Fort Itaipu sentries burned

Two sentries at the army's Itaipu coastal fort said that at about 2 a.m. an orange luminous disc came in low over the sea, stopped above them, and that they felt an intense wave of heat; the fort's electricity reportedly failed as other soldiers ran out. They were reportedly treated for first- and second-degree burns. The case reached the English-language literature through Olavo Fontes in the APRO Bulletin in 1959 and is listed among the physiological-effects cases in AAWSAP's 2010 paper (PURSUE DOW-UAP-D128). No Brazilian Army or Air Force file on it has been made public, so every detail comes from Fontes's account.

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• DocumentDOW-UAP-D128Release 6

  DOW-UAP-D128, AAWSAP DIRD, Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues, March 2010

  A clinical-medical/biophysics review, prepared under AAWSAP by an author identifying himself as the former Assistant National Intelligence Officer for Science and Technology who ran the INSCOM effort behind a 1998 declassified 'Bioeffects of Selected Nonlethal Weapons' study. It catalogs physiological injuries (burns, erythema, neurological and psychiatric symptoms) reportedly suffered by people exposed at close range to 'anomalous aerospace systems,' compares these to the known medical literature on RF/microwave/electromagnetic field injury, and argues the injury patterns can be used to 'reverse engineer' the energy characteristics of unknown craft. It explicitly excludes psychophysics, paranormal and abduction-related psychiatric phenomena from its main scope, but its appendices catalog UFO-related physiological effects (including 'apparent experience of telepathy' and 'claimed ESP development') and reproduce a classification scheme (the 'Vallee Ratings') that includes near-death experiences, OBEs, poltergeists and 'paranormal experience' as anomaly categories.

  Open the original on war.gov

• Wikipedia: UFO sightings in Brazilen.wikipedia.org
• Diário do Litoral on the Itaipu casediariodolitoral.com.br