Operação Prato
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Nov 9, 2026
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And the reports eventually attracted the attention of the Brazilian military authorities.
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The Brazilian Air Force launched an investigation called Operation Saucer.
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Military personnel were sent into the region to document the reports and observe the alleged phenomenon.
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The investigation collected testimony and produced reports concerning the activity.
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Over time, Operation Saucer became one of the most famous military UFO investigations in Brazilian history.
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And there's one particularly disturbing aspect of the Colores story.
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The reports weren't limited to distant objects moving through the sky.
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And suddenly, the investigation had to deal with something far more complicated than aircraft identification.
Matt TonesHOST
For years, these subjects have existed largely as separate stories.
Matt TonesHOST
the government UFO program, Bigelow Aerospace, Skinwalker Ranch, Brazil's Operation Saucer, the Nimitz Encounter, and claims about recovered technology.
Matt TonesHOST
But the documents released in Pursue Release 7 reveal how these investigations were connected inside one contractor's research effort.
Matt TonesHOST
And they raise a question that deserves a serious answer.
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Matt TonesHOST
Others reported burns, illnesses, and frightening encounters.
Matt TonesHOST
The events became associated with the term Chapa Chapa.
Matt TonesHOST
The Brazilian Air Force conducted an investigation that became known as Operation Saucer.
Matt TonesHOST
This is a case we've previously examined on UFO to UAP Explained, but Release 7 adds a different perspective.
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They died the way Zhao died.
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The Brazilian military launched an investigation, Operation Saucer, 1977-1978, specifically to examine these cases and their possible connection to unidentified aerial phenomena.
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The investigation closed without a public conclusion.
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No official connection to extraterrestrial activity was confirmed.
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They died the same way Joao died.
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From the inside out, the tissue dissolving without visible surface burns, with no explanation that fit any known cause.
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The Brazilian military launched Operation Saucer between 1977 and 1978.
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Investigators documented the cases, collected testimonies, interviewed survivors, and witnesses.
Stephen DienerHOST
Thank you for having me.
Stephen DienerHOST
You're going to hear about 1977, Operation Saucer.
Stephen DienerHOST
You're going to hear about an occurrence in 1986, May of 1986, so exactly 40 years ago from now almost.
Stephen DienerHOST
They call it the Night of the UFOs.
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Rony VernetGUEST
And right now, all the military decided to speak about it because the report was released.
Rony VernetGUEST
But any military wanted to to to speak about that, afraid for for his career, afraid to not be promoted, all the things we we we know.
Rony VernetGUEST
But now all this military decided to come forward, at least seven military, including a lieutenant commander, which is also something unprecedented because the last commander and the only one commander that came forward to talk about Close Encounters was Willem G. Hollander from the Operation Saucer in 1997.
Rony VernetGUEST
So and right after that, he committed suicide.
Rony VernetGUEST
Because in Brazil, we know a lot of stories that the phenomena could be negative.
Rony VernetGUEST
And we have many incidents here with thousands of people, for example, Operation Prato, Operation Saucer, where people were really hurt about the phenomena.
Rony VernetGUEST
Will the government disclose that? Because I think if the government disclosed this part, would be very problematic.
Rony VernetGUEST
How to deal with that? Saying for people that we have the phenomena, we cannot protect you.
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Aaron StanleyHOST
Cause I know you went and did, you went and found this like indigenous tribe that had been apparently this tribe had been getting like assaulted or like attacked by the phenomena and they they like report went to the government like asking for help like we're getting like attacked by these by these things and um but maybe tell us a bit more about about that and and how how you got involved in like what what some of the the that process was like and what happened there
Rony VernetGUEST
Yeah, we have a long history about the phenomena attacking people in the Amazon area in many states of Brazil, because Amazon Forest in Brazil covers many, many states, a huge area.
Rony VernetGUEST
And in 1978, we had the Operation Prato, called Operation Saucer in English, where many mayors of cities asked for help from the Brazilian Air Force because luminous phenomena, crafts, all this type of phenomena were... attacking people and they were sending a light beam to the people burning people causing some holes in the in the skin of people and taking blood of these people and it was confirmed by medical exams and in some people have many many gallons i i many, many liters and maybe a gallon that was sucked from the people.
Rony VernetGUEST
So it was not a sample of blood.