Francisco Mourão Corrêa

Francisco Mourão Corrêa was a Portuguese UFO researcher who focused on anomalous aerial sightings in Portugal, examining historical UFO encounters far beyond the well-known Fatima event. He built lasting relationships with pioneer researchers in Portugal and lectured at UFO conferences across Europe. In 2009 he founded the Portuguese Exopolitics Initiative, which was later registered as a non-profit.

• Portuguese UFO researcher with an early interest in intelligent extraterrestrial life
• Investigated Portuguese and international UFO cases
• Built lasting relationships with pioneer researchers in Portugal
• Focused on unexplained aerial sightings beyond the Fatima events, including Cold War cases
• Founded the Portuguese Exopolitics Initiative in 2009, later registered as a non-profit
• Lectured at UFO conferences across Europe; appeared in documentaries for National Geographic and the History Channel
• Co-founder of the Global Exopolitics Organization, Advisory Board of the Exopolitics Institute, co-founder and Europe Director of ICER

For the UAP timeline, Mourão Corrêa is the most important Portuguese institutional actor — he anchors the Portuguese strand of UAP research in a European and global network and ensures that Lusophone cases do not remain confined to Portugal but become part of a transnational exopolitics debate.