— Over the last two weeks, repeatedly, Brazilian media and local netizens reported that Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) were sighted by civilian pilots & local civilians over the skies of the southern states of the country of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, leading to intercept attempts by Brazilian Air Force combat aircraft.
According to local newspapers, when civilian pilots spotted the luminous objects and reported this to the Control Towers at local airports, flight controllers reported that nothing appeared or showed up on radar, with pilots reporting that the lights did not appear also in the cameras of their cellphones on board of the planes nor on the transponder of the planes
Such incidents, which were initially reported by local pages, eventually became a topic of discussion on Brazilian social medias, amid the country's radicalized and tense political climate, with many netizens joking about a "possible alien intervention" to "prevent a Civil War" in the largest country in South America.
