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1995 called. They want their balloon back.

December 12, 2010Comments One comment

Looks like someone has dug up this old UFO video and reposted it on YouTube, sparking another round of debate whether the object in the video is a UFO or not.

The woman behind the camera is Shirley de Queiroz, who shot the video in the northern parts of São Paulo, Brazil in 1995. It was uploaded to YouTube in December 2007 and has been viewed almost 200.000 times.

So, are we seeing a UFO? Unfortunately, the evidence pointing to it being a hot air balloon is rather strong.


Brazilian sceptic Kentaro Mori over at forgetomori has a great write-up on the video, explaining why he believes the object to be a hot air balloon.

Around here it’s very obvious that it’s indeed a hot-air balloon, which was a real (and illegal) craze around the time. Groups of young men would join and create ever more complicated and elaborate balloons, trying to see who would make the best.

He also provides two images of hot air balloons that were being released in Brazil at the time.

He goes on to quote renowned Brazilian ufologist Claudeir Covo, who says about the video:

As an ufologist, I would very much like that this video was that of a UFO. But it isn’t.

Case closed.

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One comment

  1. And you really want to make us believe that those ballons shown up there can be mistook for brazilian spikey ufo?

    Great!

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