Declassified documents from Brazil’s Air Force reveal a pattern of credible UAP encounters reported by military pilots and air traffic controllers — including a LATAM commander who described luminous objects causing turbulence at 35,000 feet.
Brazil UFO Files: What the Declassified Documents Reveal
Documents released by Brazil’s Air Force (Força Aérea Brasileira, or FAB) and archived at the Brazilian National Archive reveal that at least 18 separate UAP incidents were reported by pilots, air traffic controllers, and other aviation personnel in 2025. The disclosure was first reported by CNN Brasil on August 12, 2026.
The incidents are spread across eight Brazilian states, with Londrina in the state of Paraná accounting for the highest concentration — five separate cases — followed by Ceará with four. The full breakdown by state:
- Paraná — 5 cases
- Ceará — 4 cases
- Minas Gerais — 2 cases
- São Paulo — 2 cases
- Rio de Janeiro — 2 cases
- Alagoas — 1 case
- Mato Grosso — 1 case
- Unknown location — 1 case
Key Incidents From the 2025 Brazil UFO Files
Londrina Air Traffic Control Tower, November 23, 2025: A tower operator reported filming a white, round object that appeared and disappeared repeatedly on radar, with lights that lasted only a few minutes. The video was reportedly not included in the archived documents.
Guarulhos, São Paulo, September 1, 2025: A LATAM Airlines commander reported observing “balls of strong lights — 2 to 3, with white, red, and yellow lights, dancing with irregular movements.” The pilot also reported that the phenomenon caused what he described as “dry turbulence” on three separate occasions over approximately 30 minutes of total duration.
LATAM Airlines issued a statement to CNN Brasil confirming that its crews are trained to report any unusual event immediately to air traffic control and that the airline operates to the highest national and international safety standards.
How Brazil’s UFO Files Become Public Record
What makes these revelations significant beyond the individual reports is the institutional context surrounding them. Brazil has had a formal UAP reporting and archiving system in place since 2010, governed by Portaria do Comando da Aeronáutica nº 551/GC3. Under this framework, the FAB receives, registers, and catalogs UAP reports from aviation personnel and forwards them to the National Archive, where they become part of the public record.
In a formal statement, the FAB confirmed that all documents, videos, photographs, and reports in its possession covering the period from 1952 to 2025 have been transferred to the National Archive. The statement notes that the FAB’s role is to receive, record, catalog, and forward — it does not investigate or evaluate the nature of the reported phenomena.
This places Brazil among a small number of countries with an active, transparent protocol for UAP reporting within its military aviation structure, alongside France (which operates the GEIPAN unit), the United States (AARO), and a handful of others.
Why These Brazil UFO Files Matter for Global Disclosure
The Londrina cases are particularly notable for their clustering. Five incidents in the same geographic area — all reported by air traffic controllers observing luminous, unidentified objects in November and December 2025 — suggest a pattern rather than isolated anomalies. Whether that pattern reflects an unusual natural phenomenon, unknown aerial activity, or something else entirely, the consistency of the accounts from trained aviation professionals is worth taking seriously.
The LATAM commander’s report is striking for a different reason: the reported turbulence effect associated with the UAP. Physical interactions between unidentified aerial phenomena and commercial aircraft are among the more alarming categories of report in the UAP literature — they appear in Robert Hastings’ documentation of nuclear facility incidents and in multiple government reports from the U.S., France, and now Brazil.
For readers following the global disclosure landscape, Brazil’s ongoing commitment to transparent archiving represents one of the more mature institutional responses to UAP in the Western Hemisphere.
📂 Download the Declassified Files
The Brazilian Air Force UAP dossiers are public record, freely available to download directly from Brazil’s National Archive:
➡️ sian.an.gov.br — OVNI Collection (BR DFANBSB ARX)
Free registration required. Once logged in, go to Fundos/Coleções → Pesquisa Digital → Fundo BR DFANBSB ARX. Each case entry contains the original scanned documents — PDFs, photographs, audio recordings, and pilot reports — available to download directly. The collection currently holds 924+ dossiers spanning 1952–2026.
Prefer an English-language guide to the files? Brazilian UFO Archives provides translated summaries of each case with direct links to the original source documents.
Source & Attribution
This article is based on reporting by André Rigue and Lauryn Amaral for CNN Brasil, published August 12, 2026.
