The Abduction of Paula Coutinho: the aliens wanted to know how life began

Here’s the story of Paulo Coutinho, a young man whose encounter with the unknown would change him forever.

It was a dark and stormy night in São Paulo on June 23, 1976. The sky was a deep, foreboding grey, like the belly of a beast. Paulo, a bright and curious 18-year-old, had just left his night school class, his mind filled with the hopes and dreams of a bright future.

But fate had other plans.

As he walked home, he noticed a light in the sky that seemed to be moving, darting, and weaving through the clouds like a living thing. He squinted, unsure what it was, but his curiosity got the better of him. He quickened his pace, drawn to the light like a moth to a flame.

The world around him seemed to disappear in an instant. The light enveloped him, and Paulo felt himself pulled into its heart. The last thing he remembered was the feeling of his feet leaving the ground as if he were floating, weightless, in a void.

When Paulo came to, he found himself lying on the steps of his own house, his head throbbing with a dull, pulsating pain. His parents and friends were frantically searching for him, but he couldn’t shake the feeling that something was off. Something was watching him, waiting for him to remember.