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UFO sightings in Brazil: documented cases, reports, and evidence

Brazil has 7 documented UFO/UAP cases in this archive, spanning 1957 to 2020. This page groups the national record so readers can compare case dates, evidence types, official context, and representative reports before opening the full dossiers.

Archive profile

Brazil

Case count: 7
Time span: 1957-2020
Main evidence types: Witness reports / Images and video / Press and public records / Military context / Official records

Representative cases

2020Mage UFO reportsReports and videos from Mage spread widely online with claims of crashes or military activity.1996Varginha UFO incidentThe Varginha incident centers on reports from January 1996 that residents saw strange creatures and unusual activity around the city of Varginha. It became a national UFO story because the claims expanded from a street encounter into rumors of military transport, hospital involvement, animal deaths, and alleged recovered beings.1986Brazil Night of the UFOsBrazilian fighters were scrambled after radar and visual reports of unidentified objects.1977Operation Saucer: Brazil's Colares UFO InvestigationOperation Saucer (Operacao Prato) was a 1977 Brazilian Air Force investigation into reports of unusual lights and alleged injuries around Colares, Para. Surviving records confirm an official inquiry, witness interviews, field observations, and photographs, but the public file is incomplete and does not identify an extraordinary craft. This dossier keeps military records, testimony, and later folklore separate.

Complete case list

Brazil

2020Mage UFO reportsReports and videos from Mage spread widely online with claims of crashes or military activity.BrazilGrade C / DISPUTED 1996Varginha UFO incidentThe Varginha incident centers on reports from January 1996 that residents saw strange creatures and unusual activity around the city of Varginha. It became a national UFO story because the claims expanded from a street encounter into rumors of military transport, hospital involvement, animal deaths, and alleged recovered beings.BrazilGrade B / DISPUTED 1986Brazil Night of the UFOsBrazilian fighters were scrambled after radar and visual reports of unidentified objects.BrazilGrade B / UNRESOLVED 1977Operation Saucer: Brazil's Colares UFO InvestigationOperation Saucer (Operacao Prato) was a 1977 Brazilian Air Force investigation into reports of unusual lights and alleged injuries around Colares, Para. Surviving records confirm an official inquiry, witness interviews, field observations, and photographs, but the public file is incomplete and does not identify an extraordinary craft. This dossier keeps military records, testimony, and later folklore separate.BrazilGrade B / DISPUTED 1966Lead Masks caseTwo men were found dead wearing lead masks; later speculation linked the case to UFO and occult themes.BrazilGrade C / UNRESOLVED 1958Trindade Island UFO photographsPhotographs allegedly taken from a Brazilian Navy vessel became an important Latin American UFO case.BrazilGrade B / DISPUTED 1957Fort Itaipu UFO incidentThe Fort Itaipu story describes Brazilian sentries allegedly burned after a close approach by a luminous object near the coast in 1957. It is famous in South American UFO literature, but later researchers have emphasized that public military records confirming the full story are hard to locate.BrazilGrade C / INSUFFICIENT DATA