Cardeiros, Ceara, Brz abduction report — July 1977

During July 1977, a man near Cardeiros in Ceará, Brazil, reported an encounter with an unusual beam of light. The beam was described as having a net-like form and as attempting to draw or take him upward. The precise day, time and location within the Cardeiros area are not preserved in the short account. The man reportedly became partly paralysed during the encounter. Afterwards he was described as burned and ill. The account does not describe a completed entry into a craft, a visible occupant or an onboard conversation. Its surviving sequence concerns the net-like light, the man’s impaired movement and the subsequent physical effects. The record leaves the duration, the way he became free of the beam and the details of his recovery unspecified.