Brazilian UFO Magazine's consultant witnesses the transportation of
a strange disk-shaped object in the Brazilian state of Bahia
On Saturday, November 25th, Brazilian UFO Magazine's editor A. J.
Gevaerd received a call from Bahia with an intriguing story. The
caller was Francisco Baqueiro, a psychologist and therapist,
magazine's consultant in abductions, who said to have photographed
with his cell phone a strange and perfectly disk-shaped flying
object being carried by a non-identified truck in a road in the
Brazilian state of Bahia. The picture was taken on Tuesday, November
21st, at 07:16 AM.
Baqueiro said he heard of the transportation one day before when an
informer from an intelligence service called him telling an unknown
artifact crashed and was recovered in an area in Bahia known as
Recôncavo Baiano, south of the capital Salvador. The informer also
told the object was to be carried from that place to the city of
Feira de Santana, nearly 110km from Salvador, through the BR-324, a
two-lane road with heavy traffic linking Salvador to that
municipality. Despite the fact that Baqueiro was severely ill with
kidney disease, he decided to check what happened.
That Tuesday 21st, shortly after 06:30 AM, the consultant and his
wife spotted the truck carrying the object and followed after them.
The vehicle stopped at Posto Phoenix, a gas station along that road,
60km far from Salvador and near the entrance to municipalities of
Maracangalha and São Félix. Baqueiro pursued the truck for 15
minutes and reported that it was escorted by four Federal Police
cars - two ahead and two behind - which delayed the traffic in the
road.
"I tried to enter the gas station in order to better check what was
going on, but was prevented by the federal agents", states the
therapist. He also says the truck was very slow in the way and the
object on it was so large that the vehicle had to go on at the
center of the road. Even though, parts of that fuselage exceeded the
truck and touched the trees at the side of the road. "That was
certainly too heavy to make a truck to go so slow".
Despite the strangeness of that scene, the object was uncovered and
totally exposed. "Even with so many cars coming on the opposite way
(going to Salvador) and the other ones behind the truck, very few
people seemed to care about that scene", Baqueiro says. After the
Federal Police prevented him from entering, he stopped for a few
moments near Posto Phoenix and, pretending to be talking on the
phone, he took a single shot of the object. "I didn't try others
because I didn't want to catch their attention".
Baqueiro sent the picture to the Brazilian UFO Magazine via cell
phone, where it was uploaded into a computer and enlarged. Editor
Gevaerd and co-editors Marco Petit, Rafael Cury and Claudeir Covo,
along with the magazine consultants Fernando Ramalho, Wallacy Albino
and Wendell Stein have preliminarily examined the photo. All were
surprised by the image. One of magazine's co-editors and one of its
consultants were skeptical and related that image to a similar one
found on the Internet some months before. But a careful comparison
showed that the object photographed in Bahia is a totally different
thing (below). As for the previous picture, nothing came out and
there is no information concerning verification of its authenticity.
Francisco Baqueiro - a consultant for the Brazilian UFO magazine for
three years - is specialized in alien abductions and continues his
search for more information on the fact. Following his editor's
advice, he returned to that gas station two more times, but
employees seemed to be afraid of talking about the issue. Now
Baqueiro tries to find out exactly where the supposed crash might
have happened and where the object was taken to. "All I know is the
crash was in a sugar cane plantation, but the object was nearly
intact".
The region is home to oil refineries, but Baqueiro denies the
possibility of confusing a lid for water or fuel tanks with a
possible UFO. After having worked for Petrobras, the main oil
company in Brazil, he is sure to know such parts very well and they
never reach the size of the object seen on the truck. He also
rejects the possibility of the object being an attraction from a
theme park, since he also knows much of the engineering of one of
the largest parks in Bahia.
Right after the controversy reached the Internet, several UFO
researchers suggested that the disk-shaped object could be a cover
for some liquid container that couldn't be transported assembled,
and had to be taken in parts. That, according to a few
investigators, would explain why the object was being transported in
broad day light with no camouflage or at least some cover on top of
it. Nuclear engineer Luiz Carlos C. Pires sent an e-mail positively
identifying the disk-shaped object as a cover for a factionary
distillation machine, but the discussion is still open. And
information is giving to overseas colleagues as to obtain further
info that could explain the case.
Report by: A. J. Gevaerd --- Translation: Eduardo Rado
a strange disk-shaped object in the Brazilian state of Bahia
On Saturday, November 25th, Brazilian UFO Magazine's editor A. J.
Gevaerd received a call from Bahia with an intriguing story. The
caller was Francisco Baqueiro, a psychologist and therapist,
magazine's consultant in abductions, who said to have photographed
with his cell phone a strange and perfectly disk-shaped flying
object being carried by a non-identified truck in a road in the
Brazilian state of Bahia. The picture was taken on Tuesday, November
21st, at 07:16 AM.
Baqueiro said he heard of the transportation one day before when an
informer from an intelligence service called him telling an unknown
artifact crashed and was recovered in an area in Bahia known as
Recôncavo Baiano, south of the capital Salvador. The informer also
told the object was to be carried from that place to the city of
Feira de Santana, nearly 110km from Salvador, through the BR-324, a
two-lane road with heavy traffic linking Salvador to that
municipality. Despite the fact that Baqueiro was severely ill with
kidney disease, he decided to check what happened.
That Tuesday 21st, shortly after 06:30 AM, the consultant and his
wife spotted the truck carrying the object and followed after them.
The vehicle stopped at Posto Phoenix, a gas station along that road,
60km far from Salvador and near the entrance to municipalities of
Maracangalha and São Félix. Baqueiro pursued the truck for 15
minutes and reported that it was escorted by four Federal Police
cars - two ahead and two behind - which delayed the traffic in the
road.
"I tried to enter the gas station in order to better check what was
going on, but was prevented by the federal agents", states the
therapist. He also says the truck was very slow in the way and the
object on it was so large that the vehicle had to go on at the
center of the road. Even though, parts of that fuselage exceeded the
truck and touched the trees at the side of the road. "That was
certainly too heavy to make a truck to go so slow".
Despite the strangeness of that scene, the object was uncovered and
totally exposed. "Even with so many cars coming on the opposite way
(going to Salvador) and the other ones behind the truck, very few
people seemed to care about that scene", Baqueiro says. After the
Federal Police prevented him from entering, he stopped for a few
moments near Posto Phoenix and, pretending to be talking on the
phone, he took a single shot of the object. "I didn't try others
because I didn't want to catch their attention".
Baqueiro sent the picture to the Brazilian UFO Magazine via cell
phone, where it was uploaded into a computer and enlarged. Editor
Gevaerd and co-editors Marco Petit, Rafael Cury and Claudeir Covo,
along with the magazine consultants Fernando Ramalho, Wallacy Albino
and Wendell Stein have preliminarily examined the photo. All were
surprised by the image. One of magazine's co-editors and one of its
consultants were skeptical and related that image to a similar one
found on the Internet some months before. But a careful comparison
showed that the object photographed in Bahia is a totally different
thing (below). As for the previous picture, nothing came out and
there is no information concerning verification of its authenticity.
Francisco Baqueiro - a consultant for the Brazilian UFO magazine for
three years - is specialized in alien abductions and continues his
search for more information on the fact. Following his editor's
advice, he returned to that gas station two more times, but
employees seemed to be afraid of talking about the issue. Now
Baqueiro tries to find out exactly where the supposed crash might
have happened and where the object was taken to. "All I know is the
crash was in a sugar cane plantation, but the object was nearly
intact".
The region is home to oil refineries, but Baqueiro denies the
possibility of confusing a lid for water or fuel tanks with a
possible UFO. After having worked for Petrobras, the main oil
company in Brazil, he is sure to know such parts very well and they
never reach the size of the object seen on the truck. He also
rejects the possibility of the object being an attraction from a
theme park, since he also knows much of the engineering of one of
the largest parks in Bahia.
Right after the controversy reached the Internet, several UFO
researchers suggested that the disk-shaped object could be a cover
for some liquid container that couldn't be transported assembled,
and had to be taken in parts. That, according to a few
investigators, would explain why the object was being transported in
broad day light with no camouflage or at least some cover on top of
it. Nuclear engineer Luiz Carlos C. Pires sent an e-mail positively
identifying the disk-shaped object as a cover for a factionary
distillation machine, but the discussion is still open. And
information is giving to overseas colleagues as to obtain further
info that could explain the case.
Report by: A. J. Gevaerd --- Translation: Eduardo Rado
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