The Playful Giants

Surveying the Surveyors

A modern disposable Hazmat suit.

On 23 July 1947, a party of surveyors working in countryside near Baurú, Brazil observed the noisy arrival of a large disc-shaped craft. All but one - topographer José Higgins - fled the scene in terror.

Higgins stood his ground and watched the craft land. It was 150 feet long by 15 feet high and appeared to be made from aluminium. Two figures were looking out through a smoked glass porthole, apparently deep in conversation.

A hatch opened in the underside and three 7-foot-tall humanoids trotted out. They had large bald heads with protruding eyes and possessed identical facial features "like twins". Higgins was unsure whether they were male or female but found them "strangely beautiful".

The humanoids wore transparent inflated suits that covered them from head to toe. Beneath the suits, they wore brightly coloured paper shirts and shorts.

Drawings in the Dust

Uranus - planet of the giants?

The giants surrounded Higgins, talking amongst themselves in an unfamiliar language. One of them gestured towards the open hatch of the craft, apparently inviting the Brazilian to climb aboard. Higgins asked the beings where they intended to take him.

In reply, one of them stooped down and traced a drawing on the ground of a solar system with seven planets. "Alamo," explained the alien, pointing first at the sun overhead, then at the sun in the drawing. Then it pointed to the seventh planet (presumably Uranus) and declared "Orque".

Higgins, not wishing to visit 'Orque' but afraid the giants might take him by force, showed them a photo of his wife and asked if he might fetch her to join him on the trip. Apparently falling for this subterfuge, the aliens allowed him to walk away into the forest.

A Game of Quoits

In astrology, Uranus symbolises radical change.

Overcome by curiosity, Higgins hid behind some bushes and looked back at the humanoids. To his astonishment, they were frolicking about like children - leaping into the air and hurling huge boulders at each other as though they weighed nothing.

After half-an-hour's play, the giants returned inside their craft, which took off with a high-pitched whistling sound.

"Sometimes I doubt that these things can happen," mused Higgins. "If it were not for the workers with me at the beginning, it might only have been a strange and fascinating dream."

Related External Links:

St Tue and the Giants
St Tue challenges the heathen giants of Cornwall to a rock throwing contest.
The Giant of Carn Galva
A legendary Cornish giant famous for playing quoits with boulders.

Sources

Timothy Good: Alien Base, pp71-73.
John Spencer: UFOs: The Definitive Casebook, p189.
Peter Brookesmith & Paul Devereux: UFOS and Ufology: The First 50 Years, p34.