Brazilian Air Force (FAB)
The Brazilian Air Force (Força Aérea Brasileira, FAB) is the air branch of Brazil’s armed forces and the institutional locus of much of the country’s documented UAP history — one of the longest such records outside the United States.
UAP involvement
- Has maintained documented UAP case files since at least the 1950s; a Brazilian Air Force captain publicly affirmed the reality of “flying objects” at the Escola Superior de Guerra in 1954.
- 1977: associated with the Operation Prato investigation of UAP activity in Maranhão and Pará.
- 1986: during the Night of the UFOs, the FAB tracked ~21 objects on radar and scrambled F-5 and Mirage fighter jets to intercept.
- 1996: military trucks and personnel were central to the varginha-incident accounts.
- Receives and forwards UFO reports that are deposited in the National Archives’ public UFO collection. (src-brazil-rebelo-uap-files-2026)
- High-ranking FAB officers attended Brazil’s June 2022 Senate UAP hearing as observers. (src-brazil-uap-senate-hearings-2026)
- 2026: FAB’s airspace-control bodies are the institutional reference point invoked when former Defense Minister aldo-rebelo claimed knowledge of hidden “military archives” on UFOs.