It's been a while since we had ourselves a decent grey. They were all over the place in the '80s, appearing in both personal anecdotes from supposed encounters and in the film adaptations of those encounters. These days I feel like we're more concerned with dead chimeras washing up on beaches than the classic humanoid sightings, but now Brazil seems to be bringing back the classic blurry alien shot.
That's right--this one's actually a photo, not just a secondhand story of a midnight sighting. Well, technically, it's a video still from footage taken (allegedly) by two British tourists during their trip to the Mamaus region of the Amazon rainforest. Yes, we're finally getting an overseas alien, just in case you were wondering why 90% of all alien activity seems to be centered on the United States. Looks like they pop up in jungles, too.
The still focuses on the group of indigenous children in its foreground, but it's the background that caught the eye of paranormal expert Michael Cohen, who supposedly received the footage from the tourists once they realized what they were looking at. There's a bright portal of light, a little galactic smear in between the trees. And about 15 feet away from it stands a little human-shaped creature.
It's a pretty perfect image of a grey with its oversized head and distended torso. It's blurry, of course, but what paranormal creature isn't? You have to wonder, though--if this little dude emerged from a portal of light in plain sight of numerous tourists, wouldn't one of them have noticed? Maybe the greys have mastered psychic cloaking that doesn't work on cameras. Who knows. The region where the footage was taken is, apparently, known for multiple UFO sightings, which were covertly investigated by the Brazilian government under Operation Prato. They denied the investigations at first, as all government entities are wont to do when suspected of researching alien activity, but later 'fessed up and even released a whole bunch of files proving their studies. So maybe the little dudes are back. Or maybe Michael Cohen knows how to use Photoshop. Either way, Hollywood thinks it can profit off the finding. Cohen has already been approached with questions about a new screenplay based on the extraterrestrial findings deep in the South American jungle. I suppose the genre could do with a new backdrop--we've seen far too much of American metropolises and Area 51--so that could have some interesting results.