Fort Itaipu UFO Incident

Good evening. My name is Carlos, and I'm calling from Santos, here in Brazil. I was stationed at Fort Itaipu back in November of 1957. I was doing my military service, you know, just a regular soldier. What happened that night, I've carried it with me for decades now. So this was November 4th, 1957. Early morning, around 2 AM. I was on guard duty that night with another soldier, a guy named Roberto. We were manning one of the watchtowers. Fort Itaipu sits right on the coast, overlooks the Atlantic. Beautiful spot during the day, but at night it gets dark. Real dark. Just the sound of waves and maybe some lights from São Vicente in the distance. Roberto and I, we were talking to stay awake. You know how it is on night watch. Nothing ever happens, so you just talk about whatever. Football, girls back home, that kind of thing. The air was warm, humid like it always is near the ocean.

Around 2 AM, Roberto stopped mid-sentence. He was looking out toward the ocean, and his face, I'll never forget it. He went pale. He just pointed and said, 'What is that?' I turned and looked where he was pointing. At first I thought maybe it was a ship's light, but it was moving wrong. Too smooth. It was this orange glow, coming in from over the water. Not like a plane, not like a helicopter. It was silent. Completely silent. Just this orange light getting bigger, getting closer. We both just stood there watching it. I mean, what else do you do? It kept coming toward the fort, and as it got closer I could see it wasn't just a light. It had a shape. Round, like a disc. The orange glow was coming from the whole thing, pulsating a little bit. And I'm telling you, there was no sound at all. Nothing. Roberto grabbed the field phone to call the main barracks. His hands were shaking. I kept my eyes on the thing. It was maybe 300 meters away now, hovering right over the water. Just sitting there in the air. The orange light was so bright it lit up the whole area around our tower.

Then it moved. Fast. One second it was out over the water, the next second it was right above us. Right above the fort. I'm talking maybe 50 meters up, directly overhead. The whole area lit up orange, like someone turned on a massive floodlight. I could feel heat coming off it. Real heat, like when you stand too close to a fire. That's when everything went wrong. The lights in the fort, they started flickering. Then they went out completely. All of them. The whole base went dark except for that orange glow from above. Roberto was yelling into the field phone but I don't think it was working anymore. The radio we had, it was just making this high-pitched whining sound. I looked up at the thing. It was huge. Maybe 30 meters across, circular, and that orange light was pulsing faster now. I could see some kind of markings or panels on the bottom, darker sections against the orange glow. And the heat, it kept getting stronger. I was sweating, and not just from being scared. The air felt electric, you know? Like right before a lightning storm. Other soldiers were coming out of the barracks now. I could hear shouting, people running. Some of them were pointing up at it. during encounters are documented - Uma' One of the officers was trying to get the backup generator going.