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15 well-documented UFO/UAP encounters from Brazil, 1952 to 2026: 8 disputed, 5 unresolved, 2 explained. Each case has its sources, timeline and the official or best explanation.
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Barra da Tijuca — the O Cruzeiro disc photographs 7 May 1952 · Coast at Barra da Tijuca, near Pedra do Marisco, Rio de Janeiro DISPUTED Gravataí Air Base — the Brazilian Air Force communiqué 24 October 1954 · Gravataí Air Base (today Canoas Air Force Base), near Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul UNRESOLVED Ubatuba magnesium fragments 14 September 1957 · Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil DISPUTED Antônio Vilas-Boas abduction claim 16 October 1957 · São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais, Brazil DISPUTED Fort Itaipu sentries burned 4 November 1957 · Fort Itaipu, Praia Grande, São Paulo UNRESOLVED Trindade Island photographs 16 January 1958 · Trindade Island, South Atlantic DISPUTED The lead masks of Vintém Hill 17 August 1966 · Morro do Vintém, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro DISPUTED Colares "chupa-chupa" & Operação Prato 15 October 1977 · Colares Island, Pará DISPUTED VASP flight 169 — the light that paced a Boeing 727 8 February 1982 · Night flight from Fortaleza to Rio de Janeiro, first seen near Petrolina, Pernambuco DISPUTED Morenão stadium sighting 6 March 1982 · Estádio Morenão, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul UNRESOLVED Brazil’s "Official UFO Night" 19 May 1986 · São José dos Campos – Rio de Janeiro – Goiás UNRESOLVED Varginha "ET" 20 January 1996 · Varginha, Minas Gerais EXPLAINED Cláudio — Military Police report 19 November 2008 · Cláudio, Minas Gerais UNRESOLVED Porto Alegre — airline pilots report blinking lights 5 November 2022 · Approach to Salgado Filho airport, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul DISPUTED Campo Largo — an influencer’s lights traced to a campsite 31 May 2026 · Rural Campo Largo, Paraná EXPLAINED
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