Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – AFTERMATH
Dazed, Paulo lay beside the road, waiting for help from a passing car. The first person on the scene, fortuitously, was a physician, Dr Cirley Crespo, who summoned help from the police in Itaperuna, nine kilometres away. By the time the police arrived, Paulo had flagged down another passing car, driven by Mário Alves de Brio, who commented: ‘I was greatly moved. Something had obviously happened . . . The man was totally disoriented, and in urgent need of medical attention.’
On arrival at the hospital in Itaperuna, Paulo was examined by Dr Munir Bussad, who found the patient to be in a state of severe nervous shock. He had an abnormally fast pulse-rate, badly scratched and bruised arms, his eyes were badly bloodshot and he was unable to see properly. The doctor, who knew Paulo personally, stated that there was no history of mental illness. ‘I do know,’ he added, ‘that many of the people who have had this sort of experience are not suffering from any kind of psychiatric disorder, nor do they display any signs of having any mental obsessions.’
Next, Paulo was taken to the police headquarters in Itaperuna, where he related the experience to the chief, José Luis Maron, and to an inspector, Gilberto Gomes. When interviewed by reporters five days later, Paulo Caetano Silveira was still not able to see properly, and from time to time he fell into bouts of weeping. He told reporters that although he had no clue as to how long he had been abducted, his watch was found to have lost 15 minutes.
Three days later, Benedito Miranda reported being levitated 50 metres in the air by similar entities, while driving from Itaperuna to Catagueses. After a while, though powerless to move, he felt able to use his voice and shouted to be released. When the lights of an approaching car came into view, he found himself lowered gently to the ground.
The Prefect of Itaperuna, brother of Nélson Vieira Leite, clearly felt sufficiently concerned about the situation, as this news report of 1 October shows:
The Prefect of Itaperuna, Sr Rubem Vieira Leite, is to send, next Tuesday, to the UFO Study Department of the Brazilian Air Force, and also to NASA, an extensive report on the sightings of flying saucers which have been occurring here for about two years past and which are now occurring with great frequency; two people, Paulo Caetano Silveira and Benedito Miranda, having been seized and held for some time by ‘small beings’. In addition to giving a detailed account of all these happenings, the Prefect will also request that urgent measures be taken.