Documented sightings reported in Brazil, sorted from most recent.
Three women encountered a strange being in daylight in Varginha; military reportedly captured creatures, and a policeman who handled one died weeks later.
Brazil scrambled five fighters to intercept 21 radar targets; the Air Minister held a press conference confirming 'we have technical evidence that something was there.'
Brazilian Air Force 'Operation Saucer' investigated UFOs reportedly attacking residents with beams of light, producing over 500 photographs.
A photographer aboard a Brazilian Navy ship captured photos of a Saturn-shaped UFO over Trindade Island, endorsed by the Navy and the President of Brazil.
Brazilian farmer Antônio Villas Boas reported the first widely-documented modern abduction case - including a medical exam and a sexual encounter - in October 1957, four years before Betty and Barney Hill.
Anonymous fragments allegedly recovered from an exploding UFO off Brazil's São Paulo coast were tested at multiple labs and found to be 99.9%-pure magnesium - one of the longest-running physical-evidence cases in UFO history.