Published: 9 August
2018
(Rede Brasileira de Pesquisas Ufológicas (YouTube channel), Brazil
Video text (English translation by Google Translate):
Video text (English translation by Google Translate):
“Listen to the only interview that Major Gilberto Zani de Mello gave in
1968 to Rádio Alvorada de Lins, when he publicly confirmed that the Brazilian
Air Force was researching, officially, through CIOANI, the Unidentified Flying
Objects.
This rare interview, made by the journalist Saulo Gomes, who became
famous for his Pinga Fogo programme, was kindly given to BURN by our friend
Osmar de Freitas, from GEONI.”
Wikipedia article (translated by Google Translate): “SIOANI”:
Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“The SIOANI, acronym for Air Object Research System Unidentified,
was an organizational structure formally established by the Command of the 4th
Air Zone FAB, current IV Air Regional Command (COMAR) [note 1] for research and
research scientific phenomenon of Unidentified Aerial Object, the so-called
OANI [1], between the years 1969 and 1972. It was sponsored by Brigadier José
Vaz da Silva, commander of the 4th Air Zone and coordinated by Major Gilberto
Zani de Mello. [2]
Organization
Headquartered at the Headquarters of the 4th Air Force, in the Cambuci
neighborhood, in the city of São Paulo
‘This Air Zone, through its
Commander, Hon. Major Brig JOSÉ VAZ DA SILVA, received from the Hon. Minister
of Aeronautics the responsibility of these surveys (...) in the certainty of
your collaboration, appointing a military man to do the research of the OANI
fact mentioned in the newspaper note (...)’ [11]
The head of the system was CIOANI, the Central for Investigations of
Unidentified Aerial Objects, which directed and coordinated the entire
organization. Its chief, Colonel Zani, was also head of the 2nd Section of the
4th Air Zone [2], as the FAB secret service was called. The system divided the
country into zones, called ZIOANI - OANI Research Zone, which were confused
with Air Zones, the current Regional Air Commands - COMAR, existing at the time
of the 1st to the 6th. In designing the system, as described in Bulletin 1,
each ZIOANI should have a general coordinator to which it would be linked
laterally to the NIOANI - OANI Research Nucleus, who would carry out the
investigations and collect materials for research. Each ZIOANI could have
several of these nuclei, however, the subordination of NIOANIs was directly to
the head of CIOANI. The system would also have the FAB’s infrastructure for
transportation and communications. For laboratory analysis, laboratories
(LIOANI) would be designated by CIOANI [1].
According to the testimony of the civil investigator, member of SIOANI,
Acassil de Oliveira, the teams composed of 3 to 4 people had cameras, a
magnetometer, a Geiger counter, infrared and ultraviolet equipment. The material
collected at the alleged landing sites of OANI was analyzed at ITA - Instituto
Tecnológico de Aeronáutica in São José dos Campos
and sometimes by laboratories in the United States
FAB military personnel would exercise their duties at SIOANI together
with their other functions designated by their military body and civilian
employees would not be paid. It was a voluntary system [ 12 ].”
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Major Gilberto Zani de Mello, Brazilian Air Force (FAB)
(Rede Brasileira de Pesquisas Ufológicas photo)