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UFO case file · UFO-18580

Conceicao / Araguaia, Brz abduction report — September 25, 1980

CE4Brazil1980-09-25

CONCEICAO / ARAGUAIA, BRZ, GOI, Brazil

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Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Conceicao / Araguaia, Brz abduction report — September 25, 1980
Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Conceicao / Araguaia, Brz abduction report — September 25, 1980

Case description

On September 25, 1980, three people travelling by truck near Conceição do Araguaia, Brazil, reportedly experienced a disturbance in the vehicle’s operation during a UFO encounter. The account also mentions filming an object, although the short source does not describe what the film showed. A more elaborate abduction narrative was subsequently developed during hypnosis. The digest does not provide the witnesses’ names, the detailed sequence recalled, or the length of any interval missing from their initial memories. The truck incident and reported filming belong to the initial account; the later hypnotic material is a separate stage of its history. No specific examination or occupants’ appearance can be reconstructed from the available summary.

Recorded details

Craft description
Craft / Vehicle
Entity description
Humanlike
Coordinate precision
SOURCE_APPROXIMATE
Date precision
EXACT_DAY

Case videos and witness interviews

Caso Ufológico Elias Seixas - 1980

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Portuguese-language archived Elias Seixas interview with Jô Soares, broadcast August 28, 1995.

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