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Brazilian Nationals Injured In Unprovoked Flying Saucer Attacks
In 1977 the Brazilian island of Colares and the area of the Amazon delta
were visited by flying objects of an unknown nature. Nearly all kinds
of UFOs were seen, some big, some small, saucer-shaped, cigar-shaped,
barrel-shaped, luminous or not.
They arrived generally from the North every day, from the sky and also sometimes from underwater, and it lasted for months.
Regularly, some Island inhabitants were targeted by the objects beaming strange lights at them and many were badly hurt.
The Air Force came, investigated, saw, reported. The weird rays hurt 35
people, and civilians fled from entire villages. You never heard this
before? Well read ahead, then.
Events At Colares In 1977
The events mainly concentrated on the city of Colares, about 2000
inhabitants, on Colares Island, which is in the region of Pará, the
delta of the Amazon river on the north-eastern coast of Brazil. But the
whole region was visited by the same phenomenon.
Beginning in August of 1977, in the island of Colares, strange
phenomenon begun to occur, that the Brazilian call Chupa-Chupa. Strange
luminous objects appeared over the few towns of the region. These
objects were often projecting thin rays, seemingly of light, directed at
the people.
The touched people fainted and woke up with a strange anemia. They
witnessed that they felt as if some of their blood was removed by the
strange rays. The fisherman Manoel João de Oliveira Filho, age 44,
married and residing at No. 64 rua Carneiro de Mendonça, was strolling
towards the beach early one morning with some companions, to spend a day
at sea fishing.
Before they had got to their boats, they saw - above the Rio Novo beach -
an object shaped "like an umbrella" stationary at about 4m from the
ground. From its under-part came a vivid white light. No sound was
detectable from it at where they were standing. The object then moved
away equally silently towards Machadinho, switching off the light as it
went.
A carpenter named João Dias Costa (age 44) and a fisherman, João da Cruz
Silva (age 54), both of Colares town, saw the notorious "luminous
spheres" so greatly feared on account of their "low skimming swoops".
Another man from Colares town, Sr. Zacarias dos Santos Barata (74) saw
the glowing balls on two nights.
The first time, the object came from the direction of the Bay of Marajó,
and rapidly vanished towards the interior of Colares Island. On the
second night another ball, blue in color, flew over the local football
pitch. "It lit up all the trees around the field and then vanished
towards the town centre", said Sr. Zacarias.
Sr. Sebastião Vernek "Zizi" Miranda described his experience as follows:
"I was there with my wife, Palmira, in front of the church on the
sea-front, when at about 8.00pm, we saw an intensely vivid "orangeish"
light coming in from the sea towards the town. As it approached, it
climbed, and then, moving rapidly, vanished towards the inner part of
the Island."
The barber Carlos Cardoso de Paula (age 49), living at Travessa Deodoro
da Fonseca No. 231, had a still closer encounter with the "lights", as
he told: "Everybody else was asleep. I was just still having my last
smoke when suddenly a ball of fire entered our house up near the
ridgepole of the gable. It started shooting round and round the room and
then finally came right close to my hammock. It ran up my right leg as
far as the knee (without touching my skin).
I watched with much curiosity as it then moved across to the other leg.
Then I started to feel feeble and sleepy. My cigarette fell from my hand
and I came to and let out a yell. The fireball quickly vanished and
everybody woke up. I think it had been searching for a vein in my body
but didn't manage to do so. As its brightness grew I felt a sort of heat
coming from it."
Worker Raimundo Costa Leite, very well known in the town of Colares for
his skill in making and repairing fishing-nets, described his own
experience: "At about 4.00 in the early morning, I went with my pal
"Baixinho" (Orivaldo Malaquias Pinheiro) to fish off the beach at
Cajueiro. As I recall it, "Baixinho" shouted "Look! There it is!" and
took to his heels, leaving me alone on the beach. The craft was of the
size and shape of a helicopter, made no noise, and was flying very high.
I could have taken a pot-shot at it if I had had a gun with me. I was
terrified when the machine shone a sort of searchlight down on the
beach. That light was sweeping the ground, illuminating everything! It
was a bluish light (sort of ‘cold light'). It made it easier for me to
see this because the craft had several small reddish lights beneath its
front part..
The craft seemed to be seeking something on the ground. I was scared
that it would touch me and, despite my poor physical condition I managed
to run quite a distance, and then "Baixinho" returned and helped me.
The object had come from the direction of the sea and it headed off into
the inner part of the Island."
Actually, so many more people reported being attacked by beams of light
from small UFOs in this area that only few of them are mentioned here.
On October 20, three women were hit in the breast by the beams of light:
"All three were overcome by tremendous nervous tension and an unknown
sort of lassitude "as though they were receiving constant electric
shocks" wrote a newspaper.
On the evening of October 29, Benedito Campos and his 17-year old wife
Silvia Mara were at home when "they spotted an oval, silvery object
emitting a greenish beam like a searchlight towards the room where they
were lying. Filled with curiosity, they approached a small window and,
as they did so, the beam shot in through and made straight for Silvia,
throwing her into a sort of benumbed trance-like state."
Silvia, who was pregnant at the time, then fainted whereupon two
entities apparently entered the house carrying something resembling a
golden torch and "once again the beam struck Silvia, this time hitting
her in the left arm at the level of the wrist. Her veins seemed to 'rise
up out of the body' so swollen were they by the beam striking them."
Later, while at a neighbor's house, Benedito was also briefly paralyzed
by a light beam.
Fearing a miscarriage, husband and wife were taken at night by boat to
the Mosqueiro Medical Clinic, followed all the way by the UFO, which
made no further attempt to harm them. They remained there for three days
where the wife recovered, but Benedito "was in a state of severe
depression for some days, his motor functions disturbed and, as his
mother reports, weeping frequently."
The UFO activity over Colares Island was so intense that the people
began to think the "Chupa-Chupas" were trying to make some sort of
contact with them. Such was the view expressed by Sr. Raimundo Ferreira
"Mimi" Monteiro. He still believes the craft were coming up out of the
sea or out of some under-water base located in the Bay of Marajó - maybe
in the region of the Caldeirão.
Alfredo Bastos Filho, a former town mayor, confirmed this and said:
"Yes, indeed I can tell you, there wasn't a moment of peace. The people
were terrified by that "Chupa-Chupa" affair. I even managed to see one
of the injured victims myself - Dona Mirota, a lady who was receiving
medical treatment at the Health Clinic."
The locals became so frightened that many of the women and children left
town. The men that remained lit bonfires to mount guard at night,
letting off fireworks and banging tins whenever they saw the
Chupa-Chupas approaching. Other locked in their homes for fear of the
phenomenon. It was mentioned later that the more noise people made and
the more bonfires and fireworks, the closer the craft came.
Totally Unprovoked
Attacks Result In Fatality
By November 1977 doctor Wellaide Cecim Carvalho,the physician in charge
of the health unit on Colares Island, took care of to some 35 people
claiming to have been touched by the strange light. She took blood
samples, and concluded that the victims suffered from generalized
hypertermia, superficial chronic headache, burnings, intense heat,
nauseas, tremors in the body, giddiness, asthenia and presented very
small orifices in the skin where they were hit by the rays.
She wrote: "All of them had suffered lesions to the face or the thoracic
area." The lesions, looking like radiation injuries, "began with
intense reddening of the skin in the affected area. Later the hair would
fall out and the skin would turn black. There was no pain, only a
slight warmth. One also noticed small puncture marks in the skin. The
victims were men and women of varying ages, without any pattern."
In describing their experiences with these light beams, most victims
claimed that "They were immediately immobilized, as if a heavy weight
pushed against their chest. The beam was about [seven or eight
centimeters] in diameter and white in color. It never hunted for them
but hit them suddenly.
When they tried to scream no sound would come out, but their eyes
remained open. The beam felt hot, "almost as hot as a cigarette burn,"
barely tolerable. After a few minutes the column of light would slowly
retract and disappear." Most symptoms usually disappeared after seven
days.
At Agulhas Fincadas, Mrs. Maria Lopes, inhabitant of Vila Gorete, to the
margins of Rio Tapajós, in the neighborhoods of Santarém (Pará), tells
her case involving " strange devices " that absorb energy human being,
known as Chupa-Chupa.
"I saw an object to settle quiet in the bushes here close... It they had
left two men and a woman, who had started to move with two fishing ",
counts Maria. Other people gifts in the place had been paralyzed when
observing the scene. "When hit, the men died in identical circumstances.
On each one's chest, there were little holes as if they had been poked
with a dozen needles".
Many had hurt themselves when trying to escape one of the strange
objects. In many cases, the marks left by the rays on the victims skin
were marks that could have up to eight small holes. In these
occurrences, the Chupa-Chupa term was proven right as many of them had
lost up to approximately 300 ml of blood, from these wounds.
This was the case of Claudomira, resident in the Island of Colares. She
claims that her family already did not sleep right with fear of the
devices. "In one of these days, after midnight, I woke up because of a
strong flash, a sort of focused bright green light ray that came down
from the top roof to my left chest. I tried to shout, but my voice did
not function. I felt an exquisite heat... Later, that beam of light
diminished and I saw that I was burnt".
Claudomira told that she sighted a strange object, much similar to an
umbrella, from which a being of clear skin, oriental eyes and great
ears. According to her, the creature was dressed in tight green clothes
and had a sort of pistol in the hand, which emitted the luminous beam.
At this moment, Claudomira felt perforated as by needles on her breast.
"After this, I felt migraine and a great weakness, that left me
collapsed for several days." In the next day to the event, she had been
directed to the Sanitary Unit of the town, where she was taken care of
by Doctor Wellaide Cecim Carvalho, who sent her to the Medical Institute
Renato Chaves, in Belém, for backup examinations.
Her ill-being and the constant migraines lasted many days, followed by
fatigue and weakness. Years later, Claudomira still did not feel cured.
"My health never came back to be the same since that night." She is not
the only one to have passed for such situation. Some estimate that
thousands of people, also men, had suffered the attacks of the
Chupa-Chupa in the years between 1970 and 1980, and they still occur
today, though less frequently.
"Emotional and physical sequels are very common in these cases," stated
Dr. Wellaide Cecim Carvalho, the doctor who took care of Claudomira.
Although she was skeptical and she believed that the occurrences of
Chupa-Chupa were popular belief or some witchcraft, Dr. Wellaide ended
up convinced of the veracity of the cases when she was confronted with
their increasing frequency.
"With the increase of hurt people, I started to give more attention each
time in the existing injuries. I saw things that do not exist in my
medical books," she said. According to her, the victims of Chupa-Chupa
presented strangest burnings, not as those provoked by fire or hot
water, as she thought herself, but very similar to ones produced by
cobalt irradiation. "The injuries varied in extension. First it started
with an intense reddishness in the hit area, known as hiperemia.
Later, the skin of the affected region started to fall (alopecia) and
days later the skin peeled off." In this period of development, said
Wellaide, it was possible to note holes, similar to perforations by
needles. One of the most interesting cases she took care of happened
with a lady who had cardiac problems. She arrived at the doctor's office
very nervous and immediately she showed her left breast, in which were
two strange holes.
She complained of giddiness, shortness of breath and weakness,
characteristic symptoms already known by people hit by the phenomenon.
The doctor tried to calm her and she returned to her home. But at about
03:00 pm, however, Dr. Wellaide was called to urge to the residence of
the woman, who had become very sick.
Her whole body was still and she gaped for air but she did not have
fever and did not vomit. Seeing the seriousness of the situation, the
doctor took her to a hospital in Belém.
Hours later, she received the medical papers and the certificate of
death forwarded by the Medical Institute Legal Renato Chaves, which
stated a heart stroke as cause of the death. The intriguing fact is that
at no time, doctors in Belém had mentioned something about the injuries
on her body and did not even say if they had effected backing
examinations.
Electrically Speaking
Regarding the possible effects of the UFOs on the supply of electricity,
Sr. Geraldo Aranha de Oliveira (age 37) of the C.E.I.P.A. explained:
"In 1977 the C.E.I.P.A. sub-station consisted of three Scania 125 kw,
engines supplying light to the city from 6pm till midnight. I don't
recall having ever seen a UFO over the plant. I merely remember that, at
that period, lots of lightning conductor rods were burnt out and, at
times, some fuses too."
Alert Goes Out To Air Force
COMAR arrived in Belém, and made a series of research in the region,
under the project name "Operation Plate." Captain Uyrangê Bolivar Soares
Nogueira de Hollanda Lima, head of information office, directed all the
operations in the region. During the investigations, the Air Forces
obtained four films and hundreds of photographs of flying disks in the
basin of Marajó. They also were a great help to the population,
providing psychologists assistance, to eliminate the panic that sized
the entire region.
The beams of light from the craft were described as being so bright that
they resembled those used to illuminate night sporting events. They
were "always sharply defined, directed with perfect precision towards
any target - houses, people, boats, trees, even the Brazilian Air
Force's helicopters deployed over the island during the investigations.
On one occasion one of these powerful beams is reported to have obliged
one of the helicopters to land, although the exact technical reason is
not given.
According to a statement by Sr. Sebastião V. Miranda, former resident of
Colares, "the Brazilian Air Force spent more than 35 days in the town,
and installed various devices near the Bacurà beach.
Sra. Alba Câmara Vilhena, a married lady living at 683 rua 15 de
Novembro, added: "At the time of the 'Chupa-Chupa' everybody was scared
to sleep at night, and so almost every night we went away to be with
relatives. On one occasion some people saw one of the craft.
It was round, and all luminous. Just at that moment a helicopter of the
Brazilian Air Force was flying quite near to our house. Then we saw the
UFO direct a very powerful beam on to the helicopter, obliging it to
land on the São Pedro Airfield. That happened at about 8.00 pm one
evening."
Professor Raimundo Sebastião Aranha said: "At that period I was closely
connected with some of the Air Force's enquiries. They were seeking more
information about the "Chupa-Chupa."
He said the Air Force had with them masses of equipment: cars,
helicopters, radio transmitters, cameras, powerful glasses, etc., etc.,
He recalls that, in addition to the rank and file Air Force recruits,
there was a whole group of officers and he had the impression that there
was a foreigner among them.
The helicopters that appeared from time to time, bringing material and
personnel, attempted to chase the UFOs but without much success. Indeed,
on the contrary, it was the UFOs that chased them!"
One night several months later, on May 24 1978, a journalist and
photographer, who had been sent to cover the local UFO encounters, were
in their car when despite the heavy rain they were woken up "by a
powerful beam of light which - however unbelievable it may seem - passed
through the metallic structure of the roof of the vehicle."
Not surprisingly they leapt out of the car to see that "a tube-shaped
light beam, about [twenty-five centimeters] in diameter, was coming down
from above onto the roof of the car and passing through the metal
paneling." On this and other occasions they managed to take numerous
photographs which they claim that their newspaper later sold to "a
North-American group".
On another night while trying to use flash equipment to photograph one
of these craft "the UFO emitted such a vivid beam of light that it
smashed the windscreen" of their car. Several newspaper started to write
that the alleged UFOs were weather balloons, or secrets satellites,
although there was no possible reason to think that.
Local authorities were of course extremely angry because of such
articles. Elói Santos, councilman of the old Enclosure for bullfighting
stated: "It is not possible to deny that Belém is, today, a frightened
city. We are not technician nor do we argue with the conclusion of the
authorities. But we did surprise them with declarations of the witnesses
who saw light crossing their roofs to penetrate in their skin, removing
a little of blood and leaving visible marks of needles and burnings on
their epidermis."
Sequel
During the "Chupa-chupa" Wave many new "sighting zones" emerged, such as
Pinheiro and São Bento in the State of Maranhão, and Viseu and Bragança
in the State of Pará. Some areas indeed reached such a 'level of
saturation' that rarely a single night passed without UFO sightings.
One of these "ufological epicenters" was over the bay called the BaÃa do
Sol (Bay of the Sun) and had a direct effect upon the Island of
Mosqueiro. Mosqueiro is one of the most important of the islands, and it
is the biggest, belonging to the municipality of Belém.
Public concern was immense, all the men banding together at night to
organize watches, with bonfires and fireworks, thinking these would
deter the craft. But nothing seemed to stop the UFOs, not even the Air
Force's film men and their cameras - and even less the journalists from
the Estado do Pará!
There were frequent and regular sightings of mother-ships and probes and
flying saucers, all performing incredible manoeuvers over the Bay. A
61-year-old widow, Elisa da Silva, residing on rua do Bacari, was one of
the witnesses in that year (1977). One night, from her house, she saw a
flying saucer appear. Vivid white light came from small windows or
apertures on it. Seen from below, she said, it seemed quite dark and
quite flat. It vanished towards the South, in total silence.
In the opinion of some of the members of the GUA (Amazonian Ufological
Group) based in Belém, there exists, or there did exist for a
considerable time, at some point beneath the BaÃa do Sol ("Bay of the
Sun") a concealed base for extraterrestrial probe craft. Such an idea
would account for the constant appearances, in recent years, of
unidentified flying objects over the region.
In 1981, one woman who had been exposed to the UFOs beam in Colares
died, although it is no clear that her death was clearly related to the
attack. In 1986, not far from Colares, two persons on Crab Island were
discovered "badly decomposed by heat" amid numerous sightings of balls
of fire in the sky; cause of death "not known" in either case.
Same area, different time: a "ball of fire" seriously burned three men
out cutting wood on Crab Island; one of the woodchoppers died. One of
the two survivors, Edmundo, had a gaping electrical-type burn injury on
the side of his chest, an almost perfect replica of the chest burn
suffered by Jack Angel in Georgia in 1974.
