UFO. Brazil

Date: May 18 1968
Location: Caconde, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Time: 5 a.m.
Summary: We have heard, in the course of the past 21 years, of many UFO residuals which although exhaustively investigated and analyzed, prove almost as puzzling after analysis as they did before, but the following case is one of the, most intriguing. On the 18th of May, 1968, at 5 a.m. C. S, Dos Santos, a night watchman at Caconde, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, returned home from his nightly work and found, in the courtyard of his house. a very curious object which was partly buried in the ground. It was quite heavy (comparable to a car battery) of gray polished metal, had no seams or rivets or screws showing and was cylinder shaped and above the size of a medium, sized powdered milk can. At each end of the cylinder three dials which looked to Dos Santo like manometers. One dial displayed a black hand and the other a red one. These dials appeared to be encased under a glass or plastic lens and Dos Santos observed embossed figures on them arranged in a semi-circle He thought they resembled our arabic numerals. Above each figure there were other signs which Dos Santos could not decipher, and, being curious. he took the object into the house with him. His wife said she thought it might be a time-bomb and did not want it about, but Dos Santos put it on the floor and allowed their small son to handle it. As was his custom, Dos Santos breakfasted and then went to bed, but before retiring he put the object on the slat windowsill of the bathroom. After getting up that evening, he went to work at his usual time, having completely forgotten about the object. At about 1 a.m., Dos Santos went back home to check on his wife who was pregnant and was surprised to find all the doors and windows open and the house brightly lit. Neighbors were outside with his wife, and both Mrs. Dos Santos and their son were in a very agitated state. Mrs. Dos Santos then told her husband of the strange events of the night. She had been awakened by a sound like the “buzz of a big transformer” and a feeling of intense and stifling heat, despite the bitter cold of the night. She decided to get up and switch off the main electric switches, fearing that there had been a short circuit. As she left the bedroom she noted a bright bluish Light coming from the little bathroom, from which the noise apparently was emulating also. Frightened, she decided to call the neighbors and did so immediately. The neighbors had just gotten over the light and, heard the sound and saw the when they heard a very loud noise like tiles breaking. Immediately after this sound was heard the heat stopped and the light in the house went out. After hearing this Dos Santos went into the house to investigate, and in the bathroom he found a hole in the roof, there was tile scattered all over the floor and the object which he had left on the sill was gone. The indication is, of course. that the object either took off o{ its own accord, making a hole in the roof as it left , or was somehow taken out of the house. All the witnesses (Mr. and Mrs. Dos Santos and their neighbors) were interviewed and their testimony taken by Dr. Max Berezowsky, M.D., and Dr. Methodius Kalkasieff (Architeot) on behalf of the Brazilian Commission for Confidential Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Objects (CBPCOANI) and forwarded to APRO by Professor Flavio Pereira, the organization’s president and APRO’S representative in Brazil. We are indebted also to Mrs. Irene Granchi of Rio de Janeiro, our official Portuguese translator.