plaue smroundld h y an ex- haust haze and, with a little imagin ation, mig