Extraordinary claims. Ordinary investigations.

This is kind of boring, as the glyph is just a mess. But for the sake of completeness:

“A curious event was recorded on a sugarcane field in Riolandia, near Votuporanga [Brazil]. In an area close to the Rio Grande, the sugarcane was smashed and formed a strange drawing in the field. The image is unexpected. Among the 22 acres of the field, a circle was created with the sugarcane stamped in the ground, in an area of about 60 meters in diameter. No plant was extracted, and around them all remain firm. To ufologist Jorge Neri, the signs show that something very strange happened in the place.”

Click the image above to check the video on TV TEM, a local channel. There are more details in Portuguese on the Diario de Votuporanga news item.

And among those, we learn that the only eyewitness associating the smashed sugarcane with UFOs is the owner of the small hotal near the field. Mauricio Pereira da Silva candidly comments about how “now this place looks like a tourist attraction, everyone wants to see the place where the UFO landed”.

As if this wasn’t convenient enough, around two weeks ago the movie “Signs” was aired in TV. Even though it’s somewhat old already, it caused some commotion, as web searches for terms like crop circles or even the alleged footage of an alien disrupting a birthday party simply boomed.

Ufologists say they plan to investigate the case, but have already expressed their certainty that this involved aliens.

Would the humble hotel owner and sole eyewitness be our Latin Mel Gibson? In any event, we suggest having many glasses of water, and for those interested in visiting the place, be sure to have asthma.

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UPDATE: The event has been all the rage in Brazil. There are many news items about it, and I’ll sort and link them later. For now, let me note that:

1- The whole city, and our Latin Mel Gibson, are exploring the event commercially and have no shame about that;

2- Some other ufologists, from the Brazilian UFO mag, also visited the place, and will probably publish their finds later. But they are not very critical in their approach, having been duped many times before.

And there are more photos here.

On May 25, 2005, an unsuspecting student in the Saitama prefecture, Japan, was going back home in his bicycle when he was attacked by an invisible gorilla. That is, he was hit in the legs by a sharp triangular metal shard maliciously stuck in the road guardrail — something very much like a trap, that you can check in the image below.

The authorities quickly began to investigate. To their alarm, on the next days they would find no less than 4,200 triangular metal shards stuck on guardrails, ready to make more victims. Around a week later, more than 40,000 shards were counted in roads on all of the country’s prefectures.

“It’s eerie,” the Asahi newspaper said about the issue. “Why are such objects, so many of them, all over the country? If they had been intentionally installed, it’s a serious crime.” Among the apprehension and confusion promoted by the media, the “mystery of the metal shards” motivated all kinds of speculations and statements. After all, this is the country where a cult of science-fiction psychos that drunk the bath water of their blind guru tried to start the Armageddon, one subway at a time. In this case, the Aum Shinrikyo cult of Shoko Asahara and its attack with sarin gas to the Tokyo subway in 1995, almost a decade earlier.

Mystery? Solved.

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“In room 22 of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt, there is a wooden object that appears very similar to a modern airplane or glider. In fact, it is so similar that some have offered it as proof that the ancient Egyptians possessed the technology of flight. The artifact is made of wood and has a length of 5.6 inches and a wingspan of 7.2 inches. It was found in a tomb near Saqqara in 1898 and has been dated to about 200 B.C.“

The folks at Anomalist mentioned (thanks!) the relation between the pre-Columbian gold artifacts and the so-called Saqqara bird. I had already seen it mentioned before, but had never looked upon it with much interest, assuming that well, it could be a bird, it could be really a model airplane. The Chinese had bamboo model “helicopters“ long ago. That’s not proof of very advanced technology per se — whereas the pre-Columbian gold artifacts had delta wings and what did look like jet engines. Intriguing, but it turned out they were really flying fishes.

But I looked upon it to comment with more information, and I’m really glad that I did, because I just found a very nice series of pages discussing the Saqqara object, by Larry Orcutt. It includes drawings of the object, and most importantly, detail the reproduction of it and seminal test: did it really fly?

Be sure to check the links, though I may have given away the answer in the title of this post.

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At the end of the 1960s, biologist Uvan Ivan Sanderson, more well-known as a promoter of Bigfoot, called the attention of the world to some gold pre-Columbian artifacts, centuries old, produced by indigenous cultures.

According to him, those were reproductions of jet aircrafts, a conclusion supported by doctor Arthur Poyslee, of the New York Aeronautic Institute.

Absurd, if only the artifacts didn’t in fact look so much like modern airplanes. Click on the image to continue reading:

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Behold the “Mango with a Human Face“, as it was being called on the small town of Presidente Medici, state of Rondonia, northern Brazil. The eyes, brows and mouth were drawn with a pen, but the shapes are all natural.

That wouldn’t be that interesting, as funny-shaped vegetables are quite common, except for what the journalist told us about the events following the discovery of the bizarre tropical fruit.

According to “Farofino“, there were “people thinking it was the End of the Times, religious people joined in prayer, curious folks from everywhere flocked to the house of the man who found the mango. Well, the mango rot after a few days and the event was quickly forgotten.”

Such is the fate of the false vegetable prophets. Mere simulacra.