Case file · Sighting
Sobradinho 'saucer' that was a radiosonde
In 1977 residents of Sobradinho, a satellite town of Brasília, reported an object over the town. Crowds then visited the house where it had come down: it was an RS 21 weather radiosonde.
1977 CE · -15.65, -47.79 · status: explained
The account
The episode came during the 1977 wave of reports around Brasília, the same year as the Asa Sul photographs. A Correio Braziliense caption of 18 August 1977 shows the crowd at the house.