Edison Boaventura Jr.

Edison Boaventura Jr. is a Brazilian ufologist born December 12, 1966, in Santos, São Paulo, whose defining encounter came in 1981 in nearby Guarujá, when as a teenager he reported watching a large object release sixteen smaller luminous objects, an experience he credits with setting the course of more than four decades of field investigation along São Paulo's coastline. On August 4, 1985, he founded the Grupo Ufológico do Guarujá (GUG), a registered nonprofit research body that has investigated hundreds of reported sightings, landings, and disappearances and published the quarterly bulletin Supysáua to subscribers in Brazil and abroad. Holding a bachelor's degree in Theology with graduate studies in Religious Education, Boaventura spent years as a bank manager at Banco do Brasil in parallel with his research before devoting himself to it full-time; he has served as vice-president of the Instituto Nacional de Fenômenos Aeroespaciais (INFA) and, at the invitation of founder Walter H. Andrus Jr., as a director of the American organization MUFON. He was one of a core group of seven researchers granted full access to the original photographic, video, and audio material gathered during the 1996 Varginha "ET" case. He describes his personal archive of declassified Air Force, Army, Navy, SNI/ABIN, and police documents as Brazil's largest, and in September 2016 his own photograph of a metallic disc over São Bernardo do Campo drew a formal request from the Brazilian Air Force and review by more than a dozen international photo analysts. He has investigated cases in 17 countries, authored books including Alienígenas no Passado do Brasil (2015) and OVNI Arquivos Militares – Caso Ibiúna (2016), and hosts the YouTube program Enigmas e Mistérios.