UFO Magazine (Brazil)

History

Ademar José Gevaerd founded Revista UFO in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, in 1988, building on a decade of his earlier work with the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas de Discos Voadores. The magazine launched at a moment when Brazilian civilian UFO research was emerging from the relatively closed period of the military dictatorship, when investigators including Hulvio Brant Aleixo, Rubens Junqueira Villela and Jader Pereira had operated through journals with limited circulation. Revista UFO took the Brazilian story to a national newsstand readership.

Gevaerd has edited the magazine continuously for more than three decades. Across that period, Revista UFO has been the primary Brazilian-language record of the country's most significant cases: the Colares wave of 1977 and 1978, the continuing investigations into Operação Prato by Brazilian Air Force officers including Captain Uyrangê Hollanda, the 1986 Brazilian Air Force F-5 and Mirage III pursuit of unidentified objects over multiple states, and the broader pattern of physical-injury encounters that distinguish Brazilian abduction reports from the Anglophone abduction literature.

The magazine has also served as the negotiating surface between Brazilian civilian research and the Aeronáutica's gradual document release. Gevaerd was among the campaigners who pressed for the establishment of the protocol under which the Aeronáutica began transferring UFO-related files to the National Archives of Brazil, SIAN, in the 2000s. Revista UFO printed extensive coverage of those file releases, often weeks before the documents became publicly searchable in SIAN.