15 April 2020

THERE'S AN AWFUL LOT OF COBBLERS IN BRAZIL

Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, UFO Contacts in Brazil, Flying Disk Press, 2019.

It seems that Brazil is the place to be if you want to contact aliens from outer space. As Thiago Ticchetti the co-editor of Revista UFO magazine and resident of the Brazilian Committee of Ufologists shows, Brazil is a veritable theme park of UFO contacts that have a long history of being seriously weird, outlandish and amazing.
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The types of aliens observed are a rag tag of robots, creatures and jump-suited or uniformed humanoids that would not look out of place in zero-budget science fiction movies. Many encounters involve the sighting of an illuminated UFO that lands and disgorges a crew of aliens who briefly look around before returning to their craft. On other occasions they roughly grab young men and drag them into their craft to force them to have sex with a seductive alien woman. The most obvious case of this type covered in this book is of course Antonio Villas Boas’ experience. 

There are similar copy cat reports that have a high sexual content - often ‘remembered’ under hypnotic regression - and there are a high percentage of cases involving struggles and fist fights with their potential captors.

Other abductees report being medically examined and probed like lab rats, indicating they have a deep interest in our bodies, as well as the state of our planet. This is underlined by an alien who telepathically (of course!) tells abductee Paulo Coutinho that “we are studying". Like Betty Hill, Paulo views a screen that shows an image of a star map that indicates their point of origin, along with a screen show of images of his friends and girlfriend.



There are also more dangerous encounters with UFOs that shoot out rays of light or are surrounded by deadly radiation (presumably a byproduct of their propulsion system). Some of these are quite possibly caused by ball lightning or lightning bolts, including the case of four fishermen who got hit by something that caused one to die and two to suffer severe burns. Less hard to explain is that nine years later on 30 April 1986, another four fisherman at the same location were attacked with something that induced severe nausea, causing one of them to die.

The official Brazilian Air Force's Operation Plate, was instigated after several women had been hit by bolts of light causing what can only be called mass hysteria in the region. It was thought that because they left behind an oval burn and two small holes in the skin that these were vampire-like attacks, which in the process collected blood from the victim. These were appropriately  called Chupa Chupa (Sucker Sucker) attacks. In late 1977 an initial investigation was made by agents of A2 (Secret Service of Aeronautics) into these and associated UFO reports. Their main objective was to calm the population but they did think there were intelligently controlled lights or aerial bodies causing some of the sightings. This led to Operation Plate run by Captain Uyrangê Bolivar Soares Nogueira de Hollanda Lima. Hollanda took a great personal interest in the sightings and even saw some UFOs himself. 

Thiago notes the project was closed down for no reason a few months later, but some involved in the investigations like Lieutenant Colonel Camilo Ferras felt that artificial satellites and meteors were causing the alien illusion. Those of higher rank probably thought Hollanda had gone beyond his remit of calming the UFO obsessed population of Colares. Whatever the reason no proper scientific investigation was carried out and it remains another footnote in UFO history.

Thiago includes another chapter about UFO crashes, the best known being the Ubatuba explosion that is no doubt a hoax. Other crash cases seem to be of misidentified meteors or hoaxes. Then of course there is the Varginha Case involving the sighting of creatures and stories of them being carted off by the military, all very much like Roswell and even more dubious (if that is possible!).

Thiago indicates that these reports prove extraterrestrial craft are continuously visiting Brazil, but his book is frustrating because it gives very little room to evaluating the validity of the reports and their wider context. Without a better analysis this is yet another collection of modern-day folklore, not the facts and evidence of visitations by non-terrestrial beings he promises in his introduction. 
  • Nigel Watson.

3 comments:

Philip Mantle said...

A fascinating book.

Thiago Luiz Ticchetti said...

Nigel, all criticism is welcome, especially when it is constructive. Your review of the book pinches interesting details of my book, but not all. My criticism of yours is against these points: UFO crash in Ubatuba that you claim to be “without a doubt a hoax”. Well, present your evidence that it is a houx. Recently Jacques Vallé went to Argentina and took a piece of the material with him to analyze it. The case may be a fraud, but it can also be genuine. The case is at least controversial. About other cases of UFO crashes, you say that they "look like" hoax or meteorites. In ufology "looks like" is not a scientific answer. Your comment about Varginha is the greatest example of your ignorance of the case, either because you never heard about the case or if you read my book you should not have been able to interpret what was written (if it was because my English, I'm sorry). Whoever researched or researches the Varginha case has no doubt of its veracity. "Not the facts and evidence of visitations by non-terrestrial beings he promises in his introduction". My book is based on reports, testimonies, photos and OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS that do show that there is evidence that Brazil is visited by non-human beings. As I said at the beginning, constructive criticism will always be welcome, but "I think" is of no use to me.

Thiago Luiz Ticchetti

Nigel said...

The Ubatuba incident is not very strong because it came from an anonymous source, and it is only their word that the fragments provided came from something that crashed from the sky. As John Harney notes in his article at http://mufobmagazine.blogspot.com/2014/03/ubatuba.html the analysis of the material suggests it was terrestrial. As noted in UFO Contacts in Brazil the best piece of material has now been destroyed due to testing. Harney felt that:

"The more rational conclusion in this case is, plainly, that the Ubatuba affair was a hoax. It must be regarded as one of the most successful hoaxes in the history of ufology, in view of the time and money spent and the amount of technical expertise lavished on it."

The Varginha case rests on anecdotal accounts and rumours, just like Roswell. Your reports, testimonies, photos and OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS do show that there is evidence that Brazil has been visited by UFOs but there is a wide range of explanations for them that do not need to invoke the activities of non-human beings.

I think this is an excellent collection of Brazilian UFO contacts, but as with ufology in the rest of the world, it proves nothing more than our continuing fascination with the idea that we are not alone in this vast Universe.