Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – AFTER-EFFECTS
Pedro Romaniuk emphasized that Ventura Maceiras was a poor, simple man, scarcely able to read or write, with no television set or access to films. His neighbours all vouched for his honesty. In more than 60 interrogations that ensued — by physicians including a psychiatrist, engineers, police officials, the secretary to the local government office, and others he never changed his story and begged not to be given any publicity.
During the incident, Maceiras felt some tingling or vibration in his legs, which lasted for a couple of days. For over a week he suffered from a gradually worsening and eventually unbearable headache, and by the eighth day he was experiencing pain in the back of his neck. There were even more disturbing symptoms, as reported by Romaniuk: Eight or nine hours after the episode, he developed a most violent type of diarrhoea, involving about eight attacks daily. Unfortunately he did not think to check whether or not he was passing blood. The diarrhoea continued until the eighth day . . . accompanied for the first four days by nausea and vomiting.
At the time of my first visit, on January 16, 1973, [Maceiras] had begun to notice that he was losing hair abnormally, for at one pull he would be losing between 170 and 200 hairs. He did this several times, in the presence of investigators, and it was evident to everybody that despite his 73 years he had abundant hair.
From the 14th day on, several small red pruriginous pustules appeared on the back of his neck, so that he was constantly scratching them . . . I examined him and found some ten of these swollen pustules After his experience, [he] developed a marked difficulty in speaking, having trouble in moving his tongue . . . both his eyes watered constantly [and] very thin filaments, about three centimetres in length, almost capillary, also came from the eyes. This symptom finally vanished completely on the fifth day.
The tops of the many eucalyptus trees that surrounded the site were scorched or completely burnt. According to the National Atomic Power Commission, no traces of radioactivity were found, though it did not issue a written report.
Although the dog and kittens were unaffected, the mother-cat which had received the full force of the flash of light was nowhere to be found afterwards, and she did not return until 48 days later, her back showing scorch marks.
In spite of Maceiras’s alarming symptoms, he made a complete recovery, though there were later remarkable developments. He found that he had regained strength to the extent that he could lift heavy weights that hitherto would not have been possible for him.
That was not all. One night in February 1973, Maceiras claims to have had a repeat visit. There was no craft this time, but two beings ‘appeared’ to him, one of whom approached, smiling, and greeted him. Between 1.75 and 1.8 metres in height, the being had small, round ears, ‘slit’ eyes, a small, flattened nose, and very short, very fine thin hair.
Communication was telepathic.
A great deal of information and imagery was imparted to the witness. Much of it seems incomprehensible, even ludicrous, but some is interesting. The aliens communicated that they came from our galaxy, giving what seem rather silly names for their city, planet and ’empire’. Here follow some excerpts from those communications supposedly relating to the propulsion of the craft, and the purpose of the visits: The manner in which they function is . . . as yet unknown to the people of Earth who, if they had it, would use it for making war. Their speeds are very variable, but they can attain limits that to you are inconceivable. The metal of which they are made is . . . a mineral unknown to you, which, once it has been moulded in the shape of the spacecraft, is indestructible, cannot be melted down again, and can be projected through space in the form of ‘energy’. The energies of these craft are electromagnetic, and are obtained from the atmosphere (the lower and upper atmosphere) of each planet.
We are visiting you because you are causing atomic explosions which are having a great effect on the Sun, which may suffer damage as a result . . .
Upon your planet there are mighty seismic movements and earthquakes coming soon, which will destroy part of the planet.
Regardless of the validity of the communications, the fact remains that Maceiras, though barely educated, began talking to the investigators about philosophical, theological and astronomical concepts well beyond his comprehension, even occasionally breaking into an unknown tongue. ‘He mentions big figures in miles, and in a matter of seconds converts them to kilometres,’ commented Romaniuk, adding that not all the information given out by the witness would be disclosed at once, the better to obtain possible corroboration from other sources.
Researcher Jane Thomas Guma, who translated Pedro Romaniuk’s reports, believes that by comparing some of the details of the story with other ‘incredible’ or ‘crazy’ contactee cases, progress might be made. ‘Maybe corroborating details would be found,’ she explained, ‘which would help us fit together a few more pieces of this immense jigsaw puzzle.’
UNDERSEA BASES OFF VENEZUELA AND ARGENTINA?
In the latter part of March 1973, thousands of witnesses reported seeing unusual objects either entering or emerging from the Caribbean Sea on the north coast of Venezuela. This led to a widespread conviction among the local populace that an alien base was located there.
At 16.00 on 22 March, two flying objects approached at high speed from the sea, veered sharply and passed over the area between Naiguata and Carenero, then came to a halt at an altitude of around 200 metres over the town of La Sabanamore, where they were witnessed by more than 3,000 people. Alerted by callers, the police observed the objects. After hovering for between five and ten minutes, the objects separated and headed off in different directions.
A few days later, a night-watchman told the press about his sighting of several orange lights, tubular in shape, ‘like our rockets’, which rose up out of the sea and vanished into the sky. Other, similar reports followed, many of them from the vicinity of Maiquetia International Airport, Caracas. On the night of 28 March, Armando Silva and his wife saw two bluish objects flying high above
their country house, which overlooks the seashore near Carayaca. The following night, awakened by a sensation of tremendous heat, Sra Silva went to the balcony and saw:
two long blue flying things like capsules, not very big; they were the same as we had seen the previous evening. They were of a vivid blue colour, and so close that I am absolutely sure of what I saw. When they came nearer to the shore they shone as brightly as the sun. One of them dropped into the sea, submerged, and then came out again. The second one also dropped into the sea, lay still awhile, and then moved nearer to the first one.
The sighting lasted about 15 minutes, ending when both objects took off from the water and vanished at phenomenal speed. Afterwards, the temperature in the house returned to normal. Sr Silva claimed that, while his wife watched from the balcony, he went outside and was startled to see, at one of the small windows on one of the objects, a figure like that of a five-year-old child, but with a head that looked like a gourd. He took fright and ran back to the house.