Case · UFO Afrinews No 10, August 1994
Villas Boas and the clock-faced box (editorial example)
1957 ยท Brazil, Brazil
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Opening her editorial on the long search for proof of abductions, Hind goes back to Antonio Villas Boas in Brazil, October 1957. Leaving the craft, he spotted a square box on a table in one of the rooms. Under its glass lid was something like a clock face with a single hand; black marks stood where 3, 6 and 9 belong, and a row of symbols replaced the 12. He never saw the hand move, though one of the beings glanced at it now and then. Reasoning that the box would prove he had been aboard, he picked it up while the entities were occupied elsewhere and tried to conceal it, but one of them shoved him roughly aside and snatched it back. Hind cites this as the earliest of several artefacts abductees were unable to keep.
What Hind made of it
Hind uses the case to illustrate how physical proof of abduction is repeatedly snatched away from witnesses.
In their words
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Antonio thought that if he brought the box back with him, it would be proof of his abduction onto the craft.
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Immediately, one of the men pushed Antonio roughly aside and grabbed the box back.
Cross references
- Klarer article, spread 13, also cites Villas Boas