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Brazilian Air Force creates SIOANI investigation system

Name: Brazilian Air Force creates SIOANI investigation system
Start: 1969
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil

When: 1969
Where: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sources: 3 public sources

Coat of arms of the Brazilian Air Force, which created the SIOANI investigation system in 1969 Tonyjeff, based on militar symbol., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Brazilian Air Force's IV Air Zone in Sao Paulo set up SIOANI, a system to collect and study reports of unidentified aerial objects, issuing bulletins from March 1969. It wound down by 1972; its records are now in Brazil's National Archive.

Sources

OfficialSistema de Investigacao de Objetos Aereos Nao Identificados (SIOANI), Arquivo Nacional fundo ARX (opens in a new tab)Arquivo Nacional / Forca Aerea Brasileira (via gov.br) / 1969
OfficialOfficial UFO Night in Brazil (opens in a new tab)Government of Brazil (gov.br) / 2022-05-20
OtherA Forca Aerea Brasileira e a investigacao acerca de objetos aereos nao identificados (1969-1986), master's thesis, Joao Francisco Schramm (opens in a new tab)Universidade de Brasilia / 2016

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