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UAP events in Brazil

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Brazil has one of the most active military UAP records outside the United States. Operação Prato (1977 Amazon), the 1986 "Night of the UFOs" (Brazilian Air Force F-5 and Mirage intercepts), and the May 1996 Varginha incident anchor the record; the Air Force's 2010 SIOANI directive made Brazilian airspace reports a formal preservation requirement.

Every documented event in Brazil

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Sighting

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January 20, 1996

The Varginha incident: creature reports, an alleged military response, and Brazil's most famous case

Three young women in Varginha, Brazil report encountering a small creature with brown skin and large red eyes in a vacant lot. Claims of a military capture operation follow, the Brazilian Army attributes the reports to a misidentified local man, and the case becomes the most prominent — and most contested — UAP event in Brazilian history.

Varginha, Minas Gerais — Brazil#Multiple Witnesses #International #Law Enforcement

Official Statement

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November 1963

Conde, Bahia, 1963: how the government killed a crashed-saucer story in eleven days

A November 9, 1963 Rio de Janeiro radio broadcast claimed a 'large metal sphere' carrying a dead occupant had crashed near Conde, Bahia, Brazil. The CIA's wire service flagged the report the same day; by November 20, the U.S. consulate's scientific attaché in Salvador had traced it to a fabrication with no basis in local reporting. The paper trail — a CIA wire summary preserved in the files of the White House's space council, plus two State Department cables — marks the first appearance of the Executive Office of the President and the Department of State in the PURSUE corpus.

Conde, Bahia — Brazil#Cold War #International #Department of War #State Department

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