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Antônio Villas Boas

São Francisco de Sales, 1957 · BR · b. 1934–1991
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Brazilian farmer whose October 1957 abduction account, given to Dr. Olavo Fontes and later to the British investigator Gordon Creighton, is one of the earliest detailed abduction reports in modern UFO literature.

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Antônio Villas Boas was a Brazilian farmer and lawyer whose 1957 experience is one of the earliest and most sensational alien abduction claims on record. He asserted that he was forcibly taken aboard an egg-shaped UAP, medically examined, and compelled to engage in a sexual act with a female humanoid entity. Villas Boas's key contribution was providing a detailed, highly consistent narrative of an abduction before the phenomenon was popularized by later, more famous cases. Despite the extreme nature of his claims, he went on to have a highly respected legal career and maintained the truth of the event until his death. His account is a foundational text in the study of the hybridization hypothesis within ufology.

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