The UFO Phenomenon

Fatal close encounters: have people really been killed by UFOs ?

By T.K. Randall
May 28, 2024

Image: AI-generated (Midjourney) In August 1967, Inacio de Souza of Brazil and his wife had been returning home when they encountered three humanoid entities next to a strange object shaped like an inverted wash basin.

The story goes that Souza had attempted to shoot one of the 'aliens' with his rifle, which prompted the mysterious object to fire a strange beam of green light directly at his head.

He immediately fell unconscious and in the days that followed, was found to have developed leukemia which rapidly progressed and ended up killing him within a mere two months.

"While some ufologists think the encounter and de Souza's illness are simply a tragic coincidence, others prefer to believe that the green light from the UFO was an intense beam of deadly radiation," author and UFO researcher Nigel Watson wrote of the incident.

This wasn't the only alleged case of 'death by UFO' either.

More than 75 years ago, pilot Thomas Mantell, who saw action during Word War II as a member of the 101st Airborne Division, had been serving as a fighter pilot with the Kentucky National Guard when he had an unexplained encounter that cost him his life.

The incident began on January 7th, 1948 when Kentucky State Police Highway Patrol started to receive calls at around 1:20pm in the afternoon about a strange object in the sky over Maysville. Mantell was part of a group that had been tasked with venturing out to investigate the phenomenon.

When he, alongside his two wingmen, reached 15,000ft, they encountered an object described as "metallic" and "tremendous in size" that was moving at around half the speed of the planes.

"I felt a little shaky at 15,000ft because I realized we were supposed to take oxygen at 12,000," said Lt. B. A. Hammond who was one of the two wingmen accompanying Mantell that day.

"By the time I hit 22,000, I was seeing double. I pulled alongside Clements and indicated with gestures that I didn't have an oxygen mask. He understood the situation, and we turned back."

Mantell, however, decided to stay the course, despite the oxygen situation.

At around 3:50pm, the object had disappeared and Mantell, who was thought to have blacked out due to lack of oxygen, plummeted from the sky and died a few minutes later.

While the object was later dismissed as a mere weather balloon, many to this day remain unconvinced.

Source: Mail Online

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