At an AAWSAP-related dinner with Lacatski, Stratton, Bigelow and Puthoff, Gen. Paulo Uchoa described Colares and told Elizondo the Brazilian government covered up the events

Record

Date

c. 2008

Claim or item

At an AAWSAP-related dinner with Lacatski, Stratton, Bigelow and Puthoff, Gen. Paulo Uchoa described Colares and told Elizondo the Brazilian government covered up the events

Evidence category

Memoir account of meeting

Firsthand?

Elizondo firsthand to the dinner; Uchoa secondhand on events

Publicly accessible?

Published book (ch. 2 pp. 13–15, 20–21)

Independent corroboration

None; original Uchoa statements not located

Assessment

Cover-up is an allegation, not demonstrated; dinner is context for AAWSAP research exchange, not proof of Colares claims

Notes

Source SRC-233. Chunk M search (2026-11-12): No file on this site mentions Colares, Carvalho, Uchoa or Pratt's tallies. Carvalho's only other published statement found is a 2005 interview in Revista UFO (Carlos Mendes; English reprint at ufology.patrickgross.org/htm/colareswc.htm): it describes light-beam symptoms and says the military made her understate them, but gives no burn or death count. No medical records found online. The one I COMAR register read in chunk G (archive item ARX 184: 130 forms, Sep 1977 to Nov 1978) records no deaths and few injuries, which cuts against the death counts. Uchoa's dinner remark has no record outside Imminent. Flag stays.

Linked case IDs

CASE-035