Project Blue Book file on the January 1958 Trindade Island photographs Project Blue Book, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Civilian photographer Almiro Barauna photographed an object over Trindade Island from the Brazilian Navy ship Almirante Saldanha, and Rio papers ran the photos in February 1958. A U.S. Naval Attache report and later Air Force correspondence judged the photos a hoax.