SOUTH AMERICA

The Humanoids in Latin America Cases 1-21

GORDON CREIGHTON

Introduction

 For some years past it has been increasingly obvious that the very kernel of our problem is the so-called ‘contact-report’, so incredible, so baffling, that the instinctive reaction of sane folk has been to fight shy of it altogether.

But we cannot ignore it, because it is virtually all the material we have to work with. It is the ‘contact story’ and not the ‘Flying Saucer story’ or ‘UFO report’ that we must endeavour first to understand. If and when we have grasped what these tales of ‘landings’ and of ‘contacts’ with entities mean, we may (per­haps) be on the road to understanding some of the larger aspects of the problem.

One thing at least is certain. These stories of alleged meetings with denizens of other worlds or realms or levels of existence constitute a fascinating social, psychological—and possibly also a PARA-psychological enigma. And surely an enigma of some urgency, for if the growing numbers of people all over our planet who claim these experiences are indeed hallucinated, or, as we are confidently told, suffering from the stresses and strains of the Nuclear Age, then it is as plain as a pikestaff that they are in grave need of psychological study and medical attention. If a new brand of psychosis is loose amongst us, then, instead of wasting so much time on why we hate our fathers and love our mothers, our mental experts and psychologists ought to have been in there right from the start, studying and combating this new plague since its outbreak nearly twenty years ago! Valuable time has been lost. By now, they might have come to important conclusions - or even licked the malady.

This list contains sixty-five cases in which residents of Lath America have claimed to have seen or contacted ‘entitles’, Naturally no suggestion Is made that the list is In any way com­plete; there must have been scores of such cases of which we have no knowledge. This list contains all that I have found. Inevitably, a good many of the earlier cases will be familiar to many readers, but I feel that most people will not mind seeing them again, and all will appreciate the opportunity to have them in a compact form, even though many are trimmed down to the barest details in order to include them all,

But almost half of the cases now covered will be entirely new to nearly everyone. Flying Saucer Review is fortunate in the quality of its correspondents in Latin America, and it is a pleasure to place on record here the enormous debt which is owed to Senor Oscar A. Galindez in Argentina; to Dr W. Buhler, Dr Olavo Fontes and Mr. Nigel Rimes in Brazil; and to Mr. C. H. Maxwell in Chile.

From these devoted collaborators and from other sources, Flying Saucer Review received from Latin America, in respect of the single year 1965, a total of well over 500 reports and press-clippings. Analysis of this staggering total shows that there were fifty-one ‘landings’ in Latin America in 1965. And in no less than twenty five of these fifty-one cases, the entities were seen or contacted. These 1965 lauding cases, nos. 40—65 in the list, amount thus to almost half of all the Latin American cases found since 1947 and the figures are overwhelming proof, if any proof be needed, that in 1965 the new epidemic reached an intensity in the lands lying between Mexico and Cape Horn that is totally unprecedented,

It is evident that the stress and strain of the Atomic Age is telling very heavily upon these Lath American countries, despite the fact that they are, in the main, non-industrialised, rather old-fashioned societies. Indeed, in many cases they are semi-feudal societies, whose populations (often mestizo or part mestizo) were unscathed by both World Wars, lie furthest from the theatres of any likely future conflicts, are largely illiterate (at least in many of the republics), and neither know nor care about doings in the wider world outside, How strange it is thenthat precisely such people as these should get the psychosis so badly!

In making this list, I had hoped that some very clear and simple pattern would emerge, as I understand has been the case at least with the studies of the great French and European ‘wave’ of 1954. Unfortunately, the picture that emerges is far more con­fused and inchoate. Even so, patterns there are, and we find the following:

‘Giants’ 6 cases

‘Tall’ men 9 cases

‘Medium’ or ‘normal-sized’ men 5 cases

‘Small’ men 10 cases

‘Tiny’ men 89 cm to 1 m 12 cases

‘Hairy, bellicose dwarfs’ 5 cases

‘Greenish’ creatures 3 cases

‘Hairy giant’ 1 case

 Such categories may signify nothing, since It all depends on what you mean by ‘giant’, or ‘big’, ‘medium’, ‘small’, and so on. But be it noted that of the five ‘hairy dwarf’ cases (possibly only four, as the word ‘hairy’ was not actually used in No. 11), nearly all fell within the span of a few days (November 28— December 16, 1954), and all were in Venezuela.

The category of ‘hairy dwarfs’ thus forces itself upon our attention. And so does another category—that of the ‘long-haired men’. Poor Adamski had plenty of ridicule heaped upon him for his ‘long-haired Venusian’, and one begins to wonder precisely why. For it is an undeniable fact that we have in Latin America five claims in which ‘long hair’ is mentioned specifically:

 ‘Tall men with long hair’ (Nos. 19 and 23) 2 cases

‘Medium men with long hair’ (Nos. 7 and 10) 2 cases (within a month of one another, in 1954, and in

the same State of Brazil)

‘Small men with long hair’ (No. 21) 1 case

 These accounts of ‘long-haired men’ seen in Latin America and elsewhere (there is even a good British case) are extremely important. Honesty demands that they be studied most carefully. I feel that this has not been done. Was it because of the fearthat Adamski might turn out to be right?

The word ‘robot’ was used several times m Latin America, but may only relate to stiff movement of an entity in a space suit; we can hardly make a category out of it at this stage.

The next category which strikes us is that of the tiny creatures of 80 centimetres, 90 centimetres, or 1 metre. Note how in all twelve cases this very specific estimate is given. And all twelve cases were in 1965. What can this mean? Does it mean that the psychosis has suddenly changed its symptoms in 1965 and makes its victims see smaller creatures? Or can it be that a new species has arrived Irons somewhere? Has there perhaps been a take-over: a change of ‘ownership’ here? Have they driven out the larger fellows, the ‘noble Venusians’ of earlier years? Would we necessarily know?, , . Quien lo sabe?

 A new category

 And finally, we have another category that has emerged. The malady grows more acute, and we have the problem of the single eye. Our list contains no less than five accounts of creatures with only one eye. Cases 30 and 41 relate to tall beings, in the range of 2 metres or so, seen allegedly in August 1963 and February 1965 respectively. The other three cases (Nos. 56, 58, 62) were all in Peru, fell within a period of less than thirty days (August 31-September 29, 1965), and relate to nine creatures 80 centimetres high.

To our way of thinking the very idea of having only one eye is too ridiculous to contemplate. And it may very well be that all five cases simply arise from a mistaken interpretation of the type of ‘window’ in the front of helmets worn by certain entities.

At the same time, since we know nothing whatever about the Universe and nothing whatever about the real nature or meaning of this so-called Flying Saucer phenomenon now occurring, it is wise to maintain completely open minds. In his extremely Interesting book Strange People (published 1965), the well-known American UFO investigator Frank Edwards tells us that, in a backwoods community in Mississippi, there dwells at the present day an unfortunate American Negro, middle-aged, who all his life has been dodging the importunate showmen and circusowners who want to make him (and themselves) rich by exploit­ing his remarkable congenital oddity, to wit, one solitary normal-sized eye precisely in the middle of his forehead.

He is, of course, a freak of nature. But how can we be sure that somewhere in the Cosmos such freakishness is not normal?

And let us not forget that, in our own Greek mythology, we have the tradition of the Kuktopes, the Cyclopes, who were one-eyed giants, so we are told, though the proper meaning of the word is actually round-eyed. If we choose to take it in this correct sense of ‘round-eyed’, then the gentry encountered by José Higgins, right at the start of my survey, would appear to fit the bill very nicely. If, on the other hand, we choose to assume that single-eyed creatures really do exist in the Universe —and the Cyclopes might well have been some of them who visited the earth in the days of the Greeks—then it looks as though we possess five pieces of evidence that their lone optics have recently been trained on the scenic beauties of South America.

But there still remain a host of jokers in our pack, and par­ticularly the creatures with three eyes (No. 28) and the other one with various extra eyes up and down the body (No. 56). Nobody can say that the ufological fauna of Latin America is not re­markably diversified. Surely somebody, somewhere, is having a wonderful game with us! How Charles Fort would have loved it all!

Still, enough is enough. We dream of a logical Universe; ‘what if it isn’t logical at all, but a vast surrealist nightmare? If we hear, next year, that squint-eyed shrimps or furry triffids are enjoying the winter sports in the Andes, I, for one, shall begin to think pretty seriously about calling in one of those psychiatrists.

1. Bauru, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil

On July 23, 5947 (only twenty-nine clays after Kenneth Arnold’s classic sighting in the U.S.A.), a Brazilian survey worker, José C. Higgins, heard a piercing, high-pitchedwhistle, and saw a great disc land. It was about 150 feet wide, of a greyish-­white metal, and stood on curved metallic legs. The other workmen all fled and Higgins found himself alone with three 7-foot-tall entities in ‘transparent suits covering head and body, and inflated like rubber bags’, and with ‘metal boxes’ on their backs. Their clothing, visible through the suits, resembled brightly coloured paper. The entitles, all identical, had huge round eyes, huge round bald heads, no eyebrows, no beards, end legs longer in proportion than ours. Higgins would not tell whether they were male or female, but found them strangely beautiful.

They surrounded him, one leveled a metal tube at him, and they seemed bent on luring him into the disc, but, observing that they shunned bright sunlight, he managed to elude them, and then hid for half an hour in a thicket and watched them while, with extraordinary agility they leapt and gamboled and tossed huge stones. Then they re-entered the craft which vanished with a whistle towards the north.

At one point one of them had made eight holes in the ground with a stick and showed Higgins that the central one, larger (perhaps our sun?), was ‘ Alamo’, while the seventh and most distant hole was ‘Orque’ their home. This episode has been taken by some to indicate that they come from Uranus.

Their craft had a distinct rim around it, some three feet wide, and it seems likely that it is the ‘Saturn’ or ‘double washbowl’ type seen over Trindade Island in January 1958 and photographed from a Brazilian naval vessel.

Sources (see end of chapter): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

2. Lago Argentino, Southern Argentina

At 6.30 p.m. on March 18, 1950, an Argentine rancher, Wilfredo H. Arévalo, saw a disc land, while a second craft hovered above. He got to a distance of 150 metres from the landed disc, which was giving off a greenish-blue vapour and ‘an Intense smell of burning benzine’ and appeared to be of a phosphorescent metal like aluminum. Above the disc, a large flat part was revolving, ‘like a gramophone record’. In the centre the disc had a cabin of very transparent ‘glass’ through which ho could see ‘four tall, well-shaped men, dressed in something like cellophane’, working at various instruments. He was particularly struck by the pallor of their faces.

On seeing him, the men shone a searchlight at him, a blue light lit up the craft, there was an increase of the vapour, and flames, alternately reddish and greenish, shot out from the base. The craft then rose with a faint hum and both machines vanished over the Chilean frontier, leaving bluish trails.

Searching the area next day, Arévalo and his cowhands found the grass burnt, and advised the Argentine Air Force and the Buenos Aires paper La Razon, which reported later the names of various other people who had seen similar craft in the same area at the same time.

Sources: 5, 6 (p.75).

3. Angatuba Range, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil

The Brazilian author of the book Meu Contacto Com Os Discus Voadores, Dino Kraspedon (pseudonym?), claimed that in Nov­ember 1952 he saw five UFOs over these mountains and that he subsequently entered a landed machine and contacted the visitors. This machine was allegedly a bell-shaped craft 90 metres wide. One of the occupants, a man over 6 feet in height, told him that they lived on Io and Ganymede (two of the moons of Jupiter), where there were not only tall races, but also races of medium-size like Earth people, and small races, but also races with white, red and black pigmentation, just as on Earth.

(No confirmation of the Kraspedon story is known, but it is included here for the record and in view of the, recurrent reportsof ‘Ganymedians’.)

Source: 7.

4. Ciudad Valleys, Mexico

At 6 o’clock one evening in mid-August of 1953 (between August 17 and 20), the 40-year-old Mexico taxicab driver Salvador Villanueva was underneath his broken-down vehicle on the main highway when he became aware of two pairs of legs in something like ‘seamless grey corduroy’ and, scrambling out, found two pleasant-looking men about 4 feet high clad in one-piece garments from neck to toe, with wide shiny perforated belts, metal collars round their necks, and small black shiny boxes on their backs. Under their arms they carried ‘helmets like those worn by pilots or by American football players’. Their small height was not too strange in Mexico, where many Indians are quite short, and he concluded that they were airmen, no doubt from some neighbouring Latin American republic.

One man spoke good Spanish, but in a peculiar manner, ‘stringing the words together’ in a strange accent, while the other evidently understood it but did not speak it. Both smiled sympathetically, they discussed his car and trivial matters, and when it began to rain they accepted his invitation to shelter with him in the vehicle.

During the night various casual remarks began to make Villanueva nervous, and finally came the statement: ‘We are not of this planet. We come from one far distant, but we know much about your world.’

At dawn he went with them to their craft in a clearing half a kilometre from the road and noticed that, as they crossed swampy terrain in which he sank deeply, the legs and feet of the little men remained clean. ‘When their feet touched the muddy pools, their belts glowed, and the mud sprang away as if repelled by some invisible force.’

The saucer, about 40 feet wide, resembled two shining soup plates, one reversed on top of the other. There were portholes in the shallow dome, the craft stood on three great metal spheres, and a faint hum was coming from it. A portion of the lower hull opened, forming a staircase with the supporting cables as handrails. The two little men went aboard, inviting Villanueva to follow, but he turned and ran to a distance, and then watched the craft rise slowly, in a kind of pendulum movement, ‘or like a falling leaf in reverse’, until at a few hundred feet, when it began to glow intensely, and then shot up vertically at staggering speed, with a faint swishing sound, and was at once out of sight.

Source: 8.

5. Near Santa Maria, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

It has only recently been revealed that, so long ago as March 1954, a Brazilian named Rubem Hellwig, of German origin, twice encountered a small craft, not of this world, and spoke with its occupants.

The machine, shaped like a melon or rugby football, was of about the size of a Volkswagen car, was standing not far from the road on which Hellwig was driving, at 5 p.m. He stopped and walked over. The crew were two men of slim build, about 1 metre 60 centimetres in height, their faces brownish and they were not wearing helmets. One was inside the machine and the other was collecting specimens of grass. They spoke to Hellwig in a strange language and yet somehow he says he understood what they asked, which was where they could get some ammonia. He directed them to a nearby town. With blue and yellow flames and great luminosity, the craft vanished silently and instantly.

Next day, early, he met what seemed to be the same machine again, but this time with a different crew, a tall, fair-com­plexioned man and two women with light brown skin, long silky black hair and large dark slant eyes. All three were clad alike in one-piece brown garments resembling suede, with zippers. This party said they were scientists, spoke enthusiastically of the natural riches of Brazil, and were astonished that, unlike the other folk whom they had seen, Hellwig did not flee from them in fear.

Hellwig stated, in his account to the newspaper, that these people could all easily pass here as Earth natives.

Source: 9.

6. Pontal, Brazil

On November 4, 1954, José Alves of Pontal was fishing in the river Pardo near that place. It was a quiet night; the spot was deserted. Suddenly, he saw a strange craft approaching with a wobbling motion and it landed so near to him that he could have touched it. It had the shape of ‘two wash-bowls placed together’ and was between 10 and 15 feet in diameter. Too terrified even to escape, he watched three little men in white clothing and close-fitting skull-caps emerge. Their skin appeared to be quite dark. They gathered samples of grass, herbs and leaves of trees. One filled a shiny metal tube with water from the river. They then re-entered and the machine rose swiftly, silently and vertically and vanished. José Alves, known to his neighbours as a hard-working, quiet fellow, had never heard of flying saucers. He thought that he had seen some kind of devils.

Source: 10 (p. 44).

7. Porto Alegre, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

On November 10, 1954, a Pórto Alegre agronomist, out for a car ride with his family, saw a landed disc, from which emerged two apparently normal-sized men with long hair and overall like clothing. They approached the car with their arms above their heads but the agronomist, urged on by his wife and daughter, accelerated and left the strange men behind. They saw them re­enter the disc, which rose into the sky at a dizzying speed.

(Compare with case no. 10.)

Source: 10 (p. 42).

8. Curitiba, State of Parana, Brazil

A Brazilian railway employee reported that, at 3.30 a.m. on November 54, 1954, he saw three beings in tight-fitting, luminous clothing examining the ballast on the permanent way and the ground around the tracks, by the light of a lantern. When the strange creatures saw him, they entered an oval-shaped craft which rose rapidly into the sky. (Jacques Vallée, mentioning this case, says that they were midgets, but Coral Lorenzen’s account does not give their size.)

Sources: 10 (p. 42), 63.

9. Caracas, Venezuela

Ac 2 a.m. on November 28, 1954, Gustavo Gonzales and José Ponce were driving a van in the suburbs of the Venezuelan capital when they found the road ahead blocked by a luminous sphere some eight to ten feet wide and hovering about six feet from the ground. Investigating, Gonzalez had a fight with a bristly, hairy, dwarf-like creature which, though seemingly very light in weight, was so strong that it knocked Gonzalez a distance of 15 feet with a mere push. With glowing eyes it leapt at him. He drew his knife and he stabbed at it, but the knife glanced off its body as though from steel. Another creature then emerged from the sphere and blinded Gonzalez with a beam of dazzling light from a small tube.

Meanwhile, José Ponce had seen two more of the creatures emerging from the bushes with their arms full of what seemed to be earth or rocks. With great ease they leapt up into the hovering sphere. All the creatures wore loin-cloths.

Ponce fled to the nearest police station, and Gonzalez arrived there shortly afterwards, overcome with exhaustion and fright. The police thought at first that both were drunk, but soon found that such was not the case. González had a long deep red scratch on his side, and the two men were given sedatives and placed under medical observation for several days.

One of the doctors treating them later admitted to them that he knew their story was true; as he had been driving back from a night-call at the time and had actually seen the fracas. According to the APRO representative in Caracas, this doctor subsequently went to Washington to discuss the case with American authorities.

Source: 10 (p. 53).

10. Linha Bela Vista, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

On the evening of December 9, 1954, the farmer Olmira da Costa e Rosa was cultivating his crops of french beans and maize at this place, 2.5 miles from Venancio Aires, when he heard something ‘like a sewing machine’, and animals in a nearby field panicked. He then saw an object, shaped like a topee or explorer’s hat, cream coloured, and enveloped in a smoky haze. It was hovering just off the ground, and three strange-looking men were there, one inside the craft, one examining a barbed-wire fence, and one close to the farmer. In astonishment the farmer dropped his hoe, and the man smiled, approached, picked up the hoe, examined it carefully and handed it back to him. He then bent down, plucked a few plants, and walked back towards the machine, with the others. The craft rose slowly to about thirty feet, then accelerated, and flashed away towards the west at high speed.

The farmer, almost completely illiterate, had never heard of ‘flying saucers’. He was able to study these men at close range and in great detail. They were of medium height, broad-shoul­dered, with long blond hair blowing in the wind. With their extremely pale skin and slanted eyes, they were not normal looking by Earth standards. Their clothing consisted of light brown coverall garments fastened to their shoes, which were heelless. He concluded that they must be aviators from some foreign country.

(Note the extreme similarity between these men and Adamski’s ‘Venusian’. Honesty requires that this case, and the other Latin American cases of ‘long-haired’ men, be very carefully investi­gated. It does not seem that this has been done. Compare par­ticularly with Cases 7 and 19.)

Sources: 3, 10 (pp. 46-47).

11. Floresta, near Caracas, Venezuela

At 6.30 p.m. on December 10, 1954, a Caracas doctor and his father were driving from the La Carlota Airfield to Miranda Avenue. They halted in order to watch two little men who were running into-a thicket, and shortly afterwards they saw a lumi­nous disc rise from behind the thicket and dart off into the sky at great speed, making a sharp sizzling sound,

Source: 10 (p. 43).

12. Trans-Andean Highway, in Venezuela

On the night of December 10, 1954 (i.e. on the same night as case no. 11, and in an area not too far distant from it), two youths, Lorenzo Flores and Jesus Gómez, were hunting near the Trans-Andean Highway between Chico and Cerro de las Tres Torres, when they saw a luminous machine, about nine or ten feet wide, hovering about two feet from the ground. It was shaped ‘like one huge’ washbowl placed upside down on top of another’ and flames were shooting from its base.

Four little men about 3 feet high emerged and tried to drag both youths into the craft. Flores struck with his unloaded shotgun at one of them as they were dragging Gómez away. It ‘felt like striking rock’, and the gun broke into two pieces.

It was too dark for them to see the creatures well, but they were immensely strong and had abundant hair all over their bodies.

Gómez fainted with fright, and had amnesia afterwards. Both youths managed to reach a police post, where they were found to be covered-with deep scratches and bruises, with their clothing in shreds. Visiting the spot, the police found signs of the struggle.

Doctors who examined the youths found them hysterical with fright.

(Compare Cases 9, 11, 14, 15, 18.)

Sources 10 (p. 51).

13. Linha Bela Vista, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazi1

At 5 p.m. on December 11, 1954 (just two days after Case No. 10 and at a spot less than one mile from it) the farmer Pedro Morals beard a commotion among his fowls and, looking around for a hawk, beheld an object ‘that had a bottom like an enormous polished brass kettle’. It was hovering, with an oscil­lating motion, and making a noise like a sewing machine. Its upper part ‘looked like the hood of a Jeep’.

In a nearby cultivated field he next noticed two small human shaped figures. He could see no faces, for they seemed to be enveloped in a kind of yellow sack from head to toe. Indignant at this trespass on his crops, he headed for them. One of them began to run towards him, while the other raised his arm in what seemed to be a warning gesture to keep away. One of them then knelt down and plucked a tobacco plant from the ground, and both entered the craft, which vanished from sight in a few seconds,

This farmer, totally illiterate, bad never heard of flying saucers or science fiction, and thought the creatures were ghosts. When told that the Brazilian Government was anxious to get one of these little men dead or alive he towed he would shoot one if he got the chance,

(Note: Compare carefully with the Socorro case and the Gary Wilcox case.)

Sources: 10 (p. 47), 11 (p. 22), 12 (p. 6).

14. San Carlos, Venezuela

‘On December 16, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a press conference, said in essence that flying saucers are not from Outer Space and exist only in the imagination of the viewers. On that same night a young man named Jesus Paz, in San Carlos, Venezuela, was set upon by small hairy man-like creatures and spent the rest of the night in a hospital having treatment for shock. What had happened to hint was not imagined; he had the physical marks to prove it, and he has not forgotten the experi­ence. ‘—Coral Lorenzen.

Jesus Paz and two friends were traveling by car near the Exposition Park of the Venezuelan Ministry of Agriculture, when Paz asked the driver to stop so that he could go into some nearby bushes to relieve nature. Suddenly, his friends heard a piercing scream from him, and rushed up to find him unconscious on the ground and to see a small hairy man running away towards a flat shiny object hovering a few feet from the ground. The machine vanished with a deafening whistle.

The hospital authorities found that Paz had long, deep scratches on his right side and down the spine, as though he had been clawed by a wild beast.

(Note: Compare with Cases 9, 11, 15, 18.)

Source: 10 (p. 50).

15. Between Valencia and Caracas, Venezuela

Early on the morning of December 59, 1954 (three days after case 14), an 18-year-old jockey named José Parra was doing a training run along the highway when he saw six little men pulling boulders from the side of the road, and loading them into a disc-shaped craft hovering less than 3 metres from the ground. He started to retreat, but found himself glued to the spot by a violet-coloured beam from a small device which one of the entities pointed at him, and stood there, helpless, while the creatures leapt aboard the disc, which vanished rapidly in the sky.

Several other people saw the disc or a similar craft between midnight and 3.15 a.m., hovering a few feet off the ground near the Bargula Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Valencia.

Detectives examined the spot indicated by Parra, and found a number of footprints which they were unable to identify as either animal or human.

(Compare Cases 9, 11, 14, 18.)

Source: 10 (p. 52).

16. Atacama Desert, N. W. Argentina

Dwellers In these sparsely inhabited Andean areas reported in 1956 the presence of strange giant beings on the snowy slopes of Mt Macon (over 20,000 feet), where huge tracks had been found in the snow. A year or so previously, a huge cigar-shaped craft had been seen flying over the region and was reported to have either landed up in the Cordillera or to have crashed against a peak.

Moreover, quantities of dead condors and eagles had been found, and many of their nests ravaged and destroyed, in the same area where the gigantic footprints had appeared.

Sources 13.

17. Near Fajas Blancas Airport, Córdoba, Argentina

In April 1957 (precise date not yet established) a motorcyclist was riding along a road about 15 kilometres from this inter­national airport, when his machine suddenly failed. Dismounting to investigate, be perceived a huge disc some 60 feet wide and 15 feet thick, hovering about 50 feet above the ground just ahead of him. Terrified, he hid in the ditch

Silently, except for a sound like the faint hiss of air escaping front a valve, the disc came down to a height of about 7 feet, and a sort of lift then descended from its base, coming down almost to the ground. In it was a man about 5 feet 8 inches in height, who came over and gently coaxed the motorcyclist out of the ditch and then stroked his forehead to calm him. The stranger’s garb was like a diver’s suit, fitting the body closely~ and seemingly of some sort of plastic.

Entering the disc vie the lift-shaft with his companion, the motorcyclist found there were five or six similarly dressed men seated before instrument panels. An extraordinary light filled the cabin, and there were a series of large square portholes which strangely enough he had been unable to see from outside.

The motorcyclist was then escorted back to his own machine. His companion placed a band on his shoulder as a farewell gesture and re-entered the lift-shaft, which rapidly rose into the disc. The disc, of an iridescent bluish-green metal, climbed swiftly to what he thought might be 2,500 feet and vanished rapidly towards the north-west. During the next hour or so the same machine, or another UFO, was seen at six or seven places along the same course.

Unfortunately, the press-report is unable to supply the name of the motorcyclist, and does not describe the features of the entities, or say whether they wore helmets, but it seems likely that they did.

Sources: 14, 55.

18. Uriman, Venezuela

On June 5, 1957, at this place, two ‘bellicose dwarfs’ were seen.

(Compare Cases 9, 11, 12, 14, 15.)

Source: 63.

19. Sao Sebastiao, southern coast of Brazil

At 7.50 p.m. one day in July 1957 (precise date not estab­lished), Professor Joao de Freitas Guimaraes, a lawyer and Pro­fessor of Roman Law in the Catholic Faculty of Law at Santos, was sitting near the shore when he saw a luminous, hat-shaped craft approach from the sea and come down on the edge of the water near him. The ‘pot-bellied’ craft opened and a metallic stairway was thrown out, as well as a landing line with spheres attached to it.

Two tall men, over 5 feet 10 inches in height, with long fair hair to their shoulders, descended the stairway. Their com­plexions were fair, they had eyebrows, and their appearance was youthful and they had wise and understanding eyes. They wore greenish one-piece suits fitting closely at neck, wrists and ankles.

The professor leapt to his feet and asked In Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, French and English whence they had come, but there was no response. He then perceived that they were giving him a telepathic invitation to board their craft and did so, noticing that they jumped up the stairway lightly, holding only by one hand, whereas he had to use both hands.

The illuminated compartment contained a circular seat, on which he sat with the crew (three or four in all). The machine rose and took him for a flight. On his return, he found that his watch no longer worked, but estimated he had spent thirty or forty minutes with them. The professor told the newspapers that he thought these were advanced beings who were desirous of warning the savage inhabitants of Earth of the dangers threateningour species.

(Compare Cases 7, 10, 54. Also Adamski.)

Sources: 64, 65, 66.

20. Quilino, Province of Cordoba, Argentina

On August 20, 1957, a member of the Argentine Air Force was in a tent and heard a strange loud high-pitched hum. Dashing out, he saw a disc which slowly descended, making the grass and plants flutter wildly. In panic he tried to draw his revolver, but owing to some influence—as he felt—from the disc, he was unable to draw the weapon, which ‘seemed to be glued in its holster’.

Then a voice from the disc, In Spanish, told him not be afraid for the Interplanetary Space-Craft already had a base in the nearby Salta Region, and would soon come forth and show themselves widely to Earthmen and warn the Earth peoples of the great dangers of the misuse of atomic energy.

(Note: It is now widely believed in Argentina that the UFOs have bases In the Salta region.)

Sources: 16, 57.

21. Quebracoco, Brazil

On the night of October 10, 1957, Spanish naval officer Miguel Espanol and a companion, traveling by truck to Ceres, encountered a tremendous UFO. At first high in the sky, bathing the whole region in light, the craft descended and stalled the truck. They thought the craft at least 500 feet wide and 130 feet deep, and oval- or saucer-shaped, with a long ‘aerial’ projecting from its dome and topped by a red light.

The hovering monster now switched off all its dazzling lights, and the two men saw seven completely human-looking small beings, the size of children, with long hair and clad in luminous suits, appear in an open hatch of the craft and gaze down silently for about three minutes at them.

The great machine then flew off, releasing a small disc as it did so. The small disc disappeared northwards, while the big one went south.

(Compare for long hair, Cases 7, 10, 19.)

Sources: 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. The last two sources (Dr Buhler) say that the huge machine hovered but did not land, whereas the first three say that it landed. Dr Buhler’s version is probably correct.

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