A publicização dos arquivos ultrassecretos no Brasil: o caso dos arquivos de ufologia à luz do direito à informação

Abstract

The Evolution of the Right to Information is very expressive, and follows the changes of the ideas of state formation and democracy. More recently, governments seek to regulate its access that has also became a fundamental right, after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However, by 2011, Brazil only had rules regulating secrecy. But secret documents, due to recent legal changes, could became inaccessible forever. In attention to recent evolutions in laws, which suggest that the access to information of state should become the rule, considering the need for democratic participation of citizens and guarantee of other rights, Brazilian Courts recognized the need to regulate access in the country. In this scenario, great change in respect of UFO documents which are in government custody have happened. Advances for publicizing these files occurred due to the mobilization of ufologists, what represent a great achievement and development in the area. However, due to the possibility of existing top secret documents in ufology, many issues will remain without a satisfactory conclusion. Thus, this paper proposes to study the right to information and its access in Brazil, since its identification as a fundamental right, following the evolution of the regulation of files by National Constitutions, and, specifically, the treatment of top secret documents, until the approval of the Law 12,527. For this, it will be used deductive method, since the analysis goes from a general assumption to an specific one, the monographic method, considering that it will be studied the specific case of ufology files, the right to information and the access to files, to get to general conclusions, and the bibliographic method, considering the use of different kinds of sources to do the research, such as books and documents. It are objectives to discover which are the difficulties that scholars in ufology face to access top-secret documents and also the importance to the society and to the evolution of studies in ufology by publicizing those files, considering the legislative evolution and also the recent regulations of the Right to Information and its access in Brazil.