In an exclusive interview with researcher Edison Boaventura, Corporal Rabelo details the night a police patrol car chased an unidentified flying object in the city of Cláudio and reports the confiscation of evidence by military officials. The silence hanging over one of the most intriguing UFO cases in the interior of the state of Minas Gerais has finally been broken. Researcher and ufologist Edison Boaventura interviewed Corporal Rabelo, an officer from the 3rd Platoon of the Cláudio Police Station, who decided to go public to recount the stunning events witnessed by him and his team during a night patrol. city of Claudio - Minas Gerais, Brazil The case, which combines a police chase, panicked civilian witnesses, and a mysterious intervention by higher authorities, definitely puts the city of Cláudio on the Brazilian ufology map. The Occurrence Rabelo (left), Boaventura (right) According to Rabelo's account, it all started on a November night, around 9:40 PM, when the police operations room received an atypical call. The request reported a vehicle stopped in the middle of the brush, with headlights on, near the entrance of a place known as "Sobrado." Rabelo and three other officers deployed in an L200 patrol car to investigate the situation. Upon arrival, what they found defied logic. It wasn't an abandoned car, but rather a large-scale object hovering over the terrain. illustrative art at video "The object was shaped like a minibus, a small minibus. It was at a height of like 1 meter, 2 meters from the ground. It was floating like that... in reality, I didn't know if it was on the ground because it was very bright," Corporal Rabelo described to the researcher. The officer reports that the object rose silently, without making sharp maneuvers and without emitting any noise, gaining altitude and moving towards the city's airfield. The Chase and Panicked Witnesses The team decided to follow the object, initially considering it might be a weather balloon or even a prank with drones, although the technology at the time made the latter hypothesis unlikely given the artifact's size. During the pursuit, the officers encountered a civilian in shock. A friend of the police officer, who was driving a Passat, had swerved his car into an embankment upon encountering the phenomenon. Regy marques, witness Rabelo recalls the witness's account of the UFO's appearance: "It was just light, it looked like fire inside... it was orange, red, yellow, that thing kept moving. But it seemed like the fire was contained, you know? It looked like a lampshade. The light didn't expand; it stayed concentrated in the center." The Confiscation of Evidence One of the most tense moments of the account involves the photographic record of the incident. Corporal Rabelo states that he managed to take three photos of the object with his Cyber-shot digital camera at the moment the UFO hovered and performed circular movements. However, the evidence did not remain in his possession for long. The next morning, after ending his shift and going home, Rabelo was surprised by an official visit. "A jeep with Air Force characteristics... there was a sergeant and two other uniformed soldiers," says Rabelo. According to the officer, the sergeant requested the camera, removed the memory card, and walked over to the official vehicle. Upon returning, he handed back the empty card. "When the Air Force handed the card back, there was nothing left on it. They wiped everything. I must have had about 50, 60 photos on the card... they handed the card back clean, squeaky clean," the Corporal laments. https://preview.redd.it/hibk92kknxdg1.png?width=718&format=png&auto=webp&s=482cfc8cf8db27c6bcacd2b068ca0b3a9902d054 The explanation given by the military for the phenomenon was promptly rejected by Rabelo. They claimed it was a "natural combustion of gases." The Corporal's response was direct: "I said: 'No, I saw what I saw, it wasn't gas. Gas doesn't move around, it doesn't go up, it doesn't go down, it doesn't make circular movements.' I know what I saw. I saw a flying minibus." A History of Phenomena During the interview, Rabelo also revealed that this was not his only contact with the unexplained in the region. He cited an event that occurred in 1996, when a police cruiser suffered a total electrical failure ("blacked out") upon approaching a large luminous sphere that pulsed near the Nossa Senhora Aparecida Church. Rabelo For researcher Edison Boaventura, Rabelo's testimony is a key piece in assembling the puzzle of UFO incidents in Cláudio. The officer ends the interview by reinforcing the truthfulness of his experience and the importance of losing the fear of ridicule: "I have no reason to lie about what I saw... Other people must have had the same experience I did, they just don't have the courage to speak up." submitted by /u/VelhoPunk [link] [comments]