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LUÍS SERRA – ABDUCTED: In another abduction case, this teenager was missing for three days. He remembers only the first few moments of those three days and nothing of the seven days after that.

It all began at noon on a Friday in March 1978 when Luís was looking for guava fruit in the jungle near his village of Penalva in the state of Maranhão. He heard a loud sound that scared him.

He looked up and saw a light above the palm trees so bright that it hurt his eyes. "Suddenly," he said, "I fell flat on my back and couldn't move. I was paralyzed."

A minute or so later he began to rise slowly into the air, still in a horizontal position. He could see a round object just above the trees and when he got higher he saw a dome on top and three windows around it. One window was open. He floated in through the window and was lowered to the floor.

Inside were three beings about a meter tall wearing metallic suits and visors. They were talking but he did not understand them and they simply ignored him.

Luís (above with a neighbor boy, showing how small the beings were) then felt the UFO moving and some time later it stopped. He was levitated out of the UFO and came to rest on a nearby flat rock, still paralyzed. He could see tall grass but no trees or birds or stars or sky, only solid blackness above him.

The little men put some kind of liquid in his mouth and he passed out. He remembers nothing from that moment until ten days later.

The following Monday evening, three days and seven hours after Luís was abducted, a fisherman found him lying on the ground in the jungle, unable to move or speak.

Luís was taken to the town's small hospital. He was rigid and catatonic. A doctor tried to move his arms and legs but couldn't. She pricked him all over with a sharp pin, but he showed no reaction at all.

His head appeared to have been shaved but the doctor told me that when she examined Luís more closely, she realized his hair had been burned off. His scalp wasn't singed but the tops of his ears were slightly red.

In addition, four molars had been broken off and were still bleeding. There were no bruises or marks on him and his body was completely normal. The doctor was stumped.

Two days later Luís was flown to a much larger hospital in the state capital and it was nearly a week before he came to his senses. During most of that time he had to be fed intravenously and catheterized.

He was wide awake all the time, just staring straight ahead, but he didn't react to anything anyone said or did.

Altogether at least eight doctors examined Luís and I was able to talk with four of them, including a neurologist and two psychiatrists. No one could explain what caused his condition.

When Luís finally came to his senses (above), he told the story I've just related about the UFO and the three little men... over and over again, without variation.

Witness: Luis Carlos Serra

Location: Penalva, Brazil

Date: March 24, 1978

Time: 1200

Luis was allegedly abducted for ten days. When he was found he was taken to a doctor and examined. He was "completely dumb and had muscle contractions, like he was paralyzed. His hair had apparantly been burned off, and the tops of his ears were slightly burned. For teeth were missing, having been pulled out. His body was rigid and the doctor was unable to move Luis's arms or legs. He went for nine days without eating after the encounter, and was fed intravenously. He was paralyzed for three days. (Pratt, UFO DZ pp.109-121)

10 - Penalva - Maranhão – March-24-1978 - night - Kidnapping - Paralyzed The 16-year old witness had gone out into the woods and disappeared, a search failed party failed to locate him. Eighty-one hours later an angler heard a shout for help and found the boy dazed and unable to stand up in a forested area. He was taken to a local hospital where he was found incoherent and bleeding from the head where some of the hair was missing. Four of his teeth were also missing. He was also seemingly paralyzed. Three days later he was able to say what had happened to him. He had been gathering guava fruit outside a wooded area when he heard a loud siren like sound; he looked up and saw a bright light above the trees. He then lay on the ground unable to move, then floated up into a hovering object that had three spheres on the bottom. He entered through a window and fell softly on the floor. Inside the object he saw three short beings that wore uniforms with helmets and visors and spoke with loud inhuman voices. The witness was then taken to a strange land with no trees, no lakes, no birds, and darkness above him. He could only see a field with tall grass. He was then floated onto a stone table where he was examined. He felt liquid going down his throat and passed out. His next memory was that of coming into the hospital. (Bob Pratt, UFO Report)

34-Penalva- Maranhão-August-23-1978 - night In a field a witness saw three medium-sized humanoid figures wearing silvery loose-fitting coveralls and round translucent helmets with what appeared to be face coverings or "plates". The humanoids were encased in an eerie glow..

34-Penalva- Maranhão-23-Août-1978-nuit In a field a witness saw three medium-sized humanoid figures wearing silvery loose-fitting coveralls and round translucent helmets with what appeared to be face coverings or "plates". The humanoids were encased in an eerie glow..

March 24

1978 - On this day a 16-year-old boy had gone out into the woods near Penalva, Maranhao, Brazil and disappeared, and a search party failed to locate him. Eighty-one hours later a fisherman heard a shout for help and found the boy standing in a forested area, dazed and unable to stand up. He was taken to a local hospital where he was found incoherent and bleeding from the head where some of his hair was missing. Four of his teeth were also missing. He also seemed to be paralyzed. After three days later in the hospital he was able to talk about what had happened to him. He said he had been gathering guava fruit outside a wooded area when he heard a loud siren like sound. He looked up and saw a bright light coming from above the trees. He then fell down to the ground unable to move, and was then levitated up into a hovering flying object that had three spheres on the bottom. He entered the object through a window and fell softly on the floor. Inside the craft he encountered three short beings that wore uniforms with helmets and visors, and spoke in a loud, incomprehensible language. The boy was then taken on a journey to a strange land with no trees, no lakes, and no birds, and a darkness above him. He could only see a field with tall grass. He was then floated onto a stone table where he was examined. He felt liquid going down his throat and he passed out. His next memory was that of coming to in the hospital. (Sources: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 109; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 540, citing Bob Pratt, in Timothy Good (editor), The UFO Report 1991.

Abducted

In addition to UFO sightings, abductions involving some brutality were reported.

On July 24, 1978, a fisherman of Penalva, in the area of Maranhao discovered a 16-year-old boy who called for help. He was lying on the ground, in a wood, and could not move. He was carried to the hospital, his paralysis let suspect that he might have misused drugs, but no trace or remainders were found on him and blood analyzes was also negative.

He missed 4 teeth, the other teeth were damaged. His hair had been burned, his scalp on the other hand had remained intact. Slight wounds resembling sunstrokes were discovered on his ears. He did not show any reaction to pain. It is only little by little that the paralysis disappeared.

He told that he was in the forest when he heard like a blowhorn sound coming from above (UFOs mimick some sounds, we saw that previously). When he looked where this noise came from, a beam paralysed him, then he was taken and transported on board the UFO. The object was circular, with a cupola on the higher side with three windows and it hovered a few meters above the ground. After he entered inside the machine though an opening, he was accomodated by small creatures who wore metal suits with visors. He found himself in a lugubrious place, he could neither see the sky, nor the stars nor trees, only high grass. He was levitated to a kind of flat stone, something was inserted into him, resembling a tube in the nose and a "transparent ball" in the mouth. He then remembers to be in the forest again without being able to move, lying on the ground. This experience lasted three days and seven hours in all.

This case is interesting for it points out the rites of initiation that certain people practise, which mark the evolution of a boy towards adulthood. These ritual are often practised by imposing painful interventions in full nature. The flat stone on which he was deposited in order to undergo these interventions is perfectly appropriate for this kind of ritual. Finally the witness adds that this experience changed him and made him more mature. Witnesses observed a strange light at the place where he was abducted, at the time of the abduction.