Pontal entity encounter — 1954

José Alves, described in the accounts as a labourer from Pontal, São Paulo, said he was fishing beside the Pardo River on the night of 4 November 1954 when a glowing object approached from the west. It descended with a wobbling motion in the otherwise quiet riverside setting. In Olavo Fontes’s published version, it stopped about six feet above the ground near Alves. He compared its silvery shape to two washbowls joined together and estimated a diameter of ten to fifteen feet. Three small figures, approximately three feet tall, reportedly emerged through a window-like opening in its side and jumped down. Alves described dark-brown skin, white clothes and close-fitting skullcaps. They collected grass, herbs and leaves; one filled a shiny metal tube with river water. Alves felt intensely frightened and initially unable to move, then slowly backed away. The figures apparently paid him no attention. They returned to the object, which rose vertically and disappeared swiftly without an associated sound. The preserved trail includes Fontes’s 1957 writing and later versions by the Lorenzens and Vallée. Their summaries sometimes call the event a landing, while the fuller account describes a low hover. The reported inability to move belongs to Alves’s account of fear, not a documented neurological examination. Assertions about his sobriety and reputation are character testimony relayed in the literature, not independent observation of the craft. The surviving reports do not establish the origin of the object, and detailed facial features should not be invented from a catalogue’s generic occupant category.