An untraceable report credited to the Centro Paraibano de Ufologia, propably a reader's email, tells that in Jao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil, in 1978, at night, someone was sleeping in his room when he suddenly woke up frightened and saw two beings standing next to his bed.
It is said one of them carried a crystal vase containing a blue liquid, and told the witness that they wanted to cure him of a festering eye problem he had. The very frightened witness refused any treatment, and then both humanoids walked through the wall and vanished.
Basic information table:
Case number:
URECAT-000893
Date of event:
1978
Earliest report of event:
2001?
Delay of report:
2 decades?
Witness reported via:
Not known.
First alleged record by:
Local ufology group.
First certain record by:
Ufology catalogue Rosales.
First alleged record type:
Local ufology group.
First certain record type:
Ufology catalogue.
This file created on:
December 1, 2008
This file last updated on:
February 10, 2012
Country of event:
Brazil
State/Department:
Paraiba
Type of location:
In bed in bedroom.
Lighting conditions:
Night
UFO observed:
No
UFO arrival observed:
No
UFO departure observed:
No
UFO/Entity Relation:
None
Witnesses numbers:
1
Witnesses ages:
Not reported.
Witnesses types:
Not reported. Apparently male.
Photograph(s):
No.
Witnesses drawing:
No.
Witnesses-approved drawing:
No.
Number of entities:
2
Type of entities:
Humanoid
Entities height:
Not reported
Entities outfit type:
Not reported.
Entities outfit color:
Not reported.
Entities skin color:
Not reported.
Entities body:
Not reported.
Entities head:
Not reported.
Entities eyes:
Not reported.
Entities mouth:
Not reported.
Entities nose:
Not reported.
Entities feet:
Not reported.
Entities arms:
Not reported.
Entities fingers:
Not reported.
Entities fingers number:
Not reported.
Entities hair:
Not reported.
Entities voice:
Entity speaks.
Entities actions:
Are in bedroom, tell witness they want to cure him, go away though wall.
Entities/witness interactions:
Tell witness they want to cure him.
Witness(es) reactions:
Observed.
Witness(es) feelings:
Frightened.
Witness(es) interpretation:
Not reported.
Explanation category:
Probable hypnagogic hallucination. Insufficient information and credibility.
Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in Jao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil, in 1978, at night, the witness was sleeping in his room when he suddenly woke up with a start, frightened. He then saw two beings standing next to his bed. One of them carried a crystal vase, which contained a blue liquid inside. He told the witness that they wanted to cure him of a festering eye problem he had. Very frightened the witness refused any treatment, and then both humanoids walked through the wall and vanished.
Albert Rosales indicates that the source is "Centro Paraibano de Ufologia".
1 - João Pessoa, Paraíba - 1978 - night - immaterial ets The witness was sleeping in his room when he suddenly woke up with a start, frightened. He then saw two beings standing next to his bed. One of them carried a crystal vase, which contained a blue liquid inside. He told the witness that they wanted to cure him of a festering eye problem he had. Very frightened the witness refused any treatment, and
then both humanoids walked through the wall and vanished (Centro Paraibano de Ufologia)
Points to consider:
The Centro Paraibano de Ufologia was publishing a website between 2001 and 2007 but I did not find this report, possibly a reader's email to their defunct forum ( web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cpbufo.hpg.ig.com.br ).
There is no UFO, and the experience occurred when the person was asleep. Although the information is insufficient, of unknown origin and with a witness whose age is not even indicated, this is obviously one of the numerous hypnagogic hallucination experiences changed into a "humanoid encounter" for no valid reason.
I provide a few references among dozens about the topic of hypnagogic hallucination and sleep paralysis:
"The Old Hag phenomenon as sleep paralysis: a biocultural interpretation", paper by R.C. Ness, in Cultural and Medical Psychiatry, vol. 2 #1, pp 15-39, March 1978.
"Lucid Dreaming: The Paradox of Consciousness During Sleep", book by Celia Green and Charles McCreery, Routledge publisher, U-K., 1994.
"Wrestling With Ghosts: A Personal And Scientific Account Of Sleep Paralysis", book by Jorge Conesa Sevilla, Xlibris Corporation publishers, U-K., 2004.
"Hallucinations and pathological visual perceptions in Maupassant's fantastical short stories - a neurological approach", by L.C. Alvaro, in Journal of the History of Neuroscience, vol 14, #2, pp 100-115, June 2005.
"Effects of hypnagogic imagery on the event-related potential to external tone stimuli", paper by N. Michida, M. Hayashi, T. Hori, in Sleep, Vol. 28 #7, pp 813-818, July 2005.
"Sleep and Society: Ventures into the (Un)Known", book by Simon A. Williams, Routledge publisher, 2005.
"Mental representation of space: Insights from an oblique distribution of hallucinations", paper by T.A Girard, D.L. Martius, J.A. Cheyne in Neuropsychologia, vol. 45 #6, pp 1257-1269, 2007.
"Parasomnias", paper by D.T. Plante, J.W. Winkelman, in The Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Vol. 29 #4, pp 969-987, December 2006.
"Paranoid delusions and threatening hallucinations: A prospective study of sleep paralysis experiences", paper preview by J.A. Cheyne, T.A. Girard, scheduled in Consciousness and Cognition for April 2007.
List of issues:
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Topic:
Severity:
Date noted:
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Noted by:
Description:
Proposal:
Status:
1
Data
Severe
December 1, 2008
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Primary source not available.
Help needed.
Opened.
2
Ufology
Severe
December 1, 2008
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Nature of report unknown, possible email, no investigation published.
Help needed.
Opened.
3
Ufology
Severe
December 1, 2008
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Insufficient information, no description of the entitities, anonymous witness age not known, no precise date and place etc.
Help needed.
Opened.
4
Ufology
Severe
December 1, 2008
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Obvious possibility of hypnagogic hallucination apparently not investigated.
Help needed.
Opened.
Evaluation:
Probable hypnagogic hallucination. Insufficient information and credibility.
Sources references:
* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.
[---] ? Centro Paraibano de Ufologia, Brazil, www.cpbufo.hpg.ig.com.br
[ar1] * "1978 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2007, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1978.shtml
[af1] * "ET in Brazil", electronic book compiled by Antonio Faleiro, Brazil, page 99, circa 2006.
