Case · UFO Afrinews No 8, Sept. 1993
Brazilian Air Force ping-pong lights (comparison case)
1986 ยท Brazilian airspace near Air Force bases, Brazil
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
On 19 May 1986 Brigadier General Octavio Moreira Lima reported that six Brazilian Air Force fighters were scrambled after numerous unidentified radar returns; Colonel Osirus Silva of Petrobras, landing in a plane flown by Alcir Pereira around 9 p.m., was warned of three strong red lights on his route that shifted position rapidly. Jets went up at 10 p.m. and made visual contact; pilots chased the lights and were chased in turn. Captain Freitas counted as many as thirteen luminous ping-pong-like balls around his Mirage III, in groups of six and seven on either side, following at two miles. A technical commission was set up with no time limit, but no report is known to have been released. Hind reprints the account from MUFON UAP Journal 223 to compare with the Bromley farmer's bouncing lights.
What Hind made of it
Printed as a foreign parallel to the Bromley sighting; Hind notes no commission report has ever been released.
In their words
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One pilot, Capt. Freitas, had as many as 13 luminous 'ping-pong' type balls surrounding his Mirage III.
Cross references
- Case No 71 Bromley
- MUFON UAP Journal No 223 Nov 1986
- O Globo Rio de Janeiro
- CINDACTA