NORTHEAST BRAZIL SEES BIGGEST UFO FLAP SINCE 1971
05 May 96 19:12 / posted May 12, 1996
Source: CNI News
Missing Motorists, Many Witnesses Attest to Strange Events
UFOs made repeated daylight visits to Paraiba, a small state in the Sertao or
Northeast of Brazil between April 4 and April 11, according to the Brazilian
newspaper O Norte.
In Caiac, the northwest section of Pirpirituba, a small town 180 kilometers
(108 miles) north of Joao Pessoa, the state capital of Paraiba, the Policia
Militar found an abandoned car on a dirt road leading to the sugar cane
fields. The car had "strange marks on the roof," O Norte reported, and
"nobody knows where the driver is." The case is now being investigated by
Brazil's Federal Police.
On April 5, a "flying disc" or OVNI (Portuguese acronym for UFO) hovered
about four feet above an empty lot on the Rua de Aquino in Guarabira, just
south of Pirpirituba. The OVNI was seen by eight people. An eyewitness said,
"The object was discoidal, didn't emit any sound and had multicolored lights
on the bottom."
At 5:30 p.m. on or about April 7, Mrs. Maria Jose, 60, and her son were
driving on the main highway between Joao Pessoa and Natal. As they passed
through Pirpirituba, they spotted "a strange object hovering close to the
cemetery." The UFO flew straight toward them and passed over the roof of
their car.
As a result of this encounter, Mrs. Jose suffered a nervous collapse and was
taken to a hospital in Campina Grande, a nearby city.
The same week, in the outlying village of Gota de Agua, a 16-year-old boy saw
a silvery disc-shaped UFO flying down the valley between two jungle-covered
mountain ranges. The UFO was heading west, toward the Planalto de Barbareme
and passed right over a radio mast.
An unidentified woman in this same area claimed to have seen the UFO on the
ground, with an occupant standing beside it. O Norte describes the occupant
simply as "a being."
This is the biggest UFO flap in northeast Brazil in 25 years. On November
17, 1971, a disc-shaped UFO landed at Bananeiras, north of Joao Pessoa, and
disabled a Volkswagen. The driver and passenger, Paulo Gaetano and Emilio
Bandeirante, were taken aboard the UFO by several small beings. The men
reportedly spent five hours on board the object before being released.
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