Barra da Tijuca saucer photographs
- Date
- 7 May 1952
- Place
- Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Record
- Curated case
- Assessment
- Explained
- Evidence strength
What was reported
O Cruzeiro magazine photographer Ed Keffel, with reporter João Martins, said he took five photographs of a disc in about a minute over Barra da Tijuca; the magazine published them as proof of flying saucers. Donald Menzel and Lyle Boyd noted in 1963 that the disc is lit from the left while the hillside below is lit from the right. The Condon project (case 48) confirmed the inconsistency on its own enlargements and rejected Olavo Fontes's explanation of it, and treats the case as an example of 'incontrovertible' photographs with an internal contradiction.
What officials concluded
No conclusion stated
No official explanation has been given.
Strongest ordinary reading
Staged photographs: the shadows on the disc and on the landscape fall in opposite directions
Evidence profile
- No: Visual
- No: Infrared
- No: Radar
- No: Video
- Yes: Photo
- No: Film
- No: Audio
- No: Night vision
- No: Other sensor
- Yes: Civilian
- No: Military aircrew
- No: Military ground
- No: Airline crew
- No: Sensor operator
- No: Law enforcement
- No: Scientist
- No: Astronaut
- No: Intelligence official
- No: Other
- No: Light only
- No: Orb or sphere
- Yes: Disc
- No: Triangle
- No: Cylinder
- No: Cube
- No: Other shape
- No: Physiological
- No: Physical trace
- No: Electromagnetic
- No: Sound
- No: Silent
Outside sources
- Condon report case 48 (Project 1947 copy)mail.project1947.com
- Wikipedia: UFO sightings in Brazilen.wikipedia.org
On the map
23.00° S, 43.36° W, plotted at the town or city
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