FigureAntônio Villas Boas (1934–1991)

Brazilian farmer (later, after a 1970s law degree, a small-town lawyer) from São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais. On the night of 15–16 October 1957, Villas Boas reported that his tractor stalled in his field, that he was taken aboard a craft, and that he underwent a forced sexual encounter with a humanoid female — an account that he himself was the first to describe. He was examined in February 1958 by Dr. Olavo Fontes, a Brazilian Navy physician at the Hospital dos Servidores do Estado in Rio de Janeiro, who documented unexplained skin lesions, elevated white-cell count, and what Fontes recorded as symptoms consistent with mild radiation exposure (the medical reports were published in APRO Bulletin 1962 and in Coral and Jim Lorenzen’s Flying Saucer Occupants 1967). Two things are striking: Villas Boas reported the case immediately, in 1957–58, four years before the Hills’ September 1961 encounter; and he never sold the story commercially — he became a lawyer, maintained the account through his life, and gave a single televised interview in 1978. He died of natural causes in 1991. The case is the earliest in a class — “abduction with medical examination” — that the apparatus’s later cosmology builders treat as the inception event of the modern witness record.