81-year-old Joaquim Eloi woke up to see a powerful light shining outside his hut. Looking out the window he saw a brilliant white oval shaped object on the ground nearby. The light from the object was so intense that he had to cover his face with his right arm. At the same time he could hear strange voices coming from the object that sounded foreign to him. After a few minutes the brilliant object took off towards the nearby town. There a husband and wife saw the bright white object hovering above some high-tension wires. They were able to see what appeared to be "numbers" or strange symbols on the craft. At the same time there was a power outage in the region. Eloi's right arm was numb for almost 5 months after the incident, and unknown if related, he began to slowly loose his sight and is now totally blind.

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