Antonio Carlos Ferreira, Mirassol
A factory night watchman said small humanoids sedated him, flew him to a mother ship and made him mate with a female being.
1979 CE · -20.82, -49.52 · status: account
The account
Ferreira said that on 28 July 1979 three beings about 1.2 m tall, with pointed ears and slanted eyes, took him from a furniture factory in Mirassol, São Paulo, showed him images on a screen and returned him to the ground. His account echoes that of Antônio Vilas-Boas.
The sceptical view
No corroborating witnesses; the story closely follows the template of earlier Brazilian abduction accounts.
The researched reading
A Villas Boas-style story from one watchman, apparently contradicted by a witness who saw him at work. Sleep-related experience or invention is much likelier than a literal abduction.
| Explanation | Weight | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Perception, memory or mind | 48% | A night watchman’s sexual-contact story fits hypnopompic dreams and sleep paralysis; a truck driver reportedly placed him at the gas station at the time of the supposed abduction, and doctors found nothing abnormal. |
| Undetermined | 32% | The share the reading had given to fabrication on doubt rather than evidence: the record does not settle it either way. |
| Genuinely anomalous | 10% | Investigators found him sincere, but the alibi weighs against a physical abduction. |
| A hoax or fabrication | 5% | The story closely echoes the famous Villas Boas case and grew through several episodes, a common pattern in copied or invented accounts. |
| Something known, misidentified | 3% | Nothing in the account is a misread object. |
| A known natural phenomenon | 1% | Nothing natural fits. |
| A poorly understood natural phenomenon | 1% | Nothing points that way. |
| Secret human technology | 0% | Not applicable. |
Official position: No official investigation; doctors at a local hospital found no abnormality.