My name is
Bob Pratt and this is my personal web page. I was once actually paid to
chase down UFO reports but found the subject so fascinating that for more than twenty
years I have dug into my own pocket to do it. I created this page partly
as something to do now that I am retired, and partly because I have many
stories in my files that few have ever seen.
Some of them date back to my early days of
research in the United States and several other countries. Most of those
written in the past twenty years tell about incidents in Brazil, a place
of extraordinary UFO activity.
The beginning of an adventure. The horsemen are
(from left) Daniel Centeno, Omar Forti and Army Lt. Jorge Antequera. I am
on foot. We were in Bolivia beginning a hike deep into the Andes to look
into reports that a UFO had crashed. See 'You DIDN'T Get the Story!'
below.
For more than
fifty years, Brazil has been one of the world's top UFO hot spots. Tens of
thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of encounters have taken place.
A small but significant number of them have been harmful, causing injuries
and even deaths. What happened to some victims is recounted in this book,
which was published by Horus House Press in 1996. Brief summaries of a few
of these encounters are told in "Brazil's Dangerous UFOs" below. Some
incidents, which are described below, occurred in 1977 and 1978 in an
extraordinary UFO flap that has never been fully investigated.