Burning on Fort Itaipu Sentinels

The Burning on Forte Itaipu Sentinels UFO Incident took place on November 4, 1957, on the Itaipu Fort, in the city of Praia Grande, São Paulo, Brazil.
The incident
At 2:00am, two sentinels of the fort noticed an intense brightness in the sky, described by the them as a 30-meter wide circular UFO, descending at high speed towards the fort. At about 300 m (1000 feet) above the fort, it stopped.
The UFO then started to emit a strong humming, and an intense heat wave hit the sentinels, even though there wasn't any visible flame or light. The sentinels were overcome and their clothes caught fire. Both were armed with sub machine guns, but they didn't shoot the UFO, nor did they raise the alarm. One of them fainted; the other took cover under a cannon. Their screams alerted the other troops, and the power went out. The fort's entire electrical service was affected: the lights, the electronics which controlled the gun turrets and elevators, and the communications system. The emergency circuits were switched on, but they failed as well.
A minute later, the lights and power came back on and the heat wave ceased. The soldiers ran to their stations, and some were able to see the UFO climbing vertically and then moving away from the fort at a rapid rate.
In 2008, a document reporting the incident was written at the Brazilian Embassy in the United States.

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