Welcome to Unexplained Extra, with me Richard McLean, Smith.

For the weeks in between episodes, we look at the stories that for one reason or other

didn't make it into the show.

In last week's episode, shores of the unknown, we venture to the west coast of Wales,

where in 1977, 14 schoolchildren claimed to have seen a UFO lingering in a field behind

the far end of their playground.

The bizarre episode at Broad Haven School seemed to set off an extraordinary series of events

that remain unparalleled in the history of the British UFO experience.

Incredibly, this wasn't by any means the most peculiar UFO event to occur in 1977.

For that, we need to travel four and a half thousand miles away, southwest across the

open waters of the North Atlantic Ocean to a remote fishing village on the north coast

of Brazil.

It was a barmy night when 48-year-old, Emilio Oliveira, returned home from work, exhausted

and crawled into the hammock, strung up in his living room.

At some time around 11pm, he sensed a sudden brightness in the room.

When he opened his eyes, he found the place lit up by a single beam of light that seemed

to be coming through the roof.

Emilio watched with the alarm as the beam tracked across the room before finally stopping

to rest on the outside of his thigh just above the knee.

He cried out in pain, his leg was burning.

When the light disappeared moments later, he rubbed at the spot, where now there was

a perfectly round red mark exactly where the light had been.

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