Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – AN ALIEN ENVIRONMENT
At 01.00 on 10 July 1977, José Benedito Bogea, a prosperous chicken farmer who lived six kilometres from Pinheiro, was walking into town to catch a bus to Sao Luis. The night was very dark. ‘Suddenly, a bright, greenish-blue light appeared in the sky and chased me for about 200 metres,’ he told Pratt.
Then it circled over a bush in front of me and stayed there, three or four metres above the ground, for just a fraction of a second. I could see a V- shaped thing 15 to 20 metres long, with a beam of orange light going down to the ground. I raised my arm and shone my flashlight at it, and in an instant I saw a bright flash of light. It knocked me down, and I felt like I’d had an electrical shock. Then I passed out.
On recovering consciousness, Bogea says he found himself in a strange ‘city’, with wide avenues and beautiful gardens. ‘I looked for the sun, but I didn’t see it,’ he said. ‘I didn’t see any sky at all, just empty space.’ Bogea saw many people in the city, all looking very much alike; about 30 years old, five feet tall, slender, and nearly all dressed in grey and brown clothes; long gowns for the women and tunics and trousers for the men. ‘They looked like us,’ Bogea elaborated. ‘Most were light-skinned and had eyes of different colours: blue, brown. The women were pretty and had long blond hair. All the men had short hair, beards and mustaches.’
Although the people seemed to be talking to each other, Bogea heard nothing.
After having been observed for a while in a large room, he was allowed to leave, though he was followed. In one area, he encountered what looked like small transportation devices; in another, about 20 disc-shaped objects, though none like the V-or triangular-shaped craft that had brought him to the city.
Eventually, Bogea was motioned to enter one of the smaller ‘transporters’, at which point he again became unconscious. He next awoke at 08.30 and found himself beside a highway near the port of Itaqui, eight miles west of Sao Luis, more than 70 miles from where he had been abducted. Suffering from terrible pain in his lower back and his right side, he managed to hitch a ride home. For eight days, he had no appetite, and for many weeks he was obliged to use a cane to walk. Nevertheless, there was one dramatic benefit from the encounter. At the time of the abduction, he had been wearing strong eyeglasses. ‘But it wasn’t until I got home the next day that I realized I’d lost them. Since then I haven’t needed to wear glasses anymore . .
‘CAMBUROES’
Weird, cylindrical-shaped objects, called camburoes by local people, typically emitting powerful beams of light that swept across terrains, were encountered frequently by farmers and fishermen during the chupachupa ‘epidemic’ in Brazil. In July that year, another frightening encounter was reported by Joao de Brito of Vila de Piriá, in the vicinity of the River Gurupi. As a friend related: It was 11.00 p.m., and he was sitting quietly in a hide among thick bushes, awaiting game.
An animal appeared, but suddenly something flying in the sky threw down a beam of light on to the animal, which made off. Joao himself couldn’t escape. He felt the light bearing down on his body and felt his strength being sucked out of him, and was sure he was going to die. The flying thing was shaped like a cylinder, and he could hear voices coming from it, in an unknown language. The thing went away then, but it left him powerless [and] he ended up in hospital.
By this time, few dared venture outdoors at night. ‘It is important to note,’ emphasized Dr Daniel Rebisso Giese, author of a seminal book on the chupachupa phenomenon, ‘that many local folk felt sure that the UFOs came up out of the sea, because they had been seen quite often doing precisely that and coming and shining down their beams on to boats or on to villages.