In spite of this modest disclaimer, some of the photographic evidence clearly suggested fraud, and a strong difference of opinion developed among government officials. Some accepted the pictures as a genuine record of a flying saucer; others pronounced them fakes. For several weeks the incident was kept secret, but when eventually someone took the prints to the President of Brazil, further concealment became impossible. Yielding to the persuasion of certain military advisers and newsmen, and against the advice of the Naval Ministry, he released the pictures to the press.
PLATE V
a. Pinched lightning, August 1961. This is believed to be the first photograph of a pinched lightning discharge. ([CHAP. IX])
PLATE V
b. Ball lightning, Lincoln, Nebraska, August 30, 1930. ([CHAP. IX])
PLATE VI
a. Trindade Island UFO, January 1958. ([CHAP. X])