Sources: waterufo.net / APRO Bulletin
web.archive.org/web/20160811081444/http://www.waterufo.net/item.php?id=340
https://www.openminds.tv/pdf/apro/apro_mar_1966.pdf
On March 16, at 5:45 p.m., a white object, ovoid in shape, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean close to the Cagarras Island, after a violent explosion which caused, alarm and fear among the people who watched from the Arpoador beach its rapid fall to the sea. An emergency call mobilized the Air Force Life Saving Service (SAR) and the Guanabara State Coast Guard (CMS). Several patrol boats from the CMS and two SAR helicopters searched the area until 7:15 p.m., but nothing was found.
The CMS sailor Sergio Jorge Carvalho and the sentinel at the Copacabana Fortress witnessed the fall and explosion. They reported that the object had a white contrail and that a smaller parachute-like object was dropped from it just a few seconds before the crash. Other witnesses affirmed that more than one parachute-like object had been sighted. The CMS released the information that “at 5:45 p.m., a communication from the SAR reported the fall of a “strange object” in the area of the Cagarras Island. Four patrol boats were sent to search the place and nothing was found.”
A crowd of several thousand people remained for several hours at the Arpoador beach, watching the search and discussing the events. The Cagarras is a small, deserted rocky island a few miles to the west of Rio de Janeiro, Just in front of the well-known Copacabana and Ipanema beaches. It was visited three days later by an expedition that made a complete search, but again nothing was found.
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