The Vilas Boas Encounter -Some Thoughts

 There is something that has always bothered me about the case of Antonio Vilas Boas and the account he gave.

Antônio Vilas-Boas was a 23-year old Brazilian farmer who was working at night to avoid the hot temperatures of the day. On the 16th October, 1957, he was ploughing fields near São Francisco de Sales when he saw what he described as a "red star" in the night sky  which approached his position, growing in size until it became recognizable as a roughly circular or egg-shaped aerial craft, with a red light at its front and a rotating cupola on top. This craft began descending and landed in the field, extending three "legs" as it did so. 

At that point, Boas decided to run from the scene on his tractor, but when its lights and engine cut out after traveling only a short distance -he decided to continue on foot.  However, he was seized by a 5-foot-tall (150 cm) humanoid, who was wearing grey coveralls and a helmet. Its eyes were small and blue, and instead of speech it made noises like barks or yelps. Three similar beings then joined the first in subduing Boas, and they dragged him inside their craft 

Once inside the craft, Boas said that he was stripped of his clothes and covered from head-to-toe with a strange gel. He was then led into a large semicircular room, through a doorway that had strange red symbols written over it. (Boas claimed that he was able to memorize these symbols and later reproduced them for investigators.) In this room the beings took samples of Boas' blood from his chin. After this he was then taken to a third room and left alone for around half an hour. During this time, some kind of gas was pumped into the room, which made Boas become violently ill.

Shortly after this, Boas claimed that he was joined in the room by another humanoid. This one, however, was female, very attractive, and naked. She was the same height as the other beings he had encountered, with a small, pointed chin and large, blue catlike eyes. The hair on her head was long and white (somewhat like platinum blonde) but her underarm and pubic hair were bright red.  Boas said he was strongly attracted to the woman, and the two had sexual intercourse. During this act, Boas noted that the female did not kiss him but instead nipped him on the chin.

When it was all over, the female smiled at Boas, rubbing her belly and gestured upwards.  Boas took this to mean that she was going to raise their child in space. The female seemed relieved that their "task" was over, and Boas himself said that he felt angered by the situation, because he felt as though he had been little more than "a good stallion" for the humanoids.

Boas said that he was then given back his clothing and taken on a tour of the ship by the humanoids. During this tour he said that he attempted to take a clock-like device as proof of his encounter, but was caught by the humanoids and prevented from doing so. He was then escorted off the ship and watched as it took off, glowing brightly. When Boas returned home, he discovered that four hours had passed.

He later became a lawyer, married and had four children. He stuck to the story of his alleged abduction for his entire life: he died on 17th January, 1991.

That is the account given and free of Flying Saucer Reviews racist image of Vilas Boas being an "ignorant peasant" and the female entity "his bit of overtime".

Vilas Boas was paralysed which is common in a number of close encounter cases. But here we see three entities shorter than he having to carry him to the object. There he is prepared and 'forced' to have sex with a female entity...twice. He even admits an attraction to her in his account. After this his clothes are returned and he is taken on a tour of the craft before being "released". Everything conforms to standard CE3Ks except the, uh, "forced sex" and Vilas Boas seems to actually not need forcing.

Did Vilas Boas remember everything about his time on board, after all four hours had passed. He did try to steal something to prove what had happened, as had others before him and with equal lack of success.This was 1957 and years before Dr Benjamin Simon would use hypnosis on the Hills and all investigators could go by was what the percipient recalled and there seems to be a lot missing here.

I actually wonder whether Vilas Boas had some Catholic guilt over the sex and enjoying it...with someone who was not quite human? The problem we have is that just carrying Vilas Boas to the craft, washing him down and saying "Here: have sex!" would not take four hours but let's say an hour which leaves us with 3 hours and the tour took an hour that still leaves 2 hours to be accounted for.

For decades the concentration has been on the titillating sex aspect and no one -I have checked as many sources as I can- asks "What happened that took four hours?" Vilas Boas stuck to his story and did not make money from it or seek any celebrity from it: he continued his studies and got on with his life as have so many over the decades. I wonder whether, after first being picked up, something I am unsure about and wonder whether Vilas Boas did not walk on board after his escape failed and the situation unfolded from there and it may well be that the encounter with the female entity was not a forced situation.

The big problem is that, as far as the investigators at the time knew, there had never been an incident like this before; the whole reason Vilas Boas contacted anyone was because he wanted to know what it all meant.  It seems that the account given is the one he recalled and never added to over the decades and if he did have any partial recall then he kept it to himself.

It is odd that when I mentioned this as a Time Loss case (no one used Missing Time back then) I was continually asked why? It was just accepted that all he recalled covered the four hour period -there were a number of people who suggested that Vilas Boas got the time wrong or simply shrugged it off -after all, he was an ignorant peasant!

Do not just think of this case as "sex on a flying saucer" but look at the details. So few actually do.