Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Hospital staff watch oval object over the sea for two hours
At 2:00 a.m. on March 6, 1966, Ivan de Almeida and other medical staff at the Lourenço Jorge Municipal Hospital in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, watched an oval object with a bright red-orange light shining on the ocean below; after two hours it slowly climbed, dimmed and disappeared.
Background
At 2:00 a.m. on March 6, 1966, Ivan de Almeida and other medical staff at the Lourenço Jorge Municipal Hospital in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, watched an oval object with a bright red-orange light. The light shone on the ocean waters below. After two hours the object climbed slowly, dimmed and disappeared. The entry cites Olavo T. Fontes's report on the first Brazilian sightings of 1966 in the APRO Bulletin of March/April 1966. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.