Person · 19 March 1962 – 9 December 2022
A. J. Gevaerd
Also known as Ademar José Gevaerd, Ademar Gevaerd, Gevaerd
- Editor, Revista UFO; founder and director, Brazilian Center for Flying Saucer Research (CBPDV)
A. J. Gevaerd (1962–2022) was a Brazilian ufologist, a former chemistry teacher who in 1988 founded Revista UFO, Brazil's long-running UFO magazine, and directed the Brazilian Center for Flying Saucer Research and MUFON's Brazilian branch. He said he had carried out more than 700 field investigations in Brazil, and he was the leading promoter of the 1996 Varginha case and of the 1977 Operação Prato, whose commander, Col. Uyrangê Hollanda, gave him a long interview in 1997.
His 2004 campaign "UFOs: Freedom of Information Now!" brought a group of civilian researchers into Brazilian Air Force facilities in May 2005 to see UFO files, and the government later released hundreds of pages, a rare case of a disclosure campaign achieving official releases. At the 2013 Citizen Hearing he testified on Operação Prato, Varginha and the Brazilian Ministry of Defence. His accounts of the cases rely largely on witnesses he interviewed.
Sources: Wikipedia · Gevaerd's 2005 announcement · Citizen Hearing on Disclosure (2013)
Facts and claims
- claimed Gevaerd edited the monthly Revista UFO from 1988, ran the Brazilian Center for Flying Saucer Research and was MUFON's Brazilian director. Source: en.wikipedia.org (archived)
- claimed His “UFOs: Freedom of Information Now!” campaign, begun in April 2004, led the Brazilian Air Force to receive a committee of civilian researchers in May 2005 and show them UFO files; hundreds of pages were later released. — A. J. Gevaerd Source: ufology.patrickgross.org (archived)
Connected files
Claims
- The Brazilian Air Force's Operação Prato team saw and photographed structured craft of unknown origin over Colares in 1977 (asserts)
- Close encounters with UAP have physically injured people (asserts)
- Brazilian firefighters and soldiers captured non-human beings in Varginha in January 1996, and the U.S. flew them out of Brazil (asserts)
Hearings & briefings
- Citizen Hearing on Disclosure (testified at)
Incidents
- Operação Prato (Colares) (researched) — He interviewed the operation's commander, Col. Uyrangê Hollanda, in 1997
- Varginha incident (researched)
People
- Uyrangê Hollanda (interviewed)
Videos
- Citizen Hearing 2013: South American Encounters, Part 1 (appears in)
- Citizen Hearing 2013: South American Encounters, Part 2 (appears in)