Document · Government record · 1978 – 2010
Brazil's secret UFO register: the 1978 and 1989 orders, and the air-defence statistics
Brazil's Air Ministry kept a secret UFO register from 1978, with a commission rating each record. In 1989, three years after the Night of the UFOs, Minister Octávio Moreira Lima signed a secret order saying the evidence of certain inexplicable phenomena could no longer be ignored and must be recorded and analysed systematically, and moved the files to the air defence command. Its statistics count 614 cases from 1954 to 1999, 34 of them with radar, and 48 more from 2001 to 2005. In 2010 the Defence Ministry answered a deputy's request with 52 pages.
On the record
- Post-1986 radar entries: Guarulhos 13 Dec 1987; Americana 30 May 1989; Rio 21 Jul 1990; Brasília 15 and 18 Apr 1991; airway G-678 27 Apr 1991; Goiânia 31 May 1993; Salvador 23 May 1996; three crews (PT-WKZ, Varig, VASP) 8 Aug 1997.
Cases (7)
- 1958Trindade Island: Almiro Baraúna's photographs
- 1986Brazil's "Night of the UFOs"
- 1991Papuda, Brasília: police watched, CINDACTA tracked
- 1996Varginha: the "ET de Varginha" and the Army inquiry
- 2001Anápolis: a Mirage scrambled on a radar plot
- 2007Brazil's airliner 'phantom traffic' reports
- 2010An F-5M's radar paints a Mach 1.5 target
Connected
Sources
- Arquivo Nacional ARX.0.0.267: Aviso S-001/MIN (1989)
- Arquivo Nacional ARX.0.0.268: Aviso S-001/MIN (1989)
- Arquivo Nacional ARX.0.0.709: COMDABRA statistical summary (2000)
- Arquivo Nacional ARX.0.0.720: COMDABRA summary 2001–2005
- Câmara RIC 4.470/2009 (Chico Alencar)
- Defence Ministry answer Of. 4225/GM/Aspar-MD (2010)