Now here's another one which is really quite unusual.
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I call this one a pressure inside his head. This occurred on January 6, 1978 in Santo Antonio da Caparica in Portugal. And this case was fairly widely published. And it's an amazing case because of how it affected the witnesses in a really unusual way. This case was first published in the Encyclopedia of Close Encounters with UFOs by Vicente Juan Balester Olmos and Juan A Fernandez Perez. It involves two witnesses.
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One is a 35-year-old civil construction technician known only by his initials GASF and his friend who elected to remain totally anonymous. They had been hanging out in a cafe on the beach in Santa Antonio da Caparica, again in Portugal, and had stayed there until it closed up for the evening.
They were then walking away from the beach and this is when they noticed a very intense bright blue glowing object moving from the direction of the ocean across the sky towards them.
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And their shock turned to fear when the object suddenly stopped, hovered in the sky about 1,200 feet away, and then slowly descended to the ground over a little forested area next to the Orbiter campsite. Now both men, without being quite sure why they acted this way, began running down Rural Castro Frere, as you can see here, to chase this light, which at the time led to a wooded area.
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Now walking among the bushes and low-lying acacia trees, they saw that the area around them was brightly illuminated by this object, which now hung in the sky about 30 to 35 feet above the ground, just a short distance away. So they reached a clearing and looking across the street, were terrified to see this figure that was humanoid in appearance.
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It was about 25 feet away from them, but it was clearly not human. This caused a lot of fear for them because they could see that this figure was 7 feet tall, dressed in a sort of loose-fitting, very shiny, white suit, quote, like the ones firefighters wear when fighting fires. They said its head was covered by a helmet, white and shiny as its suit, very similar to a motorcycle helmet, but had a narrow, dark, glass-like visor.
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The figure was facing the two men, who had the impression that they had surprised this strange visitor as much as it had surprised them. They said its arms were hanging unmoving along its side. Mr. G-A-S-F says that during this time, he felt a weird buzzing sensation or pressure inside his head, and this became stronger and stronger the closer they approached to this being and this craft.
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Now this figure immediately began to turn in a very slow and heavy fashion, moving from left to right, walking towards this object, which was about 45 to 50 feet behind the being. Neither of the men heard this being or the object making any noise. They said this object had a flattened shape, but had a hump in the center.
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They estimate it was about 75 to 90 feet wide, 15 to 20 feet high, but it was so bright that they could not really discern its exact shape. But now thoroughly frightened, they turned and fled the area. Now returning to the site the next day, the two men did find an area about 25 feet in diameter near this clearing where they had stood, where all the grass had been crushed.
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This reached out under the nearby trees, which did not show any damage. Investigators did visit this site about seven weeks later and were not able to find any alleged landing traces. But the main witness, Mr. GASF, says that at the time of this encounter his watch also stopped, and he also reported some other strange physiological effects beyond the odd feeling of pressure and buzzing in his head.
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He said that for several weeks after the encounter, he suffered from very severe insomnia, sleeping only two hours a night despite taking sleeping pills. He also suffered from a nervous depression that was severe enough that even his co-workers noticed a change in his normal behavior and personality. Even a month after the incident, he still had not fully recovered.
Another amazing case that shows how shocking an encounter can be for a person.
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Glad that there were two witnesses to this case, so they had each other to give them support. Really interesting that their watches stopped. There was apparent landing traces. Also super interesting is how this witness was affected for quite some time after the encounter, but also during the encounter where he felt this kind of pressure in his head.
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I don't know if this was perhaps the ET trying to communicate telepathically with him, because other people have described sort of feeling pressure in their head as these ETs try to telepathically communicate with him. Or perhaps this was just an effect of some sort of energy field surrounding this humanoid and the craft.
Really hard to say without a more full investigation into this case.
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It's certainly a fascinating encounter. And again, so many of them. I mean, it just goes on and on.
