CENDOC Envelope 10 — 1978 FAB UFO Records (continued)

Brief

This envelope is the second of two CENDOC units covering 1978 and, at approximately 117 MB, is the largest discrete package in the FAB's declassified UFO holdings. Its contents span formal OANI sighting reports, material related to Operação Prato — the FAB's covert photographic mission to document UAP activity in the Pará region — and internal correspondence exchanged between air bases during the height of the Colares incident. The Colares wave produced hundreds of civilian accounts of aerial craft emitting focused beams that reportedly caused physical effects on witnesses, drawing sustained military attention. The PDF is scanned with no OCR layer; no page text is currently extractable for quotation or citation.

Metadata

Agency

Força Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacional

Release

1978-12-31

Type

PDF • .pdf

Length

195 pages

Programs

Operacao Prato, CENDOC

Tags

OANI, chupa-chupa, Colares, Operacao Prato, 1978, Brazil, Amazonia, physical-effects, mass-sighting

Key points

• Envelope 10 is the second 1978 CENDOC unit and the largest single envelope in the entire declassified FAB UFO corpus at approximately 117 MB.
• The envelope contains 1978 OANI (Objeto Aereo Nao Identificado) sighting reports — the FAB's formal designation for unidentified aerial phenomena during this period.
• Material described as Operação Prato-adjacent is present, placing this envelope at the intersection of the FAB's most significant covert UAP documentation effort and the broader Colares incident.
• Inter-base correspondence is included, indicating the Colares wave prompted active coordination across multiple FAB installations rather than isolated local reporting.
• The document is image-only; OCR has not run, meaning the full evidentiary content of sighting reports and correspondence remains inaccessible to text extraction at time of release.

Most interesting

• Operação Prato (Operation Saucer) ran from September to December 1978 under Captain Uyrangê Hollanda and produced approximately 500 photographs and 16mm film footage of UAP over the Colares region — material the FAB kept classified for nearly two decades.
• The chupa-chupa designation, coined by local Colares residents, described craft reported to emit beams of light that left burn marks, puncture wounds, and symptoms resembling radiation exposure on witnesses — making the Colares wave one of the few mass-sighting events with documented physical-effects claims.
• The Colares municipality sits on Marajó Island in the mouth of the Amazon, a remote geography that concentrated sightings away from major population centers and delayed national media coverage despite the wave's scale.
• The two-envelope split for 1978 alone — versus single envelopes for other years in the CENDOC series — signals that 1978 generated an unusually large volume of official UAP records, consistent with the Operação Prato deployment timeline.
• Captain Hollanda gave an extended on-camera interview in 1997 confirming the mission's findings and stating that FAB personnel had direct visual contact with the craft; he died by suicide weeks after the interview aired, adding a disputed biographical layer to the Operação Prato record.
• OANI was the FAB's operational term throughout this era, a direct translation of UFO that carried no epistemic loading — sighting reports using it were formal military documents, not informal civilian filings.