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On Thursday, February 27, 1997, a UFO landed on a farm near Sepe Tiaraju regional airport outside Santo Angelo, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Santo Angelo is a city about 320 kilometres (200 miles) north-west of Porto Alegre and 128 kilometres (80 miles) east of the Rio Uruguaia, which forms the boundary with Argentina's Misiones province.
At 9 p.m., Claudete Parazzi, a farmer's wife, was sitting on the balcony of her farmhouse when she heard "a strange noise" coming from the pasture. Looking toward the coach house, Sra. Parazzi, 55, spotted "a vivid red light."
The following morning, Friday, February 28, she told her husband, Juvenal, and her daughter, Liziane, about the incident. All three went to investigate and found a crop circle 10 meters (33 feet) in diameter in a cornfield.
"Nobody knows what this is," Liziane Parazzi told the Brazilian newspaper Correio do Povo.
That Friday night, Arno Polanski, a security guard at the nearby Frangomil Corp. farm, "saw an orange fireball in the sky that disappeared in seconds."
The UFO, Polanski said, "was emitting an orange light and was the size of a truck."
Within the cornfield, Polanski found a large crop circle that looked like this:
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Polanski and other Frangomil employees also found "a strange white dust" covering the corn leaves. The material was collected and sent to a laboratory for testing. The Frangomil corporate farm is about 1,000 meters down the road from the Parazzi farm. The case is being investigated by the Associao Brasileira das Pesquisas Ufologicas (ABPU), a ufology group based in Rio Grande do Sul. (See the newspaper Correio do Povo for March 1 and March 3, 1997)
(UFO Roundup 2.10, March 9/97)
