AudioBlog: A General and a UFO Hotspot in Brazil

by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer
Investigators.”Brazilian UFOlogy goes back a long time. One of the
first UFOlogists there to come to international attention was Dr.
Olavo Fontes, who wrote regular reports in the late 1950s and into
the 60s for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization that were
published in the APRO Bulletin. Fontes wrote the first report on
the 1957 Antonio Villas Boas abduction case. He sent it to APRO,
and it remained unpublished by that organization until 1966. Two
years later, in 1968, a retired General from the Brazilian Army,
Alfredo Moacyr Uchoa, got involved in his first case, and it
brought him to international attention as well. Read more