What happened
Crew members saw a Saturn-shaped object, an ellipse with a ring around it, pass over the island's peaks. Baraúna took four photos with a Rolleiflex. Brazilian newspapers ran them on February 21, 1958, and the Navy said it could not explain the object. U.S. naval intelligence and Blue Book called the photos trick photography. A woman later said Baraúna told her the photos were a joke, and he had earlier written about how to fake UFO photos.