Encounter record / 1974
Navegantes, Santa Catarina. The night of 31 August 1974. A fisherman named Antonio De Azevedo is on the beach with his wife. A disc with multicoloured lights lands close beside them. The lights leave the couple paralysed. Three short beings in greenish spacesuits step out, speaking a language neither of them knows. They examine the pair. Then they take one of them aboard, and the object leaves at incredible speed. The story ran in Curitiba newspapers three days later. In 1977, investigators went looking for the police complaint and the fisherman. They found neither.
Navegantes sits on the north bank of the Itajaí-Açu river mouth, facing Itajaí. In the winter of 1974 the town was already news. On 2 July, fishermen in Gravatá watched a dazzling white, silent disc come in from the sea, land on the water about 100 m offshore and sink. The Navy searched, and sightseers and reporters crowded the beach. At the end of August came a stranger story.