Area : META_UFO

Date : Nov 22 '95, 18:00                                                       
From : Ben La Count                                           1:106/9657
To   : All                                 
Subj : Brazil Wave of 1970s                                                  
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Excerpt from "Confrontations" by Jacques Vallee. Ballantine
Books, 1990. ISBN: 0-345-36501-1
 
** This is posted for informational purposes only **
 
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*** Begin excerpt - Chapter 15, pages 198-203 ***
 
Ground Truth
 
 
It is in the islands around Bel‚m, where the waters of the Tarantins
and the Amazon majestically come to meet the ocean one degree south of
the equator, that the 1977 Brazilian wave culminated; and it is there
that for the first time the proof of the reality of the phenomenon
was obtained. More specifically, as Daniel Rebisso Giese has revealed,
the culmination took place over a three-month period from July to
September 1977 on the island of Colares and on the beach of Baia do
Sol, on the island of Mosqueiro.
 
We found fishermen there who had witnessed the objects, and a doctor
who had ministered to the medical needs of dozens of people hit by the
light from the chupa. She confirmed that one of her patients died
after the experience. Several of these witnesses also told us that
they had observed two teams of Brazilian military men filming the
objects, attempting contact.
 
Ground truth: there was no denying the wave of 1977. It started in
June near Cape Gurupi, north of the town of Vizeu, and it moved in
both directions along the coast: toward S o Lu¡s to the east and
toward Bel‚m to the west during June and July; it matched a peak in
September and October.
 
The reason the phenomenon could not be denied was very simple: every
evening the UFOs appeared, coming from the north. In some cases, they
flew down from the sky, in others, they emerged out of the ocean. I
saw a photograph of an object with a luminous white ring flying right
out of the brackish water at dusk.
 
They came over the islands at low altitude and circled; they de-
scended as if to land; they made loops and accelerated suddenly; they
hovered over houses and probed the inside with beams. They even
emerged out of larger objects and reentered them. And this happened on
schedule, every evening for three months.
 
The panic on the island of Cotares, according to a firsthand witness
who lived through the ordeal, was hard to imagine. All the people who
were able to leave, including the dentist and the school teachers,
abandoned their posts. People who had family on the mainland left. The
sheriff fled.
 
The objects were never alone. On numerous photographs taken by
journalists they are seen accompanied by smaller probes. They exhibit
a variety of shapes that would drive an aeronautical engineer to
insanity. They range in size from starlike objects to things as big as
two 737s end to end. The larger objects were more frequent than the
smaller ones; and they hovered in the sky, apparently secure in the
belief that out there, in the mist and the mud at the mouth of the
Amazon, nobody would ever bother them. Perhaps they knew that the
Brazilian Air Force had issued confidential orders directing air
traffic away from the area.
 
There was nothing elusive about these objects. They were not the
fleeting phenomena so often described in the American literature or
the dreamlike manifestations experienced by the contactees, which
become even more dreamlike under hypnotic regression. There was a
superior technology at work over Cotares, and all the observers could
do was to film it and watch in awe.
 
Doctor Wellaide Cecim Carvalho de Oliveira, who had stayed on the
island throughout the duration of the wave, agreed to speak with me.
As the director of the community health center on the archipelago of
Marajo (population: 6,000), she was quoted by Daniel Rebisso Giese
in his report. She amplified her earlier testimony about the medical
cases in the area.
 
Ground truth: Dr. Carvalho had worked in Colares eight months when she
started to see patients who claimed to have been attacked by strange
tights. Until then she had ascribed such stories to hallucinations
and drunkenness. She had to revise her conclusions when she found that
her patients presented similar symptoms:
 
   1. A feeling of weakness; some could hardly walk
   2. Dizziness and headaches
   3. Local losses of sensitivity. Numbness and trembling
   4. Pallid complexion
   5. Low arterial pressure
   6. Anemia, with low hemoglobin levels
   7. Blackened skin where the light had hit, with several red-purple
      circles, hot and painful,  1 inch to 1 1/4 inches in diameter (see
      plates 16 and 17)
   8. Two puncture marks inside the red circles resembling mosquito
      bites, hard to the touch
   9. Hair in the blackened area fell out and did not rejuvenate, as
      if follicles had been destroyed
  10. No nausea or diarrhea
 
The doctor told me that at the time she did not have access to a
sophisticated lab for further tests, but she did establish a drop in
red blood cells in all patients. She put the victims under observation
for four or five days.
 
About twenty patients between the ages of eighteen and fifty, many of
them young men, were treated this way. They all told the same story:
They had been resting in their hammocks when the light hit them from
above. They were immediately immobilized, as if a heavy weight pushed
against their chest. The beam was about three inches 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.
 
The beam never hit the victims on the hands or the arms, always on the
neck and torso. The discoloration and the mark appeared immediately.
The body hair fell out later. And everything usually returned to
normal after seven days.
 
There were several exceptions; in one case a forty-eight-year-old
woman was seriously hurt. She had awakened during the night and had
started to crochet to pass the time, when the light suddenly hit her
chest. After it withdrew, she went to military doctors, who gave her a
simple tranquilizer (Somalium) and five milligrams of Diazepan,
which made her sleep. In the morning she came to the health center
seeking treatment, but she never fully recovered, and she has
continuing symptoms of dizziness and weakness to this day.
 
In another case, a thirty-two-year-old male victim suffered a sim-
ilar fate. And one woman, as stated in chapter 9, died the day after
her exposure to the light, which seems to have aggravated a preex-
istent cardiac condition.
 
Ground truth: when the wave of reports and medical injuries reached
the town center, people panicked. They did not sleep for fear of night
attacks. Only the priest, the mayor, and the doctor remained behind
when the pillars of the community made their getaway. The buses were
crammed with people leaving. At night, fishermen refused to go out.
Soon there was nothing to eat; the people had to resort to canned food
and whatever could be brought over from the mainland.
 
People drank coffee throughout the night to stay awake. When they saw
anything unusual flying overhead, they set off fireworks and beat on
pans to scare it away.
 
The federal government eventually sent a military team with strict
orders to observe but not to interfere. One witness to whom we spoke
got to know all the team members. They had a base on the beach,
another on the road, higher up. They rotated. There were biologists,
physicists, medical doctors, chemists-forty men in all with tents,
cameras, tape recorders, and telescopes. They were from southern
states and had grades up to captain. They had trucks, drugs,
thermometers, and blood pressure machines. They treated people during
the night when they were up and waiting for the objects.
 
Ground truth: we asked Dr. Carvalho to tell us about her own sighting,
which occurred one day at 6:00 P.M., and she told us it was the most
beautiful thing she had ever witnessed. Even today, if she closes her
eyes, she can make the image appear again. "I have forgotten a lot of
things in ten years, " she stated, "but I will never forget this!"
 
It was a brilliant, large cylinder with a purple light at the top and
at the bottom, shining in concentric rings. It flew low over the
street, dancing in majestic circles as it moved. There were no doors
or windows. Her maid fainted and fell when she saw the object, but Dr.
Carvalho ignored her and followed the object in a state she described
as "almost ecstatic," so beautiful the vision was. She hoped it would
land and take her.
 
A group of people rushed out from the town, beating on drums and
saucepans, shooting fireworks. The object went on dancing, higher and
higher, and it flew away.
 
A few nights later, one of the objects came in very low and landed on
the soccer field. The military rushed toward it, hoping to make
contact, but the crowd was there first, with drums and noisemakers,
and it flew off.
 
How ironic, that we are hoping to communicate with alien beings when
we cannot even communicate among ourselves; that military and
civilians cannot agree on the reality of the phenomenon; that data
cannot be shared among doctors, among investigators, among countries.
 
All the medical data we gathered during our trip seems to be
consistent with the conclusion that UFOs are able to focus on se-
lected human subjects a beam of radiation that contains, among other
things, pulsed microwaves that interfere with the central nervous
system. Such a beam could cause the dizziness, headaches, paralysis,
pricklings, and numbness reported to us by so many witnesses. It could
also create long-term behavioral effects, changes in sleep patterns,
even delusionary episodes and hallucinations. It is the entire
phenomenology of UFO contact claims that will now have to be revised.
 
Where is the proof of all this? The reader is entitled to ask, as
Janine and I did, when we met with the people who had lived through
the experience, along the beach at Baia do Sol.
 
The answer gave me food for thought. There were not one but two series
of photographs, movie films, and tape recordings that were made during
this period. The military team, which operated in full view of the
population, is known to have compiled a thick report with a wealth of
physical measurements attached. The report was sent to higher
authorities in Brasilia, where it presumably dis-appeared into a
drawer.
 
The second team was composed of journalists and cameramen who were
almost as well equipped as the military. They obtained excellent
photos, which can be consulted in the newspaper archives of that
period. Unfortunately, as I indicated earlier, only the negatives
have scientific potential. And all the negatives taken by the
newspaper teams have left Brazil, purchased from the publishers by an
unnamed American firm.
 
Somebody in the United States owns a collection of records that
contains the proof of the reality of the phenomenon.
 
Ground truth: there is a simple reason for the absence of open
academic interest in the UFO phenomenon. As we have seen throughout
this book, it is not lack of evidence.
 
On the contrary.
 
The evidence that has now been obtained by the major powers is so
valid and it has such devastating implications for future military
systems that the decision has been made to keep it under lock and key,
and to entrust its study only to highly specialized teams with
selected, compartmented access. In my opinion, the work of these teams
is doomed to failure, as it has been since 1953, in spite of all the
resources behind it and in spite of the absurd disinformation
operation that surrounds it to keep it secure.
 
The UFO phenomenon cannot be compartmentalized. It is global in nature
and it touches every part of human knowledge-from folklore to
astrophysics, from ethnology to microwaves, from particles to
parapsychology.
 
Ground truth: what happened at Baia do Sol can happen again anywhere,
tomorrow. I detest the thought that it will find us unprepared. Once
again.
 
** End excerpt **
 
 

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