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The inventory was formally certified on 13 May 2010 and covers 'Ocorrências de Tráfego Hotel' — the FAB procedural codename for UFO/OVNI incidents —...

A Brazilian Air Force administrative inventory cataloguing hundreds of civilian OVNI questionnaires, official correspondence, and inter-agency communications from the 1990s, transferred to the Arquivo Nacional under a 2010 declassification ordinance.

→ Listagem 4º Recolhimento ARX — FAB UFO Transfer Index

A UAP described as circular and funnel-shaped, yellowish-red with bluish reflections, reportedly landed on Fazenda Jejú (property of Sr. Expedito) on...

A Brazilian Air Force photographic dossier (Operação Prato, Registro 076) documenting a UAP landing at Fazenda Jejú, Pará, on 17 December 1977, with physical ground trace measurements recorded by a military A2 team.

→ Operação Prato — Photographic Dossier (CC_023, Registro 076)

The triggering event was a five-photograph sequence — sequential photographic documentation, not a single frame — giving investigators a temporal...

Brazilian Air Force investigation file on the May 7, 1952 Barra da Tijuca UAP sighting, triggered by a five-photograph sequence shot by press photographer Ed Keffel and published in O Cruzeiro magazine.

→ Caso Barra da Tijuca 1952 — Envelope 01

The IPM was formally opened on 13 February 1997, triggered by Parte Nr 006-E2 of 27 January 1997, which concerned the book 'INCIDENTE EM VARGINHA' by...

Brazilian Army IPM Volume 01 comprising formal opening documents and nine sworn testimonies from Escola de Sargentos das Armas personnel denying unusual activity around the January 1996 Varginha incident, with truck convoys to Varginha on 25 January 1996 uniformly attributed to routine Mercedes-Benz maintenance.

→ Caso Varginha — IPM (Inquérito Policial Militar) Volume 01 (1996)

Envelope 10 is the second 1978 CENDOC unit and the largest single envelope in the entire declassified FAB UFO corpus at approximately 117 MB.

Brazilian Air Force CENDOC Envelope 10 is the largest single archival envelope in the declassified FAB UFO corpus, aggregating 1978 OANI sighting reports, Operação Prato-adjacent records, and inter-base correspondence from the Colares chupa-chupa wave.

→ CENDOC Envelope 10 — 1978 FAB UFO Records (continued)

A psychological and biographical profile of the observer is embedded in the intake form itself — fields for personality, character, drinking habits,...

Official Brazilian Air Force standardized intake form for logging OANI (Objeto Aereo Nao Identificado) sightings across all observable parameters, from observer psychology to electromagnetic effects.

→ FAB Formulário de Relatório sobre OANI — Official UFO Reporting Form

The IPM formally indicts the civilian publication 'INCIDENTE EM VARGINHA' by Vitório Pacaccini and Maxs Portes, authorized by Portaria Nr 009-Aj G.2...

Volume 07 of a Brazilian Army Inquérito Policial Militar (IPM) into the 1996 Varginha incident, centering on the formal interrogation of Lt. Col. Olimpio Vanderlei Santos, who denied commanding any creature-capture operation and attributed the published allegation to internal military sabotage.

→ Caso Varginha — IPM (Inquérito Policial Militar) Volume 07 (1996)

Photographer Almiro Baraúna captured still images of a saturn-shaped UAP from aboard the NAeL Almirante Saldanha, a Brazilian Navy training ship...

Brazilian Air Force investigation report on the January 16, 1958 saturn-shaped UAP photographed by Almiro Baraúna from the Navy training ship NAeL Almirante Saldanha near Ilha da Trindade, with images personally authorized for public release by President Juscelino Kubitschek.

→ Caso Ilha da Trindade — RIC de 1958 (Brazilian Navy Photographs)

The envelope covers 1978 — the year of Operação Prato, the FAB's formal military field investigation of the Colares/Pará UAP wave.

A Brazilian Air Force CENDOC archive envelope collecting 1978 OANI sighting reports, internal correspondence, and analysis from across Brazil — the peak year of the Colares chupa-chupa wave and Operação Prato.

→ CENDOC Envelope 09 — 1978 FAB UFO Records

The record originates from NSISA — Núcleo de Sistemas de Informações de Segurança Aeroespacial — the FAB's dedicated aerospace-security information...

A consolidated Brazilian Air Force OANI record set from the NSISA aerospace-security information system, aggregated across multiple FAB commands and declassified through the Arquivo Nacional in 2009.

→ NSISA — Núcleo de Sistemas de Informações de Segurança Aeroespacial UFO Records

SIOANI was the Brazilian Air Force's first formally constituted UFO investigation program, created by FAB Order in 1969.

1969 internal bulletin of SIOANI, the Brazilian Air Force's inaugural formal UAP investigation program, summarizing case investigations from its first operational year.

→ SIOANI Boletim 1969 — Sistema de Investigação de Objetos Aéreos Não Identificados

RIC 4470 was a formal parliamentary instrument compelling the FAB to account for its OANI (Objeto Aéreo Não Identificado) holdings — Brazil's...

The Brazilian Air Force's formal reply to parliamentary information request RIC 4470 (2009) cataloguing its classified OANI records and establishing the transfer framework to the Arquivo Nacional that directly triggered Ordinance 551/GC3 of 2010.

→ FAB Resposta ao RIC 4470 de 2009 — Formal UFO Declassification Response

File is the fifth of multiple envelopes in a single FAB investigation, indicating the Duas Pontes case generated enough documentation to require...

Fifth envelope of a multi-part Força Aérea Brasileira investigation file on a 1962 UAP sighting in Duas Pontes, Minas Gerais, preserved in the Arquivo Nacional Aero-Espaço declassification series.

→ Caso Duas Pontes 1962 — Envelope 05

File is the second envelope in a multi-envelope FAB investigation of the 1954 Varig crew UAP encounter, indicating the inquiry generated enough...

Brazilian Air Force second-envelope investigative file on a 1954 Varig commercial airline crew UFO encounter, part of the Arquivo Nacional Aero-Espaço (AN-BSB-ARX) FAB declassification series.

→ Caso Varig 1954 — Envelope 02

The file is part of the Arquivo Nacional Aero-Espaço FAB declassification series, a structured Brazilian government release program initiated in 2009.

A Brazilian Air Force investigation file on a UAP case in Parintins, Amazonas, released as part of the 2009 Arquivo Nacional Aero-Espaço FAB declassification series; the full PDF is scanned-image only and contains no machine-readable text.

→ Caso Parintins — FAB Investigation File

Third envelope in a multi-part FAB investigation file on the 1955 Araras, São Paulo UAP incident, indicating a substantial original case volume.

Third envelope of the Força Aérea Brasileira's formal investigation file on the 1955 Araras (São Paulo) UAP sighting, held in the Arquivo Nacional Aero-Espaço declassification series.

→ Caso Araras 1955 — Envelope 03

Witness João de Freitas Guimarães held dual credentials as a practicing attorney and USP law professor — an unusually high-status civilian source in...

Brazilian Air Force investigative envelope documenting attorney and University of São Paulo law professor João de Freitas Guimarães's 1956 close-encounter report of a landed craft and humanoid occupants near São Sebastião, São Paulo.

→ Caso João de Freitas Guimarães 1956 — Envelope 04

Brazilian Air Force CENDOC (Centro de Documentação) Envelope 08 for 1986 — the year of the May 19, 1986 Noite Oficial dos OVNIs (Official Night of the UFOs).

→ CENDOC Envelope 08 — 1986 FAB UFO Records (Noite dos OVNIs)