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Encounter record / 1978

The Piranhas Abduction: Manoel Roberto and the Eight Small Men in Red

January 20, 1978 · Piranhas, Goiás, and Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso, Brazil
15Thinly documented UAP Being / humanoid 11 sources

Piranhas, Goiás. Friday, 20 January 1978. About 5 p.m. Six boys were playing football when a luminous disc came down without a sound. Four ran home in terror. Manoel Roberto, 11, and his cousin Paulinho, 10, tried to run. They could not. That evening, Manoel was knocking on doors in Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso. Cold, hungry, half-undressed. He spoke of eight small men in red who never said a word. At 7 p.m., residents there had seen a strange luminous object in the sky, and the power had failed across the region. Manoel was found. Paulinho never came back.

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Context

January 1978. Brazil was in the middle of a wave of close encounter reports. Piranhas is a small town on the Piranhas River in western Goiás. Rondonópolis lies in Mato Grosso, 250 km from Cuiabá. The press put the two towns 500 km apart.

Sources (11, most influential first)

  1. URECAT-000891: Piranhas, Brazil, 20 January 1978 · Patrick Gross· 2008-11-22 · Research organisation · org report
  2. URECAT-000891 (French version) · Patrick Gross· 2008-11-22 · Research organisation · org report
  3. Le Progrès, 24 January 1978 (English translation) · Le Progrès, via Patrick Gross· 1978-01-24 · Press, book, documentary · news
  4. Le Progrès, 24 January 1978 (French) · Le Progrès, via Patrick Gross· 1978-01-24 · Press, book, documentary · news
  5. Le Méridional, 26 January 1978 (English translation) · Le Méridional, via Patrick Gross· 1978-01-26 · Press, book, documentary · news