User:Gevaerd/Biography

A. J. Gevaerd, 44, father of three children, studied Chemistry in several universities in Brazil. Chemistry was his first passion and he became a teacher of it as young as 14 years old. By that time, he was already pursuing the mysteries involved in the UFO Phenomena and was a devoted investigator of flying saucers sightings and alien contact with humans. He started lecturing about UFOs in 1978. In 1985, when 23 years old, he decided to quit his carrier as a Chemistry teacher to devote full time to his UFO researches.

A. J. is the founder and editor of the Brazilian UFO Magazine, the only one existing in his country, for 21 years, and the long-lasting magazine about Ufology in the entire world today. Brazilian UFO Magazine has now two companions, UFO Special and UFO Documental. All the three magazines are monthly and circulate all over Brazil and Portugal in 44,000 issues. A. J. is also de founder and director of the Brazilian Center for Flying Saucer Research (CBPDV), the largest organization in South America, with over 3,300 members.

As he started his activities as a field investigator very soon, A. J. Gevaerd has been engaged in Ufology for 31 years and investigated over 3,000 cases personally. For the past 21 years, he is the only UFO researcher in Brazil exclusively dedicated to the UFO Phenomenon investigation in a professional manner as the editor of his magazines. He leads a team of over 300 experts in the subject that are members of the Brazilian UFO Magazine’s editorial board. As a national and international speaker, A. J. had lectured over 3,000 times in dozens of cities in his country and conducted investigations and lectures in other 39 countries around the world.

In 1983, he was appointed by Dr. J. Allen Hynek to be the representative of the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) in Brazil. He is presently one of the international directors of the Annual International UFO Congress, Laughlin, and Brazilian director for both Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and Skywatch International. A. J. is the creator of the campaign UFOs: Freedom of Information Now and head of the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers, that has recently been received by the Nation’s military and examined secret UFO docs by the very first time in Brazil, in the most recent official UFO disclosure in the World.

A. J. Gevaerd has been regularly interviewed by national and foreign radio talk shows, including Whitley Strieber’s Dreamland, Errol-Bruce Knapp’s Strange Days Indeed, George Noory and Art Bell’s Coast to Cost, and Jeff Rense’s Rense Program. He has also served as consultant to many TV documentaries produced in Brazil, especially by the largest TV network Globo, and in several other countries.

E-mail addresses: gevaerd@ufo.com.br editor@ufo.com.br www.ufo.com.br