Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: CLAMP-DOWN
It was Sunday 9 September 1968. Professor Wilton Ribeiro was walking on the beach at Itaipu, near Niterói, to the east of Rio de Janeiro, when a strange object, emitting beams of orange light, suddenly descended silently about 200 metres away. The object came closer and hovered about 10 metres above the sea, spinning on its vertical axis while making a humming sound. Other witnesses included Joao Abud, juridical assessor of the Secretariat of Justice of the State of Rio de Janeiro, and Professor Sohail Saud, a teacher of business studies. Professor Saud said that the object, which he described as a large disc, made a number of low-level passes over the beach before landing briefly.
Occupants could be seen inside the craft, he claimed, though he was unable to describe them in detail, other than that they were wearing ‘helmets’. Several witnesses were reported as having suffered from shock.
On 21 November 1968, a young Brazilian woman claimed to have witnessed a landed craft and its occupants at a bus stop near Macedo, in the State of Sao Paulo. The bus had halted while the driver took a customary break. On waste ground about 40 metres away, the witness noticed a shining, metallic object, standing or hovering close to the ground. It was of a similar shape to that reported by George Adamski and others, with several exceptions: the cupola appeared to be divided into four segments, with an antenna at the top; a row of circular, ever-changing lights surrounded the rim or ‘skirt’, and there was a set of three steps beneath a large (stationary) entrance in the rim
Standing in front of the craft were three ‘men’, about two metres in height, wearing skintight, shining black suits, leaving only the faces bare. One of the entities held ‘a sort of tube’ under one arm, about 60 centimetres in length and seven centimetres in diameter, surrounded by a spiral coil. Two thin protuberances came out of one end of the tube.
Between the witness and the entities, about 20 metres from the bus and with their backs towards her, a crowd of about twenty people, grouped behind three armed policemen, confronted the entities. On the side of the road opposite the bus were parked two police radio-patrol cars. As the two parties continued facing each other, a brilliant, silver-coloured beam of light suddenly shot out from the tube. As investigator Nigel Rimes reported: The beam was directed at the party of Brazilian police and bystanders, the front ranks of whom (including the policemen) immediately ceased all movement and were ‘paralysed’. She noticed however that a number of the others who were not in the forefront were also affected, and she saw several fall as though in a faint. She also noticed that the entity did not swing the tube itself, but swung his whole body round, still holding the tube in position under his arm.
The entities walked calmly and slowly back to their craft, which then took off and climbed away rapidly.
Though no corroboration of this extraordinary report came forth, to my knowledge, both the investigators — one of whom was Willi Wirz, managing director of the Brazil Herald — were impressed by the witness. ‘Our young lady seemed to be an entirely sincere and truthful person,’ reported Nigel Rimes. ‘She made it clear that she desired no publicity and that she had only come forward with this information because she felt that it was her duty to do so. ‘Our conclusion so far is that this case certainly seems to be genuine, and that the military authorities have clamped down on other witnesses . . .’