- 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.
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- 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.
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- From left: A. J. Gevaerd, Fernando Ramalho, Roberto Beck, Marco
Petit, Rafael Cury e Claudeir Covo at main entrance of the Integrated Center
of Air Defense and Air Traffic Control (Centro Integrado de Defesa Aérea
e Controle de Trafego Aéreo, Cindacta), after 2 hour of visitation
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- 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)
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- 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
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A. J. Gevaerd gives to Brazilian Air Force (FAB) brigadier Telles Ribeiro,
head of the Brazilian Air Force Communication Center (Cecomsaer), the formal
letters of requests that are to be forwarded to Brazilian Air Force (FAB)
Commander, the Brazilian Ministry of Defense and the Brazilian president
Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, for opening for good the secret UFO documents
and start an official committee of UFO research. "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,.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- From left: Roberto Beck, Rafael Cury, Marco Petit, A. J. Gevaerd,
Fernando Ramalho e Claudeir Covo in front of Brazilian Air Defense Command
(Comando de Defesa Aerea Brasileiro, Comdabra), a sensitive installation
that controls the entire air defense situation in the country and surrounding
areas of Atlantic Ocean and South America. The researchers could exam secret
UFO files at this facility.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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From left: A. J. Gevaerd, Marco Petit, an spokesman from Comdabra, Rafael
Cury, Roberto Beck, Fernando Ramalho e Claudeir Covo, at a meeting room
at Brazilian Air Defense Command (Comando de Defesa Aerea Brasileiro, Comdabra).
After this point of the visit, nothing could be filmed, taped, videoed
or even copies and transcripted
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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).
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- 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.
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- A. J. Gevaerd, editor
- Editor of the Brazilian UFO Magazine and
- Head of the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU)
- www.ufo.com.br
- gevaerd@ufo.com.br
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