L. A. L. DA SILVA
Department of Physics, Center for Exact and Technological Sciences, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Av. Unisinos, 950, 93022-000 São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil Association for Uncommon Phenomena Investigations, AIFI, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil leitao@unisinos.br
Submitted: 10/17/2013, Accepted 10/23/2013, Published 1/31/2014
Abstract—The February 8, 1982, sighting of an unidentified aerial phenomenon by crew and passengers in the VASP-169 flight over Brazil had significant media repercussions at the time and is still referred to today by several UFO publications. In this paper we reinvestigate the occurrence in depth and suggest that the “object” was indeed the planet Venus, possibly distorted by an atmospheric mirage effect. An almost simultaneously occurring but lesser-known secondary case is also commented upon.
Keywords: UFOs—VASP 169 Brazilian case—planet Venus—mirages
Unidentified_Aerial_Phenomena_The_VASP-169_Flight_.pdf
