Sitting in his control tower, Sergio Mota spotted a light on the horizon but there were no planes scheduled to land at that time.
Before long it was joined by other mysterious objects he said were traveling at speeds of up to 10,000mph – it was the start of the infamous "Night of the UFOs".
Mota witnessed the scrambling of fighter jets to intercept the objects - and even managed to establish some semblance of communication with them as he flashed his runway lights.
He appeared to be able to elicit responses from objects, which suggests to him whatever the shapes in the sky were they were "intelligent".
Over several hours, hundreds of witnesses, including the elite of the Brazil’s military, saw strange objects that seemed to move at a terrifying speed.
Pilots found themselves looking at objects in front of them that didn’t appear on their aircraft radars.
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