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01PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacionalp.1
CENDOC Envelope 10, the continuation of the FAB's 1978 UFO records. The second half of the institutional paperwork that runs in parallel to Operação Prato in Pará.
Envelope 10 continues the 1978 institutional record. The split between Envelopes 09 and 10 reflects the volume of reporting in the year of the Colares wave, when civilian medical authorities were treating burn injuries attributed to overhead light beams and the FAB was simultaneously running Operação Prato in the field.
→ CENDOC Envelope 10, 1978 FAB UFO Records (continued)
02PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacionalp.2
CENDOC Envelope 09, the FAB UFO records for 1978. The institutional case file for the year Operação Prato was running in Pará, the FAB's formal year-of-record for the Colares wave.
Envelope 09 covers FAB UFO records from 1978, the year Operação Prato was running its month-long ground-investigation in the Pará coastal communities (Colares and surrounding islands). CENDOC is the FAB's documentation center; the envelope sits alongside the operation's own dedicated records as the broader institutional context for the year.
→ CENDOC Envelope 09, 1978 FAB UFO Records
03PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacionalp.1
Envelope 02, the FAB investigation file on the 1954 Varig airline UAP sighting. The agency's case package on an early commercial-aviation encounter, declassified into the Arquivo Nacional.
The 1954 Varig case involves a commercial airline UAP sighting in an era when Brazilian civil aviation was still under direct military oversight. Envelope 02 is the FAB's case file. The Varig record is one of the early commercial-airline encounters in the Brazilian archive, with the institutional paperwork preserved in its original envelope format.
→ Caso Varig 1954, Envelope 02
04PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacionalp.1
Caso Parintins, the FAB's investigation file on the Amazonian river-city case. Institutional paperwork on an Amazon-basin UAP report routed through the agency's standard procedure.
Caso Parintins is the FAB's investigation file on a UAP report from Parintins, the Amazon basin river-port in northern Brazil. The case is one of the Amazonian-region reports the FAB processed through its standard institutional procedure; the file's preservation in the Arquivo Nacional places the Parintins record alongside the Pará coast cases that defined the 1977-1978 wave.
→ Caso Parintins, FAB Investigation File
05PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacionalp.1
Envelope 01, the FAB's case file on the 1952 Barra da Tijuca sighting. Brazil's pre-Operação Prato institutional record, filed as a formal envelope inside the Arquivo Nacional.
The 1952 Barra da Tijuca sighting in Rio de Janeiro is one of the earliest Brazilian government-investigated UAP cases. Envelope 01 is the FAB's primary file package, preserved through the Arquivo Nacional's declassification of the Aero-Espaço series and surfaced as the institutional record of how Brazilian aviation authorities handled UAP reports in the 1950s.
→ Caso Barra da Tijuca 1952, Envelope 01
06PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacionalp.1
SIOANI Boletim 1969, the official bulletin of the Sistema de Investigação de Objetos Aéreos Não Identificados. The FAB-issued institutional newsletter on Brazilian UAP work in the era before the agency stopped publishing publicly.
SIOANI's Boletim is the bulletin of Brazil's Sistema de Investigação de Objetos Aéreos Não Identificados, the FAB's formal UFO-investigation system. The 1969 Boletim is an institutional newsletter, the kind of regular operational publication issued before the system stopped publishing publicly. The format is the bureaucratic register of a fully-funded military UAP office at work.
→ SIOANI Boletim 1969, Sistema de Investigação de Objetos Aéreos Não Identificados
07PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacionalp.2
Envelope 05, the FAB's investigation file on the 1962 Duas Pontes sighting. The agency's formal record on a ground-witness case from the era before SIOANI's bulletin work began.
Duas Pontes 1962 is a ground-witness case from the pre-SIOANI period; SIOANI (Sistema de Investigação de Objetos Aéreos Não Identificados) was not formally constituted until later in the decade. Envelope 05 is the FAB's standard-format case file, preserved in the Arquivo Nacional declassification series.
→ Caso Duas Pontes 1962, Envelope 05
08PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacionalp.1
Envelope 03 of the FAB's formal investigation file on the 1955 Araras (São Paulo) UAP sighting, held in the Arquivo Nacional Aero-Espaço declassification series. The third envelope alone indicates a substantial original case volume.
The 1955 Araras case is one of the FAB's early formally-investigated São Paulo state UAP reports. Envelope 03 is the third in a multi-part case package, indicating the agency carried a substantial original investigation volume that the Arquivo Nacional later split into envelope-format declassification units.
→ Caso Araras 1955, Envelope 03
09PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacionalp.2
On 1 May 1969, A Noticia reports fiscal Genildo Pereira Gomes and Cláudio Silveira Dias of the 6º Setor de Vigilância in Pavuna seeing luminous disc-shaped objects, with patrol officers Sargento Vandi and Detetive Nelson ratifying the account and Comissário Mário Dias dispatching detectives Fernando Antônio, Carlos Alberto, and Valter Modesto to confirm.
Brazilian Air Force NSISA file aggregating 1969-era press clippings and witness accounts of OANI (objetos aéreos não identificados) sightings across Rio de Janeiro, Niterói, Goiás, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Brasília, declassified through the Arquivo Nacional.
→ NSISA, Núcleo de Sistemas de Informações de Segurança Aeroespacial UFO Records
10PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacionalp.1
Inventory was certified on 13 May 2010 by the Centro de Documentação e Histórico da Aeronáutica, covering Tráfego Hotel (UFO) occurrences from the 1990s under Despacho nº 149/5EM/1908 of 8 February 2010 from COMGEP.
Inventory 01/2010 listing the 1990s-decade FAB OVNI case files transferred to the Arquivo Nacional under the 4th ARX recolhimento.
→ Listagem 4º Recolhimento ARX, FAB UFO Transfer Index
11PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacionalp.2
Defense Minister Nelson A. Jobim signed Ofício 4225-GM/Aspar-MD on April 19 2010 in response to RIC 4470/2009 from Deputy Chico Alencar (PSOL/RJ).
Brazilian Ministry of Defense's April 19 2010 formal response to Deputy Chico Alencar's Requerimento de Informação 4470/2009, laying out how Aeronáutica's UFO/OVNI records from the 1950s through 2000s are being declassified and transferred to the Arquivo Nacional.
→ FAB Resposta ao RIC 4470 de 2009, Formal UFO Declassification Response
12PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacionalp.1
Filed as Requerimento de Informações nº 2957 of 1958 by the Câmara dos Deputados, directed to the Ministério da Marinha (Poder Executivo).
A February 27, 1958 Brazilian Chamber of Deputies formal Request for Information (Requerimento nº 2957) demanding the Ministry of the Navy answer eight questions about the January 16, 1958 Ilha da Trindade UFO sighting and the Almiro Baraúna photographs taken from the NAeL Almirante Saldanha.
→ Caso Ilha da Trindade, RIC de 1958 (Brazilian Navy Photographs)
13PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacionalp.1
Internal registry CC-023 sits inside Operação Prato I COMAR-FAB under military registry 076.
Brazilian Air Force Operação Prato photographic dossier (Registro 076) documenting a December 17, 1977 UFO landing at Fazenda Jejú in Pará that left two 40x40 cm ground impressions inside a 2.5-meter circle.
→ Operação Prato, Photographic Dossier (CC_023, Registro 076)
14PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacionalp.39
Air-defense radar site ANDA tracked an unidentified target on radial 240 at 8 NM on 20 May 1986 at 0148Z, prompting JG 116 to launch on heading 270.
Brazilian Air Force CENDOC Envelope 08 (1986) compiling radar logs, intercept reports, and pilot statements from the May 19, 1986 multi-fighter scramble against roughly 20 unidentified targets over southeastern Brazil.
→ CENDOC Envelope 08, 1986 FAB UFO Records (Noite dos OVNIs)
15PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacionalp.1
The form is the official FAB intake instrument tied to the SIOANI (Sistema de Investigação de Objetos Aéreos Não Identificados) records held in the Arquivo Nacional.
The standardized Brazilian Air Force intake form (Formulário de Relatório sobre OANI) used to log unidentified-aerial-object sightings before they enter the FAB investigation pipeline.
→ FAB Formulário de Relatório sobre OANI, Official UFO Reporting Form
16PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacionalp.2
The IPM was opened under Portaria 009-Aj G.2 of January 29, 1997, issued by the Commandant of the Escola de Sargentos das Armas, with Volume 2 beginning on March 10, 1997 in Três Corações, Minas Gerais.
Volume 07 of the Brazilian Army's Inquérito Policial Militar (IPM) into the January 1996 Varginha incident, the largest single volume of the multi-volume military police inquiry into the publication 'Incidente em Varginha' by Vitório Pacaccini and Maxs Portes.
→ Caso Varginha, IPM (Inquérito Policial Militar) Volume 07 (1996)
17PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacionalp.1
Autos catalogued as N° 908/1997 from the Escola de Sargentos das Armas (EsSA), Ministério do Exército.
Volume 01 of the Brazilian Army's Inquérito Policial Militar (IPM) opened in 1997 to investigate the publication 'Incidente em Varginha' and the January 1996 Varginha extraterrestrial-creature allegations involving Escola de Sargentos das Armas (EsSA) personnel and vehicles.
→ Caso Varginha, IPM (Inquérito Policial Militar) Volume 01 (1996)
18PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacionalp.1
Witness is João de Freitas Guimarães, attorney and tenured professor at the Faculdade Católica de Direito in Santos, SP, an unusually high-status civilian witness.
Brazilian Air Force file reproducing the SBEDV bulletin account of attorney and law professor João de Freitas Guimarães's June 16, 1956 close encounter at São Sebastião, SP, in which he described boarding a landed craft with two humanoid occupants.
→ Caso João de Freitas Guimarães 1956, Envelope 04

Brazil findings

CENDOC Envelope 10, the continuation of the FAB's 1978 UFO records. The second half of the institutional paperwork that runs in parallel to Operação Prato in Pará.

CENDOC Envelope 09, the FAB UFO records for 1978. The institutional case file for the year Operação Prato was running in Pará, the FAB's formal year-of-record for the Colares wave.

Envelope 02, the FAB investigation file on the 1954 Varig airline UAP sighting. The agency's case package on an early commercial-aviation encounter, declassified into the Arquivo Nacional.

Caso Parintins, the FAB's investigation file on the Amazonian river-city case. Institutional paperwork on an Amazon-basin UAP report routed through the agency's standard procedure.

Envelope 01, the FAB's case file on the 1952 Barra da Tijuca sighting. Brazil's pre-Operação Prato institutional record, filed as a formal envelope inside the Arquivo Nacional.

SIOANI Boletim 1969, the official bulletin of the Sistema de Investigação de Objetos Aéreos Não Identificados. The FAB-issued institutional newsletter on Brazilian UAP work in the era before the agency stopped publishing publicly.

Envelope 05, the FAB's investigation file on the 1962 Duas Pontes sighting. The agency's formal record on a ground-witness case from the era before SIOANI's bulletin work began.

Envelope 03 of the FAB's formal investigation file on the 1955 Araras (São Paulo) UAP sighting, held in the Arquivo Nacional Aero-Espaço declassification series. The third envelope alone indicates a substantial original case volume.

Inventory was certified on 13 May 2010 by the Centro de Documentação e Histórico da Aeronáutica, covering Tráfego Hotel (UFO) occurrences from the 1990s under Despacho nº 149/5EM/1908 of 8 February 2010 from COMGEP.

Defense Minister Nelson A. Jobim signed Ofício 4225-GM/Aspar-MD on April 19 2010 in response to RIC 4470/2009 from Deputy Chico Alencar (PSOL/RJ).

Filed as Requerimento de Informações nº 2957 of 1958 by the Câmara dos Deputados, directed to the Ministério da Marinha (Poder Executivo).

Internal registry CC-023 sits inside Operação Prato I COMAR-FAB under military registry 076.

Air-defense radar site ANDA tracked an unidentified target on radial 240 at 8 NM on 20 May 1986 at 0148Z, prompting JG 116 to launch on heading 270.

The form is the official FAB intake instrument tied to the SIOANI (Sistema de Investigação de Objetos Aéreos Não Identificados) records held in the Arquivo Nacional.

The IPM was opened under Portaria 009-Aj G.2 of January 29, 1997, issued by the Commandant of the Escola de Sargentos das Armas, with Volume 2 beginning on March 10, 1997 in Três Corações, Minas Gerais.

Autos catalogued as N° 908/1997 from the Escola de Sargentos das Armas (EsSA), Ministério do Exército.

Witness is João de Freitas Guimarães, attorney and tenured professor at the Faculdade Católica de Direito in Santos, SP, an unusually high-status civilian witness.