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From: paulo h andrade <pha0801@ibm.net>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 19:11:58 -0300
Fwd Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 18:24:37 -0400
Subject: UFO crash in Mato Grosso, Brazil - Update

Hi List.

Errol, I'd like to add only a remark about the terminology   used :

   I've been using the terms "UFO" and "UFO crash" regarding this event
because it is not known yet what it is.  Of course what crashed there may
be anything else different from an alien ship or an alien device.  Although
usually several people refer to an alien ship as a "UFO", I'm using the
term with its original and exact meaning : Unidentified Flying Object,
which means only something we don't know yet and that could be almost
anything (even a weather balloon).  Besides, it's the term used in the
original report.

   I present below an update of the reports.  You'll see that there are
some details that might encourage one to investigate the case, and also
other details that might disencourage one.  Some parts are a little
confusing.

   It is also noteworthy that the brazilian national media didn't broadcast
yet any report on the subject.  So far, it is only the local media that is
reporting the happenings - and it seems that the local reporters are still
now performing literally a hunt over the apparently inaccessible object.

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UFO CRASH AT NOVA BRASILANDIA, MATO GROSSO, BRAZIL, ON JULY 1st, 1997 - UPDATE

   The mail below was sent by Ataide Neto, President of AMPUP, to Pedro
Cunha (pplfilho@nutecnet.com.br), brazilian ufologist who lives in
Brasilia.  Pedro Cunha forwarded it to the Internet on July 15 th, 1997.

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" AMPUP -
State of Mato Grosso Association for Ufological and Parapsychological
Research -

   The reported fact is real, it's only a matter of time, because the fact
happened.  However, it can't be affirmed what it is about.  The conclusion
of such happenings will lie between the distrust of some and the certainty
of others.

   According to information from the population of the Nova Brasilandia
county, the comments are evident.

   The object that crashed at Nova Brasilandia is attracting several people
to the region, and the county is suddenly gaining national fame, thanks to
a product that has nothing to do with the land.

   Nova Brasilandia is located 260 km away from Cuiaba' and is about 200 km
from Chapada dos Guimaraes, a region full of sierras and by coincidence
close to the surroundings of Serra do Roncador, which is the place that
receives anually hundreds of tourists searching for UFOs and that is home
of a legendary cavern that links subterraneously Brazil to Machu-Picchu
[the famous archeological site and mystical city in Peru].

   There is not sureness about the veracity of this information [legendary
cavern], however the clues collected induce one to presume the facts are
undeniable.

   People got knowledge and many witnessed the event of July 1st, 1997.

   The residents of Nova Brasilandia affirm the unidentified flying object
(UFO) has passed ripping the skies over that county.  According to the
locals, the object was an enormous ball of fire that illuminated the
region, leading them to suspect that the UFO has crashed in some point
within the rural area of the county.

   The crash - according to the population - would has happened around 8:00
PM of a weekend, and the story told about the happenings doesn't
contradicts it, that is to say : a huge ball of fire that passed over the
houses and went towards the sierras; after two to four seconds, it is heard
an earsplitting din (like if it was something exploding), that could be
heard in a radius of 160 km; and due to the impact the land shaked, and
soon after that a gleam appeared and it lasted for about one minute -
according to them - and this gleam turned the sky into day.  Even people
accommodated in their homes, had to go outdoors to see the reason of this
strange gleam.

   The AMPUP team has been at the place for investigations and researches,
and with the results obtained we conclude that the object IS about 100 to
200 kilometres from the city of Nova Brasilandia, next to Serra Azul [Blue
Sierra], at that outskirts.

   We didn't find it yet, because the place is of difficult access.
However, we've fighted and are fighting untiringly, day and night, to reach
the object.  The AMPUP team has been at Nova Brasilandia in the night of
July 7 to July 8th, and only returned because of a multiplicity of problems
:  the gas was finishing, the food was ending, the road wasn't in good
condition, some people started to feel bad...  Thus, on July 8th, the AMPUP
team returned to Cuiaba', but my anxiety was so big that I (Ataide Ferreira
S. Neto) came back again to Nova Brasilandia, and I have made several and
mysterious findings.

   Before returning, I was receiving several phone calls to clear up what
really would has happened, because the TV and the press wanted to interview
me regarding what the AMPUP team would has obtained.  After one of the
interviews, the Gazeta TV Network group invited me to return to the site.
It was July 9th, and so we went there again.

   Arriving at Nova Brasilandia, we had to look for Mr. Santinho, this
because when he was fishing, he saw the object falling some kilometres far
from where he was.  When we arrived at his house, we didn't find him, so we
decided to talk to the Nova Brasilandia's Mayor, Mr. Sergio Benetti, who
informed us of a reliable person who would know the place where would has
fallen the object.  We would have then to walk about 80 kilometres to find
him, a person called Manito.

   Before continuing, it must be said that the press - through many
testimonies from people of Nova Brasilandia - believed that the UFO would
have fallen at Mr. Divino Fogoio's ranch, about 70 km far from the county.
The press has reached this conclusion because Mr. Fogoio spreaded the
information, about 10 days ago, that he had sighted a weird object in his
property.

   Nevertheless, his reputation in the city is that of a great liar, and
the distrust on his story increased when he affirmed he would has seen the
object falling at his ranch but wasn't able to say where.  Soon before, he
had affirmed he knew where the object was, however in front of the press he
stated the opposite, so we've decided to check the Manito's story out,
'cause the Mayor affirmed he was a reliable person.

   When we reached Manito's farm, it was night already, he wasn't there, we
kept waiting his arrival, and by 8,00 PM he came back, and his story was
the following :

   "My brother-in-law, Heleno, knows where is the "stuff", he has
approximated himself about 200 meters to that odd "stuff", he didn't get
close to the object only because of its very strong stink.  He says (the
brother-in-law) that the stuff is the size of a van, the color is SILVERY,
and that part of it is above the ground level and the other part is buried.
 He told me it had a ROUND shape."

   Manito gave us the address of the ranch where the object was crashed
close to this farm.  And it's interesting to affirm that this farm (named
Campina Verde) is located at the back side of Mr. Divino Fogoio's ranch.
However, it's not so easy, because of the extension of the farm, the farms
there are not small, to be more precise they are immense and this makes the
object searches difficult.

   We waited at the manager Manito's farm, and by 5,00 AM [July 10th, 1997]
we went towards his brother-in-law Heleno, we reached our destiny by 7,00
AM.  He told us the following :

   "I don't know where is this stuff, I didn't see anything, I don't know
anything, I didn't hear anything".

   This information led me to a distrust because his affirmations weren't
convincing, it seemed that he wanted to say something more, something he
couldn't say before the camcorder of the Gazeta TV Network.

   After that, we had to start it over from the very beginning, we didn't
know what to do, we knew that something crashed, because the people from
the city saw the ball of fire, and the din was so big that there wouldn't
be anyone in that region affirming that he/she didn't hear it, and the
gleam was seen by almost everybody in the region, for about a minute.

   That being so, would it be possible that Heleno wouldn't has seen
anything ?  The cattlemen said the object crashed around that place, but
where ?

   They affirmed that Heleno knew, but he denied this info to us.  So we
searched for others, for something, for somebody, we didn't know from where
to start over until the moment we got knowledge that other reporters were
closeby, to be precise at the Ferrao de Ouro farm, 40 kilometers away from
the farm where we were.  And it was through these reporters that the
information were getting hotter.

   The farm Ferrao de Ouro is the only place that presents a landing lane
for planes in the region, and these reporters who are from the paper
"Correio de Mato Grosso" were in a plane, flying over the whole area, but
nothing was found.

   However, at that site, one of the reporters has obtained the following
information : some of the people from that region have witnessed and
affirmed they have seen Mr. Divino Fogoio with a piece of a strange object,
and that he would come to Cuiaba' with the purpose of selling it.

   At the farm "Ferrao de Ouro", the press personnel searched for the
cowboy Gilberto Braga, 26 years-old, who works at the farm "Bela Vista",
because he affirmed on July 08th to the paper "Gazeta" that he saw and
touched the object.  According to his statement, the object has the shape
of a home basin and the size of a small house.  According to him, he
touched the object, and it exhaled a bad smell, and it was located inside
Divino Fogoio's farm.

   I stayed at the farm Ferrao de Ouro while the Gazeta TV Network crew and
the Correio de Mato Grosso team joined to each other and went towards
Gilberto.  After some hours, they returned and brought newness.  Gilberto
Braga that day (July 10th) before the press denied the happenings, in other
words, previously he had affirmed he saw the object, now he denies, however
in the filmed report he appeared almost crying wanting to say something
more.

   When he finished the recording of his testimony before the camera, he
turned back to Luiz Henrique (the Gazeta TV cameraman) and said :  "from
today to tomorrow, you'll know what happened".

   This phrase became disturbing to us.  It seemed like there was something
at the site, and he couldn't talk.

   Explaning another interesting point : according to information, Mr.
Divino Fogoio is a smart and very dangerous individual in the region,
everybody fears him.  Mr. Fogoio and his son are violent, because they are
killers.

   The information I got from the press, are that Fogoio would has been
arrested for having kidnapped, during five days, the former Mayor of Nova
Brasilandia, who has been threatened and tied all the time.

   However, Fogoio payed the bail and has been freed after two weeks.  This
makes me believe he is dangerous and therefore people hide something
because they fear him.

   It could be possible that Fogoio would has threatened those folks not to
say a word about it, and thus let him take financial advantage from that
object.

   We have found ahead more people who saw Fogoio with a piece of the
object, and [who said] that he would be going to Cuiaba', to sell it.

   WE HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THE OBJECT IS THERE, at those surroundings,
because everybody in the region confirms it.

   With the results obtained from the investigation, we reached the
conclusion that Mr. Fogoio managed to find the object (whether within or
without his farm), and that he wanted to take advantage of the situation.

   I've walked all over the region, and all that I got was the same thing :
"I didn't see, but I hear someone saying that JohnDoe saw and touched" ;
"Fogoio is with the stuff there at his farm" ; "I saw Fogoio with a piece
of the object" ; "What JohnDoe told me is that the object is the size of a
Volkswagen [Fusca model], the size of a van, of a small house, ..." .  And
so on, and we didn't find anybody who could take us to the site.

   On Monday, July 7th, the Gazeta team has been at Fogoio's farm, but I
believe they committed a mistake : they attended the place together with
the Fire Department and the Police, because being him a person with bad
reputation it is possible that he became afraid of the Police, and that
they would take what he had of value.

   The information, as mentioned above, made me believe that Fogoio wanted
to take advantage of the situation, what harms us all.

   From the farm Ferrao de Ouro, I took a lift in the plane, and we flied
over the region searching for the object, until around 5,00 PM,
unsuccessfully.

   Then I was obliged to return home, because I was concerned, I hadn't
informed my family where I was.   I had been out for a long time, the
eagerness was so high that led me to this.  Therefore I returned at the
nighfall of Thursday, July 10th.

   Yet, the Gazeta team stayed, and later on I was informed that the SBT
[Sistema Brasileiro de Televisao, or Brazilian Television System] has also
attended the region together with another TV crew, that is to say, the
media were taking over the region, and by insistence they can soon or later
find something.

   I have the expectancy that more information will come from the Gazeta
and the Correio de Mato Grosso crews.

   The last information are the following : the reporter Calixto, from the
paper Correio de Mato Grosso, who was with me at the place, went to the
INPE - National Institute for Space Research [Note from T.: this is at Sao
Jose' dos Campos, state of Sao Paulo] - to obtain a picture of that region
through the brazilian satellite, and this way managing to locate the crash
site.  Each 6 hours the satellite tracks an area of 180 km [over the region].

   Any other information I'll make contact immediately.

   Ataide F.S. Neto
   President of AMPUP. "

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Fascinating, ain't it ?

I believe that in the worst hypothesis, it's a false alarm (e.g.something
other than alien), but what if it's not ?

Best Regards,

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