page_title: Unidentified flying object
section_title: Brazil
hierarchical_section_title: Unidentified flying object / Investigations / Brazil
caption_attribution_description: Português: Registro de avistamento de Objeto Voador Não Identificado - OVNI ocorrido em dezembro de 1977, na Bahia. Fundo Objeto Voador Não Identificado (OVNI)
context_page_description: An unidentified flying object is any aerial phenomenon that cannot immediately be identified or explained. Most UFOs are identified on investigation as conventional objects or phenomena. The term is widely used for claimed observations of extraterrestrial spacecraft.
context_section_description: On October 31, 2008, the National Archives of Brazil began receiving from the Aeronautical Documentation and History Center part of the documentation of the Brazilian Air Force regarding the investigation of the appearance of UFOs in Brazil. Currently this collection gathers cases between 1952 and 2016.
caption: Document on sighting of a UFO occurred on December 16, 1977, in the state of Bahia, Brazil
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