The Trindade Island UFO Photographs, 1958: Brazil’s Saturn-Shaped Mystery

Aerial view of Trindade Island in the South Atlantic, showing the rocky green coastline and a Brazilian Navy ship offshore — the island where the 1958 photographs were taken, not the object itself

About 6 min readOn 16 January 1958, a photographer aboard a Brazilian Navy ship took six pictures of a ringed disc sweeping past a remote Atlantic island. The Navy declared them genuine, the President released them — and the argument over the four surviving frames has never stopped.