Date: 26th July, 1965,
Location: Carazinho, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil
This is based on a report by the Brasilian UFO group S.B.E.D.V. Unfortunately (but all too common) I never received a response from the group so this account is taken from URECAT.
On the evening of the 26th July, 1965, 14 years old Adilson Batista Azevedo left his home with his friends Nelson Vieira, 17, and João Pereira, 14, to go to the movie theatre. The Adilson's residence was on the periphery of the city and so the trio had to 10 minutes long walk to get to their destination. As they got to an area of wasteland, between the streets of November 15, General Cenabarro St. and Alexandre da Mota st. they saw in the sky, coming out of a cloud, at an altitude given as approximately 500 meters, a strong light in the shape of a cone, which illuminated the ground on a 10 meters strip.
As the light descended quickly with a strange buzzing sound, the boys became frightened. Nelson and João, thought of a shooting star or a meteor, or even more dangerous, a cloud of bees, and ran away shouting "These are bees! These are bees!"
Adilson was more curious and managed to observe that it was in fact an ovoid object of 5 or 6 metres in length and 1.50 metres in height, which landed in the ground in the wasteland, 40 metres away. He thought that the apparatus did not touch the ground but remained motionless 1 metre above the ground. Adilson continued watching until after some three minutes another object appeared, illuminated the ground and landed with the same buzzing sound, stopping within 3 or 4 metres of the first and on the same level. The two machines projecting a beam of light towards the ground, from their lower part. Although the machines looked identical the second appeared much smaller, maybe only 2 or 3 metres long.
Two "small" entities, 1.5 to 2.0 metres tall according to a local newspaper, came out of the largest object and walked around it. They entities made gestures and talked in an incomprehensible language full with "S" and "Z" tones, in low-pitched voices like those of old people.
Adilson remained there, observing for one or two minutes and, at a time when the entities were at the side of the object he got up and moved closer to within 30 metres and hid behind an old well. The entities wore dark clothing and a luminous helmet. Coming out of the helmet, from the nose level down to the chest, there was a darker strip.
Above: Adilson showing where he hid at the encounter location (c)2024 respective copyright owner
After 5 minutes Adilson noticed three entities, of similar appearance, had left the smaller object and moved towards the first group; speaking in the same whistling idiom. One from this second group held a luminous object in the right hand and walked to and fro. A little later, the two small men of the first group made three circuits of their object before entering by the lower section, bending down sufficiently for that.
The craft took off vertically, increasing its buzzing sound and disappearing within a few seconds until lost among the stars. The three crew members of the second apparatus continued to talk for three more minutes, then made the same movements as the previous group, bending over to re-enter the object. which rose, at high speed and disappeared quickly.
Adilson left the area and then joined up with his friends then joined his at the movie theatre, where he remained only half an hour because he felt a strong headache. He went to a pharmacy, bought a tablet of Fontol for headaches but this did not have any effect. The next day, his father, Gumercindo Batista Azevedo, impressed by the story, took him to a doctor, who prescribed him sedatives that also were of no use. His headache continued during 5 days and 5 nights, and then ceased suddenly.
Patrick Gross on URECAT suggests that this was all confusion and that what the witness saw were...helicopters!
If an explanation fits -even if 50-50 then I will go with it. Case solved on to the next one. However, looking at URECAT the number of cases in which it is suggested that the object and entities seen were helicopters and crew borders on the ridiculous. Helicopters in 2024 with all their sophisticated design are bloody loud and I have heard 1960s helicopters (on the ground with rotors spinning) and they are deafening.
Yes, FSR account is not great and entity size could be down to the lad's "guestimate" or even, as we have seen many times before, conflicting newspaper reports. Why give an absolute 100% size when you can only guess? Reporters are there to push stories to sell newspapers and are NOT UFO investigators (then most UFO investigators are not either).
Although you could use the activity described to fit helicopters landing the objects do not match the shape of a helicopter and although ducking down was a common sight when someone got onto one they did not have to bend over and enter under the helicopter.
It is an interesting report and the physiological effect noted could or might not have been caused by close proximity to the objects. However, this is a single witness case and unless the Ufologists found other UFO witnesses (Adilson's two friends ran off) this one would get a Low strangeness rating.
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