Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – THE PYRAMID OVER PELOTAS
Thirty-eight-year-old Haroldo Westendorff, owner of a rice-processing plant in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, is a champion aerobatics pilot who customarily flies his Embraer EMB-712 around the state during weekends. On the morning of 5 October 1996, he took off from the airport at Pelotas, flew towards Laranjal Beach, on the outskirts of Lagöa dos Patos (Duck Lake), then headed back to Pelotas at 10.30.
Flying at 5,500 feet, the pilot was astounded by the sight of a huge craft. The silent object was turning slowly on its axis, heading towards the Atlantic coast at about 100 k.p.h. He approached for a closer look. ‘It was enormous, gigantic really,’ he told investigators for the Brazilian UFO research group GPCU.
‘It was shaped like a pyramid and had eight sides; each one of them had exactly three prominent bulges, which [presumably] constituted the windows.’
Westendorff estimated that the base of the object was about 100 metres in diameter and its height between 50 and 60 metres. He radioed the control tower at Pelotas and asked if they were aware of the object. Airton Mendes da Silva, on duty at the time, grabbed binoculars and immediately spotted the huge craft, as did others at the tower.
Westendorff contacted the radar centre at Curitiba, operated by CINDACTA, which monitors airspace over Brazil. They confirmed that the pilot was 35 miles from the eastern sector of Pelotas, but said there were no other aircraft within a 200-kilometre radius of his position. The pilot asked for permission to be switched over to a special radio frequency so that he could give them a better description of the object, but permission was denied. He then decided to fly around the unknown craft. As he did so, his cellular phone rang. It was a friend, and Westendorff excitedly related what he was seeing. Shortly afterwards, Westendorff’s son phoned. Noticing the anxiety in his father’s voice, Haroldo Jr. handed the phone to his mother. Frightened by her husband’s description of what he was seeing, she warned him to be careful. Westendorff daringly decided to fly around the object for a second time.
As he was circling the base of the craft, he noticed that a dome on top had opened. ‘I don’t know how, but I imagine that it must have retracted,’ he said.
Suddenly, a disc-shaped craft, about three times the size of Westendorff’s Embraer, exited from the top of the giant craft and rose vertically. A moment later, the disc stopped, inclined at a 45-degree angle, then took off at a phenomenal speed towards the Atlantic Ocean. Seconds later, reddish beams of light began to come from the top of the ‘mother ship’, felt as waves of heat. Undaunted, the intrepid pilot decided to circle the craft yet again.
As Westendorff continued to fly around the object at a distance of about 40 metres, the enormous craft began to rotate, faster and faster. ‘At this moment I began to panic,’ he said. ‘I thought I was going to die. I was just waiting for the explosion that would certainly destroy my plane.’ He managed to retain his presence of mind, and began to go through emergency procedures in anticipation of a tremendous explosion. When the craft suddenly took off — at a speed he estimated to be 12,000 k.p.h. Westendorff found it difficult to believe he was still alive, and his plane unaffected by the encounter.
‘I know what I saw, because I was 40 metres away from that object,’ declared the champion pilot. ‘No one can get me to deny it. I’m certain that what I saw had nothing to do with this planet . . .