Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – SHOCKING ENCOUNTERS
In Alien Liaison, I alluded to the case of Luis Fernandes Barroso, a once prosperous businessman and rancher from Quixadá, in the state of Ceará, Brazil, who on 23 April 1976 was struck by a beam of light from a hovering aerial object. He did not recall what happened after that. Barroso suffered nausea, diarrhoea, headaches and vomiting. Psychiatrists and other physicians who examined him concluded that he had a brain lesion. His speech deteriorated, and three months later his hair turned white. Six months later, he lost all his mental faculties and his behaviour regressed to that of an infant.
The case was investigated by Bob Pratt, who provided many additional details in a 1990 report I published. Barroso had been examined first in Quixadá by Dr António Moreira Meghales, who later sent him to Fortaleza, where he was examined by a dozen psychiatrists and psychologists. After a lengthy stay in hospital, he was sent home. Nothing more could be done for him. Together with Dr Meghales and the principal investigators, Reginaldo Athayde and José Jean Alençar, Bob went to visit Barroso’s home, where he remained in the care of a nurse. ‘He sits all day in a chair, staring, occasionally moving his eyes but apparently seeing nothing,’ wrote Bob. ‘He reacts to no stimuli, except that when someone takes a photo of him with a strobe light, as I did, he screams when he sees the flash.’
Although we shall probably never learn what happened to Barroso, the inference is that he was abducted. He died in 1993, unrecovered from his sad state. On 24 March 1978, a 16-year-old boy named Luis Carlos Serra disappeared in his home town of Penalva, nearly 200 kilometres southwest of Sao Luis, Brazil.
He did not turn up until three days later, when a fisherman discovered him lying dazed in the forest, unable to stand up. He was taken to the local hospital and examined by Dr Linda Macieira, who later told Bob Pratt that the boy was completely dumb and had muscle contractions. That was not all, as Pratt reports:
Four of his teeth were missing. Two had simply been broken off, and one had been extracted completely . . . Luis also had a full head of hair before this happened, but when Dr Macieira examined him he appeared to be bald. At first she thought his head had been shaved. On closer examination, however, she discovered that his hair had been burned off. The scalp was not burned, but the top of his ears were, very slightly, like sunburn. Luis seemed to be paralysed. Dr Macieira tried to move his arms and legs but could not. She pricked his arms and legs . . . to test his reactions, but there was none at all.
He went nine days without eating or drinking anything, and had to be fed intravenously [and] catheterized.
Several days later, Luis was flown to a larger hospital, in Sao Luis, where he was examined by more than half a dozen doctors, none of whom was able to say what had happened to him. Three days later, Luis began to come out of his paralysis. Still unable to talk, he motioned for pencil and paper and wrote down his story.
He had been gathering guava fruit just inside the forest at noon on Good Friday when he heard a loud sound like a car horn above him. Looking up, he saw a light, brighter than the sun, just above the trees, which hurt his eyes.
Suddenly, something made him fall flat on his back and he was unable to move anything except his eyes. He lay there for some time then began to rise into the air, although he neither saw nor felt anything that could have levitated him. As he rose, he could see a round object above the trees, with four spheres on the bottom, one of which was illuminated.
‘When I got high enough,’ Luis told Bob later, ‘I could see a dome on top and three windows that went all the way around the dome. Only one window was open, and I just entered it head first. It was about a metre square. When I got inside, I fell down on the floor, but not hard.”
Inside the craft were three small beings, only a metre tall, their faces obscured by helmets and visors. They were moving around, talking in a loud, incomprehensible language, paying no attention to Luis.
Soon there came a rumbling sound and Luis felt the machine moving. He was taken to a ‘strange land’ with no sky or trees — just tall grass. Next, he was floated out of the machine and placed on a flat stone or table.
‘I was still paralysed,’ he said. ‘Then these little people came to me and put a tube in my nose. It didn’t hurt. Then they put a transparent ball in my mouth, and the liquid just went down my throat very quickly. I fell asleep then, and I don’t know what happened after that until I woke up in the jungle.
In his definitive book, UFO Danger Zone, subtitled ‘Terror and Death in Brazil — Where Next?’, as well as in the report I published, Bob Pratt relates many more disturbing, sometimes shocking encounters in northeast Brazil, including apparently UFO-related deaths. Jacques Vallée (who wrote the foreword to Pratt’s book) has himself visited Brazil and spoken with some of the witnesses, whom he found credible, despite their incredible experiences.
Wherever they come from, some UFO beings may be kind and well- intentioned, but others definitely are not,’ states Bob Pratt. ‘UFOs may or may not be significant to mankind in the long run, but until we find out, we should treat them with the greatest of caution . . .