Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – A RESEARCH AND STUDY MISSION
‘Yes, it was true,’ said Jesus Antunes Moreira to Dr Walter Baler, ‘I really did see a flying saucer and I talked with its crew.’ Dr Buhler, a physician, and one of Brazil’s leading UFO researchers (who died in 1996), listened intently. It had taken him a long while to track down Moreira, who at the time of his experience, on 6 December 1978, was a security guard at the Marimbonda Hydroelectric Plant near the town of Fronteira, bordering the states of Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo. ‘It was a bit after 8.30 p.m.,’ began Moreira, ‘and I was up in the guardhouse, right on top of the dam, because it was raining at the time, and I was anxious to keep dry. Suddenly I noticed that something was lighting up the surface of the water in the dam. My curiosity aroused, I stepped out of the guardhouse and went to see what it could be, and found myself looking at an object which was slightly above the level of the horizon, about 200 metres from me, and crossing the Rio Grande.’
It was coming in my direction, and when it got closer, I could make out that it was a spacecraft about five metres wide and three metres high, white in colour, and emitting a certain amount of luminosity. It looked as though it was about to land on top of the dam, maybe right by the power-house . . . it wasn’t making the slightest noise.
Getting more and more curious, I started walking along the top of the concreted part of the dam, but the craft went past where I was and then moved to the earthen part of the dam, about 1.5 metres from the foot of it. I was now able to see that its colour was not white, but a light grey. It had a door about two metres high, with a little window in the upper part of it, and it had a sort of platform running right round it.
By now it was only about seven metres from me. Then the little window opened, and in it there appeared a face in many respects very like a human face. Then the main door opened, and from it came three beings dressed in blue overalls with a metallic sheen. They were all very tall — two metres maybe — and with quite long, black, smooth hair.
The men addressed the security guard in an unknown tongue. Moreira responded that he would go and fetch someone who perhaps could speak their language. ‘You see,’ he explained, ‘I was still thinking that maybe who knows? — they might be some foreign engineers. When I said I would go to one of the telephones that are strung out along the 300-metre-wide top of the dam, one of them gestured to me to step back. ‘At this stage, I began to get scared, and I felt for my revolver, [with] the idea of firing a warning shot should it be necessary. And indeed I did try to shoot, but the revolver jammed, and would not fire.’
At that point, one of them went inside the machine and came out with a black box, about the size of a shoe-box, and handed it to one of the others, who was the one that had the longest hair. I noticed that all of them were wearing rose- coloured gloves, which were luminous, like their blue overalls. From then on, I was able to understand perfectly what they were saying to me, in Portuguese. They asked me if I was scared, and told me to keep calm, because they said they had no intention of doing me any harm. When I asked them what they wanted, and where they came from, they said they were on a ‘research and study mission’, and that, if I remained calm, I would soon know all about it.
When one of the cosmonauts began gathering some stones with a kind of grab at the end of a line, Moreira objected. ‘That was enough for them to put away the box and, without the slightest show of dissatisfaction or displeasure, re-enter their craft.’
This is one of a number of cases I have cited in which the aliens seem to be on a research trip that involves collecting Earth’s rock and soil samples. I do not find this surprising: currently, that is what NASA’s Pathfinder mission to Mars is doing and also what its Apollo missions to the Moon did just over a quarter- century ago as a primary mission — to collect and analyse rock and soil samples.