Brazil · 19 May 1986

Sao Jose dos Campos, 1986

Documented

An air-defence command's own occurrence report concludes the returns were solid and behaved with intelligence, maintaining distance from the fighters sent to intercept, and Brazil's Air Minister said so publicly days later.

Where
Sao Jose dos Campos, Anapolis and adjacent airspace
When
19 May 1986
Who reported it
FAB radar operators at multiple sites; F-5E and Mirage III interceptor crews; civil aircrew; ~20 tracked objects
Entities described
None reported
Handled as
INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED
Evidence class
GOV-1

The record

An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.

The document is attached to this entry.

What is not settled

Radar-only and light-only; no shape, no imagery, no landing. Anomalous propagation, balloons and mass-alert confusion across several radar sites are live alternatives, and the report stops short of saying the objects were piloted craft.

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