Listagem 4º Recolhimento ARX — FAB UFO Transfer Index

Brief

Inventário 01/2010, certified 13 May 2010, lists the contents of sealed envelopes transferred to Brazil's national aerospace archive (ARX) under Portaria 551/GC3 of 2010. The records span civilian witness questionnaires originally classified Confidencial and now reclassified Ostensivo, covering incidents from 1990 through at least 1994 and drawn from cities including Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brasília, Manaus, Belém, Porto Velho, and Curitiba. Notable entries include a personal letter from singer Roberto Carlos to Brigadier Ronald Eduardo Jaeckel (March 1991), formal OVNI information requests from the University of Brasília's paranormal studies unit (CEAM/NEFP/GEU), and files relating to the 'Caso Papuda' — a Brasília-area incident that generated press coverage and an official weather-balloon explanation from the Aeronautics Ministry.

Metadata

Agency

Força Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacional

Release

2014-01-01

Type

PDF • .pdf

Length

68 pages

Classification

OSTENSIVO (constituent records formerly CONFIDENCIAL)

Programs

NuCOMDABRA, CINDACTA I, CINDACTA II, CODA, COMGEP, Portaria 551/GC3, Inventário 01/2010, ARX, CEAM/NEFP/GEU

Tags

OVNI/UFO, Brazil, 1990s, Caso Papuda, Brasília, Belém, Manaus, NuCOMDABRA, CINDACTA, civilian questionnaire, ATC recording, Portaria 551/GC3

Key points

• The inventory was formally certified on 13 May 2010 and covers 'Ocorrências de Tráfego Hotel' — the FAB procedural codename for UFO/OVNI incidents — from the 1990s decade, transferred under Portaria 551/GC3 of 2010.p.1
• All constituent records originally marked Confidencial have been re-designated Ostensivo (fully public) prior to transfer, with the reclassification status noted individually in each entry throughout the catalog.p.1
• VARIG, Brazil's flag carrier and IATA member, responded in February 1990 to a NuCOMDABRA inquiry (Ofício 097/CMDO/C-201, December 1989), establishing active airline-military coordination on OVNI reporting at the start of the decade.p.1
• Singer Roberto Carlos wrote a personal letter to Brigadier Ronald Eduardo Jaeckel, Commander of NuCOMDABRA, dated 18 March 1991, about a UAP sighting; the file also contains NuCOMDABRA's formal reply signed by Major Aviador Mardem José de Andrade.p.6
• The University of Brasília's CEAM/NEFP submitted two official requests (Ofício NEFP.GEU/002/91 and NEFP.GEU/003/91, 26 April 1991) for military OVNI data, generating a response chain involving CINDACTA I Commander Colonel Sérgio Candiota da Silva and Brigadier Jaeckel at NuCOMDABRA.p.8
• The 'Caso Papuda' file (July 1992 UnB/NEFP report) bundles three press clippings, an official Aeronautics Ministry press clarification dated 15 April 1991, a NuCOMDABRA official response, and a document attributed to a weather balloon — the publicly stated explanation — all archived together.p.13
• A transcript of recorded ATC communications (No. 05/APPBE, 7 May 1991) from the Belém Regional Flight Protection Service is listed as an annex, indicating at least one incident that year generated preserved radio-frequency evidence.p.9
• Named air-traffic control NCOs from CINDACTA I and II appear throughout as the military receivers of civilian questionnaires across multiple Brazilian cities, documenting a standardized nationwide intake pipeline for public OVNI reports.p.3

Verbatim

• Aos treze dias do mês de maio do ano de dois mil e dez, declaro existir o seguinte conteúdo nos envelopes, relativos às Ocorrências de Tráfego Hotel na década de 90, anexados ao 3o Despacho n° 149/5EM/1908, de 08 de fevereiro de 2010, do COMGEP, conforme abaixo relacionados:

  p.1

• Carta, em resposta a enviada pelo Sr. Cláudio Tshyoshi Suenaga, assinada pelo Brigadeiro do Ar Ronald Eduardo Jaeckel - Comandante do NuCOMDABRA.

  p.4

• Transcrição de Relatório do serviço de permanência ao - ocorrência. CODA de 17 para 18 de julho de 1991.

  p.7

• Universidade de Brasília, assinada pela professora Helena R. de Minas - Coordenadora

  p.8

• Et's voltam a sobrevoar Brasília

  p.13

• Oficial confirma aparecimento de OVNIS

  p.13

• CINDACTA dá sua versão sobre o OVNI da Papuda

  p.13

Most interesting

• Roberto Carlos — one of Brazil's most famous pop stars — is catalogued alongside ordinary civilian witnesses, his personal UAP letter processed through the same standardized military system and filed under the same 'Objeto Voador não identificado — OVNI' subject heading.
• The FAB used the phrase 'Ocorrências de Tráfego Hotel' as an internal procedural code for UFO/OVNI events, suggesting these incidents were integrated into standard air-traffic management protocols rather than handled by a wholly separate channel.
• Brazil's academic establishment formally engaged with the military on UAP data: UnB's multi-disciplinary studies center ran a dedicated UFO study group (GEU) that submitted official correspondence reaching Brigadier-level command.
• The Caso Papuda file bundles a public weather-balloon denial alongside classified witness questionnaires and university research notes in the same archival envelope — a documented split-track response pattern.
• The inventory covers only the 1990s decade; other recolhimentos under Portaria 551/GC3 of 2010 presumably cover other decades, implying a substantially larger body of FAB OVNI records scheduled for staged transfer to the national archive.
• At least one 1991 incident in Belém generated a preserved audio transcript of ATC communications, suggesting real-time radio capture was part of the FAB's OVNI documentation capability.
• Civilian Cláudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga appears in both 1990 and 1992 entries, writing directly to the Air Force State-Major and NuCOMDABRA on separate occasions — one of the few repeat civilian correspondents visible in the excerpt.