Vila Velha, Brazil: Glowing hot orange ring hovers over radio mast, antenna found cut

At midnight Samuel Faria was reading at his home in Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brazil, when he heard a strange chirping sound from the garden; with his aunt, Mrs. De Souza, he saw a yellowish light close to the house and several points of light about 20 feet above the ground, and they heard voices. After a knock at the door, Faria stepped into the garden and saw a luminous, orange-colored ring about 6.5 feet across hovering about 65 feet above his uncle's radio ham mast, lighting the garden like midday and giving off heat like a furnace. He ran back inside and saw what looked like smoke drifting toward the Penha Convent about 500 feet away. When a neighbor came and they inspected the garden, the object was gone, but the radio antenna was severed cleanly, as if cut with scissors. Faria later reported a second encounter involving an attempted abduction on 11 March 1973 and a third encounter with a humanoid in May 1974. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.