From: A. J. Gevaerd - Revista UFO <aj.nul>
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 12:50:47 -0300
Archived: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:19:44 -0400
Subject: 1,300 More UFO Pages Surface In Brazil


1,300 New Pages Of Formerly Secret UFO Documents Surface In
Brazil


Over 1,300 pages of formerly secret UFO documents surface in
Brazil and given to the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers


Hundreds of papers from the Brazilian Air Force's official
System for the Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon
have surfaced and demonstrate how the nation's military
authorities dealt with the UFO Phenomena in the 60s and 70s.

The papers disclose in detail the inner workings of the official
body created by the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) in 1969, during
the dictatorship years, to investigate the presence and activity
of aliens in the country - the System for the Investigation of
Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (SIOANI).

This time, however, the newly disclosed documents have not come
from the government, as a result of the campaign UFOs: Freedom
of Information Now!, which has so far produced three official
disclosures, the largest and most important of which was on May
4th, largely announced worldwidely.

The new formerly secret material was handed over to CBU by
civilian researcher Edison Boaventura, from Grupo Ufologico do
Guaruja (GUG), who kept the material away from the Brazilian
UFO community for over 10 years.

Boaventura was given the documents by a retired Brazilian Air
Force military source in the 90s and kept it secret since then.
At the recent III World UFO Forum, held in June 2009 in Curitiba
(PR), Brazil, he was formally approached by the members of CBU
and decided to hand over the whole lot of documents on behalf of
the freedom of information campaign. "I decided to contribute to
this endeavor, so I'm sending these documents to be published by
the Brazilian UFO Magazine", he declared.

Last week, Boaventura gave Brazilian UFO Magazine editor A. J.
Gevaerd, co-ordinator of the Brazilian Committee of UFO
Researchers (CBU), over 1,300 pages of previously unseen
documents from SIOANI, along with 28 colored sketches and 64
photos taken by the Air Force in the 1960's. Along with those,
there were 137 pages of color files with 3 sketches and 17
photos, all official. He has been asked by many other Brazilian
UFO researchers why he had kept all such material far from the
UFO Community for so long.

Previously unreleased material

This vastly important and significant material was not part of
the official Brazilian UFO disclosure. The Brazilian UFO
Magazine website - www.ufo.com.br - has already made available
in the last months over 1,200 pages of documents, 200 photos of
SIOANI's activities and Operation Saucer, carried out in the
Amazonian region in 1977. But none of the documents received by
CBU from the Brazilian Government contained anything such as the
colored drawings of UFOs made by the military personnel who used
to work for SIOANI, nor pictures of witnesses, such as that of
nurse Maria Cintra, who had a close encounter with an
extraterrestrial being on the early hours of August 25th 1968,
in Lins (SP) - one of the classic UFO incidents in Brazilian
Ufology that was secretly investigated by the militaries.

Included in the newly revealed documents are the detailed
research proceedings carried out in dozens of UFO-related
incidents, which had not been made public so far. Some of the
colored sketches of UFO incidents investigated by SIOANI are
here:

www.ufo.com.br/documentos/sioani/Novos_documentos

All the material handed over to the Brazilian Committee of UFO
Researchers CBU) was additionally sent to the Nation's National
Archives in the Federal Capital, Brasilia, whose reception was
officially communicated to the President's Civil Office,
and has become an integral part of the process headed by CBU.

"This will no doubt add to the pressure exerted upon the
Government for the release of new folders containing data
pertaining to UFOs and the military activity in the ongoing
Brazilian UFO research", said geographer Fernando Ramalho, one
of CBU's members.

This material now made public through the Brazilian UFO Magazine
should have been released when it was given to a civilian
researcher, over 10 years ago.

Download the new files in PDF or JPG formats (over 360 Mb)from
here:

www.ufo.com.br/documentos/sioani/Novos_documentos

Other documents can be found here:

www.ufo.com.br/documentos/sioani/
www.ufo.com.br/documentos/prato/
www.ufo.com.br/documentos/extra/
www.ufo.com.br/documentos/geral/

Please note: Download, print, publicize and otherwise share
these documents around, but please do not fail to mention the
source, Brazilian UFO Magazine and emphasize that this material
is coming to public thanks to the efforts of the Brazilian
Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU).

What SIOANI was:

The System for the Investigation of Unidentified Aerial
Phenomenon (SIOANI) was unprecedented in Brazil and in the
world. It was created in 1969, under the inspiration and
guidance of Air Force major-brigadier Jose Vaz da Silva, head of
the Committee for the Investigation of Flying Saucers.

In its early stages, SIOANI had high-ranked propositions and it
operated exemplarily. Its conceptualization demonstrates so:

"SIOANI is the collective resources of personnel and materiel
dedicated to the investigation and research of the so-called
Unidentified Aerial Objects (UAO) phenomenon". The closure of
the USAF's Project Blue Book in 1969 may have contributed to
the shutting down of SIOANI in 1972. Unfortunately, over 90% of
FAB personnel nowadays have absolutely no knowledge of this
amazing endeavor. However, as far as we know, the percentage of
laypeople involved in the issue tends to increase quickly. The
SIOANI was organically constituted by:

(a) Center for the Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Objects
(CIOANI) =96 A central body of the System.

(b) Investigation Zone of Unidentified Aerial (ZIOANI) =96 A
geographical area which comprised the Offices for the
Investigations of Unidentified Aerial Objects (NIOANI). There
were six of those offices.

(c) Office for the Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Objects
(NIOANI) =96 A bureau that was in charge of observing,
investigating and collecting materials for research into the
Unidentified Aerial Objects (UAO). Its function could be
executed by a military agency, a public institution or
individuals. The NIOANI was attached to its corresponding
ZIOANI.

(d) Research and Analysis Laboratories (LIOANI) =96 Supporting
agencies for the accomplishment of research tasks and material
analysis related to UAO.

(e) Personnel and materiel transport (TIOANI) =96 Means of
transportation that was first provided by official agencies,
military or civilian, upon request by CIOANI, ZIOANI or NIOANI.
When official transport was not available, the commercial
transportation could be used. The transport had to be
appropriate, efficient and fast. A quick arrival to the spot
where a UFO incident had occurred was basic, so that there would
be no alteration of traces or distortion of facts. For that
purpose there were five small-sized aircraft, two twin-engine
craft and three single-engine craft, based on the Park for
Aeronautical Materiel in S=E3o Paulo, and were run by the 4th Air
Zone. Those aircraft were used for the Organization's normal
services, as well by those demanded by SIOANI.

(f) Communication network (RIOANI) =96 Comprised of a web that
involved the now-extinct FAB's communication networks, and
further Singular Forces (Brazilian Army and Navy), Police Forces
and the amateur-radio network, aiming at rapid transmission of
phenomenological occurrences or the information flow between the
several links in the system. SIOANI reported to the Ministry of
the Aeronautics, but the results of its work was forwarded to
the Air Force's Chiefs-of-Staff. Within the 4th Air Zone, it was
outside the frame of its Chiefs-of-Staff, but its chief was also
responsible for the 2nd Section (Information), encompassing
CIOANI, which confirmed that the UFO issue was handled by an
Information (nowadays Intelligence) officer.

Considering that SIOANI wasn't a top secret agency and that even
civilian researchers took part of its procedures, all this
structure proves that Brazil was the first country in the world
ever to officially and publicly admit the reality of the UFO
Phenomena, and the first one to investigate it openly, in a not
secret manner.

A. J. Gevaerd,
Editor, Brazilian UFO Magazine
Coordinator, Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU)
National Director, Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)
www.ufo.com.br
gevaerd.nul
aj.nul 

PS. Many thanks to Marcos Malvezzi Leal for helping in the
translation.






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