Chupa (anomaly)

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This article refers to the anomalous phenomenon. For other uses of the word see Chupa.

Chupa, or chupas, are mysterious objects, or UFOs, that can be seen by night in the eastern forests of (mainly) Brazil. They are described as smaller, metallic-like objects that flies about the treetops. They make a humming sound like a refrigerator or a transformer.

Since most people in the area are poor, they often go out during the night to hunt food such as deer. To do this, they climb up in trees to await their prey. It is often during this period of waiting that hunters spot the chupas.

When seen, they emit a bright white light, and instead of being "just unidentified objects" or lights, they apparently are lethal. In some cases, people have been hunted by them, often resulting in all kinds of pain the days (sometimes years) after their experience. Some people have even died by the lethal beams emitted by the chupas, and as the hunters in that area are well aware of the story, some have tried to shoot at the chupas without any effect.

Jacques Vallee underlines these facts in some of his books and, in a more recent interview, describes them as: "the ones that emitted these beams were classic in terms of shape. They were boxy, rectangular objects that either didn't make a noise or made nothing more than a hum, like the noise a refrigerator makes." He continued by explaining how the locals didn't consider them to be extraterrestrial in origin: "When we asked people in Brazil about the phenomenon, we discovered that they didn't see it as something that comes from another planet, but something that comes from another spiritual plane." [1] This tended to validate Vallee's championing of the interdimensional hypothesis as an explanation for such entities.

Craft very similar to Chupas have also been reported at Skinwalker Ranch and Kelleher and Knapp's book on the incident Hunt for Skinwalker has a chapter called "Chupas" (chapter 7) looking at the connections between the various cases.

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Vallee, Jacques: Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for the Alien Contact (Ballantine Books, 1991 ISBN 0-345-36501-1)
Pratt, Bob: UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil... Where Next? (Horus House, 1996 ISBN 1-881852-14-8)
Kelleher, Colm & Knapp, George: Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah (Paraview Pocket Books, 2005 ISBN 1-4165-0521-0)