AudioBlog: PART 2: A Brazilian UFO Hotspot and a General

In last week’s blog, we profiled General Alfredo Moacyr Uchoa, who
became a UFO investigator after retiring from his over 30-year
career in the Brazilian Army. While he spent most of his career at
the Military Academy of Brazil where he was a professor of
engineering mechanics, head of the math department, and deputy
director, he’d had an interest in the paranormal and the esoteric
since the age of 18. After his retirement in 1963, he moved to
Brasilia in 1968, and his son, Paulo, told him about a plantation
owned by Wilson da Silva 120 km to the southwest where regular UFO
activity was reported. Uchoa put together a group of 7 people,
including his son, and they began visiting the plantation
repeatedly starting in March. Bob Pratt was able to interview Uchoa
and wrote an article headlined “The UFO reports of Brazilian
General Alfredo Moacyr Uchoa” which can be found in the online
magazine Alternate Perceptions. Gordon Creighton wrote a 3-part
series of articles based on information he got from a 9-part series
of articles by Eduardo Santa Maria that appeared in the Rio de
Janeiro paper O Dia from October 26, to November 4, 1972.
Creighton’s articles were published in the Flying Saucer Review
Case Histories Supplements 12, 15, and 16, December 1972, June and
August 1973 respectively. When we left off, we were telling the
story of the investigation as told by Creighton. Read more