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2025 · Yawanawá territory, Acre, Brazil, near the Peru border; sensor station about 20 minutes' walk from the village

Lights of the samaúma: Vernet's station with the Yawanawá in Acre (Brazil, 2025)

Sourced, unconfirmed
Strength C · 5/10 · 1 independent
Evidence 2/4 · Witnesses 2/3 · Backing 1/3

A named firsthand engineer with instruments and video, two youths present at the closest event and about 20 village witnesses on video; the sensor data is not yet released.

Plausibility Moderate
Score 10 · 9 factors for, 0 against

A named engineer, on site with instruments, reports objects his drone camera could not record, a paralysed boy and a 1.6 GHz signal, with villagers describing the same lights; the raw data is promised but not yet out.

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Unexplained
Yawanawá territory, Acre: orange orbs pass west over the canopy near the samaúma tree and Rony Vernet's sensor station. · Illustration for uaptrail.com
  • A named engineer with a sensor station reports orbs, a sphere invisible to his drone camera, a paralysed boy, electronics failures and a 1.6 GHz signal.
  • About 20 Yawanawá describe the same lights; the raw data is promised, not yet published.
When2025 (several nights; exact dates not given on air)
WhereYawanawá territory, Acre, Brazil, near the Peru border; sensor station about 20 minutes' walk from the village
Backing1 independent
Evidencesensor data

Brazilian electronics engineer Rony Vernet, founder of UAP Brazil, spent several nights in 2025 with the Yawanawá people in Acre near the Peru border and built a sensor station 20 minutes' walk from the village. He says orange orbs came and went at treetop height toward the west, a red-orange sphere hovered within metres of him and two youths yet did not show on his drone camera from 1-2 m away, a luminous fog formed a hand pointing west while a boy was paralysed for a minute and electronics failed, and he logged a 1.6 GHz signal. About 20 Yawanawá describe the same lights coming and going toward the samaúma, their sacred tree. The station now streams to Rio over Starlink, and he plans to publish the data.

Evidence, in date order (1)

  1. 2025Rony Vernetsensor data
    drone and zoom-camera video, a 1.6 GHz radio reading and about 20 video interviews with Yawanawá witnesses; data to be published

How plausible · Moderate

A named engineer, on site with instruments, reports objects his drone camera could not record, a paralysed boy and a 1.6 GHz signal, with villagers describing the same lights; the raw data is promised but not yet out.

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    Access He was there, metres from the sphere, with his own instruments.
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    Cost of speaking Named and on national TV with a professional reputation as an engineer.
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    No gain sought Part-funded by Coulthart's NHI Research Institute; modest gain.
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    Restraint Says his other sensors were not yet logging; promises data rather than conclusions.
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    Character record UFRJ-trained engineer at Petrobras; co-author of the 2025 UAP assessment matrix paper.
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    Independent convergence Two youths were with him at the sphere and about 20 villagers describe similar lights, but none is named on air.

Plausibility weighs how well an account fits where secrecy hides the documents by design, so missing records never count against it. Strength measures what is documented. Assessed 2026-10-27.

Claims

Orange and yellow orbs about 1-2 m across appeared at treetop height between about 6:30 and 8 pm, blinking strongly, and always went in and out of the forest in one direction, west.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedRony Vernet (electronics and computer engineer, UAP Brazil)
A red-orange sphere hovered less than 1 m off the ground about 5 m behind him and two Yawanawá youths on a ladder, then left; within 15 seconds he had his DJI drone up and parked it 1-2 m from the object, which he and the boys saw plainly but which did not appear on the drone camera at all.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedRony Vernet (electronics and computer engineer, UAP Brazil)
A dense, white, luminous 'fog' formed a hand-like shape pointing west; a boy watching through binoculars was paralysed for about a minute ('I feel inflated'), while phones failed, flashlights drained and lights flickered.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedRony Vernet (electronics and computer engineer, UAP Brazil)
During the event he picked up a 1.6 GHz signal, the band reported at Skinwalker Ranch; his other sensors were not yet logging.thread/skinwalkerfirsthandSourced, unconfirmedRony Vernet (electronics and computer engineer, UAP Brazil)
On zoom, two discs or spheres appeared inside a pulsing orange light.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedRony Vernet (electronics and computer engineer, UAP Brazil)
On another night one camera, the one with the best view, switched off for exactly the minute an object passed below it.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedRony Vernet (electronics and computer engineer, UAP Brazil)

Connected cases

Light beams over Ashaninka villages: the Acre files (Brazil, 2014-2016) 2014Colares and Operação Prato: the FAB's Pará sightings file 1977MUAS 2018

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