Anápolis radar-interceptor OVNI case — VI COMAR A/2 report, 1982 (SIAN 0224)
What: a Brazilian Air Force CONFIDENCIAL report — SEXTO COMANDO AÉREO REGIONAL, Seção de Informações A/2, Encaminhamento Nº 034/S1/VI COMAR/82, 12 JUL 1982 — forwarding a detailed Relatório sobre Objetos Voadores Não Identificados em Anápolis, on radar contacts and visual observations at the Anápolis air terminal between 28 Apr and 16 May 1982. Anápolis was the base of the FAB’s interceptor wing, so this is a radar-plus-interceptor case. Source: Arquivo Nacional, Fundo OVNI (BR DFANBSB ARX), id 0224 (26 pp) — http://imagem.sian.an.gov.br/acervo/derivadas/br_dfanbsb_arx/0/0/0224/br_dfanbsb_arx_0_0_0224_d0001de0001.pdf. Extraction: Gemini (gemini-3-flash-preview) OCR, 2026-06-06. Government document, public domain. Fund: arquivo-nacional-ovni-fund-index.
What it documents (verbatim excerpts, Gemini OCR)
A multi-night radar/visual episode logged by air-defense controllers, with interceptor scrambles:
“DIA 28 Abr 82 — Às 22:25P, começaram a aparecer no escope do TA-10 vários alvos móveis, entre as radiais 080/110 graus… Pela velocidade, dava a impressão de ser uma esquadrilha de helicópteros; como a proa dos alvos convergia para a Base…” — controllers vectored airborne fighters (JG NG) onto the contacts. “…o JG NG 2 avistou um dos alvos e, ao aproximar-se, o suposto objeto apagou as luzes, ocasionando a perda de contato visual.” After landing, officers (Ten Cel Carlos, Cap Dantas) watched the TABA radar and “puderam ver um alvo bem grande de alguma coisa não identificada.”
Over the following nights the report logs ~9 objects moving generally E↔W, contacts confirmed by two independent radars (TABA and the COpM’s LP-23), F-103 interceptor verification sorties (mostly no visual/radar acquisition by the fighters), speeds from ~30 kt to ~100 kt, and altitudes around 5,700 ft. A recurring control-room note: when the COpM held no positive contact it did not record video — and where its own tape was reviewed, “não se nota nenhum contato radar positivo, semelhante ao reportado por TABA” (the two centers’ radars did not always agree).
This is the 1982 Anápolis case: a multi-witness, multi-radar, interceptor-involved military UFO episode — the instrumented, air-defense end of the Fundo OVNI, analytically distinct from (and weightier than) single-witness visual reports, though the report itself reaches no determination and notes the inter-radar inconsistencies.