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Trindade Island UFO Photographs

DATE16 Jan 1958
LOCAL TIME12:15 PM
LOCATIONTrindade Island, Brazil
COORDINATES20.58°S, 29.29°W

Photographer Almiro Barauna aboard the Brazilian Navy ship Almirante Saldanha captured four photographs of a Saturn-shaped object near Trindade Island. Approximately 47 of the 300 people aboard reported seeing the object. The Brazilian Navy and President Kubitschek authenticated the photographs.

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