Passa Tempo, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1952 — the figure Mauricio Rangel watched pass through a fence.
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UFO|UAP & ENTITY ENCOUNTER REPORT
1952: Passa Tempo, Brazil — The Transparent Humanoid
Watching a field near Passa Tempo, Brazil, Mauricio Rangel saw something short and vaguely human-shaped come tearing across the ground in an erratic, zig-zagging run — and kept watching, stunned, as it crossed straight through a barbed-wire fence without slowing, without a mark, without the wire so much as trembling, before it vanished into the trees.
Date: 1952 (exact date not recorded)
Sighting Time: Not recorded
Day/Night: Day
Location: Passa Tempo, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Urban or Rural: Rural
No. of Entity(‘s): 1
Entity Type: Humanoid, apparently transparent or immaterial
Entity Description: Short, humanoid in outline, transparent or immaterial in appearance; no further physical detail recorded
Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter of the Third Kind) — close observation with an animate being; no craft was described in connection with this entity
Duration: Not recorded; brief, ending when the figure entered a wooded area
No. of Object(s): Not Applicable — no craft was reported
Size of Object(s): Not Applicable
Distance to Object(s): Close enough for the witness to directly observe the figure pass through a barbed-wire fence; exact distance not recorded
Number of Witnesses: 1 (Mauricio Rangel)
Special Features/Characteristics: The figure ran in an erratic, zig-zagging pattern across an open field. At one point it passed directly through a barbed-wire fence with no apparent physical interaction or effect on either the fence or itself. It disappeared quickly into a wooded area.
Case Status: Insufficient Data — a single witness account preserved through a Brazilian UFO researcher’s compiled case files, with no second witness, physical trace, or independent corroboration on record
Source: Antonio Faleiro, Brazil
Summary/Description: Sometime in 1952, Mauricio Rangel reported seeing a short, apparently transparent or immaterial humanoid figure run in a zig-zagging pattern across a field near Passa Tempo, Minas Gerais, Brazil. At one point the figure ran directly through a barbed-wire fence with no apparent physical effect on either the wire or itself. It disappeared quickly into a nearby wooded area.
Related Cases: Not Applicable
Detailed Report
The Passa Tempo case is unusual within this archive’s broader 1952 entity record for what it lacks as much as for what it describes. There is no craft, no communication, no message, and no interaction between the witness and the figure — only a brief, fast-moving visual observation of something behaving in a way ordinary matter does not. The account reaches this archive through Antonio Faleiro, a Brazilian UFO researcher whose compiled case files are cited but not further detailed beyond his name.
The barbed-wire detail is the case’s defining claim and its most difficult to independently assess. A witness reporting that a figure passed through a physical obstacle without disturbing it is describing something outside ordinary physical possibility — which makes the claim either a genuinely anomalous observation, a misperception of distance or obstruction under fast-moving and likely startling conditions, or an embellishment introduced at some point in the account’s retelling. This archive does not have the means to distinguish between those possibilities and states the claim as reported rather than adjudicating it.
No name beyond the witness’s own is preserved, no second observer is mentioned, and no physical trace of any kind survives in the sourcing available here.
RESEARCHER’S NOTES
Passa Tempo, Brazil — 1952 and an Unverifiable Physical Claim
- A claim that resists ordinary corroboration by its own nature: “Passed through a fence without effect” is not the kind of detail that leaves physical evidence to check — there’s no mark to examine, no residue, nothing beyond the witness’s own perception in the moment.
- No craft, no message — an entity-only anomaly: Unlike most CE-III cases in this archive, there’s no vehicle associated with this sighting at all, which sets it apart structurally from the disc-and-occupant pattern common elsewhere in the 1952 record.
- Single witness, secondhand compilation: The account survives only through researcher Antonio Faleiro’s case files, with no further detail available on how or when the witness’s own account was originally recorded.
- Erratic movement as a described behavior, not an explanation: The zig-zagging running pattern is presented here as reported detail, not as evidence of any particular cause — this archive doesn’t speculate on what kind of entity or phenomenon would produce that specific gait.
What’s left of that day near Passa Tempo is one man’s account of something that ran like nothing he’d seen before, and went through a fence like it wasn’t there.
“It ran zig-zagging across a field, at times running right through a barbed wire fence without any apparent effect.”
— Mauricio Rangel’s account, as recorded by Antonio Faleiro
