Since 2006, citizens from the countryside of Santa Catarina
have witnessed the appearance of mysterious signals on wheat crops.
The Crop Circles of Ipuaçu, as they've come to be known, are considered to be Brazil's first agroglyphes.
Now, with the word - human beings.
If they appear,
someone will see.
Whether it's me or anybody else, someone's gotta see.
Then we'll see what happens.
I'll tell you one thing
that I haven't told anyone else.
Not even my wife.
When the first one appeared,
I got inside the circle
and it gave me chills.
Like a magnetic feeling going over my body.
That one, the first one that came out.
I didn't tell anyone.
I felt an energy...
I couldn't tell anyone.
Like...
It gave me chills, you know?
Like a magnet pulling me.
The first one that came out, the first one.
Just talking about it gives me chills.
MAGNETIC
I don't think it's someone from Brazil.
Because look...
I think that's, maybe,
something Americans could have done.
I've heard people say
that they're exploring the water
because they say they won't have enough water.
No one would do that without some kind of benefit,
just out of curiosity, right?
They wouldn't.
No one would.
Who would get a board, wood, or iron
to do that?
And not leave any traces behind...
It's not possible.
Last night, there was a clarity up in the sky
I saw it from my window, there.
That brightness.
It came from the end of that capo
and it moved until a certain height.
At some point, some red lights got up
and it kept going, kept going and disappeared.
It just got up and left.
Since 8, 9 years ago.
Every year.
It's here, it's there...
That they do it.
To me, if it comes down nearby, I'll go see it.
Oh, you'd go.
I would! I've never been afraid.
You can talk to anyone around to see it.
It's a mystery.
But then I think you can even go to jail.
Some neighbors there saw
some lights up at night.
Once, the year before last,
the barman saw back here,
he saw
a light that came down from the hill.
It came down, kept moving, and vanished.
But then it didn't leave any traces.
The worst is that, at night, there's nothing.
And, at dawn, they see it.
The thing there.
What they do is too perfect, right?
If it were a construction worker, he could do something like that.
But I would take a week or two.
Every year it's different.
Shaped like a glass, a chalice,
an arrow, a circle...
They're all different.
Only if there are golden pans around here.
They say indians always
buried their gold.
And there were some elders that digged up,
some people found these golden pans.
People say that they were kept inside a clay pot.
The pans, they said.
There was gold inside, and it was buried.
There were sightings, so many things.
Now, people are saying that
they won't be coming this time
because the economic crisis is too strong
and gasoline got pricier.
I'll go drink my beer.
We can't say why it's Ipuaçu.
Because it couldn't be anywhere else, right?
Some say that it's someone
who wants to discover new lands.
Some say it's due to the big indigenous population
we have in our region.
There are many possibilities.
Others say it's politics,
that the mayor ordered them.
Early on, older people even
became depressed
because of the sheer disturbance.
People from many countries came.
They came here and held a meeting
with ufologists from various countries.
They explained it could be
aliens, or whatever, so...
They never appear after The Day of the Dead.
Yeah, you can get ready 'cause that day...
I don't know, when is it The Day of the Dead?
Day 2.
But what day of the week is it?
Is it a weekend?
No, it's gonna be a...
The Day of the Dead is on a monday.
Next monday?
Then prepare yourselves 'cause those little creatures are coming.
Oh, they're coming.
Look at all the wheat there.
It happened up here, right Portuga?
Up here.
It happened up here and on the other side too.
Up there, near those bushes too.
Look, up here.
It was quite something.
And they've planted wheat again.
I think, in my mind, that it's terrestrial.
Terrestrial.
It can't be people from another world.
I think that's something the living would do.
It's terrestrial, right?
Who would do something like that?
The dead wouldn't do it.
The living wouldn't either.
It's tough for a human being to do that.
They can't.
It's something from another world, see?
And it's not from Brazil either.
It sure isn't.
There, right then.
Since when has it happened? Six, Seven?
It never failed to happen, do you think it'll fail this year?
The problem's that there's no wheat around.
But you don't need to go too far to find it.
They've been harvesting some wheat even,
it's just that the wheat's a bit early this year, I don't know...
From Friday to Saturday.
Because on Friday, my son went to the ball.
He got home at 3 AM.
And there was nothing, absolutely nothing.
He didn't see anything.
The people who work here at the food factory,
some of them show up at midnight,
some show up at one AM, and nobody saw anything.
Nobody saw anything.
I believe about
two thousand people came to see.
Let's climb up around here,
I'll follow this trail here.
It was really well-done.
Downwards from those bushes, there.
More or less
on the direction in between that tree and those bushes.
50 meters down those bushes, there.
More or less 50 meters away from the bushes.
There was the signal.
You could see 90% of it from the neighborhood.
The circle,
the drawing.
And then look at the sight from my house there,
with the dogs being noisy and everything.
And to say I didn't see anything...
Those trees grew a little,
but from the window of my room there,
you can see all of it.
And on my brother's land, on the same night.
Except it was a different drawing.
It wasn't the same drawing.
There was another drawing there.
It's right here where
that ball of fire came down.
Say it was very big.
We saw it go down from up there,
we saw that descending star.
My son even told other people
"be careful 'cause the ETs are coming down"
I got up, went to see my sister
and told her
"my God, look at that thing!”
"Let's go see it!", I told her.
When we got there, there was a beggar,
like, laying down.
He didn't want anything.
He had a bible,
and he didn't want any food.
Or anything else, nothing.
He only asked for water.
Was it the same one that showed up at the square?
It was the same one at the square.
Then next year,
he appeared again.
He camped at the square,
he stayed there eight days.
He just prayed and read books.
He'd borrow books from the library
and sit at the square, on a bench.
He'd just stay there with that book
and a bible by his side.
And that book he read...
he read one book per day.
One book per day.
When we go out and
people ask "where are you from?”
We say: "Vista Alegre, Ipuaçu”
And they say: "the land of ETs”
There's a weir behind the house
and I was fishing there,
when I saw, on the water,
that thing going through it.
I looked up thinking that
it was my wife coming down with a flashlight.
I looked up, and there was nothing.
I looked at the sky, and on the nearby trees...
It was clearer in the middle, with a shade of dark green around.
It moved slowly, above the trees.
After that, I didn't see it anymore. It vanished.
It disappeared, there were only trees around.
It vanished beyond the bushes.
We keep thinking,
who could it be that does that?
I don't think a spaceship's going to come down
and make a drawing of that size,
without anyone seeing anything.
I believe they make that drawing
from a really big height.
I think it's like
a satellite taking a picture.
I disagree.
It can't.
How can you do something from up there,
on a ship, so suddenly?
There's something below it
that can change shapes.
And it blows a wind, or something that can change
its format as they want,
depending on the shape they want to create on the soil.
I live down here,
at the São Miguel community.
I just got here.
I'm gonna go see it!
Curious, very curious.
I don't believe much in spirits,
because I doubt it, I'm not afraid.
Down here, at my mother's
and my deceased father's house,
they'd say the place was haunted.
What would appear?
Rocks falling into a well.
I stood there watching,
and when I counted the third rock,
I asked for something to appear.
And nothing happened.
I mean,
the rocks kept falling,
but I ran away.
You can't mess around with those things, huh?
Here.
I still wanna know what's the purpose of this.
Here's shaped like a triangle.
It stretches there, there.
Look here.
Let's see up here.
Let's see now that we're at the other end.
Look how it was crumpled well.
Look...
Many triangles, many.
It's a system of triangles here.
Hey, Romani!
What's up, Valter?
He's the landowner.
How're you doing?
I saw a star,
a really low star.
I said "what is that?"
I saw a star that went...
Kind of like a ray.
What time was that?
10 PM.
At that time, I was tidying up the truck,
but I didn't see anything.
I was tidying up the truck...
Are you going to harvest here today?
I'll do it in a little while.
Isn’t it too humid?
It has to be humid, it’s been too dry.
We’re lucky it’s humid.
Truthfully, in my opinion,
this circle right here
is not true.
I’m no specialist,
but I kept up with all the other ones
and the circles were perfect,
the crumbling of the wheat was perfect.
And here we don’t see a perfect circle,
we don’t see a perfect crumbling.
Could it be the wheat’s condition?
It could even.
But my opinion is that
this circle that appeared today,
here in Ipuaçu,
is not the work of a specialist.
Because they did a very half-assed job here.
It’s my opinion.
I’m not a specialist.
Let’s wait for the authorities
to arrive so they can check
if it’s true or not.
What is it?
A signal from god?
An extraterrestrial world?
People from other worlds?
It's unknown.
It’s a lingering question.
And not just Ipuaçu,
not just Brazil,
but the whole world
looks for an answer.
The purpose of this signals
and why was Ipuaçu chosen for them?
Straight from the Community of Vista Alegre,
Ipuaçu, once again,
with the occurrence of the mysterious circles,
Paulo César for the schedule of Rádio Clube.
There was a ball
on november 01st,
the Chopp Ball.
It was the eve of The Day of the Dead. s
People were dancing past midnight
on The Day of the Dead,
which is a holy date for the religious.
And it was right next to a graveyard.
We got to know of that one first,
and then there were two more
that appeared in the countryside.
There were three circles that year.
Then, the more religious people
were terrified.
Because they said it was a sign from god
for the sin the community had committed.
It was a great fear.
It was a scare,
an uproar.
Because no one knew what was going on.
One night, we got out
It was 9 and a half, 10 PM, when we came to fish.
Me and my friend started talking
and he said
“I think the moon’s really bright today.”
And he asked me
“Dude, what’s that?”
And that object kept getting brighter and brighter.
It was so bright we could see the entire forest.
It was bright like it was during the morning.
And that object kept coming
clearing above the trees.
High, maybe 20 meters above the trees.
And we were in the middle of the dam.
The object was big,
about the size of a house.
It had a greyish color, like lead, I don’t know...
And when the light hit,
when our light brightened that object,
it turned around, on its side,
and went back towards the trees.
It disappeared as fast as a shot, a rocket.
We didn’t just see lights,
we saw an object.
We just didn’t see any windows or doors though,
that kind of thing. We didn’t see any of it.
It had been almost 30 years
since I worked as a police officer.
And we didn’t feel that fear.
At the time, we came here.
In fact, we came
with a gun and a flashlight.
When we got there we saw
these two trees here,
which are two cedar trees,
and the light kept moving in this direction.
It brightened all the trees,
everything was clear.
It was a fire that you can’t explain.
It burned, it seemed there was one above and one below,
kind of like the fire of a gas oven.
It was somewhat blueish.
It emits an energy
when you get close,
like we got close to the light.
That day, me and Dani.
It gave us a very different sensation.
Those two cedar trees, as far as I know
from the legends of the elders,
those cedar trees are ancient.
Ipuaçu.
The town of mysteries.
But that’s it.
Ipuaçu is what’s revealing us something.
And my family calls me crazy.
It’s so cool man,
we’ve arrived
at the old cedar tree of Ipuaçu.
A different energy.
Good things,
nature,
life.
The first time I entered the crop circle,
my god!
It felt like
there was a dome over it.
And I felt the birds,
the insects
so close.
Vividly.
Vividly by my ear, you know?
It was raining when we came,
but we stepped in the middle of the crop circle
and the sun rose.
Right above where we were.
While it kept raining around.
I’m like a kid the whole year
waiting for this moment.
It's no illusion.
It’s happening, you know?
These drawings have some explanation.
They're here to look after us,
they’re here to make us
connect...
make us connect to life.
What is life?
Life is nothing less than love.
They say this path was Mayan, Azstec.
That they passed through here to reach the Andes.
They walked this path.
So, who knows?
Maybe we’re standing in a very sacred place.
And we’re blessed.
How beautiful is this?
What a blue sky!
I already feel...
Man, it gives me chills, you know?
Then, I imagined it like this...
My daughter went there see it
and brought my grandson with her.
And, on that day, he completed
four months.
I said: “how interesting!”
I’ll take some pictures
and I’ll even write on the photos,
because a few years from now,
when he’s,
when he’s 24 years old,
the ETs will appear here,
and he’ll say:
“Look, my grandma took me there
the first time it appeared.”
It’s a poem I made for them.
When that arrived in town,
Nobody saw.
But, it gave them a scare!
Some pulled out their hair,
Some commented out loud,
Some bit their tongue,
lost their sleep,
yelled hurray,
bit their nails,
clapped in awe,
ran away terrified,
and got crazy worried.
See it!
Feel it!
Take part
in this sieve of ETs!
It’s a mystery!
And, until it’s proven otherwise,
They Exist!
We, human beings...
we’re mortals.
And we always
have to see
something different in our lives.
To see
if we can motivate ourselves more.
So, if a flying saucer
appears
and an alien comes out,
if we’re there to shake hands,
let’s shake hands then!