THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SPECTACLE NEVER SEEN BEFORE

UFO's – Unidentified Flying Objects . Here it is a

polemic subject get there! Divided opinions without a
common denominator, especially concerning the veracity and
their source. I will not dwell on details of these theories , it
certainly is not the object of my article. However, what I
report is something of which I was eye-witness. It was
interesting. Something unforgettable. It is a pity that this has
not been notified by the television channels of that season, at
least, a line in a newspaper or a specialized magazine in the
subject or not. Only people living in the countryside or
suburban chácaras had the privilege of, as I witnessed this
cosmic event. But what I conforta is knowing that hundreds
of thousands saw what I saw.

Everything happened overnight July 1966. I was

dining at home of my grandparents, in the light of a
querosene lamp, in the village of Missão Nova (New Mission, today, Vila Joaca Rolim), district of Missão
Velha (Old Mission), south of the State of Ceara, some 500km away from Fortaleza, about 420 meters above
sea level. Like all municipalities in the region, jammed in the Cariri Valley, the foothills of the Chapada do
Araripe (900 - 960m sea level). It was around 5:30 PM, preparing for the dusk. While I taked my dinner, was
attracted by a yelling of children and adults that would increasimg in number and degree of intensity. We
have already lasted some 15 minutes and wasst disturbed me and continued to the point of abandoning the
dinner than to see it. When I came to the terrace, outside, regretted not having left soon to hear the first cry.
What wonder! What spectacle! Hollywood could not reproduce the scene could see that - as in this picture,
coming from the south, on top of the Araripe Mountain, heading north, over our skies, hundreds of thousands
of celestial bólidos in mutant colors of intense brightness. Cool!
A desperation has taken the emotional of these people there - "It's the end of the world," they said.
It was people asking for forgiveness, others prayed and cried aloud. It was an inconvenience without
dimension. I was simply amazed front of rare natural spectacle. Or would be supernatural. Someone shouted:
"They are flying saucers. They will take us. What will become of us? Oh, my God!". At that time the radio
stations were playing the song DISCO VOADOR (Flying Sauacer), nowadays remixed by Sérgio Reis. I did
not believe that they were flying saucers. I have always been sceptical regarding this matter. I thought:
"There should be a logical explanation for all this happening. I will not rest until we find out." - I promised to
myself. Meanwhile, the sky bodies, fulfilled its path south to north. They filled all sky vault with those
movements of translation, a shy-gloss colors. After moving away from the Moutain they were disappearing
down to the horizon, to the north. Someone would say - "A show of stars shiny sliding on the sky." But for
me, it was more than that.
At March 1973, the press announced the discovery of the Koroutek comet and at the same time,
preparing the souls of people to wait and see without fear, that does not
happen to the emotional discontrol tha happened in the passage of Harley
comet. As at 1910 I read that some of the things that prior to passage of a
comet for land, is a rain of the meteor dusk, I cried out: "Eureka! So it was
it! Everything was stripped. " What we saw at July 1966 it was nothing
more than a rare spectacle that preceded the appearance of the comet
Tempel-Tuttle, a river of interplanetary dust, particles of debris left by the
star on its trajectory around the sun during certain hours, most of these
particles collides with the Earth's upper atmosphere at speeds of 71
kilometers per second. In the spring, the comet was very bright, its tail had a
quadrant of the sky vault; remembered a white straw of coconut tree. Its
nucleus, on the horizon, looked twice the size larger than the sun, but its
appearance near the sunrise, starting at 5:30 AM, reaching the maximum
brightness of six, when the sun rising and roubbed its the scene with its
shiny and strong light. Those were undoubtedly the most beautiful shows I
have seen in all my life.