Night of the UFOs A Similar Case in 1984

Por: Jackson Camargo Comentários: 0 Data: 29 de agosto de 2023

The so-called Official Night of UFOs was, without a doubt, the most significant event registered by the Brazilian Air Force, throughout the 1980s. covering almost the same area as the events of May 1986.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
References

By Jackson Luiz Camargo – ufojack@yahoo.com

Introduction

The so-called Official UFO Night was certainly the most significant event recorded by the Brazilian Air Force throughout the 1980s. But a very similar event, on a smaller scale, took place in 1984, witnessed by thousands of people and covering a large area of the state of São Paulo.

This fact occurred on the night of November 1, 1984, when an unidentified plot appeared on the radars of the ACC in Brasília. The signal was constantly changing direction, showing the typical erratic behavior seen in thousands of ufo incidents around the world throughout history. Intrigued, the Air traffic controller called the São Paulo APP, asking if it had any unknown air traffic on radars. The São Paulo Air Traffic Controller did not have any records at that time. So he decided to call the COpM (Air Defense) informing the fact. So he decided to call the COpM (Air Defense) informing the situation. Then, he called the Congonhas Airport Control Tower, as the object was found in the vicinity of the airport.

The airport operator reported that he received several phone calls from people reporting UFO. At one point, the target that was being monitored by the ACC Brasília accelerated rapidly, going from 24 km/h to 976 km/h, passing over the city of São Paulo. At the same time, another seven plots appeared on the radars of ACC Brasília and APP São Paulo. They were flying over the São Paulo cities of São José dos Campos, Itanhaém, northern region of São Paulo, Santos, Ubatuba and Campinas. The data indicated that one of the signals had the same size ratio as a Boeing, although none of them was flying over that region at that time.

The documents about the incident, produced by the Brazilian Air Force, report the presence of several objects over different cities in the State of São Paulo, on November 1, 1984.

ACC-Brasília called the Control Tower of São José dos Campos airport, informing the situation and asking the operator to keep an eye on the binoculars. During the telephone call, one of the objects passed northwest of the airport, approximately 19 kilometers from the city of São José dos Campos, heading east and arriving just 9 kilometers from the local Airport Tower. Another accelerated sharply, going from 74 km/h to 1.481 km/h, at a speed far above that of commercial aircraft, already above the speed of sound.

Currently, there are 36 pages of transcripts of communications between the different Centers that took place during that sighting.

You can access this report by clicking on the link below:

UFO occurrence report on the State of São Paulo – 37 pages – 9.24 MB (In Portugese)

Possibly, this left the Air Traffic Controller and his superiors impressed and led the Brazilian Air Force to adopt measures to deal with the matter, because on July 15, 1985, the Ministry of Aeronautics, Octávio Júlio Moreira Lima, through the CINDACTA I, issued General Order 1S/018/CCTA, which would come into effect on July 19 of that year, adopting a series of measures in the event of the appearance of UFOs on the radars of the Air Defense units. The new rule determined that in these cases the Chief Officer of the ACC-Brasília operational team should be called and that the radar screen should be recorded on video throughout the entire event. In addition, those involved should seek as much information about the phenomenon as possible, contacting other Air Traffic Control or Air Defense units. Meteorological information should also be noted, as well as the start and end times of the records and telephone calls involved. In case of possibility, pilots who might be flying in these areas could be asked to visually confirm these objects. And all this should be registered in a specific form created for this purpose.

General Order 1S/018/CCTA can be accessed through the link below:

General Order 1S/018/CCTA – 4 pages – 706 KB

These monitoring and registration rules guided the procedures during the 1986 UFO Wave and its main event, the so-called Official UFO Night, on the night of May 19th to 20th.