SOUTH AMERICA The Humanoids in Latin America Cases 22- 44 GORDON CREIGHTON 22. Near Sao Francisco de Sales, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil This is the famous ‘A.V.B.’ or ‘Adhemar’ case. During the night of October 15/16, 1957, a 23-year.old farmer named Antonio Villas Boss saw a ‘bird-like’ craft about 35 feet long and 23 feet wide land near him as he was ploughing with a tractor. The machine, which bore blinding lights, stalled his tractor, and came to rest on tripod legs about 10 feet high. From the craft emerged four people in rough grey one-piece garments and tall helmets, who kidnapped him and took him aboard the machine, where he had sexual relations with a young woman, apparently one of their number. The girl, extremely fair-skinned and freckled, had high cheek-bones, a very pointed chin, and vivid blue ‘Chinese-type’ slant eyes, and was about 4 feet 8 inches high without helmet. The rest of the crew (not seen without helmets and space-suits) were possibly about 5 feet 4 inches, or perhaps (if they had instruments inside their helmets) considerably less. This case has been covered in very great detail in the Flying Saucer Review, and is mentioned here in outline only. Sources: 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. 23. Maracaja, State of Santa Catarina, S. Brazil At 10.30 a.m., on November 18, 1957, the peasant farmers Joao Ernani and Pedro Zilli heard a strange hum and then saw, from a distance of 200 metres, two circular aluminum-coloured discs and six medium-sized men of slim build and wearing ‘dark-grey suits glued to their bodies’ returning to them. The discs, hovering at a metre or so above the ground, seemed to be about 10 feet wide. They rose with a sharp whistling sound, and bent some coconut palm trees almost double. At the same time, three more discs, unseen until then, rose from behind the trees. All five craft headed out over the South Atlantic. Sources: 30, 31, 32, 19, 20, 21, 22. 24. Minduri, Br azil Just after dawn, one day In August 1958 (precise date not established), two ‘giants’, estimated to be six(!) metres in height and clad in brilliant red garb, were seen near Minduri by three witnesses, The entities were walking up the side of a hill and only a rear view of them was secured, (Compare, for red clothing, No. 31.) Sources: 34, 22 (gives sketch of entities). 25. Paracuru, State of Ceara, N.E. Brazil At 7 p.m. on May 13, 1960, more than a hundred people watched a smooth, dark-grey circular craft maneuvering and hovering overhead. It had a powerful light on its apex, and seemed to be about 6o feet wide. At 4 a.m., next day, May 14, a farmer, Raimundo dos Santos, saw two landed discs on the beach near Paracuru, and several small pale-looking human-like entities standing beside them, apparently conversing. On seeing the farmer, the small entities beckoned to him, but he turned and fled. Returning later with other men, he found marks in the sand left by the discs. Sources: 10, 35. 26. Province of La Pampa, Argentina On May 24, 1962, an Argentine television station reported that a woman had been taken to hospital suffering from shock, after seeing a landed flying saucer and two ‘robot-like’ creatures near it. The woman’s husband, like her a farm-worker, was also a witness. Argentine Air Force officials found a circle of scorched grass some 18 feet in diameter. Sources: 36, 37, 38 (p. 25). 27. Crespo, Province of Entre Rios, Argentina On July 18, 1962, Doctor Gazua, a well-known physician of the city of Paraná and regarded as a highly reliable personage, electrified the whole of Argentina, when he revealed that, near Crespo, he had seen a landed saucer beside a road and, near the saucer, two gigantic beings. Source: 39. 28. Parana, State of Entre Rios, Argentina On July 27 or 28, 1962, Ricardo Mieres, a 17-year-old student at the Colegio Nacional de Parana, was riding his motorcycle near Bajada Grande, 5 kilometres outside Parana, when he encountered a very tall creature with a melon-shaped head, very long and almost white hair, and ‘three eyes which stared fixedly, without blinking’. In his terror he tried to flee, but his engine had mysteriously gone dead. The creature came up and violently snatched his muffler from his neck. It then ‘did an about-turn, like a robot’, and walked off, leaving footprints in the sandy soil. The motorcycle now functioned again, and the student rushed into town and gathered a party of other motorcyclists to hunt the ‘robot’, but they found only the footprints, and the muffler lying on the road. There were several witnesses who saw something luminous fly over at great speed at the time. (Note that this case occurred in the same area as No. 27, and only nine or ten days later.) Source: 67. 29. The Diamantina abduction At Duas Pontes, near Diamantina, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, soon after dawn on August 20, 1962, a poor diamond-prospector, Rivalino Mafra da Silva, was mysteriously abducted or disintegrated by what appear to have been UFO agencies. From later investigations, it was learnt that some days previously he had come upon some ‘small men’ who seemed to be burying something. Some investigators have therefore assumed that he was done away with or removed because he had seen what it was not permitted to see. On the evening of August 19, two glowing red spheres, the size of footballs, were seen, by a neighbour, flying over the man’s hut, and during that night strange non-human forms about 1.5 feet high entered the hut, peered at the family as they lay in bed, and voices were heard outside saying that they were going to kill Rivalino. Soon after dawn, his 12-year-old son opened the door, where be found two strange balls on the ground. One was black; the other black and white; and each had a tail and a sort of spike. The father came out to look at the balls, which then joined up and leapt upon him, enveloping him in a cloud of yellow smoke, and he vanished. The last reports seen on this case said that it was still totally unexplained and that the Brazilian army had taken the boy into permanent custody, no doubt so that he should be prevented from saying any more to anyone about it. Sources: 40, 41, 42, 43 (pp. 10—12). 30. Bela Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil At 7.50 p.m. on August 28, 1963, three boys who were in their garden in the residential suburb of Familia Sagrada, Belo Horizonte, saw a large transparent luminous sphere float down, with four entitles seated in it. One of these beings emerged and descended to the garden on two beams of brilliant light. He was a tall, slim man, about 2 metres in height, wearing a slightly inflated ‘diver’s suit’ of some material that resembled brown leather, gauntlets, and high black boots. Upon his extremely round and totally bald head the man wore a large round transparent helmet surmounted by a circular object. He appeared to have no ears or nose, his mouth appeared to open in a strange manner, his complexion was a vivid red, and he had only one large brown eye, devoid of any eyebrow. The man seemed about to touch one of the boys and the eldest boy (aged 12) tried shortly afterwards to throw a brick at the entity when it had its back towards him, but it veered round, shot an orange beam at him from a square lamp on its chest and ‘paralysed’ the boy’s arm, so that he dropped the brick. The luminous sphere described by the boys as the size of a large room, bore three tall antennae on the top. There were two other men inside it, identical with the one described, and a woman, who had fair hair drawn back in a sort of ‘pony-tail’ style. The boys only had a full view of the faces of the man who emerged and the one who operated the controls, and both, they say, had only one eye, and the other two appeared no different. All had the vivid red skin, This case only became widely known in the summer of 1965. Since then, Professor Hiulvio Brant Aleixo and other investigators have interviewed the boys and the father of two of them, Senhor Alcides Gualberto, have probed the case most deeply, and find no reason to believe that the boys are not telling the truth, The case will be described in detail in a future number of the Flying Saucer Review. (Compare with Case 39.) Sources: 44, 45. 35. Resistencia, Province of El Chaco, Argentina At 6.30 one evening in 1963 (date not established) the three man crew of a freight train running from Presidencia La Plaza to Resistencia saw a tall being, ‘over 2 metres in height’ and dressed in a one-piece red garment, walking along the railway line towards them. The being was human, had a pale face, long fair hair and was carrying something in both hands ‘as though making an offering’. It looked like the body of a small child. Suddenly, when the locomotive was not more than 5 metres from the entity, he ‘shot upwards as though in a whirlwind’ and vanished. Meanwhile, in Resistencia, at the same time of day, Justo Mastin and his son were sitting in their garden at supper when ‘a strange being descended towards them’, His description of this being, as given to the press, tallied in all respects with the account given by the train crew. Source: 46. 32. State of Parana, South Brazil In 1963 Paraná State was ravaged by very severe forest fires. At dawn one day, as a crowd of people stood watching the fires from a distance of 150 metres or so, they saw a huge machine, ‘shaped like a basin, of a bright zinc colour’, descend silently into the flames and smoke, where it hung motionless at a height of about 4 metres from the ground ‘as though held up by an invisible force’. It was about 35 metres in diameter and about 8 metres in height. It hung there for about a quarter of an hour, seemingly protected by a field of repulsion, and to the astonishment of the watchers, ‘two or three tall, good-looking people’ got out of it and began walking about picking up burnt material, stones, etc., in this protected zone around it. Sources: 47, 48. 33. Monte Maiz, Province of Cordoba, Argentina At 3.30 a.m. on October 12, 1963, in a violent rainstorm, truck driver Eugenio Douglas was driving along the road from Monte Main to Isla Verde when he was blinded by a bright light ahead of him and his truck ran into a ditch. Climbing out, he found the road barred by a huge oval metallic object which seemed at least 30 feet high and may have been wider than the road. Prom a door in the side of it emerged three huge ‘robots’ in human form. He told the police later that he thought they might have been as much as 4 or 5 metres in height, or even more. He was unable to describe their clothing, except that it seemed ‘stuck to their bodies’ and that they wore helmets bearing short antennae ‘like the horns of a snail’. He fired several shots at them with his revolver and fled. They re-entered their craft, which ‘buzzed him’ several times as he fled down the road and directed on to him the same burning pricking heat-rays which he had felt all over his body as his truck was approaching the UFO. Despite the heavy rainfall, Investigators found next day some footprints approximately 45-50 centimetres long near his truck, the wiring of which was burnt out. Sources: 49, 50, 51, 52, 53. 34. Trancas, Province of Tucuman, Argentina At 9.30 p.m. on October 21, 1963, there occurred the famous ‘siege’ of the lonely farmhouse near Trancas by a squadron of six discs which landed on or near the railway line close by the house. Subsequently some of the craft took up a defensive posture and focused powerful beams of light upon the house. The case has been covered in very great detail in the Flying Saucer Review, and is mentioned here only because entities were seen moving about around the landed discs on the railway line, though none of the witnesses were near enough to describe their size or appearance. Sources: 54, 55, 56, 68, 51, 69, 52, 24, 46. 35. Sauce Viejo, Province of Santa Fe, Argentina One night in December 1963 (precise date not established), César Tulio Gallardo, a railway worker, was sitting in his quarters in a stationary coach on a siding at Sauce Viejo, reading his paper and listening to the radio, when suddenly the radio failed and his carbide lamp went out. He went outside to see what was causing this, but seeing strange lights, came in again and shut the door. But at that moment ‘a being totally surrounded by lights’ came in at the door at the other end of the coach. The dazzle from this entity was so terrible that the man shielded his eyes with his newspaper, whereupon the entity snatched the paper from him and tore it up. Gallardo was able to note that the visitor’s legs were clad in some sort of dark, shiny cloth. The visitor next seized an oilcan and emptied its contents into a sort of bottle which he produced from his clothing, after, which he vanished through the same door where he had entered. Shortly after Gallardo had told the police, passengers on an incoming train reported that they had just seen ‘a luminous man’ walking along the railway track. Sources: 57, 46. 36. Colonia Castelli, near Resistencia, Province of El Chaco, Argentina Early in May 1964, as Alberto Kalbermatter was driving home with a truckload of timber, through a heavily forested area, the road was suddenly blocked by a huge dark human-like form, about 3 metres high, and with abundant black hair. He almost ran the creature down, and it emitted a guttural cry of tremendous volume. Terrified, Kalbermatter stepped on the accelerator and fled. When telling the press of his experience, he added that he thought it must have been ‘a being from another world’ and that at the same spot, a few nights previously, he had seen a large luminous object which seemed to be lodged among the branches of some trees. Sources: 59, 60. 37. Pajas Blancas, Province of Córdoba, Argentina At 4 a.m. on June 5, 1964, a Buenos Aires doctor and his wife (names not disclosed) were driving in their car at a place about 30 kilometres from the Pajas Blancas International airport (and in the same area where Case 17 occurred in 1957). Like the truck driver Eugenio Douglas of Case 33, their engine failed, and they found themselves confronted by a huge and extraordinary machine blocking the road. It’s very powerful light went out, leaving only a violet-coloured light coming front the object, and they sat there in great perplexity for about twenty minutes. Suddenly a figure approached their car and asked in Spanish: ‘What’s the matter, my friend? The doctor replied that his engine had failed. The man suggested that he try again to start it. He did so, and it came on, and the headlights too, so that they could now see the machine ahead of them. The stranger then said: ‘Don’t be afraid. I am a terrestrial(!). I am carrying out a mission on Earth. My name is R— D.—. Tell Mankind about it, in your own fashion!’ The man then walked away slowly and joined two beings dressed all in grey who had now appeared. All three entered the machine, which rose rapidly and vanished, leaving a violet-coloured trail, Sources: 61, 62. 38. Arica, Chile On June 15, 1964, a Chilean miner, Rafael Aguirre Donoso, was driving at a spot some 20 kilometres inland from Arica, when he saw a strange machine land. It was about 10 feet long and 3.5 feet wide, and from it emerged two fair-complexioned men who, in a mixture of Spanish and English, asked him for some water. He gave them some. They then re-entered their machine which rose rapidly and vanished. Sources: 70, 24. 39. Cofico, near Salta, Argentina Senor Chafredo Dagota of Pueyrredon, near Salta, saw a flying saucer touch down briefly at 9 p.m. on September 5, 1964. It ‘seemed to stand on a kind of pillar’ and gave out a blinding light. Near it he caught a blurred glimpse of two figures moving about. (Note: There have been several South American reports of UFOs ‘standing on pillars’. Some of the pillars may be lift-shafts— see for example Case 17—while others may possibly be much mere slender affairs, as in the famous French case at Valensole in July 1965.) Sources: 71, 72. 40. San Miguel, Andes, Argentina In January 1965, it was reported that an object bad fallen from the sky at San Rafael, 4 kilometres from San Miguel, and a photograph of it appeared later in Flying Saucer Review for May/ June 1965. The object, whatever it was, was subsequently removed by the Argentine Air Force. Most folk thought it was a satellite of some kind, but a few inhabitants of the area were convinced that it was a UFO and several said they had seen small individuals, near the object, who wore ‘strange divers’ suits which gave off a greenish phosphorescence. The case is therefore listed here for the record.
In the early part of 1965 several reports appeared in the Buenos Aires press of attempts by ‘Martians’ to abduct people in the north-eastern part of the country. The following is the only case in which details are available. One night in the first week of February, a man living at Torrent, near Santo Tome, called his neighbours to come outside and observe five luminous objects flying overhead. Then a transparent craft landed, and from it emerged five ‘Martians’, nearly 2 metres high, each having only one eye in the centre of the forehead. On their heads were instruments giving off flashes of different colours. They entered a farmhouse and tried to seize a man, but withdrew in the face of the firm attitude of the villagers, and flew away. On February 6, however, they returned and were seen by many people. Once again they tried to catch a man and failed. He escaped and gave the alarm. The villagers turned out in strength and fired their shotguns at the ‘Martians’, seemingly with no effect. This is the gist of a report from a Senor Rodrigo de Riana, who predicted that this would not be the end of the affair and that ‘they’ would return. (Note: Compare with Case 30 of a tone-eyed’ man and transparent craft, and Case 33 of instruments on helmets.) Source: 75. 42. Chalac, near Formosa, Argentina-Paraguay Frontier On February 21, 1965, several saucers were seen in flight, and one landed. Some fifty Indians of the Toba tribe stood amazed as three tall beings enveloped in luminous haloes descended from the craft and approached slowly. The Indians knelt and worshipped them with arms uplifted in the traditional Sun-worshipping ceremony of their ancestors, and heard a voice, coming from the visitors or the craft, saying that they should not fear, for the Space People would soon return to convince Earthmen of their existence, and to bring peace to the world. One Indian, attempting to approach the machine, was dissuaded from it with gestures. The visitors then slowly returned to the machine, bathed all the while in luminous beams emanating from its small wings. As the machine took off, its luminosity became blinding. Argentine police officials were also witnesses, and took a number of photographs of the machine, Source: 76, 17. (Note: It has been suggested—I believe in the U.S.A.—that this story is bogus. However, Senor Oscar A. Galindez, Flying Saucer Review’s special correspondent in Argentina, has made careful enquiries and states that it is genuine and the photos were probably taken of three landed craft and five crew members near them. In July 1965, Senor Galindez knew the name of the senior Air Force official who had custody of the photos, and he has informed me of this name. In the meantime, of course, the usual Curtain of Silence has descended, and the usual smoke-screens are encountered. It has also been said that the Chalac entities were small. Oscar Galindez assures me that all the Argentine press accounts said they were large. G.C.) 43. Quilmes, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina At Quilmes, lying a little south-east of Buenos Aires, at 8 a.m. on July 20, 1965, Senor Ramon Eduardo Pereyra, resident of San Francisco Solano, was driving in his van past the spot called Monte de los Curas when he saw an object ‘like a parachute’ drop silently from the sky into some trees on a hillside. Investigating, he found, in a clearing, a chromium-coloured, egg-shaped craft standing on metal legs. Its top part was transparent, and the lower part extremely smooth with no joins or sutures. Beside the machine stood a blond young man who seemed to be studying a piece of paper. He was wearing a ‘plastic diver’s suit’, small boots, and had a sort of briefcase attached to his right leg. The witness got right up to the craft without being observed and peered through a porthole. Inside he saw a second man, seated at an instrument panel. At this point the man outside noticed him and came up with an angry expression. ‘What’s up, Guy?’ asked Pereyra, but without answering him the other stepped straight into the craft which at once rose to a height of about 30 metres and then moved away in level flight. Source: 77. 44. Near Monte Grande ( Argentina) and near Macias, Province of Entre Rios ( Argentina) A 37-year-old Argentine shopkeeper named Felipe Martinez caused a good deal of hilarity in the national press when he announced that, on several occasions between 1949 and 1951, and on no less than three occasions in 1965, he had seen UFOs and had dealings with their occupants. While hunting near the Monte Grande in April 1965, he said, he saw a large egg-shaped craft, hovering a few metres from the ground at a distance of 300 metres from him. It had some kind of ‘rapid revolving ring’ around it, and seemed to be quite silent. Rushing enthusiastically towards it and shouting ‘Amigo!’ he was suddenly struck by a paralysis which stopped him on the spot. A door opened in the craft, and a small man descended a ladder about 30 centimetres wide. The little man, who was not much above 1 metre in height, wore a helmet and there were two cables linking the helmet to the saucer. The rest of his clothing consisted of a ‘diver’s costume’. They conversed, the little entity speaking slowly and with difficulty. He said that he and his people were friendly and that they ‘came from near theMoon’. He called his machine a ‘sil’, and said be would meet Martinez again on May 3, 1965, He also said that ‘they’ required some help from us. Martinez replied that he was not in a position to give them much assistance, but that be would report the meeting to the Mitre Radio Station in Buenos Aires. ‘Yes, we know,’ said the little man, extending a clammy hand and promising to see him again on May 3. The second encounter allegedly took place on that date, but no details about it seem to have been published. The tbird meeting was at 11 pm on July 21, 1965, at Macias, near Guardarmonte ( Province of Entre Rios), when he allegedly saw the same little man. When Martinez explained the very great difficulty that he bad experienced in trying to find anybody to believe his story about meeting the little ‘Martian’, the latter replied that they would soon be showing themselves to people everywhere on Earth, And, he added, Martinez must keep a further rendezvous with them, namely on December 3, 1965, when they would return, take away Martinez and his family, and then burn up the whole Earth as punishment for the failure to accept their existence. (South America was swept by a fantastic wave of reports—many of them in the newspapers--that ‘THEY’ were going to invade the Earth in force on December 3, 1965, and it seems possible that the Martinez story may have been the origin of it all. G,C.) In a later Interview with a Buenos Aires paper (October 8), Martinez gave some additional details about the alleged entitles, For example, he said that he had once been inside a saucer in which four of the crew were less than 1 metre in height while the fifth member was a blond man almost 2 metres in height, on whose arms there were metallic plates with numerous small lights which looked as though they might be part of an electronic communications system. He added that, on that occasion, the crew of the ‘sil’ had put a space-suit on him, but this caused him to feel such a disturbance in his circulatory system and an acceleration of his heart that they took it off him. (Note: This case presents many features reported elsewhere; in particular the meetings on the same day of the month, and the instruments on the arms. As regards the ‘mixed crew’, one of the French landing reports of 1954 mentions a man ‘of normal size’ in association with small entities, and Cases 3 and 54 in the present summary also mention beings of different sizes In association. G.C.) Sources: 78, 79, 80. |
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