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Official reports, hearing transcripts, case files and releases: the paper behind the cases. 2,872 documents, 2,610 mirrored with their text, 53,529 pages indexed, so a search reads inside them and lands on the page.
New in the library The PURSUE files The Department of War's UAP release, mirrored in full: the videos, recordings and images, each beside its case file.Documents4 records
This Brazilian Air Force (FAB) CENDOC file, released via The Black Vault, collects UFO papers from 1977 and 1978. It includes a Salvador Air Base transcription of a 16 December 1977 mission report, in which the crew of C-95 2162 near Vitória saw a large luminous ball and ATC described a mothership with smaller craft. It also holds Ann Schwinn's letter to President Geisel, forwarded with UFO Education Center material promoting George Adamski. Rounding out the file are 24th NORAD Region log extracts on the November 1975 Montana missile-site sightings and Brazilian press clippings.
This FAB CENDOC file, released through The Black Vault, holds material from 1978. Part of it is an issue of International UFO Reporter, edited by J. Allen Hynek, with a long report on the October 21, 1978 disappearance of pilot Fred Valentich over Bass Strait. That report includes his radio transcript, the search, and the competing explanations. The file also has a Brazilian newspaper clipping and a Fourth Regional Air Command investigation of a July 1978 landing report by eleven-year-old Dalton Legnaioli in Penha, São Paulo.
This is a reserved-classification compilation prepared at CINDACTA I in Brasília and signed by 1st Lt. Ademis Freitas, dated 6 August 1978, summarizing known UFO cases involving that air defense and traffic control center. It records pilot, controller and radar reports from 1977 to 1979 with star charts, deliberately without explanations or conclusions. It also includes I COMAR's register of UFO observations from Pará in 1977, including Colares and Santo Antônio do Tauá, plus 1978 O Estado do Pará press clippings.
This Brazilian Air Force CINDACTA file from 1978, released via The Black Vault, collects confidential reports on events at the DPV-DT/61 Gama site near Brasilia on the night of 20 June 1978. Officers, sergeants, soldiers and guards describe a silent, multicolored luminous object making fast maneuvers, along with stones thrown at the THF station and warning shots fired. Radar showed nothing conclusive. The file also contains air traffic control transcripts of airliner crews reporting luminous objects on 23 August and 6 December 1978.