A. J. Gevaerd
Biography:
A. J. Gevaerd studied Chemistry in several universities in Brazil. In 1986, he quit his carrier as a Chemistry teacher to research flying saucers full time. A. J. is the founder and editor of the Brazilian UFO Magazine. He is also founder and director of the Brazilian Center for Flying Saucer Research, the largest organization of its type in South America, with over 1,200 members. For the past 19 years has been the only full time UFO researcher in Brazil. In 1983, he was appointed by Dr. J. Allen Hynek to be the representative of the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) in Brazil. A. J. is the creator of the group UFOs: Freedom of Information Now. He heads this Brazilian Committee of UFO researchers, that has recently examined secret UFO docs in Brazil's official military UFO disclosure.
Past Shows:
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| Monday June 6, 2005 |
Journalist Paola Harris and ufologist A.J. Gevaerd (ufo.com.br) discussed the movement towards UFO disclosure in Brazil and around the world. Gevaerd detailed how he and a group of investigators had been pressuring the Brazilian military for some time to release files related to UFOs, and had gathered thousands of signatures on a petition through their UFO-related magazine. Finally on May 20, 2005, he and a group of ufologists met with Brazilian military representatives and were shown a small number of files (View this report for more details). Gevaerd highlighted two of the most significant UFO cases in Brazil, which the military turned over files to them about. One was "Operation Saucer," which took place in small communities off the Amazon over a lengthy period during the 1970s. Numerous people were attacked by "strange balls of light" that seemed to come from the sky, the water and the woods. The victims would fall unconscious, as though hit by a laser beam and there were man
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