Boas plowed the field alone the following night—one might wonder why. At 1 A.M., he noticed a red object in the sky approaching him slowly. Then it moved very rapidly directly over his position, and hovered at about 150 feet. It gave off blinding light, and Boas was terrified. After a few minutes, the object dived forward to a position about forty feet in front of his tractor, and he discerned a large object with three metal legs, and something on the top that rotated rapidly. His tractor had been running all the while, but now the engine died when he tried to drive. Boas ran. After a few steps, his arm was caught by a small being in strange clothes. Boas gave the being a strong push and continued to run, but was captured and dragged into the craft by three others.
Boas later gave an exceptionally detailed description—about eight thousand words—of the inside of the craft and its occupants, who wore tight, white clothing with a light on their belt, white shoes with no heels, large gloves, and opaque helmets with a slit at the level of the eyes. Boas claimed he was stripped naked and subjected to a medical examination in which one of the beings “spread a liquid all over my skin.” He was led to another room where the beings took some blood from his chin, then left him alone briefly. He noticed an unpleasant odor, “as if a thick smoke was stifling me,” and he vomited in a corner of the room. After what seemed like an eternity, an alien female entered the room, entirely naked. She was beautiful, considering that she was an alien: blond hair that was “nearly white” and parted in the center, large, slanted blue eyes, a well-formed straight nose, small but ordinary ears, high cheekbones, and a pointed chin. Boas described her body as “much more beautiful than any I have ever seen.” Her height was short, but not extremely so, perhaps four-and-a-half feet. Like the others, the alien woman spoke with unintelligible, “guttural” sounds. She seemed amused by Boas’s look of amazement. She embraced Boas and made no mistake as to her intention. Boas became “uncontrollably” excited and wondered whether the liquid that had been spread on his body contributed to this. The two had a normal sexual encounter, considering the circumstances, and the woman “reacted as any other woman would.” Of course, considering that the woman was an alien, a few cultural discrepancies presented themselves. Boas said that “some of the growls that came from her at certain times nearly spoiled everything, as they gave me the disagreeable impression of lying with an animal.” She also never kissed him, but instead bit him softly on the chin. When Boas attempted a second act, the woman became uninterested and soon left. He felt used, like “a good stallion to improve their stock.” Just before she left, said Boas, she turned to him, pointed to her belly, then pointed to the southward sky.
He soon received his clothes and dressed, and returned to the room where three crew members sat in swivel chairs, communicating among themselves. Boas later described the furnishings and equipment in detail. One of the beings led him out of the craft, and Boas watched the door close and legs retract. The craft rose slowly to about one hundred feet, hovered, and became brighter. It created an increasingly loud buzzing sound, and the top began to rotate at a terrific speed. The craft then took off “like a bullet.” As Boas said, “these people really knew their business.” By now, it was about 5:30 A.M., and Boas had been aboard for over four hours.
At first, Boas told only his mother, but soon wrote to a magazine that had published articles on flying saucers. From there the story reached Dr. Olavo Fontes, APRO’s man in Brazil, who persuaded Boas to visit him, expecting to trip him up. Instead, Fontes found Boas poised, “perfectly normal,” with no signs of emotional instability or mystical tendencies, and “extremely intelligent.” Under questioning, Boas revealed embarrassment over the sexual experience, which he had not mentioned in his letter to the journalist. Boas also held a “down to earth” view of the aliens themselves:
[He] did not think that the crew were angels, supermen, or demons. He believed them to be human beings such as we are, only coming from other countries on some other planet. He declared that because one of the crew . . . pointed to himself, then to the earth, then to some place in the heavens ....
Boas gave descriptions of such detail, and presented his encounter with such levelheadedness and plausibility, that Fontes wrote a detailed report to the Lorenzens. Initially, they tried to explain the encounter as sexual fantasy but never quite convinced themselves. Finally, in 1962, they published a truncated version of the experience, and then fully in 1965. Boas eventually became a lawyer and made no public appearance until 1978. Then, as before, his sincerity seemed beyond argument.28
