Most farms in Brazil, South America, work at producing Soybeans, Wheat and Corn as their primary crops and livestock in the form of Cows, Pigs and Chickens. I gathered this information from a document published by The Economic Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, entitled Agriculture in Brazil and Argentina.

Now the reason I did this was because you might have noticed, I said most farms in Brazil. There is, however, a farm in Brazil, named Ecovila Fezenda that seems to focus on a different crop. It focuses on a crop that is probably more lucrative than any of the other things I named earlier. It focuses on raising money from tourists by giving them information about UFOs and alien beings that visit this farm all the time. At least that is what Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira would have us believe.

Far be it from me to do something like call Senor de Oliveira a fraud or a charlatan or a con man with his interesting claims of his experiences. Nor would I presume to say that perhaps the absurdly sounding stories that he relates to anyone with a buck in their pocket for him sound like they've come out of the rear end of a male Bovine. Nope, I'm not going to do that, I'm going to simply relate some of the claims and allow you, the gentle listener, to make up your own mind.

Now for the purposes of this take, I'm not going to mention any of the stories of Senor Oliveira bending spoons or claiming to be able to heal people because that muddies the waters a little. Instead, the first thing I shall tell you is that Senor de Oliveira claims to be a multiple abductee and has been abducted by aliens at ages, 13, 23, 27, 33 and 39... (Don't suppose he plays the lottery with those numbers, do you?) Now the aliens that Senor de Oliveira claim have abducted him are supposedly blond with eyes that are similar to a cat and of course, they've granted him knowledge and powers that only alien beings can bestow upon us.

Apparently at one of his abductions they brought him to a place that can only be thought of as a United Nations for the Universe because there were some 1300 different races at the table and Senor de Oliveira was gracious enough to represent Earth on our behalf. I do trust that whatever decisions they came to as a result of Senor de Oliveira's counsel will be beneficial to our planet especially since there was supposedly a representative of God at this meeting as well. (I guess God was out on the Golf Course or something and was unable to attend)

Now the most important thing about Senor de Oliveira's abduction experiences is that he is capable of showing us evidence of his having being taken. One of the more interesting pieces of evidence are small rocks that the alien beings make fall from the sky to announce that they've taken Senor de Oliveira aboard their craft. I've seen a picture of these rocks and can say they are about ¾ or an inch in diameter and are supposedly made of iron and have some kind of spiraling on them. But, I have just a tiny problem with these rocks. According to Senor de Oliveira these rocks fall for seven minutes to announce that he has been taken. Firstly if 1 inch size rocks were to fall from the sky for that long, there would be considerable damage caused to anything in their path and secondly, if rocks that size were to fall for such a long time, Senor de Oliveira would be knee-deep in rocks on his 209 acre farm.

But... there's still more trace evidence for us to see and examine. The last time that he was abducted, it was while he was reading on his bed and was taken up through the wooden ceiling of his bedroom by a violet light. This of course left scorch marks of the outline of his body on the bed and scorch marks on his wooden ceiling. Leading us to believe that there is no way that this could have been accomplished without Senor de Oliveira being burned to a crisp. Many of us scratch our head at that evidence I'm sure, however, similar evidence could be produced by using a candle to scorch the wooden ceiling in the pattern of a human body and if one were to use gasoline or alcohol as a bath and then lay down on the bed for a moment, it would also leave an imprint that would easily leave behind a scorched body outline if it were ignited and burned quickly away. However, this of course would indicate planning and deliberate hoaxing by whomever would do such a thing.

But the reason I decided to discuss Senor de Oliveira is because of a post that was made to the UFO UpDates List by noted Brazilian Ufologist A. J. Gevaerd. Senor Gevaerd has been unveiling as many of Senor de Oliveira's stories as he can in an attempt to stop people from being taken advantage of. And Senor de Oliveira's latest revelation does.

Apparently, Senor de Oliveira was given 1440 plates (Anyone other than me notice that that number just happens to be exactly the same as if you ordered 10 gross with a plate manufacturer?) by the aliens to be distributed to human beings. but, these plates you have to go out to Senor de Oliveira's farm and see if you are worthy enough to be able to receive one of these plates. For this opportunity, you pay between 110 and 170 dollars U.S. to Senor de Oliveira... presumably to cover the cost of shipping and handling by the aliens who delivered the plates to him. The plates are special too, they supposedly are illustrated with signs and mysterious symbols that are designed to replace our alphabet for those lucky few who can get one of these things.

Oh, and all the plates were supposed to be gone by the end of March of 2003... but there are still 220 of them left... but good news, Senor de Oliveira has received permission from the aliens to continue to distribute the plates and... there's going to be another shipment for distribution. Can't let a lucrative business like that run out of product, can we?

I think someone should tell Senor de Oliveira that his farm should be planting and harvesting crops... not planting plates and harvesting suckers...

But that's just my take on it.....