Dr. Wellaide Cecim Carvalho's reported treatment of burn patients (about 35–40; two deaths reported to Pratt)

Record

Date / period

1977; interviews 1980s–1993

Reported event / document

Dr. Wellaide Cecim Carvalho's reported treatment of burn patients (about 35–40; two deaths reported to Pratt)

Evidence type

Physician recollection via researcher interviews and memoir

Original data accessible?

No: no clinical charts or patient identities

Verification status

Reported; counts vary by date; causation not established

Competing explanations / missing data

Differential diagnoses, examination methods and lab values missing; later 80-person figure disputed by Pratt

Next step

Seek full Carvalho interviews and original medical records. Chunk M search (2026-11-12): No file on this site mentions Colares, Carvalho, Uchoa or Pratt's tallies. Carvalho's only other published statement found is a 2005 interview in Revista UFO (Carlos Mendes; English reprint at ufology.patrickgross.org/htm/colareswc.htm): it describes light-beam symptoms and says the military made her understate them, but gives no burn or death count. No medical records found online. The one I COMAR register read in chunk G (archive item ARX 184: 130 forms, Sep 1977 to Nov 1978) records no deaths and few injuries, which cuts against the death counts. Uchoa's dinner remark has no record outside Imminent. Flag stays.

Source ID

SRC-V99-050; SRC-V99-051; SRC-233