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1953: The “Mr. E” Case — Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro

A man in Rio de Janeiro known only as “Mr. E” kept crossing paths with a stranger in a dark raincoat who never spoke a word — yet somehow, each time, Mr. E understood exactly what the man meant. He’d find himself compelled to drive across town with no memory of the trip. He’d wake with a burn on his cheek and no idea how it got there, and a pen with a perfect quarter-inch hole punched clean through its cap. No craft was ever seen. Just a man who stared, and a mind that no longer entirely felt like his own.

Date: 1953 (exact date not recorded; account describes events unfolding over a period of weeks to months)

Sighting Time: Various — initial encounter at night; subsequent encounters at differing times

Day/Night: Mixed

Location: Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (with a later episode centered on the Leblon district)

Urban or Rural: Urban

No. of Entity(‘s): 1

Entity Type: Humanoid (human in outward appearance, with anomalous physical detail)

Entity Description: Outwardly appeared as an ordinary man, wearing a hat and a dark-colored raincoat; distinguished physically only by unusually large eyes with no visible tear ducts; never spoke aloud, communicating (per the witness) telepathically

Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter, Third Kind — entity present and communicating, no craft observed)

Duration: An extended series of encounters over a period of weeks to months, following an initial sighting of unexplained lights roughly a month prior

No. of Object(s): 0 — no craft was seen in connection with the entity; unexplained lights were reported over the area roughly a month before the entity encounters began

Description of the Object(s): Not Applicable (no craft observed)

Shape/Size/Color of Object(s): Not Applicable

Distance to Object(s): Not Applicable

Height & Speed: Not Applicable

Number of Witnesses: 1 (identified only as “Mr. E”)

Special Features/Characteristics: The witness experienced repeated encounters with the same man over time, including episodes of apparent compulsion (driving across the city with no memory of doing so) and significant memory loss, accompanied by pain at the nape of the neck whenever he tried to recall missing periods; during one encounter, reaching for his pen, he felt a sudden warm sensation strike and burn his cheek, leaving a lasting scar, and later found his pen’s cap pierced by a perfectly round, quarter-inch hole; the witness reported a sensation of weightlessness in a subsequent dream; he declined to undergo hypnosis to recover further memories

Case Status: Unresolved — a detailed single-witness account with two specific physical details (a scar and a pierced pen cap) offering limited independent corroboration; the witness’s own refusal of hypnosis means his account was never developed further than his own natural recall

Source: Irene Granchi, “UFOs and Abductions in Brazil”

Summary/Description: About a month after unexplained lights were seen over the Botafogo district of Rio de Janeiro, a man referred to as Mr. E began repeatedly encountering the same stranger — a man in a hat and dark raincoat who stared fixedly at him and never spoke. Mr. E experienced episodes of apparent compulsion, driving across the city with no memory of the trip, and significant gaps in memory accompanied by pain at the back of his neck when he tried to recall them. During one encounter, reaching for his pen, he felt a sudden burning sensation on his cheek that left a lasting scar; he later discovered a perfectly round, quarter-inch hole punched through his pen’s cap. He understood the stranger’s communications despite the man never speaking aloud. He declined to undergo hypnosis to recover further memory of the missing periods.

Related Cases: None known

Detailed Report

The account, documented by Brazilian researcher Irene Granchi, describes a man identified only as Mr. E in the Botafogo district of Rio de Janeiro. Roughly a month after unexplained lights had been reported over the area, a strange pattern began in his own life — one that would unfold over weeks or months and leave him with more questions than answers.

It started simply enough: waiting for a taxi, a man in a hat and dark raincoat walked past, stopped, and stared at him fixedly. Mr. E stared back. A friend happened to pull up moments later and offered him a lift, which he accepted — and upon arriving at his destination and getting out of the car, he found the same man waiting there too, staring at him again, despite the distance and time that should have made that impossible.

The pattern deepened from there. One evening, wanting cigarettes, Mr. E took his car and found himself, under what he described as a compulsion, driving to Leblon — at the time a largely deserted district on the other side of town. He felt as though he were following an order rather than making a choice. He remembered nothing of what happened during that drive, slept soundly afterward, and could only occasionally recall glimpses of having seen someone.

On a later evening, the same compulsion returned, and this time he was met directly by the man he’d seen before. Reaching for his Parker fountain pen in a familiar, habitual gesture — as if to write something down — he felt something warm strike his cheek and burn it. The pen fell from his hand. He carried a scar on that cheek for a long time afterward. The stranger never spoke a word throughout any of these encounters, and yet Mr. E understood everything being communicated to him — a detail he attributed to some form of telepathy.

The next day, retrieving his fallen pen, he discovered its cap now had a perfectly round hole punched through it, about a quarter inch across.

What followed was a long period of significant memory loss. Every attempt to recall what had happened during these episodes brought on severe pain at the back of his neck. In dreams during this period, he recalled a sensation of weightlessness. Notably, he refused to undergo hypnosis to try to recover what he couldn’t remember naturally. One specific physical detail he did recall clearly about the stranger: despite his unusually large eyes, they had no visible tear ducts.

RESEARCHER’S NOTES

Mr. E — 1953 and an Entity Encounter With No Craft at All

No UFO, arguably not even a UFO case: This account contains no sighting of a craft at any point — only a human-passing figure, missing time, and physical after-effects. It sits at the edge of what this archive typically documents, included here because of its clear entity-encounter structure and its place in an established UFO researcher’s published catalog of Brazilian cases.
Two specific, checkable physical claims: The facial scar and the pierced pen cap are both concrete, potentially examinable details — though neither was, as far as the surviving record shows, ever independently inspected by anyone besides Mr. E himself.
A witness who declined further investigation: Mr. E’s refusal to undergo hypnosis is worth noting without judgment — it may reflect a reasonable skepticism of the technique’s reliability (a concern this archive shares, see the Tujunga Canyon and Home Counties, England cases), or simply a personal unwillingness to revisit a disturbing experience further.
The “no tear ducts” detail: A small, specific anatomical observation like this is the kind of detail that’s easy to overlook in summary but stands out as unusually precise for a witness recalling a stressful, compressed encounter.
A pattern of repeated, unprovoked stalking-like contact: Unlike single-encounter cases elsewhere in this archive, this account describes a sustained pattern of the same entity repeatedly finding the witness across an extended period — a structurally different kind of case from the more common one-time landing or sighting.

This case’s strength lies in its two specific physical details — the scar and the pierced pen cap — set against a backdrop of memory loss that, by the witness’s own account, was never further investigated through hypnosis. It remains an unresolved, single-witness account of a kind this archive documents carefully rather than confidently classifies.