Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: OUTRIGHT HOSTILITY
A quarter of an hour or so after the VARIG C-46 encounter, at 02.00 on 4 November 1957, an even more alarming incident occurred at the Brazilian Army’s Itaipu Fortress at Sao Vicente, near Santos, Brazil, when two sentries were struck by an unbearable wave of heat emanating from a large disc-shaped object hovering above them while emitting a humming sound. One sentry fainted and the other yelled for help. Inside the garrison, the electrical systems failed completely; even the back-up system would not work. Both soldiers received first-and second-degree burns.
The authorities reacted desperately, as investigator Dr Olavo Fontes reported: Next day the commander of the fortress (an army colonel) issued orders forbidding the whole garrison to tell anything about the incident to anyone — not even to their relatives. Intelligence officers came and took charge, working frantically to question and silence everyone with information pertaining to the matter . . .
The fortress was placed in a state of martial law and a top-secret report was sent to the QG [headquarters). Days later, American officers from the US Army Military Mission arrived at the fortress together with officers from the Brazilian Air Force, to question the sentries and other witnesses involved. Afterwards a special [Air Force] plane was chartered to bring the two burned sentries to Rio de Janeiro [where] they were put in the Army’s Central Hospital (HCE), completely isolated from the world behind a tight security curtain.
Dr Olavo Fontes, a world-leading UFO investigator of that period, spent a great deal of time investigating this case. In a paper discussing UFO-induced effects, he theorized that these were ‘not merely side-effects of the powerful electromagnetic fields that exist around UFOs, but the result of purposeful interference by a weapon used as a means of defense or attack’.
Existing evidence suggests that such a weapon is not an alternating magnetic field in itself, but a high-frequency, long-range electromagnetic beam of some sort, i.e., a radio-electric wave concentrated into a narrow, powerful beam. After a careful analysis of the data I came to the conclusion that this weapon might be a microwave ionizer — a generator of odd-shaped microwaves that ionize the air where they strike. They would make the air a high-resistance conductor; nothing more than that.
The ‘heat-wave’ which burned the two sentries at Itaipu, he asserted, was a different kind of weapon, ‘produced only by ultrasonics’. This is dueto the fact that the longitudinal ultrasonic oscillations are transformed into transverse waves (shear waves) at interfaces between mediums of different acoustic impedance as, for example, between the clothes and the skin. These resulting transverse waves are more rapidly absorbed than the longitudinal ones, with a subsequent increased heat development at interface areas . . . Only an ultrasonic beam could produce the peculiar characteristics of the ‘heat wave’ that struck the Itaipu sentries.
‘DANGERS THREATENING HUMANITY’
‘The statements of those who purportedly have had actual contact with “space people” should not be dismissed offhand as merely romance,’ stated Rear Admiral Herbert Knowles of the United States Navy, in July 1957. ‘Perhaps there is some real information here . . .’
That same month, an extraordinary contact was reported by a highly credible witness, Professor Joao de Freitas Guimarães, a lawyer and Professor of Ancient Roman Law in the Catholic Faculty of Law at Santos, Brazil. Interestingly, the encounter took place near Fort Itaipu. The following is based on a transcription of a television interview with the professor on Brazilian television (TV-13) on 27 August 1957, translated by Gordon Creighton.
In the course of his duties as a military advocate, Dr Guimarães was visiting Sao Sebastião, northeast of Santos on the Atlantic coast in the State of Sao Paulo, when one evening he decided to take a stroll along the beach. The sky was overcast and there was no visible moon. As he was sitting on the beach at about 19.15 (another report gives 21.15) he noticed that, in the direction of Ilhabela (Bela Island), the colouring of the sea seemed to be getting lighter, then a spout of water shot up into the air, reminding him of the ‘blowing’ of a whale. Some sort of ‘high-bellied craft’ (shaped like a hat) headed for the beach and as it arrived, threw out a landing line to which were attached some ‘spheres’, unlike conventional buoys. A metallic stairway also came down and two men stepped out and approached the professor. Both appeared to be completely human.
By now he could see that they were tall beings, over 1.80 metres in height, with long fair hair extending to their shoulders. Their complexions were fair, they had eyebrows, and their appearance was youthful and they had light-coloured, wise and understanding eyes. They wore greenish one-piece suits fitting closely at the neck, wrists and the ankles.
Though frightened, Dr Guimarães stood up, holding his ground. He asked in Portuguese whether there was something wrong with their craft or if they were looking for somebody. He also asked them whence they came. There was no reply, so he repeated the question in French, then English, Spanish and Italian — to no avail. Then the professor received the impression, telepathically, that he was being invited to board their craft. (Subsequently, he discovered that they also made verbal speech.) He became seized with an irresistible desire to know more and decided to accept the unspoken invitation. One of the men headed towards the disc, followed by the professor and the other man. The man in front leapt up the stairway to the entrance with ease, using one hand to hold on, though Guimarães needed both hands to do so. Standing in the entrance was a third man, possibly one or two others.