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🚨BREAKING🚨 : Brazil's former Defense Minister and current presidential candidate Aldo Rebelo (@aldorebelo) confirms the country has had contact with non-human intelligence dating back to at least the 70’s. He says that in 1977, in Colares, UFOs were injuring civilians in the Amazon with burns, puncture wounds and blood loss serious enough to trigger a classified military investigation. In 1986, six fighter jets were scrambled against 21 unidentified craft detected by radar – the objects were flying at Mach 20+ and making right angle turns, maneuvers well beyond the capabilities of the most advanced craft today. He also confirms that the 1996 Varginha UFO crash occurred, that non-human beings were encountered, and says he fully believes the neurosurgeon who came face to face with one of them in a hospital bed. He also confirms the American military would have had an immediate strategic interest in the case. Rebelo says there is more classified information about these cases and others, and that they should be released alongside The United States’. Rebelo’s confirmation of the events at Varginha is the equivalent of former Defense Ministers in the United States like Robert Gates or Jim Mattis saying Roswell happened; its world history that can’t be walked back. And it ends decades of condescension and gaslighting from top ranking officials on this topic. Rebelo also points out that Brazil sits on some of the largest rare earth and strategic mineral reserves in the world, and that UFO sightings cluster heavily around those same regions. The same sovereignty argument he applies to the Amazon and to Brazil's relationships with the United States and China, he applies to what is in those classified UFO files. Brazil's contact belongs to Brazil. If the United States doesn’t get in front of high level statements and endorsements like these, they’ll find themselves behind the rest of the world on UFO disclosure. Because ultimately, they don’t have a monopoly on UFOs. Aldo Rebelo has spent four decades at the center of Brazilian politics, rising to become Speaker of the lower house of Congress, Defense Minister, and briefly acting President of Brazil. He’s also a rare erudite intellectual in today’s political class having a library with over 6,000 books. His statements on non-human intelligence will be etched in the historical record forever. This conversation would not be happening without the foundational investigative work of AJ Gevaerd, James Fox (@jamescfox), Vitório Pacaccini, Marco Leal and others. Full conversation with him is live now.