585: Operation Prato | Alien Vampires of the Amazon

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

Science, Life Sciences, Fiction, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science Fiction

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In 1977, a remote Brazilian island experienced something unprecedented: systematic attacks on humans by unidentified flying objects. Victims reported glowing ceilings, beams of light, and blood extraction while paralyzed in their beds.

The Brazilian Air Force responded with Operation Prato (Operation Saucer), documenting hundreds of cases and gathering photographic evidence of unknown craft. Captain Uyrangê Hollanda led the investigation, eventually capturing images of objects hidden within the lights.

After decades of silence, Hollanda finally revealed what his team discovered, including his own terrifying encounter with the beings behind the attacks. Just weeks after his interview, he was found dead in his apartment.

The Colares incident remains one of the most well-documented UFO cases in history, raising uncomfortable questions about how governments handle first contact and why some files remain classified.

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0:56.0	In the late 1970s, all across South America, farmers were finding their animals mutilated.
1:02.0	The wounds were precise.
1:05.0	Surgical cuts, puncture holes, and burns.
1:07.0	Major organs were missing.
1:09.0	The bodies were drained of blood. Something was terrorizing
1:13.6	the continent. But on a remote Brazilian island called Kalades, the pattern changed.
1:20.6	Three things made the Kalades animal attacks unique. One, there were witnesses. Two, there were
1:26.6	pictures. And three, the animals were people.
1:33.8	Dr. Wilié Carvalho stared at the burns on her patient's chest. Perfect circles, burned tissue.
1:44.9	Inside each circle, puncture marks grouped together like needle holes.
1:49.5	After six months as Collade's only doctor, Carvalho knew what to expect on an island of 2,000 people.
1:55.2	Farming accidents, fishing injuries, colds.
1:58.1	Animal bites were the most exotic cases she'd treated.
2:02.7	She wasn't prepared for any of this.
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