Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – A Festival of Absurdities – ALIEN ANTICS
On 23 July 1947, Jose Higgins, a Brazilian topographer, together with a team of workers, was surveying an area of land northeast of Pitanga, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, when a piercing, high-pitched whistling sound was heard coming from the sky. Looking up, the men watched as a large disc appeared about to land. The workers fled, leaving Higgins to fend for himself.
A ‘strange, circular airship with protruding edges’, as Higgins described it, landed about 150 feet away. It appeared to be made of a grey-white metal, was about 150 feet wide (not including the edges, which were about three feet in width) and was about 15 feet in height. ‘It was crossed by tubes in several directions,’ said Higgins, ‘but there was no smoke or fire, only that odd sound coming from the tubes.’ The object landed on curved metallic-looking poles which bent even more as it touched the ground. Higgins approached, and as he came closer he noticed a kind of thick window or porthole, through which he could see two strange-looking ‘people’ who were eyeing him closely. One turned his back as though talking to another in the craft. Suddenly Higgins heard a noise from inside and a hatch on the underside of the craft opened and three strange beings emerged.
About seven feet tall, the beings were enclosed in a kind of inflated, transparent suit which enveloped them from head to foot. On their backs were metal boxes that seemed to be part of the suit. Through the transparent covering, Higgins saw that they were wearing shirts, shorts and sandals! The clothes appeared to be made not of cloth, but of a brilliantly coloured paper. They had large, round, almost hairless heads, as well as large, round, browless eyes, and appeared identical to each other — ‘like twins or brothers’. The length of their legs was greater in proportion to their bodies than those of normal human beings.
One of the beings carried a metal tube, which was pointed at Higgins, with no apparent effect. They moved around him with amazing agility for their size, speaking among themselves in an unknown tongue, then the one with the tube motioned for him to approach the entrance of the craft. He saw a small chamber with another ‘door’ on the inside, and the end of a pipe. He also noticed several round ‘beams’ on the protruding edge. Presuming that he was being invited for a trip, Higgins began questioning them (in Portuguese), using many gestures, asking where they intended to take him. Seeming to understand, one of them made a drawing on the ground with a round spot, encircled by seven circles, pointed to the Sun in the sky (uttering a word that sounded like ‘Alamo’), then to the central spot on the ground, then to their craft and finally to the seventh orbit (‘Orque’), repeating the latter gesture several times.
At this point Higgins became frightened and began to plan his escape. He knew it would be useless to fight them but, noticing that the beings avoided direct sunlight for more than a few seconds, he walked towards the shadow.
Taking out a photo of his wife from his wallet, he showed it to them, explaining by gestures that he wanted to bring his wife on the trip. They seemed to understand, so he casually walked away into the nearby forest. Having found a safe place from which he could observe the beings without being seen, Higgins was astonished to see them frolicking about like children, jumping in the air and throwing huge stones around! After about half an hour and a careful examination of their surroundings, they returned to their craft, which took off with a whistling sound.
As researchers Coral and Jim Lorenzen noted, the size and apparent strength of the beings, plus their throwing of large stones, could indicate that they originated on a planet with a lesser gravitational pull than that of Earth; their gambolling antics possibly being experimentation with the novelty of the Earth’s gravitational pull. (I agree, and am reminded of the Apollo astronauts who performed similar antics when on the Moon.) ‘I will never know if they were men or women,’ Higgins told the press later. ‘Despite the characteristics I described, they were somehow beautiful and appeared in excellent health.’ In company with many contactees, Higgins was thoroughly bemused by the experience. ‘Was it a dream? Was it real?’ he asked. ‘Sometimes I doubt that these things can happen, and then I think that if it was not for the workers together with me in the beginning, it might have been a strange and fascinating dream . . .’