AudioBlog: A 1980 Brazilian UFO Abduction
Podcast UFO
Host: Martin Willis
4.4 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Brazilian UFO cases have aspects to them that, while not unheard of in other countries, come up over and over again giving them a commonality that is unique to Brazil. Lost time, traveling long distances in trucks and cars in far less time and using far less fuel than it should take, humanoid encounters, and injuries are a few of these. A case from 1980 has all of these aspects except injury, and it is described in the cover story of the March 1982 APRO Bulletin.According to the article headlined “1980 Brazilian Abduction,” the case came to light “during the question and answer period following a UFO lecture by APRO’s Brazilian Representative, Mrs. Irene Granchi.” Granchi later interviewed the people involved, Elias Seixas de Matos, 38; Guaraci Fernandes de Sousa, 47; and Alberto Seixas Vierra, 26. Granchi later wrote about the case in an article (link to original article broken at this time) published in the April 1995 issue of UFO Magazine. There, she says she was lecturing about the work of Rio de Janeiro-based “hypnologist,” Dr. Silvio Lago. According to her, the three men were introduced to her, and it was explained that they wanted to meet Lago as they all seemed to have experienced partial amnesia and couldn’t recall long stretches of time during a delivery run in a truck. Read more →
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| 0:00.0 | They keep telling you that the Jeffrey Epstein story is finished, that it was investigated, |
| 0:04.8 | that it was handled. |
| 0:06.1 | But here's the part that they never explain, why the charges were so narrow, when the conduct |
| 0:11.4 | was so broad. |
| 0:13.1 | How does a man with multiple properties, private aircraft, international travel, and a documented |
| 0:18.2 | pipeline of victims get treated like a lone offender. |
| 0:22.1 | Why were logistics treated as background noise instead of evidence? |
| 0:26.0 | Why were facilitators reduced to footnotes instead of defendants? |
| 0:29.8 | Well, that's where we come in. |
| 0:31.7 | The Epstein Chronicles exists because those questions were never answered. |
| 0:36.3 | This podcast breaks down what the public record actually shows, |
| 0:40.1 | the deals that capped exposure, the decisions at limited scope, |
| 0:43.5 | and the moments where prosecutors chose restraint overreach. |
| 0:47.1 | If you ever wondered why this case feels unfinished, |
| 0:49.7 | why accountability stopped at the perimeter, |
| 0:51.5 | or why so many names remain officially invisible, |
| 0:54.5 | you've come to the right place. Welcome to the Epstein Chronicles. A 1980 Brazilian UFO abduction case by Charles Lear. |
| 1:15.4 | Brazilian UFO cases have aspects to them that, while not unheard of in other countries, |
| 1:21.4 | come up over and over again, giving them a commonality that is unique to Brazil. |
| 1:27.0 | Lost time, traveling long distances and trucks |
| 1:29.9 | and cars in far less time and using far less fuel than it should take, humanoid encounters, |
| 1:35.8 | and injuries are a few of these. A case from 1980 has all of these aspects except injury, |
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