Ademar José Gevaerd
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Ademar José Gevaerd is a Brazil
ian ufologist, or specialist in the study of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs).
He is editor of UFO Magazine, Founder and Director of the Brazilian Center for Flying Saucer Research (CBPDV) and Brazilian Director for Mutual UFO Network
(MUFON). He represents Brazil at the Center for UFO Studies
.
He has appeared on the Globo Network, the Discovery Channel and the History Channel.
He has spoken in many cities in Brazil and in other 29 countries, and has conducted over 700 field investigations of UFO cases in Brazil.
He has been described as one of the most respected of ufologists.
stadium in Campo Grande
saw a cigar-shaped object with lights at each end flying overhead.
At that time, Ademar José Gevaerd was teaching chemistry in Maringá
, Paraná state. Convinced that the object was a flying saucer, and hearing of other sightings at the same time in Sao Paulo
, Paraná, Argentina, Bolivia
and Paraguay
, he decided to undertake a deeper study of UFOs.
In 1985 he launched the magazine Ufologia Nacional & Internacional, which ceased publication in 1986. In 1988 he started UFO Magazine, still being published in 2010.
In 1986 he left his teaching job to devote himself full time to UFOs.
The monthly UFO Magazine now has a circulation of 30,000.
Gevaerd also runs the Brazilian Center for Flying Saucer Research, with 3,300 members.
While attending a conference in Las Vegas
in 1992, he personally experienced what may have been a UFO while driving in the Nevada Desert in the USA, near the Area 51
military base.
At a 1996 conference in Chile
, Gevaerd reported that UFO sightings around the world had risen by more than 200% in the past year. He said "there are places where there has been a 400 percent rise. This means a true wave of UFOs visiting Earth, and I have more 100 slides to prove it".
Speaking at the Australian International UFO Symposium in Brisbane
, Queensland, Australia in October 1996, he discussed two aliens allegedly captured by the army after their space vehicle crashed in Varginha
, Brazil on 20 January 1996. The description of one of the creatures was similar to that of the standard short grey alien, but it had greasy brown skin, red eyes and protuberances that could have been horns.
Both aliens were viewed by many witnesses, but the army warned them not to discuss the subject.
Speaking later, he said that six aliens were captured and several parts of their UFO. There were witnesses among the firefighters who were the first officials on the scene, and the military confirmed the story.
In 1997 Gevaerd's Brazilian Committee of Ufologists organized the First World Forum of Ufology in Brazil, held in Brasilia.
Answering questions from the audience during a 2001 talk show, he described the great advances that had been made in ufology in recent years, and particularly in Brazil, which he described as a leading center of research. He defended serious research into UFOs against quacksters seeking to make money, and commentators who ridiculed the subject. He discussed the many documented sightings, including reports in the Bible. He noted that there was evidence that extraterrestrial
s had been involved in the construction of the Egyptian pyramids
. He said that many different alien species had visited Earth, and that for some reason all had two arms, a torso, two legs and a head.
Gevaerd has denounced the controversial Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira, saying he had faked images of UFOs with devices such a laser pens.
Talking of a video of flying saucers over Haiti released on YouTube in late 2007, which had more than 8 million hits on YouTube, he said "It was the largest UFO phenomenon over the past 10 years. But it was a deliberate fraud. These things, while they popularize ufology, stink". He said that unmasking fraud is a major job for ufologists: easy to produce and release videos makes it difficult to separate what is fabricated from what is just inexplicable.
However, when his friend the Portuguese ufologist Nuno Alves was found by a rival magazine UFOVIA to have invented a report of a UFO crash in Holland in 1970, he came to Alves' rescue. The attacks by Alves and Gevaerd against the UFOVIA reporter were so violent that the magazine denounced both men to the police, accusing Geveard of electronic crimes and digital frauds.
In July 2008 Gevaerd asked "if we already have machines that can investigate the soil of Mars, why should other extraterrestrial beings be unable to develop technology to reach Earth?".
He said the problem is that the governments of various countries treat the issue as something top secret, but expressed hope that policy makers were beginning to change their attitude.
In August 2008 he claimed that acceptance of ETs had never been higher. He said that 6 or 7 of every 10 person polled are at least more sure than not that we are not alone in the universe and that we are visited by other species.
In February 2007 the feature-length documentary Fastwalkers
was released, featuring interviews of Gevaerd and others on the subject of UFOs and extraterrestrials.
In July 2007 the offices of UFO Magazine were raided, with valuable information taken from filing cabinet folders, along with four computers. A police officer said "it is clear that the action was premeditated and carried out by elements that had knowledge of the activities of UFO Magazine, experience with computers and knew where to find the company's most important files". Gevaerd said that that efforts to stop publication would have the opposite effect. That week the magazine launched its 25th DVD documentary, The Phoenix Lights, depicting one of the largest UFO waves in the news, in March 1997, in the city of the state of Arizona, USA.
Gevaerd was a keynote speaker in June 2008 at the first International Meeting of ufology experts in Lisbon, discussing the Varginha UFO incident
.
In August 2009 he was a keynote speaker at a ufology conference in San Clemente, Chile.
He was slated as a speaker at the 18th Annual International UFO Congress Convention and Film Festival in Laughlin, Nevada in February 2009, speaking on the need for the public to demand that the government release information about extraterrestrial life.
, Sao Paulo
in January 2000, he said that the bent reeds were not evidence. What counted was the appearance of discoidal objects.
In 2002, Gevaerd investigated crop circles in the fields of Alton Barnes in southern England, 30 km from the resort of Avebury
. He speculated that the circles and other designs in the British fields represented some kind of coded message.
In November 2008, crop circles were found in the west of Santa Catarina
. Gevaerd investigated the circles, which he said were similar to crop circles he had investigated in Europe, starting with fields located some 150 miles from London.
Later he found that they were fraudulent. He said they differed in significant respects from genuine crop circles, and there was evidence of fabrication.
On 15 April 2004 Gevaerd's Brazilian Committee of Ufologists launched a campaign called "Freedom of Information Now!" with the goal of pressuring the government to release information on UFO sightings.
On 20 May 2005, Gevaerd led a delegation of ufologists who met with Brazilian Air Force officials in Brazilia headed by Brigadier Telles Ribeiro, chief of the Air Force's Center for Public Communications.
In an interview after the meeting, Gevaerd said his group had been shown information on three specific cases: the testimony of the head of Varig
, Nagib Ayub, on a UFO seen in the airspace in Rio Grande do Sul in 1954, testimony from pilots who pursued 21 UFOs flying over Sao Paulo, Sao Jose dos Campos
and Rio de Janeiro
in May 1986, and a Brazilian Air Force investigation of UFOs held in 1977 in Pará, by Colonel Uyrange Holland, who died in 1997. According to Holland, "we detected at least nine forms of objects. Probes, spaceships, flying saucer shape ... All reports were sent by the 1st Comar to Brasilia".
At a 2007 seminar on UFOs in Chile, he disclosed "Operation Plato", a highly secret UFO research project conducted by the Brazilian Air Force.
In August 2008 Gevaerd stated that the government has plenty of information that UFOs enter Brazilian air space every day, but refuses to publish it.
Discussing the campaign for release of government information, at a September 2008 meeting of UFO enthusiasts he said "We are being visited by many civilizations from other planets. I have a feeling that we will soon have an answer to the questions we are all seeking".
In April 2009, Gevaerd described the declassification of documents that have always been declared TOP SECRET as a historic event. He said no country had gone so far in the disclosure of information on UFOs.
In September 2009, Gevaerd announced receipt of a significant new set of UFO government documents, some of which had been secret for 80 years. The documents included fresh details of UFO reports from the night of 19 May 1986, when 21 spherical objects, which according to military sources were 100 feet in diameter, were detected by radar and sighted by civilian pilots and literally blocked the main airports in Brazil including Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
However, Gevaerd said in an interview that tapes of the interception operations from that event had been destroyed.
In March 2010 Gevaerd discussed the downgrading of UFO documents by the administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva
, saying that in 2009 he had received between 50 and 80 documents with a total of four thousand pages contained information from armed forces investigation of the UFO phenomenon.
In an August 2010 interview with Terra Magazine, Gevaerd commented on the Federal Government decree that the air force should send records of any UFO sightings to the National Archives, saying the decision was in response to the campaign by the Brazilian Committee of UFO enthusiasts for freedom of information. He noted that documents already released confirmed that UFOs had been sighted frequently, and said that the government had more than 12 tons of documents about these sightings.
Commenting on some initial documents released by the Air Force on 20 March 1996 sightings of UFOs in five cities in southern Brazil, he said "It's just the tip of the iceberg". The Air Force had said they would not release any secret documents. Brigadier Jose Carlos Pereira, in charge of UFO records, said "If an extraordinary phenomenon happen, obviously that will be kept under wraps".
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian ufologist, or specialist in the study of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs).
He is editor of UFO Magazine, Founder and Director of the Brazilian Center for Flying Saucer Research (CBPDV) and Brazilian Director for Mutual UFO Network
Mutual UFO Network
The Mutual UFO Network is an American non-profit organization that investigates cases of reported UFO sightings. It is one of the oldest and largest UFO-investigative organizations in the United States....
(MUFON). He represents Brazil at the Center for UFO Studies
Center for UFO Studies
The Center for UFO Studies is a privately-funded UFO research group. It was founded in 1973 by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the Chairman of the Department of Astronomy at Northwestern University in Illinois....
.
He has appeared on the Globo Network, the Discovery Channel and the History Channel.
He has spoken in many cities in Brazil and in other 29 countries, and has conducted over 700 field investigations of UFO cases in Brazil.
He has been described as one of the most respected of ufologists.
Early career
On 6 March 1982, spectators at a football match at the MorenãoMorenão
Morenão, also known as Estádio Universitário Pedro Pedrossian, is the home ground of Operário and Esporte Clube Comercial. It is located at Cidade Universitária , in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil....
stadium in Campo Grande
Campo Grande
-Climate:Campo Grande has a highland tropical climate, semi-humid, hot, and notably seasonal, with a dry winter season from May through September or October. Under the Koppen climate classification Campo Grande features a tropical wet and dry climate, albeit a noticeably cooler version of the...
saw a cigar-shaped object with lights at each end flying overhead.
At that time, Ademar José Gevaerd was teaching chemistry in Maringá
Maringá
Maringá is a city in southern Brazil that was founded on May 10, 1947. Maringá is the third largest city in the state of Paraná. The city has a population of 357,117 , 612,617 in its metropolitan area...
, Paraná state. Convinced that the object was a flying saucer, and hearing of other sightings at the same time in Sao Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
, Paraná, Argentina, Bolivia
Bolivia
Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
and Paraguay
Paraguay
Paraguay , officially the Republic of Paraguay , is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. Paraguay lies on both banks of the Paraguay River, which runs through the center of the...
, he decided to undertake a deeper study of UFOs.
In 1985 he launched the magazine Ufologia Nacional & Internacional, which ceased publication in 1986. In 1988 he started UFO Magazine, still being published in 2010.
In 1986 he left his teaching job to devote himself full time to UFOs.
The monthly UFO Magazine now has a circulation of 30,000.
Gevaerd also runs the Brazilian Center for Flying Saucer Research, with 3,300 members.
While attending a conference in Las Vegas
Las Vegas metropolitan area
The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...
in 1992, he personally experienced what may have been a UFO while driving in the Nevada Desert in the USA, near the Area 51
Area 51
Area 51 is a military base, and a remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base. It is located in the southern portion of Nevada in the western United States, 83 miles north-northwest of downtown Las Vegas. Situated at its center, on the southern shore of Groom Lake, is a large military airfield...
military base.
Views on UFOs
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
, Gevaerd reported that UFO sightings around the world had risen by more than 200% in the past year. He said "there are places where there has been a 400 percent rise. This means a true wave of UFOs visiting Earth, and I have more 100 slides to prove it".
Speaking at the Australian International UFO Symposium in Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
, Queensland, Australia in October 1996, he discussed two aliens allegedly captured by the army after their space vehicle crashed in Varginha
Varginha
Varginha is a city and municipality in southwest Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The estimated population is approximately 120,000 inhabitants and the area of the municipality is 396.39 km²...
, Brazil on 20 January 1996. The description of one of the creatures was similar to that of the standard short grey alien, but it had greasy brown skin, red eyes and protuberances that could have been horns.
Both aliens were viewed by many witnesses, but the army warned them not to discuss the subject.
Speaking later, he said that six aliens were captured and several parts of their UFO. There were witnesses among the firefighters who were the first officials on the scene, and the military confirmed the story.
In 1997 Gevaerd's Brazilian Committee of Ufologists organized the First World Forum of Ufology in Brazil, held in Brasilia.
Answering questions from the audience during a 2001 talk show, he described the great advances that had been made in ufology in recent years, and particularly in Brazil, which he described as a leading center of research. He defended serious research into UFOs against quacksters seeking to make money, and commentators who ridiculed the subject. He discussed the many documented sightings, including reports in the Bible. He noted that there was evidence that extraterrestrial
Extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life is defined as life that does not originate from Earth...
s had been involved in the construction of the Egyptian pyramids
Egyptian pyramids
The Egyptian pyramids are ancient pyramid-shaped masonry structures located in Egypt.There are 138 pyramids discovered in Egypt as of 2008. Most were built as tombs for the country's Pharaohs and their consorts during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods.The earliest known Egyptian pyramids are found...
. He said that many different alien species had visited Earth, and that for some reason all had two arms, a torso, two legs and a head.
Gevaerd has denounced the controversial Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira, saying he had faked images of UFOs with devices such a laser pens.
Talking of a video of flying saucers over Haiti released on YouTube in late 2007, which had more than 8 million hits on YouTube, he said "It was the largest UFO phenomenon over the past 10 years. But it was a deliberate fraud. These things, while they popularize ufology, stink". He said that unmasking fraud is a major job for ufologists: easy to produce and release videos makes it difficult to separate what is fabricated from what is just inexplicable.
However, when his friend the Portuguese ufologist Nuno Alves was found by a rival magazine UFOVIA to have invented a report of a UFO crash in Holland in 1970, he came to Alves' rescue. The attacks by Alves and Gevaerd against the UFOVIA reporter were so violent that the magazine denounced both men to the police, accusing Geveard of electronic crimes and digital frauds.
In July 2008 Gevaerd asked "if we already have machines that can investigate the soil of Mars, why should other extraterrestrial beings be unable to develop technology to reach Earth?".
He said the problem is that the governments of various countries treat the issue as something top secret, but expressed hope that policy makers were beginning to change their attitude.
In August 2008 he claimed that acceptance of ETs had never been higher. He said that 6 or 7 of every 10 person polled are at least more sure than not that we are not alone in the universe and that we are visited by other species.
In February 2007 the feature-length documentary Fastwalkers
Fastwalkers
Fastwalkers is a term created by the North American Aerospace Defense Command to classify Unidentified Flying Objects which enter or leave the atmosphere at a great velocity and which are sometimes captured on the Defense Support Program satellite system...
was released, featuring interviews of Gevaerd and others on the subject of UFOs and extraterrestrials.
In July 2007 the offices of UFO Magazine were raided, with valuable information taken from filing cabinet folders, along with four computers. A police officer said "it is clear that the action was premeditated and carried out by elements that had knowledge of the activities of UFO Magazine, experience with computers and knew where to find the company's most important files". Gevaerd said that that efforts to stop publication would have the opposite effect. That week the magazine launched its 25th DVD documentary, The Phoenix Lights, depicting one of the largest UFO waves in the news, in March 1997, in the city of the state of Arizona, USA.
Gevaerd was a keynote speaker in June 2008 at the first International Meeting of ufology experts in Lisbon, discussing the Varginha UFO incident
Varginha UFO incident
The Varginha incident is an incident in information transmission in Brazil broadcasting. In 1996, popular reports informed that strange creatures were supposedly captured by Brazilian officials...
.
In August 2009 he was a keynote speaker at a ufology conference in San Clemente, Chile.
He was slated as a speaker at the 18th Annual International UFO Congress Convention and Film Festival in Laughlin, Nevada in February 2009, speaking on the need for the public to demand that the government release information about extraterrestrial life.
Crop circles
Discussing UFO sightings and crop circles that appeared near RiolândiaRiolândia
Riolândia is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2004 was 8,970 and the area is 632.67 km². The elevation is 438 m....
, Sao Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
in January 2000, he said that the bent reeds were not evidence. What counted was the appearance of discoidal objects.
In 2002, Gevaerd investigated crop circles in the fields of Alton Barnes in southern England, 30 km from the resort of Avebury
Avebury
Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles which is located around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, south west England. Unique amongst megalithic monuments, Avebury contains the largest stone circle in Europe, and is one of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain...
. He speculated that the circles and other designs in the British fields represented some kind of coded message.
In November 2008, crop circles were found in the west of Santa Catarina
Santa Catarina (state)
Santa Catarina is a state in southern Brazil with one of the highest standards of living in Latin America. Its capital is Florianópolis, which mostly lies on the Santa Catarina Island. Neighbouring states are Rio Grande do Sul to the south and Paraná to the north. It is bounded on the east by...
. Gevaerd investigated the circles, which he said were similar to crop circles he had investigated in Europe, starting with fields located some 150 miles from London.
Later he found that they were fraudulent. He said they differed in significant respects from genuine crop circles, and there was evidence of fabrication.
Government information
Gevaerd has said that one of the reasons why ufologists do not let themselves be discouraged by lack of proof for their theories is due to the fact most of them believe in the existence of a government conspiracy to hide the truth from the people.On 15 April 2004 Gevaerd's Brazilian Committee of Ufologists launched a campaign called "Freedom of Information Now!" with the goal of pressuring the government to release information on UFO sightings.
On 20 May 2005, Gevaerd led a delegation of ufologists who met with Brazilian Air Force officials in Brazilia headed by Brigadier Telles Ribeiro, chief of the Air Force's Center for Public Communications.
In an interview after the meeting, Gevaerd said his group had been shown information on three specific cases: the testimony of the head of Varig
Varig
VARIG was the first airline founded in Brazil, in 1927. From 1965 until 1990 it was Brazil's leading and almost only international airline...
, Nagib Ayub, on a UFO seen in the airspace in Rio Grande do Sul in 1954, testimony from pilots who pursued 21 UFOs flying over Sao Paulo, Sao Jose dos Campos
São José dos Campos
São José dos Campos is a municipality and a major city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil and one of the most important industrial and research centers in Latin America. It is located in the Paraíba Valley, between the two most active production and consumption regions in the country, São Paulo ...
and Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
in May 1986, and a Brazilian Air Force investigation of UFOs held in 1977 in Pará, by Colonel Uyrange Holland, who died in 1997. According to Holland, "we detected at least nine forms of objects. Probes, spaceships, flying saucer shape ... All reports were sent by the 1st Comar to Brasilia".
At a 2007 seminar on UFOs in Chile, he disclosed "Operation Plato", a highly secret UFO research project conducted by the Brazilian Air Force.
In August 2008 Gevaerd stated that the government has plenty of information that UFOs enter Brazilian air space every day, but refuses to publish it.
Discussing the campaign for release of government information, at a September 2008 meeting of UFO enthusiasts he said "We are being visited by many civilizations from other planets. I have a feeling that we will soon have an answer to the questions we are all seeking".
In April 2009, Gevaerd described the declassification of documents that have always been declared TOP SECRET as a historic event. He said no country had gone so far in the disclosure of information on UFOs.
In September 2009, Gevaerd announced receipt of a significant new set of UFO government documents, some of which had been secret for 80 years. The documents included fresh details of UFO reports from the night of 19 May 1986, when 21 spherical objects, which according to military sources were 100 feet in diameter, were detected by radar and sighted by civilian pilots and literally blocked the main airports in Brazil including Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
However, Gevaerd said in an interview that tapes of the interception operations from that event had been destroyed.
In March 2010 Gevaerd discussed the downgrading of UFO documents by the administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , known popularly as Lula, served as the 35th President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010.A founding member of the Workers' Party , he ran for President three times unsuccessfully, first in the 1989 election. Lula achieved victory in the 2002 election, and was inaugurated as...
, saying that in 2009 he had received between 50 and 80 documents with a total of four thousand pages contained information from armed forces investigation of the UFO phenomenon.
In an August 2010 interview with Terra Magazine, Gevaerd commented on the Federal Government decree that the air force should send records of any UFO sightings to the National Archives, saying the decision was in response to the campaign by the Brazilian Committee of UFO enthusiasts for freedom of information. He noted that documents already released confirmed that UFOs had been sighted frequently, and said that the government had more than 12 tons of documents about these sightings.
Commenting on some initial documents released by the Air Force on 20 March 1996 sightings of UFOs in five cities in southern Brazil, he said "It's just the tip of the iceberg". The Air Force had said they would not release any secret documents. Brigadier Jose Carlos Pereira, in charge of UFO records, said "If an extraordinary phenomenon happen, obviously that will be kept under wraps".