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Official UFO Night in Brazil

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Wikipedia page about the incident (machine translated). It remains unexplained to this day.

https://pt-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Noite_dos_disco...

Interesting.

Reminded me of the movie. Cow boys vs aliens. Apparently that movie was inspired by journals and newspaper articles from the cowboy era talking about these things on the sky and their bullets would bounce off.

Wow, those would be cool to read. So many things seem to happen when there are few people or no people around, I’ve wondered what it was like when everything was rural. Did pesky poltergeists kick over campfires? Or did they float around in the dark making noises to mess with people?

I was trying to find the site. There was a news site that pushed some new paper clippings of about 3 different stories from 1700-1800.

Who knows that they really saw but it was interesting because I remember they called them air ships and they were shinny and their bullets would bounce off and it would go faster than their horses.

I bet if we saw the same thing today we could explain it. But back then seeing anything you didn’t know about could be scary. Kinda like flying over the Amazon jungle and the tribes firing their bows at this random thing flying past.

This is cool, South American countries have always been more accepting of paranormal phenomena, none of the light of Venus reflecting off swamp gas type explanations we get here https://youtu.be/e1K5Y1ZOZw8

My mother once told me of the time she attended a UFO convention and met some lady in the audience that spent a couple hours telling her how the aliens would beam her up from her bedroom into their spacecraft and do stuff to her or talk to her. It stood out to her because it was over ten years prior to Star Trek airing so the whole “beaming up” idea of traveling in light through solid objects to other places wasn’t in the public psyche. Years later when Star Trek aired she was like “wow, this is like what that lady described all those years ago”.

Gene Roddenberry supposedly had UFO experiences of his own and there is speculation that many of the concepts from the show were based on those experiences - warp drive and everybody getting along at least, I think we can safely blame “Spock’s Brain” on bad writing.

Brazil's Varginha incident is a must for anyone interested in aliens and UFOs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varginha_UFO_incident

The 'Tic Tac' is another interesting and unexplained UFO sighting:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/tic-tac-ufo-video-q-...

The commanding officer in this indicent, David Fravor, who saw the objects first-hand did a podcast episode with Lex Fridman:

https://lexfridman.com/david-fravor/

I’ve been wondering if the whole Chinese Weather Balloon saga from last week was just to set the foundation for the tic-tacs being some worldwide network of spy balloons.

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