Marc Cecotti and Keith Basterfield
In our last article about BAASS and Brazil, we revealed that a team of
four investigators came to Fortaleza and Sobral, in the Ceará region, to meet local
UFO research groups; collect information, and records.
Since that last article, Jãnder Tôrres, a member of CSPU in Sobral,
Ceará reached out to Marc Cecotti. His testimony and the evidence he supplied
give us a valuable insight, about the objectives and interest, of BAASS in
Brazil and South America.
A meeting in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil
Asked how BAASS reached out to CSPU, a member of the group previously
told us: “A friend received a call from these people and they just asked to
attend one of our monthly meetings and they wanted to know if we already had
any information about the UFO propulsion system.”
Shortly before our last article was published, Jãnder Tôrres contacted
Marc Cecotti to offer additional information. Tôrres is a 45-year old college
professor and researcher with a PhD in Public Health. He has always been
interested in the UFO phenomenon, and mysteries, and has been a member of CSPU
for more than 20 years.
He recalls that the group had been informed that a team of Americans
were coming to Sobral to attend the CSPU monthly meeting. The team was composed
of Melissa Godoy, Loran Huffman, Lucas Gornichec and Timothy Koonce. They
introduced themselves as member of Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Systems.
Huffman said he was a former Federal Agent.
BAASS investigators at CSPU monthly meeting, May 2009.
Credit : Hélio Loyola
“They came here, and they asked questions about the [UFO] propulsion
systems. The only thing they really wanted to know was about the propulsion
systems.” Jãnder Tôrres recalls. “At that time, Sobral and the Ceará region had
a lot of UFO sightings cases and we wrote a lot of case files about those
sightings. We talked and told them about all those cases, about the sightings
reports and witness testimonies. At that time, we had about 12 to 13 cases at
that time in the area. But once again, they really wanted to know about the
propulsion systems. The reports we had were of UFOs close to watery area,
lakes, rivers.”
After the meeting, a short video interview was recorded. Then, CSPU and
BAASS went to a local restaurant for dinner. They didn’t say anything about their
next destination.
Exchanging emails
In the following months, an online correspondence started between Jãnder
Tôrres and Melissa Godoy. His recollection is that a total of 4 or 5 emails
were exchanged over a couple of months. Each email is shown as two images, which means there is some duplication in words shown.
Here is the English translation:
“Hey, Jander,
Thanks for the compliment! I
confess I had help, but I am learning more and more Portuguese by corresponding
with you. Your English is impressive. Next time, we'll write in Spanish.
1. I think it's interesting
that you're holding the National Seminar. Besides Dr Choy, you're going to
invite but someone? What did you mean by "join recourse"? When will
this happen? Please send me news of your progress.
2. Have you thought about
taking an x-ray of the boy? This might be cheaper than an MRI, maybe more
limited, but it's enough to figure out an implant chip. You can do the
expensive tests after the CSPU has conditions.
3. That's a very interesting
case. Right now we're very interested in any case, new or historic, that has
physical evidence. (like spacecraft fragments) Any information of this nature
would be of great help to us.
4. Do you have any knowledge
of Operation Prato? We are doing our own research and any information
(witnesses, documents, etc.) that you can give us would be very useful for us.
Jander, don't worry your
English is very good! Please say hello to Jacinto and everyone at the CSPU for
us! I told Tim and Loran about your Jiu-Jitsu training, and your desire to
watch "spider" silva. Let us know when you intend to visit! I'd like
to take a little walk with you. A hug from all of us!
Talk to you soon!”
Then, another email. Jãnder’s replies to the initial mail are in red,
and new comments by Godoy in black. There is some confusion in numbering in the original email.
Hi,
Jander,
Same
with you, always a pleasure! I share your philosophy of languages because for
me it has always been a very important subject, where you always learn
something. But let me tell you that your Spanish is also impressive!
1. Today, Friday, 28/08/2009, we have a CSPU meeting, where we are going
to make a strategy plan for the seminar. "Join recourse" means that
we still do not have financial resources, "money", but there is an
idea to ask for support from institutions. Other information, only after
today's meeting.
Please
let me know if there are any new developments in relation to this seminar. Any
information about this event interests me. When will this event take place?
Where? Who will be invited?
2. In all honesty, it wasn't something we thought. I'm going to talk to
Jacinto and the group about the idea of making an X-Ray.
Well,
there's only one thing to consider if you're afraid to look into it.
4. We are also interested in cases like this. With physical evidence, we
have only one case in Mulungu, which I had already spoken about, but without
any fragility, only plants that were burned.
Well,
these seem to be the most difficult cases to find, even if it is a region with
that big UFO flap. Let me know the results when you conduct your investigation.
This case gives me a lot of information about the case of Itatira at the
beginning of this year.
5. Every good Brazilian ufologist has to know about Operation Prato,
with Colonel Urangê. In 2003, I was in Rio de Janeiro, where I was doing my
post-graduation, and was introduced to a man who spoke that I claim to have
known Colonel Urange, shortly before his death, who some say was a murderer,
not a suicide. He said that the Colonel had concrete evidence of the existence
of ships, such as photos and videos, but they were all from the Brazilian army.
A lot of other things this case has. I have access to documents and if you are
interested I can send you a DVD.
How
do you know who the people were in Rio de Janeiro? Yes, I would very much like
to receive any information you can send me about this case, especially if you
have the contact information of any of the military who were involved in this
case. You can send the dvd to the following address:
ATTN : Melissa Godoy
BAASS
4640 S. Eastern Avenue
Las Vegas, NV 89119.
Messages to Argentina and Australia
In December 2019, Andrea Simondini from Vision OVNI, a UFO research
group based in Victoria, Argentina, had reached out to Keith Basterfield to
offer new information. "I don't remember the year, but on behalf of BAASS
we contacted our team, Mrs Melissa Godoy. She wanted that from Argentina, we
would inform about objects falling from the sky, cases of UAPs and power plants
and nuclear power plants.
In return we were offered to train our researchers and finance the work. After that, he never communicated again and we received an email from BAASS that she now longer worked. I think it was in that year."
In return we were offered to train our researchers and finance the work. After that, he never communicated again and we received an email from BAASS that she now longer worked. I think it was in that year."
Marc Cecotti contacted Andrea Simondini a few weeks ago regarding this email.
Andrea explained “[…] The one [email] we received was for presentation first,
that is, it was Bigelow and what they did.
They asked us about a particular case that we had investigated in the
province of Salta, the "Anta Case".
After that, when I explained to them about the case and our team and
investigations, they sent us another email, it was always Melisa Godoy, who
offered us to train our investigators, finance investigations, analyzes and
research instruments.”
Australian researcher Bill Chalker recently posted a blog about the email
he received from BAASS’s Colm Kelleher in March 2010. Kelleher was requesting
information about UFO research in Australia, especially access to public
databases and copies of case files. He also mentioned “Finally we would love to
hear of any cases in Australia or China that have physical evidence (including
trace evidence) associated with them.”
The tale of the 38 DIRDs
Thanks to the great work of many researchers, BAASS interest in UFOs is
now indisputable. It is obvious that this organization, sponsored by the DIA,
was after any kind of information it could obtain. The MUFON-BAASS contract was
only a part of a much wider effort to find witnesses and documents, but also
physical evidence like “spacecraft fragments” or even “implants”. In some
cases, financial support and training were offered to UFO research groups. Despite
an official statement by the DIA that “all products produced under the AATIP
contract” were the 38 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents, our recent
investigation proves with undeniable evidence that the sole contractor for the
22-million dollars AAWSAP/AATIP program was definitely doing more than
subcontracting technical reports. We will provide additional evidence in our
next article.
