Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: A TRAGIC ENCOUNTER
It was 16.00 on 13 August 1967. Inácio de Souza, manager of a large fazenda (plantation) between Crixas and Pilar de Goias, about 100 miles northwest of Brasilia, was returning to the house with his wife, Luiza, when they saw three strange-looking figures playing about like children on the fazenda landing strip.
At first, Inácio thought the people were naked, but his wife had the impression that they were dressed in skintight pale-yellow clothes. They appeared to have no hair.
On spotting Inácio and his wife, the strangers began running towards them. It was then that Inácio saw a peculiar ‘aircraft’, shaped like an inverted wash- basin, at the end of the landing strip. It appeared to be over 100 feet in width and was touching, or almost touching, the ground. Frightened, Inácio sent his wife into the house, reached for his 0.44 calibre carbine, took aim at the nearest figure and fired. Almost instantly, the ‘aircraft’ emitted a beam of green light which struck Inácio on the head and shoulder. He fell to the ground unconscious. As his wife came rushing out of the house to help him, the three strangers ran back to their ‘aircraft’, which took off vertically, making a sound like the swarming of bees.
The owner of the fazenda, a wealthy and well-known man (who asked that his name not be revealed), flew to the property three days later, having been informed about the incident in Sao Paulo, where he lived. He learned that for the previous two days, Inácio had complained of numbness and tingling of the body, as well as headaches and nausea. On the third day, in addition to these symptoms, Inácio began to suffer from continuous tremors of the hands and head. The owner took the sick man to a doctor in Goiâna, about 120 miles to the south. Burn marks, in the form of a perfect circle 15 centimetres in diameter, were found on de Souza’s torso and head. Blood tests revealed that he was suffering from ‘malignant alterations of the blood’, i.e. leukaemia. The doctor warned the owner that the patient had about 60 days to live.
Inácio’s weight began to decrease. He suffered great pain, and yellowish-white spots, the size of a fingernail, appeared all over his body, just underneath the skin. He died on 11 October 1967, aged 41. In accordance with her husband’s wishes, Luiza burned his bed, mattress, bedclothes and clothes, as he was afraid that whatever had caused his terminal illness might be transmitted to his family. ‘So far as I am concerned it was just another case of cancer,’ stated the sceptical doctor at Goiâna, in response to questions from investigators. ‘I advised the fazendeiro to “forget” what his employee said had happened, since he (the fazendeiro) had not been an eye-witness.’ Unable to accept that Inácio’s condition was the result of an encounter with space beings, the doctor attributed the story to a hallucination brought on by leukaemia.
There seems little likelihood that this disturbing encounter was in fact the product of a hallucination. A hoax seems equally far-fetched. Inacio Souza was described as a simple, honest and trustworthy man, with no motive for such a hoax. Would he and his wife have compromised his life and their livelihood by making up such a story?
The figures initially seen ‘playing about like children’ bring to mind a number of similar cases, such as that of Jose Higgins, whose 1947 encounter with aliens in Brazil is described in Chapter 3. Had Inácio not taken the drastic action of shooting at one of the figures, perhaps the outcome of this encounter might not have been so tragic.