Encounter record / 1960
May 13, 1960. Evening in Paracuru, a coastal town in Ceará, north-east Brazil. More than a hundred people looked up at a smooth, dark-grey circular craft, maneuvering and hovering overhead. A powerful light shone on its apex. It seemed about 60 feet wide. About 4 a.m., a farmer named Raimundo dos Santos saw two craft near the coast. Beside them stood several small, pale, human-like figures in blue uniforms and white helmets. They beckoned. The farmer turned and fled in fright. Later the farmer returned with other men. In the sand were marks where the discs had rested.
The night of May 13, 1960. According to Coral Lorenzen, a six-state area of Brazil experienced an unusual number of UFO sightings. That same evening, about 150 km inland at Quixadá, the novelist Rachel de Queiroz, her family and about 20 people at the Não Me Deixes farm watched an orange light inside a luminous, misty halo. It moved east, sometimes fast, sometimes slowly, sometimes stopping. She ended her O Cruzeiro column with "EU VI," meaning "I saw."