Brazil
Every logged mystery in this country.
- Pará
Colares / Operação Prato
In 1977, hundreds of residents of this Amazon river island reported burns and blood loss from silent, glowing lights, prompting Brazil's Air Force to run its only known dedicated UFO investigation.
- Minas Gerais
Memorial do ET, Varginha
Three young women told police they saw a crouching creature with red eyes in a vacant lot on January 20, 1996. The Army investigated and concluded they had mistaken a local man in bad weather. The town built a water tower shaped like a flying saucer and, in 2022, a museum.
- Federal District
Vale do Amanhecer
A religion founded in 1969 by Neiva Chaves Zelaya, one of the first women to drive trucks for a living in Brazil, whose mediums hold that they are reincarnations of extraterrestrial beings who reached Earth some 32,000 years ago. Around 600 temples now operate worldwide, and at the mother temple outside Planaltina thousands of mediums in ceremonial dress give readings to any visitor who asks, without charge.