Operação Prato: Brazil's Bizarre UFO Investigation

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

From 1977 to 1978 the Brazilian Air Force investigated a series of alleged UFO sightings, with multiple witnesses, in and around a city called Colares, located in northern Brazil. The official investigation closed without concluding anything unusual was afoot -- but that may actually be where the real story begins. Tune in to learn more about the strange claims, the oddly specific commonalities between witness accounts... and the mysterious events that haunted the investigators, inspiring them to continue their own investigation after the official operation was shut down.

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0:30.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:37.0	You can turn back now, or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
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0:54.0	Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt.
0:57.0	My name is Noel. They call me Ben. We're joined as always with our super producer Paul Mission Control second.
1:04.0	Most importantly, you are you, you are here, and that makes this stuff they don't want you to know.
1:12.0	This is a strange one, guys. This is one that's been sitting in our great collection of episodes we wanted to do one day,
1:20.0	but weren't sure how to how to address, right? And so now years later, we are finally doing an episode on something called Operation Proto,
1:30.0	or Operation Saucer, or Operation Plate, or Operation Dish. The translations are interesting.
1:37.0	It turns out, you know, any longtime listener will know this. Millions of people were recently astonished to learn that the US government has been studying UFOs,
1:48.0	or unidentified aerial phenomena, as they call it, for much longer than it once publicly claimed.
1:55.0	And all these revelations from the sleek footage, the statements, former and current government officials,
2:01.0	all the details of these investigative programs have come to light partially.
2:06.0	And it sounds like stuff that you would associate with an episode of the latter half of the ex files when they got super deep into conspiracies.
2:16.0	But there's a problem with this narrative, even as all this information is being disclosed, and we are going to use the D word pretty often here today.
2:25.0	The problem is this. A lot of the UFO stories that we see reported nowadays tend to be somewhat myopically restricted to Canada and the United States, you know, the Shack Harbor incident.
2:38.0	We covered that one earlier. The Roswell crash, aka the Wild Weather Balloon, and so on. These are just stories that got caught in the zeitgeist.
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