General Uchôa and the Alexânia lights
From 1968 a retired army general, Alfredo Moacyr Uchôa, led night watches on a farm near Alexânia, Goiás. He later said the group saw 'extraordinary phenomena' there 60 to 100 times.
1968 CE · -16.08, -48.51 · status: account
The account
Uchôa, who taught at the army's engineering school, moved to Brasília in 1968. His group's first sighting is usually dated 22 July 1968. Correio Braziliense reported months of lights over a farm about 25 km from Alexânia in March 1969, and said the Air Force closed off the area. Uchôa's book 'O Caso Alexânia' (1973) treats the case partly in Spiritist and parapsychological terms. He later organised the First International Congress of Ufology in Brasília in 1979.
The sceptical view
A medium, Wilson da Silva, was said to predict when the lights would appear, which points to expectation and suggestion. The farm owner's name and the dates differ between sources, and no physical evidence survives.