Upon leaving, the young woman pointed at her abdomen and then toward the sky.

Antonio was subsequently ditched from the craft by the helmeted beings, but he first tried to secure some proof of his incredible experience: a box-shaped device with a glass lid, but the creatures kept him from doing so. The object took off vertically, issuing a whistling sound and increasing its brightness. Villas Boas spent approximately 4 hours and 15 minutes aboard the craft.

In 1961, after the Brazilian farmer's experience, an American couple - Betty and Barney Hill - also underwent an abduction experience supposedly involving aliens. However, it was the Villas Boas case, 4 years earlier, that kicked off a discussion and debate that has not lost its currency: the likelihood of genetic experiments performed by extraterrestrials upon human beings.

The story of Antonio Villas Boas (who remained anonymous until 1967) was made known to the world by Brazilian journalist, Joao Martins, in the international edition (Spanish) of the prestigious Brazilian publication "O Cruzeiro", which appeared in Buenos Aires seven years after the events, on December 1, 1964.

Also involved in the investigation of this case was Dr. Olavo Fontes, a major name in Brazilian Ufology, who subjected Villas Boas to a battery of physical and psychological tests after the event (February 22, 1958). The witness showed no signs of mental instability and had a series of physical alterations caused during the alleged alien encounter.

The Early Revelations

What seemed absurd to many - that is to say, the abduction of humans by aliens and sexual relations with aliens - would later be transformed into a pattern of conduct experienced by many citizens of various countries around the globe.

(Editor's note: more details on the aliens' use of liquid aphrodiac substances, known as "unguents," to arouse the subject, are given by Dr. David M. Jacobs in "The Threat")

In the year 2000, this author reopened the investigation of this seminal case after having located one of Antonio Villas Boas's sons. I must admit that I was rather incredulous at some of the facts of the case, and it was necessary to secure more information. His extraordinary statements - which I was not allowed to disclose - stirred my curiosity further until years later, Claudio Tshuhioshi Suenaga, the distinguished Japanese-Brazilian historian and ufologist, put me on the trail once more.

Claudio Tshuhioshi Suenaga had interviewed Odercia Villas Boas, Antonio's sister, over the telephone. Her revelations, told to Suenaga, had been startling. I immediately took off for Brazil and from Sao Paulo, Claudio and I engaged in a marathon relay of several buses until we reached Sao Francisco de Salles (pop. 3,000), the scene of these astonishing events.

It was there that we found sexagenarian farmer, Joao Francisco de Queiroz, Villas Boas's nephew, whom Claudio had also contacted over the phone.

Joao informed us that on the night of his total abduction, he - Joao Francisco - was sleeping inside a tractor cab a few hundred meters away from the site of the incident.

"I was only 16 years old and was deep asleep. I heard nothing. It was only the next day that I learned of the incident. He told us, his relatives, that he had been taken aboard a device that landed some 50 meters away from the Grande River and that he had had sexual relations with a short, ugly woman."

"Ugly?" Claudio and I repeated, exchanging glances, "but the published reports said that she was a beautiful woman, despite her strange appearance..."

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