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HOME/CASES/DUFO-039 · ANTÔNIO VILAS-BOAS ABDUCTION
FILE OPENEDTIER B · CLASS — DECLASSIFIED
DUFO-039 · DOSSIER · 2026 EDITION
FILE DUFO-039·FIELD REPORT·BRAZIL·FILED 10.15.1957·UPDATED 05.06.2026
CASE FILE

ANTÔNIO.

São Francisco de Sales · Brazil · Brazilian farmer Antônio Vilas-Boas claimed he was taken aboard a craft and forced to engage with a humanoid female.
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“primary witness on record” — Antônio Vilas-Boas
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// SUMMARY · BY THE DESK

On the night of October 15, 1957, 23-year-old Brazilian farmer Antônio Vilas-Boas was ploughing a field on his family's farm near São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais, when his tractor's engine and lights died.

Vilas-Boas described being left alone in a small room into which a small, blonde, humanoid female with high cheekbones and pale skin was introduced. He reported a sexual encounter — described in his account as initiated by the female — after which she pointed to her belly and then to the sky in what he interpreted as an indication that she would bear a child elsewhere. He was then escorted from the craft, which departed at speed. The entire encounter was estimated to have lasted approximately four hours.

Vilas-Boas reported the event to journalist José Martins, who referred him to Dr. Olavo Fontes of the National School of Medicine in Rio de Janeiro. Dr. Fontes conducted a thorough physical examination and found unusual scars on the witness's chin (consistent with the alleged blood sample), as well as elevated indications of low-level radiation exposure. Dr. Fontes documented his findings in a detailed case report submitted to APRO (the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization). The case was largely unknown outside Brazilian UFO research until APRO published an English-language summary in the mid-1960s.

The Vilas-Boas case is historically the first detailed humanoid-contact abduction account in the modern public record. It precedes the Betty and Barney Hill case by four years. Researchers including Jacques Vallée have noted the Vilas-Boas account contains structural elements — paralysis, medical examination, controlled environment — that would later become recurrent in subsequent abduction reports. The case rests on a single witness with corroborating medical findings.

// CHRONOLOGY · KEY EVENTS
Oct 15 1957
Incident reported · primary record
1958
First independent investigation
2023
Senate UAP testimony reopens record
May 2026
Spielberg release · disclosure cycle
// WITNESSES · 2 ON RECORD
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Antônio Vilas-Boas
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Dr. Olavo Fontes (medical examination)
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// PRIMARY DOCUMENTS
Dr. Olavo Fontes — APRO case report▸ ARCHIVE
Coral & Jim Lorenzen — Encounters with UFO Occupants (1976)▸ ARCHIVE
Bowen (ed.) — The Humanoids: A Survey (1969)▸ ARCHIVE
Brazilian Air Force CINDACTA archives▸ ARCHIVE
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