Statements
from Brazilian UFOlogists, Researchers, Media and Citizens
Regarding
Urandir Oliveira and "Project Portal" in Brazil
6/26/03
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From
A.J. Gevaerd
To
the International UFO Community:
Very
important December 13, 2002
Please
be informed that the story of a man abducted in Brazil, with dramatic photos of
the scenario, is a campaign to promote overseas the biggest UFO hoaxer of all
times in Brazil, Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira, who has actually created a sect
of fanatics around him, composed of people who blindly believe in his alleged
ET contacts and healing powers, none of them ever confirmed by anyone. The man
has been repeatedly exposed as hoaxer by dozens of UFO researcher and many
people even from his sect, after "waking up to reality", have come
forward to describe Urandir´s tricks and scheme. His last great attempt to go
public in Brazil and overseas happened last year, when he invented the story
(easily exposed) that a UFO had crashed at his friend¹s farm. It was only
another of his hoaxes, perpetrated to attract people to his activities, to
which they are invited to join if they pay a considerable amount of money. His
history is all fake and the man is fastly becoming a millionaire with his
obscure agenda, supported by thousands of fanatics. Urandir is largely rejected
by 99% of the Brazilian UFO Community, who perfectly knows that he is nothing
but a hoaxer. This story is NOT to be taken seriously, as no responsible UFO
researcher has been allowed to scrutinize the scenario and the alleged case. Urandir
has been interviewed by Jeff Rense on Thursday night, December 12, assisted by
his fellow Felipe Castelo Branco. This has taken serious people in the USA and
all over the world to believe in the story invented by Urandir. The damage can
be much bigger than one can think. In Brazil, responsible UFO researchers and
large media stream have succeeded in debunking him at a considerable level. We
have succeeded in preventing that thousands of Brazilians being cheated by
Urandir and now he is trying the USA and other countries to establish his sect.
Serious UFO researchers all over the world cannot let it happen. The man is as
fake as a 3-dollar bill. He spent time in jail for selling property that
doesn¹t belong to him.
-
A. J. Gevaerd, gevaerd@ufo.com.br Editor, Brazilian UFO Magazine. National
Director, Mutual UFO Network. Director, International UFO Congress
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From
Brazilian UFOlogist Claudeir Covo
Dear
Colleagues:
I
am 53 years old and 37 years ago I started researching the UFO phenomena. I
first met Oliveira's Urandir Fernandes in the extinct TV program "BRASIL
VERDADE", of the Bandeirantes Network of Television, presented by Wilton
Franco. In spite of the program to be daily, Urandir used to apper there once a
week. Thus, I started to record in video all the presentations of Urandir,
which started in 1997 and they lasted several months.
Urandir
said that was abducted when he was thirteen years of age old and that the
extraterrestrials gave him paranormal powers. Urandir used to bend coins and
forks, said that he could cure AIDS and cancer, that he could ressuscitate dead
people and could perform other phenomenons. All these things were designed only
to impress the viewer. By analyzing Urandir videos that I recorded in SLOW
MOTION, I noticed clearly that he used simple techniques of magic, manipulating
several small objects out of sight from people. Even small pieces of gold
material he hid under the fingernails he used, but he said that he could transform
paper in gold. The gold material was already under his nails. I have those
videos of the fraud. Thus, together with other UFO researchers, I started to
investigate the activities of Urandir Fernandes of Oliveira. In his farm in
Corguinho, in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, he used to do several tricks. He
used to accord previously with his employees, and then use batteries of 12
Volts and headlamps of cars, at the distance 200 meters from his visitors, at
night, in the middle of the darkness and of the forest. That, for those who
doesn't know the place, could simulate UFOs. He also used laser pointers and
other tools that generate light to fool people. All tricks easy to be repeated.
With
some people's accusations, Urandir ended being arrested in Porto Alegre,
Capital of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, for illegal sale of lands. After he
constituted a lawyer, Urandir was freed. That news was disclosed by several
newspaper and magazines and TV networks. Then, Urandir started using
advertisement balloons (called BLIMPS), of three meters in diameter, with a
lamp inside, to fool people in his farm. Usually, this balloons are used in
advertisement as they arise with the use of Hydrogen or Hélio. People at
distance and at night would believe the balloons to be UFOs. But they are only
new tricks. In a work conducted together with UFO researcher and engineer
Ricardo Varela, of the National Institute of Space Researches, a government
organism, I made a research using a small balloon for atmospheric studies. It
was all documented properly by the program FANTÁSTICO, of the Globo Network of
Television. Fantastico also previously filmed the balloons used by Urandir,
that he said were UFOs. When that program went to the air, watched for more
than 35 million people, it was very clear that the "UFO of Urandir"
was really a simple balloon. He was exposed again. For those
"presentations" in his farm, Urandir used to collect approximately 50
dollars per person. He used to sell stories of UFOs and ETs only to cheat people.
He is getting rich, very rich. He says he is paranormal and UFO contactee, but
he is only deceiving the people with simple magic tricks and other
manipulations. His stories are fake.
Today,
all the Brazilian UFO researchers know about the hoaxes and scams accomplished
by Urandir and want to warn their American colleagues about it, as A. J.
Gevaerd is trying so hard for months. I knew Linda Moulton Howe through a video
documentary, STRANGE HARVEST. I always thought of her to be a SERIOUS person
and journalist. Now, I see that she is defending and promoting Urandir in the
United States. That is very unfortunate and all she is doing is deceiving the
people she addresses to by supporting Urandir´s hoax and his strategy of taking
advantage of the good faith of the simple people. It is sad to me to find out
that LMH it is another opportunistic person in the UFO community. Any other
work that LMH comes to publish in the future, certainty won´t have my respect
because she is totally out of my list of serious UFO researchers who have a
scientific concept of the phenomena. LMH is not a SERIOUS person and is only a
great OPPORTUNISTIC.
Claudeir
Covo Electrical engineer Specialized in Labor Safety
Co-editor
of the Revista UFO President of INFA (National Institute of Investigation of
Aerospace Phenomena)
www.infa.com.br
claudeir.covo@uol.com.br
From
Jeferson Martinho
My
name is Jeferson Martinho. I am a Brazilian journalist and publishs one of the
biggest Brazilian Ufology sites:
http://www.vigilia.com.br
I have important information about Linda's recent questioning and about alleged
'paranormal' Urandir Fernandes Oliveira. This information was published on my
site, that has journalistic and scientific approaches. I am sending to you a
copy of an article, published some time ago. Urandir is dangerous for serious
Ufology! It's important that the international community knows it.
I
am at your disposal!
Best regards,
Jeferson Martinho Portal/Revista
Vigilia - Editor
http://www.vigilia.com.br
jeff@vigilia.com.br
From Lucia Menta
Dear Sirs:
I
would like to inform you that the UFO Community in Brazil is shocked to see
that the fraud promoted by Mr. Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira has been widely
reported by Ms. Linda Moulton Howe as a real story. Urandir claims to have
contact with Extraterrestrial beings in his property, located in Corguinho,
Brazil. Urandir uses this false idea to bring hundreds of people to this farm,
and charges them for several services, among which is the entrance ticket. By
the means of some magic tricks, Urandir makes a truly bizarre show, which he
affirms to be the result of extraterrestrial manifestation. He even shows
balloons with battery lights inside at night to a distant audience, saying that
they are real UFOs. Therefore, I would like to inform you all that the Urandir
Fernandes de Oliveira Case is one of the greatest hoaxes ever to take place in
Brazil. None of his UFO contacts or his so-called wonders is real. Urandir is
probably just using Ms. Howe to start expanding his illegal activities to the
US territory. If you wish to get more information on Urandir and his illegal
activities, please contact Mr. A. J. Gevaerd (gevaerd@ufo.com.br), chief editor
of "Revista UFO" (the main UFO magazine in Brazil). He will answer
you as promptly as possible and he will be able to tell you all about what
really goes on.
Sincerely
Yours,
Lucia
Menta
www.infinitetv.com.br
From Paola Lucherini Covo
Prezados. Brazilian the Ufologica community,
has the obligation to communicate that the Urandir, is a fraud. He is gaining
much money, using of the good faith of the people here in Brazil. It is a
robbery. Already he applied some blows here in Brazil. - Paola Lucherini Covo
www.inpubr.com.br
From
Rodolfo Heltai
I
am an UFO investigator in Brazil, from Andromeda Group. I lament to inform that
Mr. Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira comes if presented as a false ufologist with
deceiving histories, with the idea of promoting. We are surprised in Brazil the
presentation of this impostor. He collects for their services deceiving the
people. This message is to alert you of an interview aired recently with Mr
Urandir Fernandes, who claims to be an abductee. - Rodolfo Heltai Andromeda
Group 12-13-2
From
Thiago Luiz Ticchetti President - Brazilian Organization of Extraterrestrial
Research
"...That
person called Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira, and we will show what happened
until he become the largest charlatan of the Brazilian ufology in every time. That
episode is unique in the world ufology, because for the first time ufologists,
press and public joined to expose tricks, lies and promises." - Thiago
Luiz Ticchetti President - Brazilian Organization of Extraterrestrial Research
12/12/02
From
Urandir's former lawyer Lütz Netto
"I
was totally disappointed about his intentions and I left the group, declaring
to everybody my deception ", affirmed lawyer Lütz Netto, that took
providences. Not without before try, countless times, to solve the subject in a
friendly way. Even so, Urandir was not interested in this option."
From
Julieta Paraíso- former follower
"...Thus
that she knew of the existence of Urandir, the stewardess Julieta pensioner of
Paradise, that deferred payment in São Paulo, integrated another group of 500
visitors to the Vestibule. There, one strong resistance of its fellow
travellers in commenting used details noticed as the sumiço of during the
avistamentos of the spaceships. "the fanatism is so strong that I fear
that happens a tragedy as of the Heaven's Gate", Julieta says.."
"Jim
Jones-Urandir promises to build, in February of the year 2.000, a flying disk
and to evacuate from the Earth 1.500 people, in a ridiculous attitude that we
everybody knows, it is utopian. Urandir goes for a walk with young ladies,
doing who knows..." - Julieta Paraíso
From
Mrs. Doraci Alves Cunha - former land purchaser.
"I
already called countless times to Jurandir and to Urandir, and none of them
assists my phone calls. I want my money back and they that keep his land",
-
Mrs. Doraci Alves Cunha, one of the deceived with the promise of the City of
ETs."
From
Célia B. S. H.
"Urandir
said that the cure would only come if he could change energy" with me. In
the beginning I didn't understand well what that was, but then, when he
insisted on being alone with me in the brushwood, I noticed that was a
blockade".- Célia B. S. H.
From Rodrigo Branco Radio
Dear Friends,
It
is with extreme astonishment and concern that we from the brazilian ufology
community see the repecurssion in USA of lies invented by the alleged
paranormal and contactee Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira. Urandir was already
publicly demoralized in Brazil because he is a hoaxer that takes advantage of
the good faith of people to make a fortune. The main means of communications in
Brazil, either televised or printed midia, have already shown all the farse of
Mr. U.F.O. claims through a series of constant denounciation by the truly
brazilian ufologists. Realizing that he doesn't have anymore space to spread
his lies around here, Urandir decided to make an investment in your country and
unfortunatelly he found someone to support him. It is important to make it
clear our repudiation of Linda Moulton Howe who in this moment has no more good
reputation around here. Linda is well aware that everything Urandir claims is a
fraud and yet insists in publishing his lies. We ask you in your valuable
judgmente to help us stop the growth of this sect of fanatics before we have
another 'Heavens Gate'. We also don't need another Jim Jones. Please, take the
necessary action and do not let this lie to continue to be spread in USA. Urandir
is a dangerous person, he was arrested for fraud, and claims to be capable of
curing diseases like AIDS, Cancer and Leukemia (charging a lot of money for
this), besides to have been accused for assault, sexual harassment,
charlatanism and much more.
Yours truly,
Rodrigo Branco Radio
DJ GEUBS Coordinator
Grupo De Estudos Ufológicos Da
Baixada Santista
www.geubs.com
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From Wendell Stein
Dear friends of the International
UFO community,
Brazil is a country that has a
great part of the best ufologists in the world. A rich place in ufology cases
and serious research.
Home of one of the best ufology
publications in the whole South America. I, Wendell Stein, journalist and
ufologist for 15 years,
support the serious research and
ethic behavior of all who work for a good ufology. What Urandir has done can
not and should
not be considered ufology. He is
no part of the brazilian ufologists community. And none of his works respect
the ethic or has
any world acknowledgment.
Regards Wendell Stein ( Grupo
Sumaré de Estudos Ufológicos - GSEU )
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UFO Study Group of Baixada
Santista
Grupo de Estudos Ufologicos da
Baixada Santista (UFO Study Group of Baixada Santista)
- www.geubs.com
We hereby publicly reject the
groundless popularization on the false close encounters of the Mr. Urandir
Fernandes de Oliveira. It is a notorious and well known fact throughout the
Brazilian Community of UFO researchers that this person does not have nor has
ever had any kind of psychic powers whatsoever and has never been involved in
the abduction phenomenon. Whatever goes on in his estate, known as Projeto
Portal, has been proven false and phony, nothing more than a huge set-up aiming
at profit at the cost of people's good faith; well-meaning but naive
individuals who used to visit the above-mentioned estate. The hoax has been
documented and duly registered, and it is also a well known fact that Mr.
Urandir F. Oliveira has been arrested on account of these unlawful activities.
We regret the complete lack of respect by researcher Lind Mounte Howe, who
insists on publicizing Urandir's lies abroad, making a lousy impression of
Brazilian ufology, which is most serious, productive and highly respected
worldwide. We do hope you reflect upon this and do not help Ms. Howe to
popularize the big hoax in ufology, known by the name of Urandir Fernandes de
Oliveira and his Projeto Portal.
Respectfully yours,
GEUBS Board and Staff Members
Wallacy Albino - President
Roberto Rabello - Vice-President
Douglas Vichi - Treasurer
Juliana Seito Menks - Secretary
Marcos Guimarães Salgado -
Research Director
Claudio Beltrame Monteiro - Events
Director
Renato Martins - Commercial
Director Homero
Juliano Filho - Legal Advisor
André Albino - Ilustrator
Tatiana Corrales - Press Advisor
Rodrigo Burilli - Coordinator of
GEUBS/Santos
José Barbosa - Coordinator of
GEUBS/São Vicente
Rodrigo Augusto - Coordinator of
GEUBS/Praia Grande
Marcelo Barros - Coordinator of
GEUBS/Cubatão
Os Ets de Urandir
Guru alardeia receber dons
extraterrestres, atrai multidões mas também a fúria dos ufologistas
Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira é um
fenômeno. Desde os 13 anos ele tem contato com seres extraterrestres,
especialmente com os do planeta Vênus. São figuras com 20% de matéria e 80% de
energia, que se locomovem em naves douradas. Deles, Urandir recebeu diversos
dons, a começar pelo da cura. Recebeu também a missão de preparar a humanidade
para acompanhar mudanças na Terra, que está evoluindo da terceira para a quarta
dimensão, seja lá o que isso signifique. Urandir tem ainda acesso aos arquivos
cósmicos dos humanos. Numa caverna de sua fazenda, o Projeto Portal, no
município de Corguinho (MS), seres intraterrenos guardam estes arquivos há mais
de seis mil anos. Mas os registros só podiam ser acessados até 25 de março de
1999. Quem perdeu o prazo, pode se candidatar a uma vaga nas naves espaciais
que serão mandadas, em ocasião oportuna, por um misterioso Conselho Cósmico.
Aos 36 anos, Urandir diz
contabilizar 76 mil seguidores e poder convocar ETs com a mesma facilidade com
que exibe luminescência nas mãos. Aliás, sobre sua fazenda naves espaciais
costumam despejar pequenas réplicas de disco voador. Embora alardeie tantos poderes,
Urandir não resiste, porém, a questionamentos. Para liberar a entrada ao
Projeto Portal e ser entrevistado por ISTOÉ, ele colocou como condição não
receber críticas. "Tem que ter documento assinado pela direção da revista,
dando garantias", exigiu, revelando total desconhecimento sobre ética.
"Só especializados entendem meu trabalho." Há mais de 20 anos
dedicando-se à ufologia, o presidente do Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas de
Discos Voadores, Ademar José Gevaerd, garante que o dono do Portal não é ufólogo
nem contatado por ETs. "Urandir é, na verdade, um caso de polícia. Engana
as pessoas à custa de truques grosseiros, como espalhar seus homens pelo mato,
à noite, com faróis de milha. Quando ele supostamente chama os discos voadores,
os focos de luz aparecem e as pessoas ficam embasbacadas", conta Gevaerd,
reproduzindo o mecanismo.
Satanás
ALAN RODRIGUES
Gevaerd mostra como surgem as
luzes das supostas naves
Diante de um grupo de 500 pessoas,
Gevaerd tentou há dois anos demonstrar que uma das luzes exibidas por Urandir
era um simples facho de caneta a laser, similar ao modelo que ele próprio levou
à fazenda. "A multidão ficou enfurecida. Eu e meus amigos saímos de lá
apedrejados, xingados de Satanás", lembra. Assim que soube da existência
de Urandir, a aeromoça aposentada Julieta de Paraíso, que mora em São Paulo,
integrou outro grupo de 500 visitantes ao Portal. Lá, notou uma forte
resistência dos seus companheiros de viagem em comentar detalhes como o sumiço
de empregados durante os avistamentos das naves espaciais. "O fanatismo é
tão forte que temo que aconteça uma tragédia como a dos Heaven's Gate",
diz Julieta, referindo-se ao suicídio coletivo ocorrido há dois anos, em San
Diego, na Califórnia, por 39 pessoas que acreditavam estar embarcando na cauda
do cometa Hale-Bopp. "A região onde se localiza o Portal é, em si,
mística. Urandir não precisava usar embustes para faturar."
Julieta ainda guarda uma pedrinha
que Urandir garante ter retirado de sua testa como se estivesse extirpando um
chip colocado por ETs. "Tudo é feito num cômodo escuro, no mesmo em que
ele se apresenta com as mãos fosforecentes", diz. Não são poucos os que
atestam que a luminosidade é resultado de produtos à base de fósforo. "É
química pura. Urandir tem uma paranormalidade, consegue entortar moe-das e
garfos. Mas usa truques de todo tipo", declara Rubem Índio Godoy.
Conhecido como Índio, no final de 1994, ele largou o emprego público, na
Fundação Nacional de Saúde, para atuar como braço direito de Urandir na
implantação do projeto, do qual se desligou quatro anos depois. "Não somos
inimigos, mas não voltaria a trabalhar para ele. Essa história de cura é piada.
Toda vez que seus filhos adoecem, ele corre para o médico", relata.
Lotes
As pedras que Urandir apresenta
como enviadas por extraterrestres são comuns nas imediações da serra de
Maracaju, cujo morro mais visível é o de São Sebastião, vizinho ao Portal.
"Embora tenham formato bastante exótico, essas pedras têm uma origem
geológica natural. São rochas de arenito com alto grau de ferro", afirma o
arqueólogo Gilson Martins, da Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul.
Moradora de uma colônia da região, Olgarinda Caetano da Silva ganha a vida
vendendo pedrinhas para turistas. "Antes, catava para o Urandir, que
comprava baratinho. Todo mundo catava. De uns tempos para cá, ele parou de
comprar", esclarece Olgarinda.
ANDRÉ SARMENTO
Elaine : "Tudo lá tem
preço"
As rochas, que de fato lembram o
formato de um disco voador, estão espalhadas por todo o País. São levadas por
pessoas que, após passarem por cursos preparatórios, acodem ao Portal. Esses
visitantes são arregimentados por seguidores de Urandir, que hoje mantém
núcleos do seu projeto em Belo Horizonte (MG), Curitiba (PR), Jaraguá do Sul
(SC), Porto Alegre (RS), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), São Paulo (SP), Vitória (ES) e
Natal (RN). "Tudo tem preço. Quando usa seus truques, Urandir só pensa em
arrancar dinheiro das pessoas", afirma a secretária Elaine Sabaliauskas,
ex-namorada do guru. "Agora ele está loteando uma área rural e vendendo
terrenos de 800 metros quadrados, mas os compradores não viram nem a cor da
escritura. Como ele está sempre cercado por seus homens, não dá para
questionar. A reação dele a qualquer sinal de desconfiança é ameaça em cima de
ameaça", acusa Elaine.
Irritada com a falta de
infra-estrutura no Projeto Portal, a psicóloga Maria Inês Ribeiro Bueno
pretendia registrar queixa contra Urandir no Juizado de Pequenas Causas, em São
Paulo, onde havia comprado o pacote de quatro dias, por R$ 350. Não conseguiu,
porém, nenhum comprovante de pagamento. "Eu, que já tenho problemas de
saúde, voltei pior do que fui, pois dormi no chão e comi mal. Não tinha nem
água para tomar banho", reclama Maria Inês. Aos que criticam as condições
de alojamento, Urandir explica que as dificuldades fazem parte do processo para
se chegar à luz, como relata o advogado Cid Carvalho, do Rio de Janeiro. No
final de 1994, ele procurou Urandir na esperança de curar os problemas psíquicos
de uma filha, hoje com 39 anos. Na ocasião, o advogado também se submetia a um
tratamento contra um câncer na panturrilha. "Urandir coloca uma nuvem nos
olhos da pessoa. Eu me curei porque fiz 60 sessões de quimioterapia, mas acabei
fazendo uma série de depoimentos como se ele tivesse me salvado. Minha filha
continua com os mesmos problemas", afirma Carvalho.
Garimpo
Uma das maiores preocupações do
advogado é que ele indicou 320 pessoas para o Projeto Portal. "Meu
prejuízo foi financeiro e moral. Perdi muito dinheiro com o Urandir, mas o pior
é que meus testemunhos influenciaram muitas pessoas", diz. Um dos
primeiros a perceber os recursos ocultos de Urandir, Gevaerd, que edita a
revista UFO, acredita que Urandir está construindo uma fortuna graças à boa-fé
de seus adeptos. "Estimo que seu patrimônio seja de R$ 10 milhões",
afirma. "O problema é que até a trajetória de vida que conta foi copiada
de outra pessoa."
Quando Urandir chegou à região,
vindo do interior paulista, procurou Lúcio Barbosa, dono do Sítio Anjos de Luz,
também em Corguinho. "Ele acampou na minha casa por mais de um ano. Era um
pouco paranormal, entortava umas coisas. Fez um garimpo na minha propriedade,
mas não extraiu nada. Aos poucos, contei que tinha contato com extraterrestres,
que a região era mística. Ele teve a idéia de usar as luzes. Me afastei, pois
meu trabalho não envolve dinheiro", ressalta Barbosa. Entre os ufólogos
mais conhecidos do País, Urandir também não conta com boa reputação. "Ele
achincalha com a ufologia brasileira", reclama Claudeir Covo, presidente
do Instituto Nacional de Investigações de Fenômenos Aeroespaciais.
Link relacionado:
www.projetoportal.org.br
A Terra sacoleja ao cruzar o cinturão
de fótons - partículas cósmicas - e as consequências não tardarão. Os
seguidores de Urandir acreditam que ondas de 80 metros engolirão praias e parte
da superfície do mar ficará descoberta. Conheceremos, então, os
"intramarinos", que hoje vivem no reino de Netuno. O clima de
aventura seduz, mas é bom saber que só sobreviverão ao cataclisma os homens que
acelerarem as ondas cerebrais até 17 hertz. É por isso que cerca de 60 pessoas
se acomodam na sala locada num hotel da zona sul carioca para uma "sessão
de energização", que custa R$ 15. No dia seguinte estão previstos cursos
teóricos "Avançado" e "Avançadão" a R$ 50. Há uma fila em
frente a uma geringonça que lembra as máquinas de lambe-lambe de praças do
inte-rior. Serve para fotografar a aura.
"Muito bem, pessoal.
Esfregando as mãos", pede Urandir. Com a sala às escuras, ele toca a mão
de cada um dos presentes a fim de "despertar a energia individual e
propiciar a autocura". O sinal de que a magia funciona é aparecer um
filete de luz na pele do "paciente". Se isso não ocorrer, o caso é
grave. Lá vem ele e - alívio! - um naco de luz verde-claro dança na palma da
minha mão uns três minutos. Logo sinto um perfume estranho. "É o ozônio
exalado pelas naves espaciais", explica a senhora ao lado.
Após a sessão, sou recebido por
Urandir no corredor. Assegura que é capaz de curar o câncer e reduzir em 95% a
presença do vírus HIV no organismo. Argumento que é acusado de forjar o
aparecimento de luz na mão das pessoas recorrendo a algum tipo de gel ou pó. "Sei
de gente que comprou gel na farmácia para me imitar e queimou os dedos",
ironiza. Ele diz que é vítima de detratores a serviço do "governo
paralelo". Pergunto quem faz parte de tal organização e ele se limita a
responder: "Políticos e empresários." Antes de se despedir, informa
que está montando protótipos de discos voadores no Mato Grosso do Sul. "Já
tirei o brevê para pilotar." A idéia de Urandir é familiarizar as pessoas
com as naves. Em 2003, segundo ele, os extraterrestres vão se misturar aos
homens. "São iguaizinhos a nós, só que a íris é um traço vertical."
"Como os felinos?", sugiro. "Exato. O ET tem olho de gato."
My name is Jeferson Martinho. I am
a Brazilian journalist and
publishs one of the biggest
Brazilian Ufology sites:
http://www.vigilia.com.br
I have important information about
Linda's recent questioning
and about alleged 'paranormal'
Urandir Fernandes Oliveira. This
information was published on my
site, that has journalistic and
scientific approaches.
I am sending to you a copy of an
article, published some time
ago. Urandir is dangerous for
serious Ufology! It's important
that the international community
knows it.
I am at your disposal!
Best regards,
Jeferson Martinho
Portal/Revista Vigilia - Editor
http://www.vigilia.com.br
jeff@vigilia.com.br
redacao@vigilia.com.br
vigilia@vigilia.com.br
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Original text, in Portuguese, at:
http://www.vigilia.com.br/sessao.php?categ=3D0&id=3D286
Alleged Paranormal is arrested in
Porto Alegre
From: Reda=E7=E3o Vig=EDlia
redacao@vigilia.com.br
Date: 29/03/2000 - Time: 14h47min
The self-proclaimed paranormal
Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira,
who says he is in contact with
extraterrestrial and manager of
Portal Project, in the town of
Corguinho, in Campo Grande, was
arrested in the night of 25th of
March, Saturday, in Porto
Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul.
The arrest was made by police from
17 Police Station in
Porto Alegre, after a judge
expedited a preventive warrant of
arrest attending a request from
Lawyer Nicolau Borges L=FCtz Neto,
from Porto Alegre, representing
some of the victims of an
alleged scheme of illegal selling
of land in Corguinho
Project Portal, on Boas Sorte
(Good Luck) Farm, received
hundreds of people from everywhere
in the country, hoping to
make contact with extraterrestrials,
in a session which
was already denounced by UFO
Magazine (Brazil) to really be a
staging performance involving
tricks and acting.
According to what Urandir
"explains" to potential careless
buyers, the world will be hit by a
great catastrophe in the next
two or three years, with floods in
many places of the planet.
But, a site named by him as
"City of ETs" - where lots of 400m2
are - would be safe from this
planetary catastrophe, and life
will follow harmoniously,
including help from extraterrestrials.
Lawyer Lutz Netto argues, in the
warrant of arrest, that
prospecting in the notary-office
revealed the nonexistence of
property in the name of Urandir in
that region, and the
indicated place used in the
marketing for sales for Portal
Project is registered as belonging
to Empresa Agropecuaria Sao
Valentim, with main offices in Sao
Paulo.
Another irregularity, which
motivated e request to base the
indictment of Urandir in article
171 of Brazilian Criminal Code
(fraud), would be the refusal of
agents of Portal Project to
return to former members funds
already paid.
At the closing of this report,
Urandir was still in jail. Please
return Vhere and check for more
information soon.
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Homepage denounces charlatanism in
Ufology
Whoever feels deceived by false
promises or injured by people
who use Ufology as a means to call
attention has now one more
resource to make things public.
Its UFO-Denuncia Homepage,
running since February 2000, by
editor Ademar Jose Gevaerd from
Revista UFO (UFO Magazine).
The site was created in the middle
of a controversy involving
the ufological community and the
alleged paranormal, Urandir
Fernandes de Oliveira.
For now, the home page
UFO-Denuncia prints denouncements of
deceitful acts credited to the
alleged paranormal, besides the
contacts, who claims to
"energize" (sic) people and to have the
power to cure.
At the beginning of the year,
Urandir, who has already been
challenged before by Revista UFO
Editor, Gevaerd, to prove his
claims, reappeared in many
television programs and caused a
strong reaction from researchers
of UFO phenomena. During one of
the programs, he was again
challenged and promised, this time to
the crew of "Fantastico"
show that he would prove to be what he
claims to be. So far, though, the
ufological community and fans
of this subject are still waiting
for him.
Meanwhile, many articles and a few
denunciation letters are
posted at the UFO-Denuncia site.
Almost all of them refer to
Urandir's claims, even though Editor
Gevaerd assured that
there's room for every type of
denunciation. The site makes
clear that there will be action
about the subjects shown there,
making the facts known to the
authorities so they can take their
steps.
At the end of February, when responding
to an interview by e-
mail given to Revista Vigilia, Gevaerd revealed that in only
three weeks the site received more
than 1,600 visits and dozens
of letters. Until then, none of
them had been a police case. "No
serious denunciation received was
completely identified as with
the sender wishing that the case
was sent to the police. I
personally answered around 20
denunciations and, to 7, I asked
the complainers to take the
question to the police, and Procoms,
etc. I don't know if they did... I
doubt it", said the Editor.
According to him, "99% of the
letters are of indignation against
Urandir and congratulating us for
the initiative. 1% are letters
attacking us with non-sense and
low offenses". He also calls
attention to another grave factor:
"the curious thing is that,
from the 99%, some letters are
from culturally privileged people
who claim to have been deceived by
Urandir, from sexual abuse to
serious fraud, like selling
phantom real estate and things of
that type".
Among the published complaints are
reports like the one from
Fernando Goncalves da Silva, from
Santo Andr=E9 (SP). He says that
on 12th of October he went to
Corguinho with his daughter "to
the alleged close encounters
people say happens there". According
to him, after spending an average
of R$ 400,00 (a little more
than US$100.00) a person to stay
in a "precarious camping
site", only to witness what
"was a illusionist's show, with laser
canons in countdown, done by
Urandir and his followers. Flying
Saucers were not seen even in
dreams."
Comparing the alleged paranormal
to Jim Jones, Fernando shows
how worried he is: "I warn
you, besides this all, the
authorities about crime against
public economy and charlatanism
from that gentleman, in order to
combat a sect like Jim Jones',
which took, years ago, 900 people
to suicide. Mr. Urandir abuses
poor and innocent people, and in
his lectures in Sao Paulo he
charges R$ 60,00 per person, in
sessions of pure dumbness. His
right place is in jail. His
contacts are fake and I could check
that!"
Daniela S. (she prefers to give
only her first name), 28, a
teacher from Rio de Janeiro
presented another complaint. In a
letter entitled "I was
deceived", she says she followed the work
of the alleged paranormal for
years, and after "4 days of living
with 'Portal Project', I was sure
that all was a great humbug!"
She says she is revolted, and
complains: "more still I realized
that I let myself be deluded for
so much time..."
ufowatchdog.com
UFOWATCHDOG.COM SPECIAL REPORT
BRAZIL UFO CASE:
SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS IN
CONTROVERSIAL ABDUCTION
On 22-February-2003,
Earthfiles.com editor and reporter Linda Moulton Howe (pictured left) reported
on the alleged UFO abduction case of a Corghinho, Brazil resident named Urandir
Oliveira, claiming that he was contacted telepathically by extraterrestrials
and later teleported from his bed on board an alien craft this past September.
This was not the first UFO encounter Oliveira claims to have had. He has
reported to have had numerous UFO encounters throughout his life.
Oliveira claimed that there was
physical evidence of his encounter in the form of burnt bedding and scorch
marks on the ceiling of where he was sleeping. Oliveira claimed to have been
taken from his bed, teleported in a beam of light through the ceiling of his
home up to a waiting UFO. Oliveira also claimed that a rain of unusual stones
fell from the sky, which alleged to have happened in connection with the event,
signaling that he had been taken aboard a craft. (For more, see Earthfiles.com
- but you'd better do it fast, as once stories are archived you then have to
pay to view them)
ABOVE: Bedding alleged to have
been burnt during abduction of Oliveira (photo taken from report).
Howe published the results of her
investigation to her website after she secretly flew to Brazil and met with
Oliveira to collect samples for analysis. This trip was financed by Oliveira
and Howe stayed at his ranch for two weeks. A preliminary analysis of samples
of the bedsheet was carried out by biophysicist William C. Levengood. Howe
interviewed Levengood about the materials she had collected and he had
examined:
HOWE: Could Oliveira have used a candle,
a match, a laser, a blow torch, something to heat this pattern on that sheet to
create this pattern?
LEVENGOOD: No, absolutely not.
HOWE: But you don't know how this
occurred?
LEVENGOOD: Of course not, no. You
can't transform the molecules in a polyester fiber by heating it with a match,
is what I'm saying. (Whatever the energy is), it has to fingerprint the actual
molecular structure of the material itself. If it were a match or laser, the
heat would spill over where you have these cotton fibers right in proximity.
HOWE: Whatever this energy is, it
can keep something cool only two millimeters from something else warmed up?
LEVENGOOD: That's right.
Levengood also stated, "I've
never seen anything like this. This takes a very, very high precision kind of -
whatever the energy, and there had to be energy here to transform, probably at
the molecular level, this because it changed the internal energy of the
material. Whatever it was, was extremely precise."
UFOWATCHDOG.COM has obtained a
copy of a 40-page in-depth infrared spectrtoscopy analysis of small samples of
the bedsheet and pillow case, conducted by veteran analytical chemist Phyliss
A. Budinger. SEM/EDS analysis carried out by Nicholas Reiter is included as
part of this 40-page report. This report, including multiple analyses and
replication experiments, was completed in April.
ABOVE: Report on alleged Brazilian
UFO abduction.
In this UFOWATCHDOG.COM special
report, presented are the findings of Phyllis A. Bundinger and Nicholas Reiter
and some information that is perhaps not being widely shared with the public
regarding Oliveira and his UFO claims. While the full in-depth report will be
posted soon, presented here are the primary findings of Bundinger and Reiter.
There is no doubt that the work
was carried out by well qualified, competent individuals and was supported by
other scientists. Both Budinger and Reiter have examined several anomalous
cases for various investigators.
This report, including multiple
analyses and replication experiments, was completed this past April. It should
be noted that claims were made that certain melting properties of the samples
of bedding could not be reproduced. These results have indeed been reproduced
by both Budinger and Reiter.
The replication of these alleged
anomalous effects clearly shows that there is nothing unusual about the
bedding. It is being claimed that since these replication experiments do not
look exactly like what has been found on Oliveira's bedsheets, they have no
merit.
Yet, at the same time, the claim
is being made that the effects could not be replicated by any heat source. This
simply is not true. UFOWATCHDOG.COM believes this can be easily summed up: If
you go into a fast food restaurant and look up at a picture menu, your eyes are
greeted with great looking pictures of tasty food. Essentially, you receive the
same thing advertised but it usually looks nothing like the picture. This is
the case here with the properties of the melted fibers within the bedding. It
doesn't look exactly like the melting found on Oliveira's sheets, but it is the
same effect and was replicated when it was claimed that there was no possible
way for it to be replicated.
It is the opinion of
UFOWATCHDOG.COM, based on the past investigations of Urandir Oliveira and his
UFO cult, the general consensus of the Brazilian UFO community, and the results
of this in-depth scientific report, that the UFO claims made by Oliveira are
false and have no merit.
It should be noted that this
website does not represent the views of the scientists involved in the analysis
nor do the stories here at this website. The reporting of factual, scientific
observation of the two scientists speaks for itself.
Oliveira's hoax does leave us with
an important lesson showing how easy it is for a few people to make the rest of
us look like idiots by putting some well placed spin into a story and making it
into much more than it really is.
Below you will find links to the
Budinger/Reiter report and other articles of interest regarding Oliveira:
THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE ALLEGED
BRAZILIAN UFO ABDUCTION: The scientific findings of an analytical chemist and a
scientific research technologist on purporteed evidence from the alleged UFO
abduction of Oliveira. A link to the full report will posted here soon.
TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT? : Linda Howe
takes a geologist's simple statement out of context and presents it as proof of
extraterrestrial visitation.
ANALYTICAL CHEMIST ON 'EARTHFILES'
REPORT: Veteran analytical chemist Phyllis A. Bundinger responds to Linda
Howe's Brazil report.
ORIGINAL NEWS STORY ON CASE: Read
this for some background on the case and the claims made by associates of
Oliveira.
BRAZIL'S UFO HOAX-MEISTER: Items
of interest regarding Urandir Oliveira and his alleged UFO schemes and his UFO
cult Project Portal.
UFOWATCHDOG.COM Editor Kidnapped
By Aliens in Brazil! Well, not really... : Uradnir Oliveira isn't the only one
with a blow torch, some sheets, and a crazy story.
BRAZILIAN UFO HOAXER AT IT AGAIN
THANKS TO LINDA MOULTON HOWE
From A.J. Gevaerd, Editor of
Brailian UFO Magazine and Head of the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers
[Editor's Note: Anyone seriously
interested in UFOs has been well aware of the serious and successful efforts made
by the Brazilian UFO Community to work with the military of that country in
opening up classified UFO files. I find it hard to believe that Linda Moulton
Howe wasn't aware of this dedicated effort and she should be ashamed for
promoting a hoaxer and her omission of the people actually responsible for the
months of hard work and dedication it took to gain the cooperation of the
Brazilian military. Howe's actions in this matter exceed being egregious.
UFOWATCHDOG.COM would like to congratulate the Brazilian Committee of UFO
Researchers (CBU) and their very successful UFOs: Freedom of Information Now
campaign. ]
It is absolutely amazing!
Linda Moulton Howe again promotes
a known UFO hoaxer who wants to benefit from someone else's hard work
It has been brought to my
attention that Linda Moulton Howe has published a story on her website
Earthfiles.com where she describes the most important moment in Brazilian
Ufology, the disclosure of secret UFO files by the Brazilian Air Force. Linda
Moulton Howe tells the story with a level of distortion and absence of fact
only seen a few years ago when she defended and promoted a known hoaxer as
genuine.
Here it is:
www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=914&category=Environment
I could not believe what I was
told and then I visited Earthfiles.com. To my astonishment and absolute
surprise I confirmed that Linda Moulton Howe once again has produced a very
unreliable kind of journalism and presented completely distorted information as
genuine fact to the international UFO community.
Despite the fact that the
disclosure of secret UFO files by the Brazilian Air Force was announced weeks
ago as an achievement of the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU),
after 14 very long months of hard work and determination in promoting the
movement UFOs: Freedom of Information Now and the gathering of 36,000
signatures in a petition, Linda Moulton Howe completely omits those truly
responsible for the successful results of the campaign.
Despite the fact that hundreds of
UFO websites reported the accurate events leading to the opening of Brazil’s
military UFO files and despite the fact that the international UFO community is
well aware of the legitimate info about the UFOs: Freedom of Information Now
campaign and its authorship, Linda Moulton Howe published her story on
Earthfiles.com distorting the information and omitting those actually
responsible for the most successful achievement that the Brazilian UFO
researchers reached with an enormous amount of work and sacrifice. News of the
success of the UFOs: Freedom of Information Now campaign has been circulated to
the international UFO community.
Instead of informing her readers
appropriately, Linda Moulton Howe chose to interview one of the only people in
the Brazilian UFO Community who had absolutely nothing to do with the campaign
at all and who only had, at the last minute, jumped in the boat not as an
invited guest, but only as a shameless opportunist seeking to benefit from
somebody else's hard work. Yes, you guessed right that fellow is Urandir
Fernandes de Oliveira.
Linda Moulton Howe's story on her
website misleads her readers to believe that Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira was
invited by the Brazilian military to the meeting that the UFO researchers had
with them. Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira was never invited and he never took
part in the campaign at all, as he is not recognized as a UFO researcher in
Brazil, but seen as a nuisance to the legitimate Brazilian UFO community.
The UFOs: Freedom of Information
Now campaign was launched in April 2004 as a genuine initiative done
exclusively by the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU) with broad
support from the entire Brazilian UFO Community. After 10 months of very hard
work, last January the military finally acknowledged this movement. The
spokesman for the military was Major Antonio Lorenzo and he contacted UFO
researcher and Brazilian UFO Magazine editor A. J. Gevaerd, inviting him and
the entire Committee for a visit to Brazilian Air Force installations, in
Brasilia, de Federal Capital.
Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira,
contrary to Linda Moulton Howe's story, was never contacted by the military and
never invited. However, when he knew that the meeting was scheduled to May 20,
he and a partner called the Brazilian Air Force department and demanded to be
present at the gathering. As the Brazilian Air Force, as public department,
cannot deny access to someone while open to someone else, he was then accepted
to come, with a visible embarrassment for him and the members of the Committee.
Contrary to what Linda Moulton
Howe believes or wants her readers to believe, Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira
attended the meeting as an uninvited guest, much to the embarrassment of the
Brazilian UFO community. He asked no questions to the military, took no notes,
and made no remarks. He was not acknowledged at all. Urandir Fernandes de
Oliveira did not attend any of the personal meetings with the military, and he
did not analyze any documents.
All Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira
and his partner did was take photos and films and make sure that they would
appear in photos and films made by the members of the Committee and the press,
in a incredible effort to have their faces on the program Fantastico for an
interview, an interview in which Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira refers to Linda
Moulton Howe. The Fantastico program is the very same which, a few years ago,
exposed Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira’ hoaxes and his prison under the
accusation of having sold 6,000 pieces of land that did not belong to him.
Linda Moulton Howe presented
Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira to her readers as if he was some kind of
spokesman of the campaign promoted by the Brazilian UFO researchers, and as if he
had played some role in helping the Brazilian UFO researchers to achieve this
historical event. Instead of helping in any way, Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira
only criticized the campaign in the previous months before it reached its goal
of gaining the cooperation of the Brazilian military. Urandir Fernandes de
Oliveira helped with absolutely nothing. And Linda Moulton Howe presents him as
a person who played an important role in the process. This is a shame and is
insulting to those actually responsible for the success of this very important
campaign.
I think that I don't have to
remind the members of the international UFO community that a few years ago
Linda Moulton Howe visited Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira's farm in Brazil after
Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira's paid for Linda Moulton Howe's trip. She was
delighted to listen to his fantasy tales of abductions and contacts with
aliens. Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira's claims are largely known delusions or
hoaxes. She listened to no Brazilian UFO researchers, she spoke with no members
of the press or Brazilian UFO community, she did not contact any of a number of
people who could describe to her how Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira fakes UFO
sightings.
Instead, Linda Moulton Howe
promoted Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira's absurd tales in the USA, especially
the hoax in which he was supposedly abducted by aliens and tried to convince
people of his story with some burned bed sheets and small burns to the ceiling
of a room, through which he was allegedly taken to a mothership and encountered
39 aliens races, including Jesus Christ. That hoax is well known to the entire
Brazilian UFO Community, which completely reject his UFO-sect Projeto Portal
(Gateway Project), created during the same time the Heaven´s Gate was created
outside San Diego.
As the head of the Brazilian
Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU), the group who initiated this campaign for
the freedom of information, in the name of all the other members of such
Committee and being the person who was contacted by the Brazilian military and
invited by them for this very important meeting in Brasilia, I cannot stand for
anymore of Linda Moulton Howe's unreliable journalism and will not allow it or
any other half truths or omissions to destroy or discredit this critical
freedom of information campaign.
The truth must prevail here at
this very important and historical UFO cooperative effort. The international
UFO community must move forward and we all must realize that there is no more
room for lies, distortions, and opportunists who do nothing and criticize the
ones who do.
A. J. Gevaerd,
Editor, Brazilian UFO Magazine
Head, Brazilian Committee of UFO
Researchers (CBU)
www.ufo.com.br
Seattle UFO / Paranormal Group
Below
Statements to the UFO Community
from numerous Brazilian UFOlogists
NEW
Additional Report from
Dwight Connelly - MUFON Journal
Editor
Report and Disclosure of Brazil's
UFO Sect
Photos, Information on Brazil's
Urandir Oliveira "Project Portal (Vestibule)"
The public deserves the truth - the
whole truth and nothing less.
Why people in Brazil are seriously
calling Urandir's Project Portal another
Jim Jones "Jonestown"
and another "Heaven's Gate"
Urandir and his sect followers
near his compound in Corguinho Brazil.
Photo provided by A.J. Gevaerd -
Editor of Revista UFO Magazine.
Multi building UFO sect compound
of "Project Portal" - an enterprise of selling land for salvation by
ETs in Brazil.
Why do other reports not show the
multi-million dollar compound of Urandir Olivera
- a so called reported
"humble farmer" in which it is reported his goal is to farm organic
food?
Photos provided by A.J. Gevaerd
and as published in Revista UFO Magazine.
Project Portal's website showing
additional photos of Urandir.
(Please note not a single photo or
link mentions organic food)
www.portal2.org.br
Jonestown massacre Nov. 18 1978,
photo from CNN.
Over 912 people died of which 280
were children.
Letters and Statements to the UFO
Community
Dozens of Brazilian Researchers,
Media and Citizens Statements
who publicly denounce Urandir
Oliveira
Click here for full statements
Among the published complaints are
reports like the one from
Fernando Goncalves da Silva, from
Santo Andr.
He says that on 12th of October he
went to Corguinho with his daughter
"to the alleged close
encounters people say happens there".
According to him, after spending
an average of R$ 400,00 (a little more than US$100.00)
a person to stay in a
"precarious camping site",
only to witness what "was a
illusionist's show, with laser canons in countdown, done by Urandir and his
followers.
Flying Saucers were not seen even
in dreams.
" Comparing the alleged
paranormal to Jim Jones, Fernando shows how worried he is:
"I warn you, besides this all,
the authorities about crime against public economy
and charlatanism from that
gentleman,
in order to combat a sect like Jim
Jones', which took, years ago, 900 people to suicide.
Mr. Urandir abuses poor and
innocent people, and in his lectures
in Sao Paulo he charges R$ 60,00 per person,
in sessions of pure dumbness. His
right place is in jail.
His contacts are fake and I could
check that!" - Fernando Goncalves da Silva
Isolated city, security guards,
intimidation, fear, abuse, death threats, promises of salvation to another
planet
were all used at
"Jonestown" - not unlike what is happening at Urandir's "Project
Vestibule (Portal)" isolated compound in Brazil.
Information from
House of Representitives Report on
Jonestown
Findings May 15, 1979
Tactics of Jim Jones
http://www.rickross.com/reference/jonestown/jonestown1.html
Tactics Comparison
Jim Jones "Jonestown"
Information quoted from the House
of Rep. report Urandir Oliveira's "Project Portal"
Information quoted from published
statements
Isolatated Camp - a
"city" - Jonestown started out as "trying to house the homeless
in the Bay area", moved to Guyana and became "Isolation from all
vestiges of former life, including and especially all sources of information"
[and was comprised of mostly poor blacks].
"This [the massacre] wouldn't
have happened if they hadn't been so isolated," - Dr. J. thomas
Ungerleider of the UCLA neuropsychiatric Institute. "With no feedback from
the outside world you can do incredible things with peer pressure. Paranoia
becomes a useful tool. It's a binding force. With it, you'll engage in
peer-pressure activities even more".
Photo of Jonestown's Pavilion
Isolated Camp - a "city"
"Project Portal" in remote area of Brazil located "near a modest
rural property about 100km Campo Grande city, in a place called Colônia Boa
Sorte (Good Luck Colony); a small town composed exclusively by black people
descendants of slaves."
"I, that already I have
health problems, came back worse of the one than I was, therefore I slept in
the soil and I ate badly. He did not have nor water to take bath ",
complains Maria Ines.
Photo of "Project
Portal" and its
multiple communal buildings which
includes
a communal kitchen.
Savior of his established city -
"substituting himself [Jim Jones] as the single source of all knowledge,
wisdom, and information"
"And what Jim promised would
happen with that money is that he was creating a promised land, sort of a
retirement colony for all of us, that we'd leave the racism of the United
States and go to a wonderful paradise." - Deborah Layton, former follower
Savior of his established city - Urandir
claims salvation through him if you buy property and stay near him for his
developing "Project Portal" - City of ETs, you will be saved by the
ETs during Armageddon.
False claims of healing - "he
[Jim Jones] exerted mental pressures on his followers which he subsequently
relieved in an effort to demonstrate and establish his omnipotent
"powers." For example, he inculcated fictional fears which he would
eventually counterpoint and dispel and thereby establish himself as a
"savior."
"According to cult defectors,
Jones gained an estimated following of 20,000 by staging faith healings."
- Washington Post reporter Charles Krause.
False claims of healing
"..said that he [Urandir]
could cure AIDS and cancer, that he [Urandir] could ressuscitate dead people
and could perform other phenomenons."
Practiced faith healing.
Claims craters on land have
healing waters.
Urandir Oliveira demonstrating his
claimed
faith healing on a a Brazilian TV
show.
Threats and Rumor Spreading
"Rumor spreading in an
attempt to ruin reputations or generally implant disinformation, thereby making
true facts difficult if not impossible to establish" Threats and Rumor
Spreading
"...As it always is
surrounded by its [Urandir's]men, he does not give to question. The reaction of
it to any signal of diffidence is threat in threat top ", accuses Elaine
(full story below) - Istoe Online magazine
Media and Political Attention -
"Intense public relations efforts ranging from letter-writing campaigns to
attempted control of news media in an effort to influence public opinion with a
favorable image of People's Temple; like-wise, an aggressive program of seeking
out political leaders and other influential members of a community in order to
cull their favor and establish identification with them. "
Media and Political Attention - Appearing
weekly on a TV "Brasil Verdade". Soliciting US media attention by sending
out photos of a bedsheet and a story of an alleged abduction. Paying for US
"Journalists" to investigate the claim. Culling the favors of local
political officials.
Control
Rice and bean diet
"22. The food was woefully
inadequate. There was rice for breakfast, rice water soup for lunch, and rice
and beans for dinner. On Sunday, we each received an egg and a cookie. Two or
three times a week we had vegetables. Some very weak and elderly members
received one egg per day. However, the food did improve markedly on the few
occasions when there were outside visitors....
24. In Febuary, 1978, conditions
had become so bad that half of Jonestown was ill with severe diarrhea and high
fevers. I was seriously ill for two weeks. Like most of the other sick people,
I was not given any nourishing foods to help recover. I was given water and a
tea drink until I was well enough to return to the basic rice and beans diet.
...
Some of the money was being used
to build a settlement that would earn Rev. Jones the place in history with
which he was so obsessed...
- Deborah Layton, from book
"Seductive Poison" former Jim Jones follower
Control - rice and bean diet
It has been stated by people in
the commune that there is a central kitchen that serves beans and rice.
Fear of Armageddon and
"advice" from Extraterrestrials - He [Jim Jones] also suffered from
mysterious fainting spells, heeded advice from extraterrestrials, practiced
faith healing, and experienced visions of nuclear holocaust. Certain that Armageddon
was imminent... " ²http://www.conspire.com/jones.html
Fear of Armageddon and "advice" from
Extraterrestrials
"...the City of ETs [Project
Vestibule (Portal)] would be one of the few refuges of the Earth that would be
safe, with abundance of victuals, solemnity subsistence and good astral, after
the planet, according to Urandir, had his axis' rotation altered and the seas
moved forward the continents. "There we will be safe and we will still
receive visits from ours space-brothers, that will start to live together with
us ", alleged Urandir ..." - Revista UFO Magazine
Agricultural Project - Jonestown
started out as an ideal city.
The sign that greets visitors to
Jim Jone's Jonestown commune. Jonestown started out as a people's community
"Agricultural Project"
- photo on book cover of
"Seductive Poison" by Debra Layton, former follower of Jim Jones.
Agricultural Project - Claims of being a
"humble farmer" and starting an organic farm.
Gate and sign at entrance of
Project Portal "city"
"Project Portal
(Vestibule)"
- the sign that greets visitors to
Urandir Olivera's commune.
Note "Projeto PORTAL" is
in large white lettering imprinted on the building sign noticable to any person
or journalist entering the area. Urandir also claims to be a farmer to grow
organic food - another Agricultural "Project".
Center house for Preaching
Jim Jones had his followers meet
him at the Pavilion - an open center house sometimes calling people over a
loudspeakerto gather in the middle of the night. These would be called
"White nights". Center house for Preaching
Urandir speaks to his followers
with a microphone in one of his shelters.
Looking at the tactics as
described by the U.S. House of Representitives in their report on Jonestown,
one can be disturbed at the
similarities.
One could say the Project Portal
compound is a template of the Jim Jones "Jonestown" compound.
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The Brazilian Bedsheet Hoax
8/23/03 - MUFON finally admits
Brazilian Case was a Hoax
Below article From the August 2003
issue of the MUFON UFO Journal
Many thanks to A.J. Gevaerd and
Eustáquio Andréa Patounas and all the Brazilian UFOologists who stand up for
the truth.
Note: The Seattle UFO/Paranormal
Group is an independant group not associated, affiliated or
governed by MUFON or any
person/organization.
"Research on the alleged
abductee, the physical "evidence," and the investigative procedures
clearly indicate that the Urandir case is a hoax, as originally reported by
[A.J.] Gevaerd."
"Not only is the physical
evidence in this case of little consequence, the investigation itself and the
reporting of the research on the physical items is also flawed. Ms. Howe went
only to the alleged abductee and his supporters to obtain information and
physical samples [from] the same group of biased individuals who paid for her
trip."
- Dwight Connelly MUFON UFO
Journal editor, Aug. 2003 Issue
Click Here for full Report
Photos show two different images
with different markings
of Urandir Olivera's alleged
abduction
Photo analysis in bedsheets show
two different markings and
pillows were switched.
Significant because Urandir and
followers claimed to have not touched the bed and
sealed off the room for
investigation immediately after the alleged abduction in Sept. 2002.
Furniture added behind the bed
indicate the room has been altered or the bed of this alleged abduction
has been moved to a different
room.
Left photo -Initial photo released
of a supposed abduction in September 2002
(posted and dated photo can also
be seen at http://www.rense.com/general32/abduct.htm
- a matter of record.)
Right photo - later photo of
bedsheet talken by Linda Moulton Howe in Feb. of 2003.
Details of legs on first released
photo in Sept. 2002 compared to detail of legs in Feb. of 2003 show two
very different bedsheet
impressions.
Note marks on right leg now show
the underlying mattress.
Photos show different pillows were
used
Different marks, different
position that photo lighting cannot explain.
Left Photo - Detail of pillows
released Sept. 2002. Note the position of the two
pillows and the significant
burn-like marks on the bottom pillow including a tear.
Right photo - Detail of pillow
taken in Feb. of 2003. Note different position and
completely different marks.
Obviously two different pillows.
Detail of pillows taken in Feb. of
2003. Note different position and
different marks from Sept. 2002
photo.
Note: Obvious details of hoaxing
that have not been mentioned before by recent "investigators".
1. The bedsheet image is
dramatically different in later
photos, (especially the ripped
sheet area in the later photo of both legs).
Marks on bed of supposed abduction
have been later reported by former employees at Urandir's
compound to have been made by a
torch.
2. The pillows have changed and
the marks are different.
3. A wardrobe or bookcase has been
placed behind the bed frame in the room.
The bed was initially flush
against the white wall and in a room claimed to have been sealed.
4. Also, it has been highly
debated if Urandir could have left testical impressions given he states he was
wearing his undershorts
and the marks on the bedsheets are
only where he claimed in his report his skin made contact.
Photo analysis done by Charlette
LeFevre - B.A. Research Wright State University, three year member
Ohio Academy of Science.
Photo of Urandir next to his
besheet impression. Analysis of torso show that the torso length does
not match body impression on
bedsheet - a difference of almost half even taking into account photo
perspective
distortion and foreshortening.
Green line is physical torso
length. Blue line is bedsheet torso measurement.
Photos of Urandir lying next to
his alleged abduction impression were said to have been taken.
Why haven't we seen these photos
for scientific analysis and comparison?
Detail comparison of images
Left Photo - Detail of image on bedsheet
on first released photos in Sept. 2002
Note: lighting and angle are
similar to later photo yet marks are different. Pillows and
their positions have changed
relative to arm and side of bed.
Middle Photo - photo of bed taken
by Linda Moulten Howe in Feb. of 2003.
Note: Right image shows an
alltogether different pillow and marks.
Far Right - photo of ceiling
released in Sept. 2002.
Impression on ceiling and bed have
do not match or align - not even close.
Photos show documented history of
arrest involving
fraud in exploiting the UFO
belief.
Photo by Zero Hora newspaper,
published in Brazilian UFO Magazine.
"Paulistan is arrested with
the charges of selling land for a city for ETs
Monday 27, March 2000, 10h50min
Paulistan Urandir
Fernandes de Oliveira, also known
as UFO, will be indicted
charged with fraud and ideological
falseness. He was arrested
last Sunday in Porto Alegre,
charged of selling illegal lots in the
town of Corguinho, in Mato Grosso
do Sul, where he had plans
to build a city to receive
extraterrestrial. Urandir is in jail at
17º Civil Police Sation in the
"gaucho" capital.. Three hours and
a half after being arrested by the
police, Oliveira talked to
Zero Hora newspaper in the Marshal
Jorge Mafra's office, at 17ª DP...."
Photos by Zero Hora Newspaper
provided by A.J. Gevaerd and Brazilian UFO Group
Full Newsarticle from Zero Hora
Newspaper (below).
Character?
Urandir Oliveira confirmed himself
his additional arrest with Zero Hora Newspaper.
".....ZH: Did you ever had
trouble with the police?
Oliveira: No. Once I was arrested
because of a domestic fight
with my ex-wife with another
woman, but there was nothing."....
- Zero Hora Newspaper, March 27,
2000
Legal documents and more
information can be found posted at
http://old.ufo.com.br/edicoes/ufo71/
Documents posted in UFO Magazine.
In Portugese concerning "Projeto Portal".
"Urandir was shackled and
arrested in Porto Alegre, on March 26, 2000. His prison was decreed
by a judge and executed by the
police of the 17th District of the Police of that city.
...Arrest involved Lawyer Nicolau
Borges Lütz Netto that represents countless victims of Urandir that acquired
of the unlikely contacted
irregular lands in a property called "the city of the Ets"."
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"Akashic" records
One of hundreds of manufactured
"Akashic" record rocks sold by Urandir
if you are "chosen" to
dig up from local caves.
Caves - claimed
"extraterrestrial entrances" created by contractors
which have admitted and reported
to A.J. Gevaerd as manufactured by them.
Urandir touching his ear reported
to be a signal for associates
hiding in the tall grass to turn
on fake UFO lights
It has been reported by Brazilian
UFOlogists that Urandir has a system of touching his ear
after placing his hand to his head
in meditation
to signal friends hiding in the
grass area to turn on lights.
Right Photo - Urandir giving a
lecture to his followers. Former followers charge Uranir is too much like Jim
Jones.
"Healing" Craters
Visitors pay to go to
"pituitary craters" for healing.
These "natural" craters
are reported to have been created by backhoes
by Urandir and filled with rain
water.
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Former "Project Portal"
followers speak out!
From Isto On Line Magazine
www.zaz.com.br/istoe/1583/brasil/1583ets.htm
"...Elaine: "Everything
has price there" The rocks, that of fact remember the format of a flying
record,
are spread by all the Country.
They are led by people who, after to pass for preparatory courses,
rescue to the Vestibule. These
visitors are arregimentados by followers of Urandir, that today
keeps nuclei of its project in
Belo Horizonte (MG), Curitiba (PR), Jaraguá of Sul (SC), Porto Alegre (RS),
Rio De Janeiro (RIO DE JANEIRO),
São Paulo (SP), Victory (ES) and Natal (RN).
"Everything has price.
When it uses its tricks, Urandir
alone thinks about pulling out money of the people ", affirms
secretary Elaine Sabaliauskas,
former-namorada of guru. "Now it is dividing land into parcels
an agricultural area and vendendo
lands of 800 square meters, but the purchasers do not
turn nor the color the writing. As
it always is surrounded by its men, he does not give to question.
The reaction of it to any signal
of diffidence is threat in threat top ", accuses Elaine..."
Full story below.
"Urandir already sold more
than a thousand lands, but most of the buyers at least has no idea
where they are. And none of them
is going to receive one day the writing of the lands", to the
Revista UFO Márcio Uller, that
worked in the project for more than one year and was
dismissed without any payment or
compensation.
Note: Please see below articles
for futher statements from former sect members.
Those round rocks that supposedly
fell from the sky?
"The rocks that Urandir
presents as sent for extraterrestrial are common in the immediacy of the mountain
range of Maracaju,
whose more visible mount is of Is
Sebastião, neighbor to the Vestibule. "Even so they have sufficiently
exotic format,
these rocks have a natural
geologic origin. They are sandstone rocks with high degree of iron "
- Local Archaeologist Gilson
Martins, of the Federal University of the Mato Grosso
Istoe On Line Magazine
http://
www.zaz.com.br/istoe/1583/brasil/1583ets.htm
According to reports from A.J.
Gevaerd - Editor and UFOlogist in Brazil, Urandir sells these unusual rocks for
as much as $50 a rock and has
documented statements and photos
of the contractors that gather them up for Urandir to sell.
From Ray Stanford
" They [the stones] are of
terrestrial origin but are definitely not of volcanic origin, as hypothesized
or otherwise.
On Linda's own website, one can
see the thin sedimentary layers indicating slow deposition over a long period,
in water. Over extended periods,
the sand grains are 'glued' together both by natural silica deposition and by
iron oxide - in this case,
evidently, the in-water excretion of ferrophagic (iron eating) bacteria. As the
colony of
ferrophagic bacteria grows
(sometimes around a piece of organic debris, but potentially around almost
anything),
water current 'eddies' create
low-level circulation around the colony, creating an expanding, circular cavity
into
which it continues to grow as
silica (both colloidially deposited and as sand grains, from above) and iron
build
peripherally, from above (hence,
the layering). In that way, across time there is formed a sometimes very
UFO- shaped (bi-convex disc, or
even spherical) concretion of purely terrestrial origin.
This can occur anywhere in the
world where there is the right water chemistry, temperature range, and
bacterial environment.
The process is somewhat more
complex than the basics explained here, but I suspect this is about all list
readers will want or need.
The Brazilian stones are, in fact,
quite similar to some of the concretions from
the USA that are sold as
"Boji stones" at mineral, gem, and fossil shows all over the USA.
Most of them are
formed in the way described. A
geologist may understand very little about such petrogenesis, dealing as they
generally do with only much larger
scale processes and rock masses. On the other hand, such is more the
province of specialists in
petrology, per se, although many petrologists deal almost exclusively with
larger
scale rock masses, their formation
processes, and potential economic value. "
- Ray Stanford
Author " Socorro Saucer in a
Pentagon Pantry"
"You know my method. It is
founded upon the observance of trifles." -- Sherlock Holmes in The
Boscombe Valley Mystery
Dead cows?
Cows that Urandir claimed died
from an atomic bomb like explosion
A.J. Gevaerd investigated in the
area along with a news crew and found these cows very much alive.
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Letters and Statements to the UFO
Community
Dozens of Brazilian Researchers,
Media and Citizens Statements
who publicly denounce Urandir
Oliveira
Click here for full statements
UFO Study Group of Baixada
Santista
Célia B. S. H.- former follower
Claudeir Covo - Brazilian
UFOlogist
Paola Lucherini Covo - Brazilian UFOlogist
Doraci Alves Cunha - former land
owner
A.J. Gevaerd - Brazilian
UFOlogist, Editor Revista UFO Magazine
Rodolfo Heltai - Brazilian
UFOlogist
Lucia Menta - Infinite TV
Jeferson Martinho Portal/Revista
Vigilia - Editor
Lütz Netto - Urandir's former Lawyer
Julieta Paraíso- former follower
Rodrigo Branco Radio
Wendell Stein - UFOlogist,
Researcher
Thiago Luiz Ticchetti President -
Brazilian Organization of Extraterrestrial Research
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Response to 6/6/03 Earthfiles
Report on the Scientific Analysis
of Samples Related to the
Corguinho, Brazil Event
by Phyllis Budinger, Analytical
Scientist. June 7, 2003
From Phyllis A. Budinger
Analytical Scientist
June 9, 2003
To The UFO Community
On 6/6/2003 www.Earthfiles.com
presented a 4-part report on the scientific analysis of samples
resulting from the controversial
Corguinho, Brazil purported abduction. I spent considerable time
analyzing samples from this event.
Clearly, the Earthfiles report necessitates a response from myself.
Attached to this message is the
commentary. For those who are averse to opening attachments on Emails,
this response will also appear on www.ufowatchdog.com
and www.Rense.com. Additionally, the Rense website
will also present my
well-referenced 40 page analytical report documenting Nick Reiter's and my
results.
You are most welcome to pass along
this message to anyone you think may be interested.
Regards,
Phyllis A. Budinger Analytical
Scientist
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Speaking out to protect consumers
and to create awareness of a UFO cult.
Dr. Roger Leir introducing A.J. Gevaerd
at the Third Annual Northwest UFO and Paranormal Conference in Seattle.
A.J. Gevaerd showing a photo of
Urandir in Jail for fraud. Photo of Urandir from Zero Hora Newspaper.
Conference Photos by Ray-Paul
Neilson and Charlette LeFevre
A. J. Gevaerd - Editor of Revista
UFO Magazine, Founder and Director of the Brazilian Center for Flying Saucer
Research (CBPDV), Brazilian Director for Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and one of
the Intl. Directors of the U.S. International UFO Congress. In 1986, A.J. Gevaerd
quit his career as a Chemistry teacher to devote full time to research of UFOs.
Founder of the Brazil's only UFO Magazine for 19 years, A.J. has been its
Editor of one of the long-lasting magazines about UFOlogy in the world. A.J. is
also Founder and Director of the Brazilian Center for Flying Saucer Research
(CBPDV) one of the largest organization in South America, with over 3,300
members. A.J. has been a field investigator 29 years and for the past 18 years
the only UFO researcher in Brazil exclusively devoted full-time to the study of
the UFO Phenomenon. Respected as a national and international lecturer, A. J.
has spoken in dozens of cities in his country and in other 29 countries around
the world. In 1983, he was appointed by Dr. J. Allen Hynek to be the
representative of the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) in Brazil. A.J Gevaerd is
also one of the International Directors of the Annual International UFO
Congress.
News articles, photos, postings
and testamonies on Brazil's Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira - his well known
Project (Portal) Vestibule selling land for salvation by ETs - and why
Brazilian UFOlogists for years have been calling him the world's greatest UFO
hoaxer and exploiter of the UFO belief.
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Seattle UFO/Paranormal Group's
comment:
The Seattle UFO/Paranormal Group
has looked into these reports of abuse and threats and have heard from half a
dozen UFOlogists in Brazil including A.J. Gevaerd, Editor of Revista UFO
Magazine who lives near the isolated compound and we find the information
extremely disturbing - so much so that we responsibly support disclosure of
this UFO sect for public awareness and consumer reporting.
It is our intention that another Jim
Jones or Heaven's Gate never happen again - not on our shift. It is not a
matter of waiting until there is a mass suicide when there are already reports
of abuse, fraud and intimidation expoiting the UFO belief. We would have found
it reprehensible to promote in any way such a UFO cult or investigators
supporting this cult whether knowingly or hugely irresponsible at any of our
conferences. We have stated we do not run our lectures and events based on
promotion of hoaxes and sensationism at the cost of others and exploiting the
UFO belief. Past comments of intimidation by investigators have not been
appreciated. The Seattle UFO/Paranormal Group is an independant group and is
not governed or regulated by any other UFO organization and is based on the freedom
of speech.
Hence, although it may not be
popular with media, we do find it responsible to present reports from respected
investigators and give them a fair format and knowing now of this UFO cult to
create awareness. We don't mind standing in the truth.
Investigating, reporting or
discussing cases involving Urandir and failing to disclose Urandir's ENTIRE
background, this well known reported Project Vestibule, (Portal) the UFO sect
and claims of healing in the public's best interest we feel could potentially
further mislead and harm innocent people and further exploit the UFO field.
- Charlette LeFevre
President Seattle UFO/Paranormal
Group
"The First Amendment is not a
suicide pact." - Psychiatrist and Cult Expert John Clark
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Below are just a few of the many
dozens of references and articles that can be found on the internet from
mulitiple news sources with a simple internet search of Urandir. These articles
documenting the abuses from former sect followers go back years and are from
responsible journalists, well established newspapers and respected UFO
investigators - people who already believe in the possibility of
Extraterrestrials. We encourage people to check out and verify the information
from multiple sources themselves. Several articles have been compiled here for
ease of reading in English.
Massive Desertions From the
Largest Brazilian UFO Cult - June 4, 2003
The Projeto Portal (Gateway
Project) cult created and directed by the biggest Brazilian UFO hoaxer of all
time, Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira, is about to collapse. Over the past few
days details of Fernandes de Oliveira's scams became known to hundreds of
members of the group, causing many of its main supporters to noisily defect.
Some are very angry at its founder and want reimbursement of payments made for
"special alien teachings and wisdom", offered by the Project and his
owner. The Gateway Project and Urandir have been trying to extend their
activities towards the US and other countries, through the release over the
internet of several information of sensational abduction stories and fabricated
UFO crashes at Fernandes de Oliveira's and his co-worker's properties. All the
stories have been unanimously rejected by the entire Brazilian UFO community
for the last 7 years. Last February, journalist Linda Moulton Howe came to
Brazil was invited by and interviewed Fernandes de Oliveira, the alleged
contactee, who has been claiming to be "chosen by ETs to guide Earth's
people fates". She is presenting several of his stories at
www.earthfiles.com.
The question of Fernandes de
Oliveira's hoaxing is a past issue, as Brazilian UFO researchers have long
proved the illegitimacy of his alleged cases. The most outrageous hoax
perpetrated by him has been largely exposed on the internet by several
Brazilian and US investigators and by me, personally, at the 3rd Seattle UFO
and Paranormal Convention, in May. Now, the people abandoning the Gateway
Project have also denounced his activities as fraudulent and giving new details
of the sting. The last big scam fabricated by Fernandes de Oliveira was the
abduction he claimed to have had in September 2002, which supposedly left
strange marks on the bed sheets and ceiling of the bedroom where he was
sleeping. Intriguing photos were posted all over the internet. Although details
of the fabrication have been made public before, the former supporters of the
Project have released more info of how the marks were produced. While visiting
in Brazil last April, Californian DPM Dr. Roger Leir collected, from several
UFO researchers, information that the marks (that can be seen at LMH's website)
were made by using an iron. This info is now considered inaccurate. According
to new reports, Fernandes de Oliveira and his employees faked the marks using a
torch. Strangely, the marks have been considered "very unusual" by
specialist Mr. Levengood, who examined samples collected by Linda Moulton Howe.
All new information is being carefully gathered and will be presented to the
Brazilian and US UFO communities, in order to help investigators naively
supporting a case that is considered to be the biggest UFO scam ever in the UFO
field, worldwide.
- A. J. Gevaerd, editor Brazilian
UFO Magazine
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Video of A.J. Gevaerd's
presentation at the Third Annual Northwest UFO Conference available soon which includes
photos, statements from locals and the disclosure of Urandir's "Project
Portal" compound.
e-mail clefevre@oz.net for
information, video available at cost for showing to your group or organization.
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Collection of Newsarticles,
Comments from Researchers and former sect members:
Zero Hora Newspaper (in English
below)
http://www.terra.com.br/brasil/2000/03/27/011.htm
Paulistan Urandir Fernandes de
Oliveira is arrested with the charges of selling land for a city for ETs Monday
27, March 2000, 10h50min
UFO Brazil Magazine
http://old.ufo.com.br/edicoes/ufo71/
"...The minor Alfonso C. N.
was taken in the col for its mother, with immense sacrifice, since its city in
the north of Minas Gerais until Corguinho. To all, to arrive at the property of
Urandir, the ill minor with leukemia supported 50 hours of trip more than, and
its mother almost invested to R$ 900,00 in expenditures of buses and lodging,
beyond R$ 500,00 charged by Urandir to make the supposed cure. "It was not
nor two minutes with the boy and already he left the room saying that my son
was cured" . Therefore Alfonso continues with its problem of health and
now aggravated. Its family saw in apuros for having invested what she could not
in the hope of that Urandir was really one chosen of ETs to cure people.
Everything does not pass of an unforgivable blow against people of good-faith
and desperate by some alento that induces them to be felt better. An entrepreneur
Carioca pensioner also passed for similar constaint, but, in its in case that,
he had the illusion of cure kept for some months for Urandir, that always bound
and asked as it was its state of health. To the end of each linking, Urandir
simulated to make a telepática transmission of energy and guarantee that the
lawyer would go to be good readily. After that, it asked for a small payment to
it for the treatment. "To all, Urandir took me R$ 12 a thousand more than,
always with its colloquy of that the money would be used in the construction of
a clinic for treatment of sick people" , the lawyer said. "In the
truth, what it wanted is to pull out the money maximum and deceived me the time
all" . The lawyer breached with its healer, but not without before trying
to recover its money, without success. These three situations are between
refined sets of ten in last the two years. The depositions of the victims of
Urandir are kept together the vast volume of evidences of its activities of
charlatanism, in our archives..."
Bogus UFO Contactee Prepares To
Flee Brazil, 11/19/00
http://www.rense.com/general5/brax.htm
Controversy Over Brazil Abductee's
Story 12/15/02
http://www.rense.com/general32/abac.htm
A. J. Gevaerd - Editor, Brazilian UFO
Magazine National Director Mutual UFO Network Director, International UFO
Congress
http://www.ufoitalia.net/linda.htm
http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2003/feb/m28-027.shtml
http://www.ebe-et.com.br
http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2000/may/m16-004.shtml
Publication Department and
Specialized Translation Director - EBE-ET
PART I - THE BEGINNING
Four years ago, a person named
Urandir Fernades de Oliveira, appeared on the Brazilian ufologic scenario
saying that he was able to contact with extraterrestrials beings, took a ride
on board of the UFOs many times, and those beings had given to him paranormal
powers. He never proof it. It is inside of this scenario that the alleged
contacted claims that he is friend of the aliens beings, included the strange
and mythological Ashtar Sheran, whose story Urandir took from others that,
since 40 years ago say the same. By the way, Urandir has been being worth of
the experiences - many times real - from others people. The most flagrant case
is of Mr. Lucio Barbosa, a former teacher in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul
State. Was Lucio the first one who Urandir looked for to learn more about UFO 4
years ago, when he came to Mato Grosso: "Since then, Urandir did not know
nothing about UFOs, and claimed to me that never have had any experience with
aliens beings", said Lucio to the Revista UFO (edition nr 56, January
1998) Lucio lived in a modest rural property about 100km Campo Grande city, in
a place called Colônia Boa Sorte (Good Luck Colony); a small town composed
exclusively by black people descendants of slaves. He taught in a small local
school and alphabetized adults and children, taking a good life, for option,
far away from the civilization. Lucio already came making it for almost one
decade, period in that had the chance to observe strange night lights in the
beautiful skies of the area. By the way, he was not the only one. One day, such
facts attracted the onlookers' attention, among them Urandir, that went until
the colony to know the teacher and to try to observe the ships that he affirmed
to see. Well then, it was there that the "Urandir phenomenon" began.
Most of all the stories that Urandir tells about his past of contacts is the
copy of the histories that Lúcio lived and that it entrusted to the new friend,
without imagining that that will assimilate everything so quickly. The Revista
UFO magazine has been documenting the Lucio's histories more than five years,
reproduced later on with some make-up by Urandir and boasted as belonging to
him, that at least two years before Urandir to present them in the TV as being
yours. That chosen has the audacity of describing as yours a contact history
with aliens that Lucio had when he was 13 years old. The idea to create more
visuals phenomenons and to move forward in the filed of the cures, however, the
contacted supposition acquired in the last three years. Knowing what afflicted
people were looking for, specially the poorer, he proposed to come as possessor
of the talent of the cure. To improve his image of miraculous healer, he makes
magic tricks without connection with the situation, just shown to distract.
"My cures were already proven by the science", he insists. But he
never proved anything. He was the "star" of a TV Show called Brasil
Verdade (True Brazil), where made magic tricks, claimed that he had powers to
cure people, to make to appear crystals in his head, to transform metals in
gold, to resurrect killed and to cure the AIDS. Urandir learned a lot with
Lúcio Barbosa. He read many books about UFOs and aliens and it improved his
lying stories.
PART II THE STORY
Since 1997 the magazine UFO comes
informing the inexhaustible capacity of production of ufologic facts of the
solemnity-denominated contacted Urandir Fernades de Oliveira regularly, today
the most notorious of all the characters that was already combated by the
Brazilian ufologic community. The activities of the referred citizen, that is
founder of the project Portal, were initiate about 7 years ago and can already
be characterized as the most imaginative and badly servant ufologic repertoire
set up in any part of the world to get personal benefits through the phenomenon
UFO. Now, they turned case of police. Urandir was shackled and arrested in
Porto Alegre, on March 26, 2000. His prison was decreed by a judge and executed
by the police of the 17th District of the Police of that city. Weigh against
him countless accusations among them the one of faith healing and quackery,
swindle and ideological falsehood. For not having fixed residence or defined
profession, and for his displacement easiness and possibility of eventual
escape, the judge understood that Urandir should be available to the Justice so
that the pending facts are clear on him. The fuse of the prison was lit by the
lawyer Nicolau Borges Lütz Netto that represents countless victims of Urandir
that acquired of the unlikely contacted irregular lands in a property called
"the city of the Ets".
Lütz Netto tried to negotiate in a
friendly way with the prisoner, in the expectation of seeing it reimburse the
people that bought the illegal lands, without writing nor any other form of
appropriate legal documentation. Urandir ignored the solicitations, he mocked
of the justice and, in subject of hours, he was arrested. The referred citizen,
as know all the readers of the magazine UFO, alleges openly and shamelessly to
have special powers, gave to him by extraterrestrials beings, to attract ships
and to do them to land in his property in Corguinho, municipal district at 70km
of Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul state. It is there that his project works
and where is located the imaginary city of the Ets. His allegations, however,
do not find the minimum back in fact, since he would never have gotten really
the fact before people that had capacity to distinguish the cash landing of an
alien ship of maneuvers with pens laser and mile lights, instruments that him
and his employees use to deceive the dozens of thousands of people that seek
him. It is that work that Urandir uses to attract the his followers' attention
and to animate them they acquire it the illegal lands. Many already made it.
Among the most absurd statements and lies of the supposed paranormal, that it
comes if running out to submit to an analysis and rigid researches around his
alleged powers, exists an entangled of lies to his followers, especially, and
to Brazilian Ufologia in general.
In popular programs like the
infamous Brasil Verdade, already former-dyed, or the Programa do Ratinho,
Urandir guaranteed to have the capacity to speak in languages of
extra-terrestrial. He also affirmed to make trips the other worlds a hour in
that well understood. Finally, completing yours manufactured repertoire, he
insisted for the fact that himself would be an alien embodied in the Earth,
whose mission would be to alert the Humanity and to save some of his members.
Of course would survive mainly the inhabitants of his extraterrestrial city...
While his placements don't pass of subterfuges to bargain some points in the
audience of those programs and even certain point is inoffensive for the
Brazilian population, some of the declarations and acts that he developed after
achieving the fame and the national knowledge they are concern reason and they
constitute serious aggressions to the law and the morality, as now it was
proven.
Among such declarations, Urandir
started to guarantee to his followers - and with that he got still more
followers - to be capable to cure any types of illnesses that have, until the
most serious, as cancer, leukemia and even AIDS. He alleges the unlikely
contacted to be possible that, just with the touch of his hands, he gets to
extract people's cerebral tumors from people that thought would die. Not
satisfied with greats lies , Urandir published in his site in the Internet,
removed of the air after the accusation that this author did in the program
Paulo Lopes in the TV, of the Rede Bandeirantes television, on February 2nd
2000, to be able to resuscitate people, bringing them of what he calls fourth
dimension. Urandir got out to announce such a fact in his countless courses in
Brazil, as documented in video by the Revista UFO magazine. In certain events
that made, such citizen explains how he is able of such feat and he alleges
that received the power to revive people directly of his extraterrestrial
friends, that saw in the more practice a chance of Urandir to complete yours
mentioned mission in the Earth. His allegations and practices, as you see, are
clearly excuses and highly reprovable. But nevertheless Urandir got to attract
about 78.000 Brazilians, who pay his bills.
The quackery practice and faith
healing is clearly seeing in the actions that Urandir accomplishes without
punishment at least four years. In that period, thousands of people with the
most several - and sometimes serious - illnesses to look for him innocently to
relief for their suffering. Nobody was assisted free, and although paying - and
well - for the faith healing, nobody was never cured of nothing some. There are
cases, however, of people that were guided by Urandir to stop the use of
medications after they have been treated by him, and that they had their
problems worsened. The supposed paranormal sees that naturally. " To be
cured, you have to have good energy and to be in harmony with the Martians
", said Urandir Maria das Graças, from the city of Novo Hamburgo, state of
Rio Grande do Sul, that paid R$ 300,00 for a consultation and she continues
even today with terrible headaches.
The young Afonso C. N. was taken
in the glue of his mother, with immense sacrifice, from his city in the north
of Minas Gerais to the city of Corguinho. To the whole, to arrive to the
property of Urandir, the little sick boy with leukemia supported more than 50
hours of trip, and his mother invested almost R$ 900,00 in bus expenses and
lodging, besides R$ 500,00 collected by Urandir to do the assume cure. "
He was not nor two minutes with the boy and he already left the room saying
that my son was cured ". But Afonso continues with his problem of health
and now worsened. His family saw themselves in difficulties for having invested
what could not in the hope that Urandir really went a chosen of ETs to cure
people. Everything doesn't pass of an unforgivable blow against of good faith
and despaired people by some encouragement that induces them better. A former
businessman from Rio de Janeiro also passed by a problem but, in his case, he
had the cure illusion maintained by several months by Urandir, that always
called him and asked if his health was good. To the end of each connection,
Urandir feigned to do a telepathic transmission of energy and warranty that the
lawyer would be quickly good. After that, he asked for a small payment for the
treatment. "
To the whole, Urandir took me more
than R$ 12.000,00, always with his chat that the money would be used in the
construction of an health clinic for treatment of sick ", the lawyer said.
" Actually, that he wanted is to pull up the maximum of money and he
deceived me the whole " time. The lawyer broke up with his healer, but
without before to try to recover his money, without success. These three
situations are among dozens hurried in the last two years. The victims' of
Urandir depositions are maintained vast volume of evidences of his quackery
activities close to, in our files. The people that they were hurted, as the
suitable ones above, in spite of having guided for Revista UFO's direction they
render it complaint to the official authorities, they didn't make it for fear
of they suffer reprisals of Urandir and his vast body of employees, that
guarantee that the robbery is very applied and stay unpunished. In hypothesis
some such ones foot-sound they allowed that this publication identified them
completely. "One day, when I called to Urandir and said that would not
give him any money and would still denounce him, he threatened me telling me
that my life and of my family would be in risk if I made it", said the
businessman to the Revista UFO. The menaces are a constant in the activities of
Urandir.
Along his years of acts unlawfulls
, whenever somebody discovered something on his maneuvers, such person was
immediately expelled of the group and, still, terribly threatened. One of the
most serious cases happened to a manager from São Paulo, that discovered in
warehouses of the farm of Urandir, in Corguinho, motorcycles prepared to
transit in rural areas and a paraphernalia composed by radios of communications
type walkie-talkie, batteries, mile lights and varied instruments whose purpose
she did not know. When seeing that such equipments could only be used to
swindle the insistent lights in the hills of the area in turn of the property
of Urandir, that everybody thinks to be flying disks, was asked what they are
about. Urandir was emphatic: "If you open your mouth, you will be
sorry". He scared me and continued to do it even after my return to São
Paulo to guarantee that I will not tell anything to anybody ", said the
victim, counting more than 10 received calls from Urandir and his assistants,
that are part of the outline and assure since the attainment of the tricks in
the farm until the warranty that nobody will speak anything, in case that
someone comes to discover.
One of the Urandir's brother,
Jurandir Fernandes of Oliveira, is military policeman in São Paulo and
frequently absent of the work to work in the farm of Corguinho, where he takes
charge, among other things, of the protection to his brother. The atmosphere in
that the never confirmed cures of Urandir happen are also subject of rejects.
The people that were already in his property in Corguinho know about the
terrible hygiene conditions and comfort that they are submitted - for the which
pay discharges sums. " The bathrooms get obstructed to the point of the
dejections leave outside, invading the lodgings. The food is prepared with
loamy water that comes from a dam done by the Projeto Portal, where Mr.
Urandir, without shame, takes a bath the people and asks to the skies to the
people became good and be treated of his evils", described the retired
stewardess Julieta Paraíso, one of the robbed by Urandir, that agreed in having
his mentioned name. She add that although Urandir affirms that promised of
cures the patient will only be granted if she has a lot of faith. "If the
person has faith of minus, according to him, the charm will not work".
There is still the case of beautiful girls that look for the mentioned
paranormais powers of cure of Urandir and end up knowing his intimacy in a way
that they didn't imagine.
Célia B. S. H. is one to them, a
beautiful woman born in the state of Curitiba that sought the aid of Urandir to
cure pains in the backs and ended up receiving countless blockades.
"Urandir said that the cure would only come if he could change
"energy" with me. In the beginning I didn't understand well what that
was, but then, when he insisted on being alone with me in the brushwood, I
noticed that was a blockade". Célia describes that Urandir tries to
deceive his victims - and she knew several of them later on - affirming that can
could be his twin souls. But to discover if they do, such girls would have
theirs "chakras" opened for the paranormal, evidently through sexual
contact. Blockade and promiscuity in the property of Urandir are common facts
and they were already denounced to the Revista UFO by countless people.
Recently, an adolescent's father that visited the Projeto Portal wrote to our
office and said: "We spent R$ 400,00 on the average real per person to be
in a precarious and distant camp what we witnessed only an show of lights, with
cannons of laser accomplished by Urandir and his followers. "We did not
see any Flying disks", said Fernando Gonçalves da Silva, from Santo André
(SP). Among the facts that he noticed, it is the constant blockade that Urandir
makes the adolescent youths, as his daughter. "Urandir goes for a walk
with young ladies, doing what I don't know ". Angry, Silva still alert for
the fact that the Ministry of Finance would need to visit his property, because
it is a mine of gold. "Mr. Urandir abuses of lacking and ignorant people,
and in his lectures, in São Paulo, he charge R$ 60,00 of each one for sessions
of pure lecture. His place is in the chain!", he completed. Seems that his
desire was accomplished.
Faith healing is crime according
to the Brazilian Penal Code, defined in the Article 284, according the jurist
Celso Delmanto in Commented Penal Code [Publishing Freitas Bastos, 1986]: it is
" crime against the public health to prescribe, teach or to apply any
substance or do diagnoses without having medical knowledge, or still, to use
gestures, words or any or any other way to deceive the victim. The subject
assets of the crime is any person that doesn't have medical knowledge, being
able to a doctor to be joint author when rendering aid to the healer ".
According to the code, Urandir is able to be punished, foreseen as detention of
six months to two years. Was not that, however, what took it to the chain. The
law says although if the crime were practiced by means of remuneration on the
part of the victims, the healer is also subject to the fine payment. As Urandir
is bricklayer's servant, in spite of coming as civil engineer in several cities
through where he gives courses, it is evident that he doesn't have any medical
qualification and, with that, he is against the law.
It is difficult to esteem how much
money Urandir already got to obtain from his victims through his faith healing
practices, but it is not a few. So much that, since he became constantly
denounced for almost unanimity of the Brazilian ufologists, focused strongly to
the side of the cures, what demonstrates his economic viability in a clearer
way than Ufology. "In fact, Urandir passed devoted more to the cures
because he can get more money and is still free from the persecution of the
ufologists ", told to the Revista UFO Alcione Giacomitti, one of the
friends that Urandir had in his intimate circle of relationship and with which
shared a lot of his tricks. The volume of material resources that started to do
part of the personal fortune of the referred citizen - evaluated in more than
10 million Reals - was fattened substantially with the practice of the quackery
and of the faith healing. But there is still something so or more serious than
that.
Urandir recently discovered in the
sale of illegal lands of such City of ETs an easier way pull up his followers'
money. Was because of that he received voice of the prison of the policemen's
of 17th Police Department of the city of Porto Alegre, where stayed imprisoned
for almost one week, and later he was set free to answer the process in this
condition. His complications with the Justice, however, they are just
beginning. Some months ago, Urandir started to announce to everybody that he
intended to build the referred and imaginary city in his property. But, to have
the privilege of living in the cosmic enterprise - and it doesn't lack people
that wants -, the candidate should work with an awful illegal outline created
by Urandir. Simply, he passed to send his property that he has been selling
faintly to who can pay the R$ 1.500,00 demanded. The value is high, but the
promises are inviting: the City of ETs would be one of the few refuges of the
Earth that would be safe, with abundance of victuals, solemnity subsistence and
good astral, after the planet, according to Urandir, had his axis' rotation
altered and the seas moved forward the continents. "There we will be safe
and we will still receive visits from ours space-brothers, that will start to
live together with us ", alleged Urandir in his courses, with the largest
effrontery. The judge from Porto Alegre understood such promises in a quite
different way. To understand the sketch, it is important to know that Urandir
enclosed to Projeto Portal's original property, which was of about 400 hectares,
more than ten times that earth amount, spread by the area. Such acquisitions
were and still are being enclosed to the fortune of Urandir in an informal way,
done starting from the robbery of properties of other farmers of the area.
In any case such purchases are
registered legally and are at least completely paid. There is not also any land
registration in the name of Urandir Fernandes of Oliveira or of the legal
entity, the Projeto Portal, in the registry that coordinates the registration
of lands in Corguinho. Nevertheless, sat down on what is not yours and without
recognizing the pertinent legal ways of the case, Urandir shared property in
lands of 800 m2, in unknown amount, without the description of the lands or the
due authorization of the organs that govern such acts. And he truly has
increased his fortune selling them to people that many times at least do not
know where it is the project, but that are animated with the possibility of
being in the company of Urandir when ETs comes to save those that the
paranormal to designate that should be saved, since that is his mission...
"Urandir already sold more than a thousand lands, but most of the buyers
at least has no idea where they are. And none of them is going to receive one
day the writing of the lands", to the Revista UFO Márcio Uller, that
worked in the project for more than one year and was dismissed without any
payment or compensation.
The representatives of Urandir
through what he calls nucleus, spread out by the Brazil sell the lands. To
activate the process, the suspicious paranormal ordered to print great amount
of receipts, many of the which he simply signs in blank paper(according
documentation that the Revista UFO have), distributing them to the thousands
among the such nucleus. His representatives, have only to find people who pay
for the land, when they fills the receipt and they supply copy to the eventual
buyers. There is any kind of official control. "I bought one of those
lands here in the nucleus of São Paulo, but when I was to check them at the
registry there was anything of legal in the affair", told to the Revista
UFO, Maria S., from the city of São Paulo, that is also afraid of identifying.
Maria, as more than thousand other buyers, who felt like idiots, since that the
UFOs of Urandir are quite unlikely. She is among the victims that want his
money back. And more: in the receipt that the representatives of Urandir passes
to the buyers, he, that signs the document, affirms that: "...he commits
to sell an area of 800 m2, retreat of a larger area of 1.000 hectares, of the
rural property without division located in the district of Corguinho,
registered under the number 1.687, book 2, on March 25, 1998, in the Office of
Registrations of Properties of the District of Comarca das Bandeiras".
Besides signing that term, Urandir stands out that the property is
"...free and disentangled of any obligation, taxes, rates, etc ".
This is just one of his lies , since who goes to the referred registry will
discover that the property doesn't belong nor it never belonged to Urandir
Fernandes de Oliveira. Besides, the buyer will find at the registry Mr.
Aristides Borges de Esquivel, a helpful official of registers that guarantees
to be arranged to thoroughly know the details of such business. "I have no
words to say to those people that calls or visit us asking for informations
about the lands that they acquired", said Mr. Esquivel, when emitting a
certificate that confirms that Urandir doesn't have any property registered in
that registry. That documentation was taken to the knowledge of the gaúchas
(people who was born in the state of Rio Grande do Sul) authorities, resulting
in the swindle accusation against Urandir and, consequently, his provisory
prison.
The property mentioned under
referred registration number belongs actually to the San Valentim Agricultural.
And even that the involved property belonged to Urandir, there is still the
fact of the largest seriousness, that certain requirements were never executed
and at least cogitated so that made the share of the area in subject. To
consummate a sales, there is a series of legal providence to be taken, among
the ones which the elaboration of a detailed map of the area to be shared and
sold, with all the available geographical information. Nothing of that was ever
made. According to some of his employees already discharged, Urandir nor knows
how many lands for sure were sold, for who and where it is. The purpose of that
disorganization is simple: there is not any interest in indeed sells or to populate
the area in subject, but just in raise easy money. The law says that, in if
being about rural area, would be necessary that Urandir obtained authorization
of the National Institute of Colonization and it Reforms Agrarian (Incra) to
make the division to be shared and sold, besides the cancellation of his
registration as rural area, to presents to the Registry of Registration of
Properties responsible. That was never made! Besides those providence, Urandir
should present an authorization of the Brazilian Institute of the Environment
(Ibama) for the accomplishment of the such division, by means of offer to the
organ called Report of Impact in the environment (RIMA), that should be joined
to the other documents. That was also never made, especially because, among
other misdemeanors, Urandir destroyed forests of the Bacia Hidrográfica of
Paraná, deforested his property above the allowed, made illegal dams and dry
rivers - acts that would be condemned immediately by the Ibama.
The lawyer Lütz Netto tried to
discourage Urandir of acting illegally, before to lose his patience and to take
the case to the authorities. "I was sought by the group of Urandir in
October of 1997 to guide them on the defense against an eventual faith healing
accusation and quackery, that didn't arrive consummating", said to the
Revista UFO. "Since then I attended several of his meetings of 'courses
and energy' and I got to go to the Projeto Portal, in May of 1999. When Urandir
begun the sell of the lands, in July of 1998, I sought him to notice for the
fact that such enterprise was totally strange to the law, and I alerted of his
total illegality". Lütz Netto got to offer his legal help gratuitously so
that he regularized his dreamed enterprise. But he did not care, what woke up
his suspicions. The result is that that the TV program called
"Fantástico" showed to the whole country on March 26. "I made
the proposal of helping in the juridical aspects for knowing that humble
people, that doesn't have health program, that doesn't have his own house, that
doesn't have social security nor a regular job, was buying such lands without
any warranty, without any valid documentation", laments Lütz Netto.
Urandir got to make appointments with the lawyer , where juridical providences
would be taken, doing with that Lütz Netto transferred professional commitments
to assist him. But simply, Urandir never allowed that any possible of the
professional help was give and Urandir continued selling illegally lands. That
characterizes sharply bad-faith. "I concluded that there was not interest
on behalf of Urandir and his employees in regularizing the enterprise, because
he is not proprietor of the property that he is sharing. The resources that he
is receiving for this are being applied in other purposes and the intention
showed is hurting poor buyers.
I was totally disappointed about
his intentions and I left the group, declaring to everybody my deception
", affirmed lawyer Lütz Netto, that took providences. Not without before
try, countless times, to solve the subject in a friendly way. Even so, Urandir
was not interested in this option. The lawyer was not the only one to get
disappointed with the intentions of the alleged contacted. Dozens of people
today seek his offices to ask his money back - most of which calmly. Other not
so much. "I already called countless times to Jurandir and to Urandir, and
none of them assists my phone calls. I want my money back and they that keep
his land", said Mrs. Doraci Alves Cunha, one of the deceived with the promise
of the City of ETs. Through the process against Urandir, however, the lawyer
hopes to recover all the customers' money back. "I have been sought by
several buyers to promote the nullity of the business accomplished ". Like
him, other professionals are representing several victims of Urandir, that
"dropped" in the most original blow than was created in the history
of world Ufology. When insisting with his secret shared and sell of lands,
Urandir was engaged in the Law 6.766, of 1979, that regulates the subject.
To disclose or to promote the
sale, sale promise or reserves of lands, before all the necessary providences
are taken, it is constituted in crime against the public administration and
against the popular economy. The penalties for who that incurs in such crime go
from the reclusion to the chain, from two to five years, with right shackle it
in the moment of the prison. And the law was executed, therefore Urandir was
taken of the hotel in what he was shackled by the policemen. The law still
considers as aggravating element for the application of the feather if there is
not area of lands registered on behalf of the sharer, what is exactly the case
of Urandir. The crime is also know as swindle, with employment of the
respective penalty, being considered as added difficulty that the sales were
made by means of exploration of popular faith. After all that, you can see the
big trouble in that Urandir is involved and his followers when the frustrated
buyers of his lands in the City of ETs move actions more and more weighed
against the gang that settled in Corguinho. Even having left the chain, his
life certainly won't be the same any more. Until then the Brazilian ufologists,
that have in his hands vast material confirming the illicit intentions of
Urandir Fernandes of Oliveira of obtain personal profits through the ufologic
pretext, acted inside of that is his role: to denounce such acts to the Nation.
Now, the competent authorities saw the problem and entered in the subject, to
guarantee to those that were stole by the alleged paranormal the immediate
replacement of his financial losses. The Brazilian UFO community, that looks
for an acceptance and recognition every larger of the object of his dedication
- that is the aliens' presence in our planet -, made his part in to point and
to prove the lies of Urandir. Now, the Justice and judicial power of the nation
will do his part.
PART III THE TESTEMONIES
A.J. Gevaerd, editor of the
magazine UFO created a page in the Internet with the intuit to help and assistant
the people who want to denounce the "thieves" that are using the
ufology to take money from simple people. Below we have some examples of people
that had courage of denouncing the largest thief that already appeared in the
world ufologia Who Crosses the Arms We have the habit, the Brazilian citizens,
of protesting, to chide and to kick about, only when is too late. We, the
Brazilian citizens, have the habit of crossing the arms, to silence, in the day
by day, that is, in the moment in that rulers and authorities adopt absurd
politics. For the which everybody will pay, in the future, the price. IMPUNITY:
I am referring in what is happening in Mato Grosso do Sul. Exactly in the
municipal district of Corguinho - Project Portal, maintained by Mr. Urandir
Fernandes de Oliveira. Local that, according the referred gentleman,
appearances of extraterrestrial ships happen, miracles, cures, contacts
extractions of (chips) that supposedly have been placed by ETs, inside of our
bodies! Lie! I was inside during one week of the supposition field of the
miracles. Lived lacks of everything: food, water to drink. The bathrooms
clogged to the point of dejections come out outside, invading the lodgings; the
food are prepared with loamy water that comes from a dam done by the Projeto
Portal. In this dam Mr. Urandir bath the people and asks to the skies so that
they are good and be treated of his evils. Always alerting that the cure will
only happen if the blessed has a lot of faith. If the person have a few of
faith the charm will not work, and he say that doesn't have anything with this,
but... if the miracle makes himself there he is sacred. Do I ask where are the
sanitary authorities of Mato Grosso do Sul? I think shameful that argues that
we should not intervene, will be that nobody remembers the tragedy of Guyana,
everybody forgot about Jim Jones? The Revista UFO magazine issue 54 exposed the
very well tricks already proven. What the authorities are waiting for? Here it
is going my alert one, Mr. Urandir is creating a true sect of fanatic.
From: Julieta Paraíso State: São
Paulo (SP) Project Portal and Brazilian Jim Jones In the holiday of 12th
October, 1999, I went to Corguinho, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, to
accompany my daughter in the such close encounters that some say to happen for
there. We spent R$ 400,00 per person to be in a precarious camp, and what we
only witnessed was a show of lights, with laser canyons, accomplished by
Urandir and its followers. Flying disks nor in a dream. The "fools"
followers, in ecstasy, screamed while his monitors - all very paid, it is
obvious, - motivated such delirium. Jim Jones-Urandir promises to build, in
February of the year 2.000, a flying disk and to evacuate from the Earth 1.500
people, in a ridiculous attitude that we everybody knows, it is utopian.
Urandir goes for a walk with young ladies, doing who knows. The Ministry of
Finance has to visit the municipal district of Corguinho, because there is a
mine of make money. I warn, besides, the competent authorities on crime against
the popular economy and quackery on the part of that gentleman, in the intuit
of combating a sect as the one of Jim Jones, that took, years ago, 900 people
to the suicide. Mr. Urandir abuses of lacking and ignorant people, and in his
lectures in São Paulo, he collects R$ 60,00 of each one in sessions of pure
foolish. His place is in the chain! His contacts are false and I could check!
From: Fernando Gonçalves of Silva
Rua Mônaco 528 Park of the Nations 09220-080 Sacred André - SP I was Deceived
My name is Daniela S., I am 28 years old and I am a teacher in Rio de Janeiro.
Two years ago I have accompanied the works of Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira and
not always agreed with all his said ¨instructions¨, but after 4 days of
conviviality with ¨Projeto Portal¨, I was sure that everything is a great fake!
I don't know anything, I cannot prove anything, but my intuition accompanied of
a good reflection of the facts that there happened, didn't leave doubts of that
charlatan. I'm rebelled. And stiller because I notice that let myself to
believe in that allegations for so much time. And I have friends, that myself
presented to Urandir that are completely involved. I can not believe that
Urandir has the courage of being so liar, not only for using lights probably
false, but for allowing that create such sect around him. I don't know if I can
help in some way, but I know about your worry to alerting the people about the
fact and if I could help you in someway, please enter in contact with me my
house telephone it is (*) 523-27 * *From: Daniela S. State: Rio de Janeiro (RJ)
PART IV - THE CHALLENGE
In January 1998, in the edition 56
of the Revista UFO magazine, A.J. Gevaerd made a public challenge to Mr.
Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira. But as always he ran away. Know the terms of the
challenge made by the ufologist A. J. Gevaerd to the alleged paranormal Urandir
Fernandes de Oliveira, registered in the 4° Registry of Registration of Titles
and Documents of Campo Grande, on February 08, 2.000.
1. The alleged paranormal Urandir
Fernandes de Oliveira, founder and leader of the Projeto Portal, in his
countless presentations in TV programs of several television nets, and through
his hundreds of courses and lectures by the whole Brazil, has been making the
most hallucinating and groundless statements. He guarantees that is capable to
communicate with aliens any time he wants. He affirms to be carrier of special
talents, gave to him by the aliens, that allow to do his miraculous cures,
besides of cancer and AIDS. He says that already made countless trips the other
planets on board UFOs and that can repeat them when he wants. He affirms
although he is able to speak in extraterrestrial languages and says that was
chosen by them, to who he calls friends, to develop in the Earth a plan of
planetary evacuation.
2. Revista UFO's editor, Ademar
José Gevaerd, affirms that Urandir lacks completely with the truth in his
statements of UFO stamp and that all the things that he has been speaking
openly in the TV, in his courses or lectures, are absolutely imaginative and
groundless. Gevaerd guarantees that Urandir is completely unable of having any
contact with ETs and that there really is any sign of true when he affirms that
traveled the other planets. In March of 1997, with a team of the Educational TV
of Campo Grande and another people, the ufologist Gevaerd taped Urandir using
tricks produced with laser pens, influencing the presents and taking them to
believe that were legitimate UFO phenomenons. In many other occasions, the tricks
have been repeated in the Projeto Portal's headquarters, in Corguinho, where
Urandir affirms to do his contacts with ETs, which don't have until the moment
any confirmation.
3. So, to not be the words of one
against the another, the ufologist Gevaerd is throwing a public challenge to
the alleged paranormal Urandir. This gentleman is being challenged openly to
show if he is really able to have contacts with aliens, of talking with them
and of traveling in their ships. Urandir is invited to choose three dates that
better they suit it, in places that he designate and under the conditions that
he determine, to do three contact attempts with his supposed
"extraterrestrial " friends. In those three attempts, all of them
controlled by own Urandir in his taste and designs, the Revista UFO will
accompany the contacted works of the mentioned and will make the adapted
documentation of all the eventual phenomenons that happen. Urandir should be
able to show his abilities of contactee, really making to appear an extraterrestrial
ship or similar thing.
4. To the ufologist Gevaerd will
fit the accompaniment of the facts, in the places and dates marked by Urandir,
to evaluate without interference of what will happen. Such analyses will be
made by the own and for specialists invited by the Revista UFO, among experts
in Brazilian UFO Community and foreigner, that can be accompanied by the guests
of Urandir, without interference. The only condition imposed by the ufologist
Gevaerd to Urandir is that he can take to each one of the three attempts that
will be done, as his guests, members of the local and national Press, members
of entities linked with the consumer rights and several police powers.
5. Revista UFO's editor sustains
openly that doubts of your such mentioned experiences of Urandir, that don't
pass of invention or production made with the purpose of extracting material
benefits. And guarantees that anything, absolutely nothing, will happen in the
opportunities that he will have to demonstrate the opposite, in case he comes
to accept the invitation. But, in compensation, it also sustains that, is
something comes to happen, that evidences the powers extrasensory of Urandir
and his capacities to contact with aliens, will recognize openly that referred
gentleman is a person with special talents that has true relationship with non
terrestrial civilizations. Finally, in the case of that hypothesis to come
confirming, the ufologist promises openly to come to insist in the
popularization of the phenomenons of Urandir and in the recognition of his
legitimacy.
6. This public challenge is the
chance that the alleged paranormal will have to prove that his allegations are
true. It is the chance that the truth is reestablished. So, it will be properly
registered at registry, in the district of Campo Grande, so that his legal
validity be recognized. Campo Grande, February 03rd , 2.000 Ademar José
Gevaerd,
THIAGO LUIZ TICCHETTI President of
Brazilian Organization for Extraterrestrial Research (EBE-ET)
http://www.ebe-et.com.br
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ISTOÉ online newsarticle - Nº 1583
- 02/02/2000
http://www.zaz.com.br/istoe/1583/brasil/1583ets.htm
(in English)
The Ets de Urandir
Guru boasts to receive dons extraterrestrial,
also attracts multitudes but the fury of the ufologistas Urandir Fernandes de
Oliveira is a phenomenon. Since the 13 years it has contact with
extraterrestrial beings, especially with the ones of the Venus planet. They are
figures with 20% of substance and 80% of energy, that if move in golden ships.
From them, Urandir received dons diverse, to start for the one of the cure. It
also received the mission to prepare the humanity to follow changes in the
Land, that is evolving of third for the fourth dimension, either there what
this means. Urandir still has access to the cosmic archives of the human
beings. In a cave of its farm, the Project Vestibule, in the city of Corguinho
(MS), intraterrenos beings keep these archives have six a thousand years more
than. But the registers alone could be had access up to 25 of March of 1999.
Who lost the stated period, can be candidatar to a vacant in the spaceships
that will be ordered, in opportune occasion, for a mysterious Cosmic Advice. To
the 36 years, Urandir says to enter 76 a thousand followers and power to
convoke ETs with the same easiness with that it shows luminescence in the
hands. By the way, on its farm spaceships they costumam to pour small flying
record rejoinders. Although it boasts as many powers, Urandir does not resist,
however, the questionings. To liberate the entrance to the Project Vestibule
and being interviewed for ISTOÉ, it it placed as condition not to receive
critical. "It has that to have document signed for the direction of the
magazine, giving guarantees", demanded, disclosing total unfamiliarity on
ethics. "Only specialized they understand my work." The ufologia, the
president of the Brazilian Center of Flying Record Research has more than 20
years dedicating itself it, Ademar Jose Gevaerd, guarantees that the owner of
the Vestibule ufólogo nor is not contacted by ETs. "Urandir is, in the
truth, a policy case. It deceives the people to the cost of coarse tricks, as
to spread its men for the weeds, to the night, with lighthouses of mile. When
it supposedly calls flying records, the focos of light appears and the people
are embasbacadas ", count to Gevaerd, reproducing the mechanism.
ALAN RODRIGUES Gevaerd shows as
the lights appear of the supposed ships Ahead of a group of 500 people, Gevaerd
tried has two years to demonstrate that one of the lights shown for Urandir was
a simple torch of penxs the laser, similar to the model that proper it led to
the farm. "the multitude was infuriated. I and my friends we leave lapidated,
xingados there the Satan ", remembers. Thus that she knew of the existence
of Urandir, the stewardess Julieta pensioner of Paradise, that deferred payment
in São Paulo, integrated another group of 500 visitors to the Vestibule. There,
one strong resistance of its fellow travellers in commenting used details
noticed as the sumiço of during the avistamentos of the spaceships. "the
fanatism is so strong that I fear that happens a tragedy as of the Heaven's
Gate", Julieta says, mentioning itself it the collective suicide
occurrence has two years, in San Diego, in California, for 39 people who
believed to be embarking in the tail of the Hale-Bopp comet. "the region
where if it locates the Vestibule is, in itself, mística. Urandir did not need
to use tricks to invoice." Julieta still keeps one pedrinha that Urandir
guarantees to have removed of its forehead as if chip was extirpando one placed
by ETs. "Everything is made in one cômodo dark, in exactly where it
presents itself with the fosforecentes hands", he says. The ones are not
few that certify that the luminosity is resulted of products to the match base.
"She is chemical pure. Urandir has a paranormalidade, obtains to warp
currencies and yokes. But it uses tricks of all type ", declares Rubem
Godoy Indian. Known as Indian, in the 1994 end, it released the public job, in
the National Foundation of Health, to act as right arm of Urandir in the
implantation of the project, of which if he disconnect four years later.
"we are not enemy, but it would not come back to work toward it. This
history of cure is joke. All time that its children adoecem, it runs for the
doctor ", tells. Lots
[Those mysterious rocks?]
The rocks that Urandir presents as
sent for extraterrestrial are common in the immediacy of the mountain range of
Maracaju, whose more visible mount is of Is Sebastião, neighbor to the
Vestibule. "Even so they have sufficiently exotic format, these rocks have
a natural geologic origin. They are sandstone rocks with high degree of iron
", affirms the archaeologist Gilson Martins, of the Federal University of
the Mato Grosso of the Living South of a colony of the region, Olgarinda
Caetano Da Silva gains the life vendendo pedrinhas for tourist. "Before,
it catava for the Urandir, that bought baratinho. Everybody catava. Of times
for here, it stopped to buy ", clarifies Olgarinda.
ANDRES SARMENTO Elaine:
"Everything has price there" The rocks, that of fact remember the
format of a flying record, are spread by all the Country. They are led by
people who, after to pass for preparatory courses, rescue to the Vestibule.
These visitors are arregimentados by followers of Urandir, that today keeps
nuclei of its project in Belo Horizonte (MG), Curitiba (PR), Jaraguá of Sul
(SC), Porto Alegre (RS), Rio De Janeiro (RIO DE JANEIRO), São Paulo (SP),
Victory (ES) and Natal (RN). "Everything has price. When it uses its
tricks, Urandir alone thinks about pulling out money of the people ",
affirms secretary Elaine Sabaliauskas, former-namorada of guru. "Now it is
dividing land into parcels an agricultural area and vendendo lands of 800
square meters, but the purchasers do not turn nor the color the writing. As it
always is surrounded by its men, he does not give to question. The reaction of
it to any signal of diffidence is threat in threat top ", accuses Elaine.
Irritated with the infrastructure lack in the Project Vestibule, the
psychologist Maria Ines Ribeiro Bueno intended to register complaint against
Urandir in the Court of Small Causes, in São Paulo, where she had bought the
package of four days, for R$ 350. She did not obtain, however, no voucher of
payment. "I, that already I have health problems, came back worse of the
one than I was, therefore I slept in the soil and I ate badly. He did not have
nor water to take bath ", complains Maria Ines. To that they criticize the
lodging conditions, Urandir explains that the difficulties are party to suit to
arrive themselves at the light, as it tells to Cid lawyer Oak, of Rio De
Janeiro. In the 1994 end, it looked Urandir in the hope to cure the psychic
problems of a son, today with 39 years. In the occasion, the lawyer also
submitted itself to a treatment against a cancer in panturrilha. "Urandir
places a cloud in the eyes of the person. I cured myself because I made 60
sessions of chemotherapy, but finished making a series of depositions as if it
had saved me. My son continues with the same problems ", affirms Oak. I
pan One of the biggest concerns of the lawyer is that it indicated 320 people
for the Project Vestibule. "My damage was financial and moral. I lost much
money with the Urandir, but worse it is that my certifications had influenced
many people ", says.
One of the first ones to perceive
the occult resources of Urandir, Gevaerd, that edits magazine UFO, believes
that Urandir is constructing a richness thanks to the good-faith of its adepts.
"I esteem that its patrimony is of R$ 10 million", affirms. "the
problem is that until the life trajectory that counts it was copied of another
person." He sends this page for a friend When Urandir arrived at the
region, come of the São Paulo interior, looked Lúcio Barbosa, owner of the
Small farm Angels of Light, also in Corguinho. "It for more than camped in
my house one year. He was a little paranormal, warped things. He made one I pan
in my property, but he did not extract nothing. To the few, I counted that it
had contact with extraterrestrial, that the region was mística. It had the idea
to use the lights. I moved away myself, therefore my work does not involve
money ", standes out Barbosa. It more enters the known ufólogos of the
Country, Urandir also does not count on good reputation. "It achincalha
with the Brazilian ufologia", complains Claudeir Covo, president of the
National Institute of Inquiries of Aerospace Phenomena.
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Zero Hora newspaper
Paulistan is arrested with the
charges of selling land for a city for ETs Monday 27, March 2000, 10h50min
Paulistan Urandir Fernandes de
Oliveira, also known as UFO, will be indicted charched with fraud and ideological
falseness.
He was arrested last Sunday in
Porto Alegre, charged of selling illegal lots in the town of Corguinho, in Mato
Grosso do Sul, where he had plans to build a city to receive extraterrestrial.
Urandir is in jail at 17º Civil Police Sation in the "gaucho"
capital.. Three hours and a half after being arrested by the police, Oliveira
talked to Zero Hora newspaper in the Marshal Jorge Mafra's office, at 17ª DP.
He confirmed the sale of land in the town of ETs, and assured that the project
is serious and that he has been acting legally. Here are the main excerpts of
his interview:
Zero Hora Do you admit your
accusations?
Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira I
am not worried about it. All I am doing is legal. I do not promise cure to no one,
only teach auto-aid in the manipulation of the mind.
ZH What is Portal Project?
Oliveira A place where people
have parasicological experiences, ecological and ufological. There are 490
hectares (of land), and my intent is to by 1,5 thousand to form a comunity
where I will raise cattle and fish. Associates will pay R$ 1,4 thousand (in
todays exchange rate is about US$ 390) for this. I represent the project, I am
the president.
ZH Only who pays can take part
in the project?
Oliveira Those who won't have
resources to buy shares will receive a donation. Even those unemployed will
live there.
ZH What is there in the area?
Oliveira There's nothins as yet,
we are gathering money.
ZH From who did you buy the
land?
Oliveira The land are in the name
of Zeferino Bingolin, local resindent in Campo Grande. I have a buy and sell
contract and I only have to pay tha last mortgage to own the land. Participants
know about it. A surveyor is measuring the land and so far we are also getting
a license from IBAMA. The project was officially recognized (recognized firm)
there are six months in Campo Grande (notary's office).
ZH Do you know the author of the
denunciation?
Oliveira I met him there are
eight months. He was watching one of my seminars and influenced other people
against me, but they did not look for me. He said that my contract was wrong
and made another one. I believed his words because I needed to get the
burocratic part done, but he did something eles, he denounced me.
ZH What is your walth?
Oliveira I have a Ranger, that I
am paying the mortgage, a lot in Sao Paulo and a pickup Veraneio to transport
visitors. I have 81 cattle, which belong to the participants.
ZH Is the cattle yours?
Oliveira It belongs to everyone.
When sold, they will receive their part.
ZH What do you do for a living?
Oliveira I have been working by
myself there are four years, giving lectures. I used to work in the building
industry and I also have a publishing company whis now is inoperative in the
tonw of Presidente Wenceslau (SP).
ZH Did the people who bought
shares visited your project?
Oliveira Some visited, I have
photos and videos of them over there.
ZH Did they pay for the trip?
Oliveira They payed for the
tickes and food. A day costs R$ 40 (about U$ 11) per visitor and R$ 20 (about
U$ 5.5) for associates (members).
ZH How much did you seel so far?
Oliveira We sold about 6
thousand shares of the 490 hectares. Each person bought as much as they wanted.
ZH What are your lectures about?
Oliveira About mental evolution,
aprenticeship in the maniputaltion of energy and self control.
ZH Do people pay to watch them?
Oliveira I charge R$ 50 (about
US$ 14), but half of the people do not pay because they can't afford it. Thirty
percent of the public pay R$ 10 (about US$ 3). Very few people pays the total
amount.
ZH Are shares sold during the
lectures?
Oliveira Yes, yesterday
(Saturday) I sold two for R$ 1,4 thousand (about US$ 390).
ZH Did you ever had trouble with
the police?
Oliveira No. Once I was arrested
because of a domestic fight with my ex-wife with another woman, but there was
nothing.
ZH How do you explain the story
of the lights in your hands?
Oliveira Since I was a kid I am
a paranormal. I bent objects, but this anyone with training can do. It is only
that when I was 13 a purple light beamed me up and two people put a microchip
in my neck. That helped me with the manipulation of the energy.
ZH Who were those people?
Oliveira They were
extraterrestrials. They are just like us.
Agência RBS/Zero Hora
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AN OPEN LETTER TO LINDA MOULTON
HOWE
by Brazilian UFO Community
The brazilian UFO community is
completely shocked with your behavior in a particular case involving the
greatest UFO hoaxer of all times in Brazil. And we fell compelled to share this
feeling with other people in the USA and the world. We are totally disappointed
with the lack in your impartiality and professionalism. We are very sorry that
you decided to ignore the truth and analyze the real facts about this. Instead
of that, you decided to entirely support an obvious fake that everybody in
Brazil knows so very well. We do wonder what motivates you to do it and certainly
it has to be a very strong reason that we prefer don¹t think about. We are
amazed to know that you came to Brazil a few weeks ago, to hear what we have to
say about this particular case and to see what we have to show about it. You
simply decided to listen to a well-known hoaxer, whose trajectory in Ufology is
completely rejected by the entire media and serious UFO researchers of all ages
in Brazil, instead of listening to the truth. You decided to instantly support
a fake, a repulsive scam that shames Brazilian UFO Community, instead of
listening to any one. Of course, it is your choice who you should listen or
not. Especially if you have an invitation from the interested party (along with
tickets and probably expenses) to go to a foreign country to listen to he/she.
But it was an enormous lack of responsibility not to listen to people who have
been observing, documenting and investigating such a case. If you haven¹t been
advised about it before, or if you haven¹t been informed of the problems with this
particular case earlier, that would be a different story. But you have. The
case is not what you think and I am impressed to see how easily you¹ve been
deceived with bogus information, as well as we are amazed to see that your
skills in detecting frauds have lowered to a such degree. At least as an
obligation that comes with the duty invested in the UFO research, you should
consider all the available information about the case. You did not. Well, we
are very sorry for that and we hope that some day, not to late, when you decide
to check out the evidences that you are solemnly ignoring, you will realize the
damage that you are causing. UFO researchers have been targets of hundreds of
accusations that we fail in objectivity and in applying proper methods of research.
Well, we, the Brazilian UFO researchers, as an amalgamated coalition, working
relentlessly for the truth, have with much effort and difficulties prevented
thousand of more people to be fooled by the man whose story you so
enthusiastically support and promote in your website. Our work in this country
is done. I hope someone does the same in the USA.
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To the International UFO
Community:
Very important December 13, 2002
Please be informed that the story
of a man abducted in Brazil, with dramatic photos of the scenario, is a
campaign to promote overseas the biggest UFO hoaxer of all times in Brazil,
Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira, who has actually created a sect of fanatics
around him, composed of people who blindly believe in his alleged ET contacts
and healing powers, none of them ever confirmed by anyone. The man has been
repeatedly exposed as hoaxer by dozens of UFO researcher and many people even
from his sect, after "waking up to reality", have come forward to
describe Urandir´s tricks and scheme. His last great attempt to go public in
Brazil and overseas happened last year, when he invented the story (easily
exposed) that a UFO had crashed at his friend¹s farm. It was only another of
his hoaxes, perpetrated to attract people to his activities, to which they are
invited to join if they pay a considerable amount of money. His history is all
fake and the man is fastly becoming a millionaire with his obscure agenda, supported
by thousands of fanatics. Urandir is largely rejected by 99% of the Brazilian
UFO Community, who perfectly knows that he is nothing but a hoaxer. This story
is NOT to be taken seriously, as no responsible UFO researcher has been allowed
to scrutinize the scenario and the alleged case. Urandir has been interviewed
by Jeff Rense on Thursday night, December 12, assisted by his fellow Felipe
Castelo Branco. This has taken serious people in the USA and all over the world
to believe in the story invented by Urandir. The damage can be much bigger than
one can think. In Brazil, responsible UFO researchers and large media stream
have succeeded in debunking him at a considerable level. We have succeeded in
preventing that thousands of Brazilians being cheated by Urandir and now he is
trying the USA and other countries to establish his sect. Serious UFO
researchers all over the world cannot let it happen. The man is as fake as a
3-dollar bill. He spent time in jail for selling property that doesn¹t belong
to him.
A. J. Gevaerd, gevaerd@ufo.com.br
Editor, Brazilian UFO Magazine.
National Director, Mutual UFO
Network. Director, International UFO Congress
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SUFOPG - Open Letter to UFO
Community - Brazilian UFO Cult
6/5/03
Dear UFO Community,
No emmys for Linda.
We are appalled at the
irresponsible reports related by Linda Moulton Howe and
the media coverage supporting
these reports which only stand to support a
known UFO Brazilian cult. Our
purpose in this open letter is to report the truth
that is not being told and we have
posted our report and photos which
prove the Brazilian case is a hoax
and unfortunately worse.
We have been informed of the real
story having given an open fair platform
to an International Editor and
UFOlogist from Brazil - A.J. Gevaerd,
an expert in this area. The real
story is the well documented fraud
and abuse of Urandir Olivera¹s UFO
cult ³Project Portal² (of which
have yet to be mentioned in any of
Linda Howe¹s reports). While Linda
is misleading the public by
continually burying her eyeball in bedsheet
analysis with exaggerated testicle
impressions and attempting to garner
support with numerous analysis by
scientists, she is disregarding the
truth and doing nothing for the
public¹s best interest. Linda¹s furthering
speculation and double talk on the
analysis of polyester fibers -fibers
which can be affected by any
number of solvents sidesteps the real
issues of this Brazilian UFO cult.
It should be noted that photos of
the
bedsheet have already shown the
alleged abduction to be a hoax as
the impressions have changed in
subsequent photos. A huge ³clue²
of hoaxing that any responsible investigator
would have noticed.
It would be different if Linda had
not confirmed with
me that she was invited by Urandir
and his business supporters at their
expense to go to Brazil. Sorry but
the UFOlogists in Brazil and myself
have a problem with paid
investigators as it compromises objectivity as well as ethics.
Linda as a Journalist should know
this very well.
It would be different if Linda
Howe had not confirmed with me she
was informed of the background of
Urandir through A.J. Gevaerd
in December of 2002 or was never
at [Urandir¹s] multi million dollar
compound in Brazil for two weeks,
but the sad facts are she was
fully aware and still she has not
reported. Why?
It would be different if Linda had
not censored Brazilian¹s UFOlogist
A.J. Gevaerd¹s comments from her
first report. It would be different
if this was just a hoaxer with
neighbors throwing rocks in the air or
claiming to have an alien in his
freezer but its not. This is much
more serious. This involves
supporting a known UFO cult with
hundreds of people that Brazil¹s
own numerous UFOlogists have
declared a fraud based on numerous
reports from people who
have left the compound.
Have we forgotten the lessons of
Jim Jones in 1978 or
Heaven¹s Gate of which only happened
five short years ago?
Does consumer fraud take second
position to sensationalistic speculation?
Every person and organization
stands on their own merit and misleading
reports supporting an abusive UFO
cult is heinous and yes we are finding
this cult has the same earmarks
and template as the Jim Jones cult.
Everything from the bilking of
hundreds of thousands of dollars from
believers to reports of abuse,
reports of unsanitary conditions and reported death threats.
Please re-read the history of
Jonestown and compare similarities between these two cults
and isolated compounds. We found
that indeed, yes, the locals were not exaggerating when
they say Urandir is another Jim
Jones. In November 18, 1978 - 912 followers of American
cult leader Jim Jones
"Peoples Temple" died in a remote South American jungle
compound called
"Jonestown" in British Guyana. (a group not unlike Urandir¹s ³Good
Luck Colony ²).
Of those dead in Jonestown, 280 of
those dead were children. Jonestown Sect members had been secretly handing
notes to visiting Congressman Leo
Ryan wanting to leave before they were gunned down.
It was believed many people felt
oppressed and couldn¹t say anything for fear.
Yes, A.J. Gevaerd living in the
same town himself has received many of the same
comments from people who have left
the ³Project Portal² compound. His file is thick.
It would be different if there
were not still people there at compound including children.
It would be different if Linda
showed the numerous building of Urandir¹s multi million
dollar compound and not the
photograph off the corner of porch overlooking the
lands of this ³humble farmer². Her
report claims does organic framing.
The photos misleading? Yes, I
would say very much so.
It would be different if Linda
interviewed and acknowledged A.J. Gevaerd¹s concerns
as a person who knows more about
UFOlogy and Urandir living in the same town
than any other person in Brazil.
But she hasn¹t.
It would be different if Linda interviewed
the mother of the boy Afonso C. N. with
leukemia who came there for
treatment of faith healing and left the compound
worse off and his family bilked of
$11,000 - but she hasn¹t.
It would be different if Linda
interviewed Urandir's former lawyer Lutz Netto who left the compound
and felt he was scammed - but she
hasn¹t.
It would be different if Linda
ever confirmed Urandir¹s arrest over beating his wife. Saint? Hardly. Linda
hasn¹t.
[Note: Urandir Oliveira confirmed
himself his additional arrest with Zero Hora Newspaper.
".....ZH: Did you ever had
trouble with the police?
Oliveira: No. Once I was arrested
because of a domestic fight
with my ex-wife with another
woman, but there was nothing."....
- Zero Hora Newspaper, March 27,
2000]
It would be different if Linda
ever confirmed Urandir's arrest of four days for fraud that has been
additionally
documented by local journalists -
but she hasn¹t.
It would be different if Linda
ever Interviewed Fernando Goncalves da Silva who was defrauded by Urandir and
calls him another Jim Jones? Linda hasn¹t.
It would be different if Linda
ever interviewed Daniela S. - a teacher who feels she was defrauded? - but
Linda hasn¹t.
It would be different if Linda had
not confirmed with me she had only interviewed those arriving and leaving the
UFO compound and those person¹s brought to her through one translator - a
business partner. How convenient.
Yeh, it would be different if
Linda had... but she hasn¹t - and she continues in spite of knowing for over
five months
and in spite of the facts.
We all know if Linda Howe was with
any responsible media or newspaper she would have been fired for violating
journalistic ethics. But is Linda held to any responsibility or is this entertainment
at consumer¹s expense?
Frankly, neglecting to report the
abuse from people who have left this UFO sect is beyond despicable.
The picture is a little bit larger
here than just a tif between investigators or International politics as
Linda has used as an excuse for
not even listening to any of the Brazilian UFOlogists or their reports.
They condemn and charge her for
conducting the worst form of Journalism and having looked into this
case I have to agree two fold
having confirmed the information myself. Objectivity and fair reporting
have been disregarded over ego and
its to the detriment of every person who was ever scammed by Urandir or who may
be scammed in the future because of Linda¹s supportive reports. Serious
questions have to be asked:
Why is media not fairly presenting
AJ Gevaerd¹s information? AJ is a National MUFON Director of Brazil and Linda
claims to be an independent reporter? Perhaps because Linda is listed as a
³Technical Advisor to media² with MUFON. Translation? Paid sensationalistic
media promoter.
MUFON presenting Linda Howe? All I
can say is how awful for the MUFON organization and its President to outright
ignore its letters of concern which they have acknowledged they have received
from their very own National Director and to turn its back on a formal
complaint on such a serious matter and not give a fair platform. Aiding and
abetting fraud isn't funny and its a disservice to the public but then again I
shouldn¹t be surprised when people like this work hand in hand.
They deserve each other.
No emmys for Linda and no more Jim
Jones or Heaven¹s Gate - not on my shift.
Charlette LeFevre
President Seattle UFO/Paranormal
Group
6/5/03
Please note the Seattle Group
already believes in the possibility of Extraterrestrial life and abductions and
supports awareness in a responsible manner.
The Seattle UFO/Paranormal Group
is a real people lecture adventure group furthering education, research and
history of UFOs, the paranormal, ancient civilizations and alternate explanations
of reality highlighting the Pacific Northwest.
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Brazilian Abduction Hoax? Not Yet:
There is One (and only one)
Bedsheet
by Richard M. Dolan
September 7, 2003
I read with great interest the
article by MUFON Journal Editor Dwight Connelly regarding the Urandir abduction
case. This of course concerns the alleged abduction of one Urandir Oliveira, a
Brazilian man, from his home amid circumstances that are, to put it mildly,
very bizarre. Connelly agreed with the many vocal detractors of this case and
declared it to be a hoax.
Now, I’ve been following this case
all along, at least since Linda Moulton Howe began investigating it in early
2003. I have followed the attacks against the case, in particular those by
Brazilian UFO researcher A. J. Gevaerd and Seattle UFO researcher Charlotte
LeFevre. I also watched (with dismay) how many UFO researchers increasingly
focused their attacks on Linda Howe personally.
However, it was while reading
Connelly’s article that I decided to review what I knew of the case. I’m glad I
did, because in so doing I have discovered without question that the main
argument and evidence used to argue this case is a hoax is itself ... wrong.
I refer to the claim that two
bedsheets were used by Urandir. Since Urandir and his supporters have made the
unusual claim that the abduction caused burn marks on the bedsheet, the
existence of two bedsheets would be proof of a hoax. LeFevre made this point
very clearly, after she claimed to have done careful photographic analysis of a
picture taken in September 2002 by Urandir’s friend Felipe Branco, and then
compared it to a photo taken by Linda Howe when she visited Urandir’s farm five
months later in February 2003.
On the website of the Seattle
UFO/Paranormal Group (of which LeFevre is President), both images are shown
side by side.
These images can also be seen at
the Seattle Club website at http://www.seattlechatclub.org/urandir.html
Connelly referred to these images
in his article. As presented on the website, it does indeed seem obvious these
are two different sheets. In the first place, in Branco’s picture (left), the
distance between the legs is much narrower than in Howe’s photo. Secondly, the
amount of burning is drastically different. Whereas in Branco’s photo, the
burning may have been severe, in Howe’s photo the bedsheet is so badly burned
that there are huge holes in it. Additionally, while the bedsheet in Howe’s
photo shows a distinctive blue and white pattern, the bedsheet in Branco’s
picture looks like a basic white bedsheet.
While there are other reasons
people have doubted the Urandir case, it is the bedsheet analysis which has
been the foundation for the hoax argument. And if one were to restrict one’s
analysis to LeFevre’s article, "hoax" would be the easiest and most
logical conclusion to make.
Except that the claim is wrong,
since those two photos are of the same bedsheet.
In the first place, the images on
the Seattle UFO/Paranormal Group website are small, of low resolution, and
(most importantly) tightly cropped so as to show only the burn images
themselves.
The result is deceptive.
Fortunately, Jeff Rense’s website displayed the entire, higher-resolution image
that Branco took. When you study the picture, several things become apparent.
First, you can see that the angle toward the bed is much sharper than the angle
taken by Linda Howe. That is, she took her image from the foot of the bed,
while Felipe was off to the side. This is why the burn marks of the legs look
much closer together in his picture.
[The full photograph taken by
Felipe Branco in September 2002.]
[Linda Howe's photograph from
February 2003]
To repeat. The only reason the
burn images in Branco’s photo look closer together is because he took the photo
at an angle to the bed, while Linda Howe did not.
However, even after accounting for
the difference in position, the two burn images still look different, don’t
they? After all, one has been burned fully through, while the other has not.
But a careful study of the two
images resolves this issue. You will notice that the areas where the sheet
burned all the way through in Howe’s photo corresponds exactly with the most
deeply burned areas in Branco’s photo. Yes, the perspective and angle are
different, which makes it a bit challenging. The lighting also is not the same.
But the burn pattern is the same.
The only difference is that Howe’s photo, taken five months after Branco’s, shows
that the bedsheet suffered degradation, and that this degradation occurred in
the most severely burned areas.
I am not a photo analyst by trade,
but I can tell what I’m seeing. These photos are of the same bedsheet. Of
course, this has been Linda Howe’s contention all along. However, many
researchers ignored her claim because she did not address why the burn patterns
looked so different. Instead, she only discussed how, depending on the lighting
of the photo, the bedsheet might show a printed pattern, and at other times
look white. While this explanation is convincing, it was incomplete.
(As an aside, LeFevre and Connelly
also mentioned the fact that there are two pillows. I don’t see how this is a
problem, when after all Linda Howe has agreed with them that there were two
pillows in Urandir’s bedroom. How is having matching pillows in your bedroom a
reason to claim hoax? Further, Howe’s photos in Corguinho have always shown the
front scorched pillow propped up in front of the back pillow.)
Now, anyone can make a mistake,
and photographs can be mistakenly analyzed. Until the machines take over (give
them about twenty years or so), we shall simply have to live with the fact that
our ability to study certain matters will be fallible. We are, after all, only
human.
But when I reflect on how
Charlotte LeFevre’s photographic analysis has been considered to be so
important to this case, and when I see how these two images are presented on
her website, I must admit that I have serious concerns. Essentially, I have a
hard time seeing how this can be an honest mistake.
After studying the two images side
by side, it’s just not that difficult to see that this is the same bedsheet. In
fact, it is obvious that they are the same. Charlotte LeFevre had access to the
original photo by Branco, and she cropped it in precisely the way that made the
burn pattern look most different from the burn pattern in Howe’s photo.
On the Seattle UFO/Paranormal
Group website, and in Connelly’s article, much was made of LeFevre’s Bachelor’s
degree in Research (what kind of research was not clear), and of her membership
in the Ohio Academy of Science. How, then, could she have missed the obviously
identical nature of the two burn patterns, and why would she display them in
the way that she did?
The bedsheet is the single most
important piece of evidence in this case. Linda Howe has taken it to several
labs for analysis. The results of these analyses are themselves under dispute.
One scientist, Phyliss Budinger, has made a case that the sheet does not show
anomalistic features, while other scientists, biophysicist W. C. Levingood and
textile expert Herbert Barndt, have said there are features of the burning
pattern that are not conventionally explainable.
Thus, one can still argue as to
whether or not the body image could have been made by a blowtorch, as Budinger
believes, or could not have been, as Barndt maintains. But if there is a hoax
involved in this case, it is not because two bedsheets were used. There was
one, and only one, bedsheet.
An outsider could easily speculate
that some of Urandir's detractors have been less than honest. I do not know
Charlotte LeFevre. What I think she ought to do, however, is to tell the rest
of us just how it came to pass that she made such a mistake in her analysis. I
also think that Dwight Connelly should do the same, considering that he wrote
his analysis as a representative of MUFON itself.
At best, LeFevre and Connelly have
shown very sloppy work. Readers can surmise their own "at worst"
scenario.
There have been several Brazilians
who have made statements against Urandir’s character and his propensity for
showmanship over the years. Perhaps what they say is true, perhaps not: none of
the American UFO researchers really know who these people are. Moreover, other
than Linda Howe herself, none of the other interested parties has recently been
to Urandir’s farm. Doesn’t it seem like a good idea for some independent
researchers to go there and see what kind of operation Urandir is running?
Until this is done, I think that definitive claims about Urandir ought to be
suspended.
I don’t know if this case
signifies a real abduction. I don’t know if Urandir’s claims about
communicating with aliens is true. I don’t know if he faked the whole thing. I
don’t know if he’s a cult leader, as some allege. Heck, I don’t know if the
Yankees will get decent pitching next season, nor can I predict the mood of my
five-year old daughter at any given time. But in the absence of knowledge, we
must not condemn. We must continue to ask questions, to gather data, to
analyze.
One thing to me is obvious. If you
are going to claim this case is a hoax, you can no longer claim there are two
bedsheets, and you must find a definitive reason somewhere else. Although there
are some good reasons why an outsider to this case should remain skeptical,
neither LeFevre, nor Connelly, nor anyone else has provided a smoking gun. The
bedsheet was supposed to be that smoking gun, but is not.
Anyone who has done the slightest
bit of UFO research should have come to the realization that this field is far
more bizarre than they originally thought. It can only be thus in the study of
a phenomena that originates from an intelligence superior to our known. Study
of UFOs, and of the alien intelligence behind them, is a mind stretching, and
mind bending experience. It shatters our old, tired, preconceptions about our
history, about our current society, and indeed about the nature of reality
itself.
It is therefore of the utmost
importance to be diligent, thorough, and above all honest in how we research
and present what evidence we acquire. If we fail in this most basic task, how
are we to comprehend what’s what in this smoke-filled hall of mirrors?
From: A. J. Gevaerd - Revista UFO
Brazil <gevaerd@ufo.com.br>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:51:13
-0200
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002
11:56:32 -0500
Subject: 'Abductee' Urandir
Fernandes de Oliveira A Hoaxer
To the International UFO
Community: Very important
Please be informed that the story
of a man abducted in Brazil,
with dramatic photos of the
scenario, is a campaign to promote,
overseas, the biggest UFO hoaxer
of all time in Brazil, Urandir
Fernandes de Oliveira, who has
actually created a sect of
fanatics around him, composed of
people who blindly believe in
his alleged ET contacts and
healing powers, none of them ever
confirmed by anyone. The man has
been repeatedly exposed as
hoaxer by dozens of UFO
researchers. Many people from his sect,
after 'waking up to reality', have
come forward to describe
Urandir=B4s tricks and scheme.
His last great attempt to go
public in Brazil and overseas
happened last year, when he
invented the story (easily exposed)
that a UFO had crashed at his
friend's farm. It was only another
of his hoaxes, perpetrated to
attract people to his activities,
to which they are invited to join
if they pay a considerable
amount of money.
His history is all fake and the
man is quickly becoming a
millionaire with his obscure
agenda, supported by thousands of
fanatics.
Urandir is largely rejected by 99%
of the Brazilian UFO
Community, who know that he is
nothing but a hoaxer.
This story is _not_ to be taken
seriously, as no responsible UFO
researcher has been allowed to
scrutinize the scenario and the
alleged case.
Urandir was interviewed by Jeff
Rense on Thursday night,
December 12, assisted by his
fellow Felipe Castelo Branco. This
has taken serious people in the
USA and all over the world to
believe in the story invented by
Urandir.
The damage can be much bigger than
one can think.
In Brazil, responsible UFO
researchers and large media stream
have succeeded in debunking him at
a considerable level. We have
succeeded in preventing thousands
of Brazilians being cheated by
Urandir and now he is trying to
establish his sect in the USA
and other countries.
Serious UFO researchers all over
the world cannot let it happen.
The man is as fake as a 3- dollar
bill. He spent time in jail
for selling property that doesn't
belong to him.
A. J. Gevaerd
gevaerd@ufo.com.br
Editor, Brazilian UFO Magazine.
National Director, Mutual UFO
Network.
Director, International UFO
Congress.