Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: AFTERMATH
Though barely able to contain himself, Dr Guimarães at first told no one (with the exception of his wife) about his fantastic experience. Many months later he informed three friends and colleagues: Dr Alberto Franco, a Sao Paulo judge; a Dr Nilson, a lawyer; and later, Dr Lincoln Feliciano, who contacted the media.
Dr Guimarães was besieged from all sides by people wanting to hear more, but he found it difficult to explain what precisely had occurred because, he said, his experience related to matters far above and beyond his knowledge.
During his trip, the professor said, an appointment had been made for him to meet the crew of the craft again, on 12 August 1957. The crew had shown him a Zodiac of 12 constellations: a wheel indicated the year, and the repetition of the number ‘8’ twelve times gave him the impression of August. He did not keep the appointment, he said, owing partly to the fact that a party of people — including the town’s deputy sheriff and Major Paulo Salema of the Brazilian Air Force, who had got wind of the meeting — had planned to go along to the beach. Also, he said, the Air Force had advised him not to keep the appointment; moreover, it had been arranged for some jet-fighters to put in an appearance. Had these fired on the disc, Dr Guimarães felt that it would have appeared like an act of treachery on his part. In any event, the craft did not make a repeat appearance.
Although Professor Guimarães agreed that he was of an ‘idealistic turn of mind’, he insisted he was practical too, and stressed that he had been fully conscious throughout the experience, and not a victim of an hallucination