BRAZILIAN MILITARY RECOGNIZE UFO RESEARCH
AND RELEASE CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
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By A. J. Gevaerd,
Editor of the Brazilian UFO Magazine and
Head of the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU)
Friday, May 20, was an historic day for Ufology in Brazil
and in the world as the Brazilian Air Force (FAB), for the
very first time in its history, officially receives a
committee of top UFO researchers to openly discuss sightings
in the country and fully exam classified UFO documents in
several military facilities in Brasilia, the Federal
Capital.
By doing this very important step, Brazilian Air Force (FAB)
has placed Brazil in a very short list of countries whose
militaries acknowledge the Ufology as a serious activity and
significative effort to fully understand the nature and
origin of UFOs. "We want to have all info on the subject,
that is withheld by us for some decades, fully released to
public, through the UFO community", declared brigadier
Telles Ribeiro, chief of Brazilian Air Force Communication
Center.
The Brazilian Government, through the Brazilian Air Force,
has finally decided to come forward and recognize the UFO
research as a genuine activity as a direct result of the
intense pressure made by the campaign UFOs: Freedom of
Information Now, a movement started by the Brazilian UFO
Magazine in April 2004. The campaign was launched by the
Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU), composed of 6
UFO civilian researchers: Claudeir Covo, Marco Petit, Rafael
Cury, Reginaldo de Athayde, Fernando Ramalho and A. J.
Gevaerd (Athayde was sick an replaced by new interim member
veteran UFO researcher Roberto Affonso Back)
Details of the campaign both in Portuguese and in English
can be consulted at: www.ufo.com.br and
www.ufo.com.br/secrecy.php
The approach of the Brazilian military by the CBU committee
started last February, ten months after the campaign begun,
with a phone call from a Brazilian Air Force spokesman,
major Antonio Lorenzo, and a formal invitation to a visit
and a chat in some Air Force headquarters in Brasilia. Major
Lorenzo fully recognized the UFO researchers' efforts in
this field and provided a few details of what kind of
reserved files and procedures the Brazilian Air Force (FAB)
has about the UFO Phenomena and its detection, recording and
investigation in the country.
Two meeting between the civilian UFO researchers and the
military took place last Friday, May 20, and firstly
happened in the headquarters of the Integrated Center of Air
Defense and Air Traffic Control (Centro Integrado de Defesa
Aérea e Controle de Trafego Aéreo, Cindacta), a very
sensitive facility. During two hours, the researchers were
given lectures of the procedures conducted at Cindacta and
had the chance to visit air traffic control rooms and
understand how UFOs could be detected by the Air Force
personnel.
The second and most important meeting took place just after
this one at the very reserved facilities of Brazilian Air
Defense Command (Comando de Defesa Aerea Brasileiro,
Comdabra), an even more sensitive installation that controls
the entire air defense situation in the country and
surrounding areas of Atlantic Ocean and South America. In
this facility the UFO researchers were given full briefing
of the top aspects of aerial defense of the country.
It was in this facility that its own commander, brigadier
Atheneu Azambuja, admitted to the UFO researchers how
concerned the Brazilian military are about the UFO
phenomena. Azambuja also gave details of Comdabra procedures
and openly admitted that the country has systematically
detected and registered UFOs in the country - labeled as "H
Traffic" - since 1954. That wasn't a surprise for the UFO
researchers of the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers
(CBU), but how this registering process took place was.
After detailed explanations of Comdabra activities,
brigadier Atheneu Azambuja, for the first time in history,
gave full access to the civilian UFO researchers to exam 3
different folders with classified UFO information, cases
from specific dates of 1954, 1977 and 1986. The first case
was an airplane pursuit of a UFO in the ocean shores of
Paraná State.
The second file was much more important. In the folder
containing the 1977 docs that could be examined by the UFO
researchers were dozens of cases of UFOs in the Amazon with
and amazing amount of over 100 pictures made during the
so-called Operation Saucer, an official program of UFO
investigation by the military that took place from September
to December, 1977, and has been fully covered by specialized
UFO press over the world.
The third case was the "The Official Night of UFOs in
Brazil", a very significative group of events that happened
in May 1986, when 21 objects of over 100 m in diameter
jammed Brazilian air traffic control system over Rio de
Janeiro, Sao Jose dos Campos and Sao Paulo, mainly, and
several jets were sent to intercept - without any success -
the intruders.
The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) representatives at those
meetings then fully admitted that Ufology is serious
business and broadly recognized the activity of UFO research
by the civilian UFO community. And also guaranteed that
further steps are about to be taken to let the researchers
to exam the entire military UFO files in a more
comprehensive way. Plus, a committee of military and
civilian UFO researchers was promised to start operating
very soon, coordinated by the Brazilian Committee of UFO
Researchers (CBU).
This certainly means that we will start a new era in Ufology
in Brazil and in South America. Very good things are about
to happen as the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) command, the
Brazilian Ministry of Defense and the Brazilian president
Luis Inacio Lula da Silva receive the open letters and
formal requests for opening for good the documents and start
the mentioned committee, as presented to them by their
spokesman.
A. J. Gevaerd, editor
Editor of the Brazilian UFO Magazine and
Head of the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU)
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