Herald-Tribune.com - Billy Cox, 4/29/13
Brazilian UFO Magazine editor A.J. Grevaerd is pushing Brazil’s military to begin transparent UFO research like its South American neighbors in Chile, Uruguay and Peru./CREDIT: citizenhearing.org
Imagine 10 Pentagon officials from every branch of the military, including the Secretary of Defense, agreeing to pow-wow for 75 minutes with civilian UFO researchers. Imagine, at the end of that meeting, in an ostensible show of good faith — or maybe it was just window dressing, who knows — the brass actually concedes the civilians may be on to something. And it agrees to give them access to some of the most contentious UFO records on file. Well, change the venue from the U.S. to Brazil, and that’s exactly what happened in Brasilia on April 18, according to A.J. Grevaerd.
As editor of Brazilian UFO Magazine, Grevaerd has been covering The Great Taboo forever in South America’s biggest country, and he has sources out the wazoo. He also works amid a radically different cultural climate; Brazil’s Ministry of Defense is far less reluctant to speak on the record about UFOs than its American counterparts. In fact, Grevaerd writes, the unprecedented 4/18 meeting was the MoD’s direct response to a letter emerging from the 4th World UFO Forum in Brasilia last December, which called for more data-sharing with civilians. The ufologists, or the Brazilian Commmittee of UFO Researchers (CBU), also pressed for joint civilian-military study of The Great Taboo. Some 600 people attended that conference, which featured 30 speakers from a dozen countries.
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