Youtubessa on portugaliksi pätkää tapauksesta ja englanniksi löytyy jonkun tekemiä päätelmiä sen perusteella:
SMALL DETAILS
The case remains unsolved. We still don’t know what exactly happened to Pereira da Cruz e José Viana, and it’s unlikely we will ever know for sure, to the despair of their relatives who still grieve the tragic loss of two young men. This is not a debunking of the “Lead Masks/Morro do Vintém” case.
But here we do promote some ordinary investigations, and in this case, I would like to comment on a 2004 TV special on the mystery, which added a couple of small and yet extremely important details to the case. You can watch the first part below, in Portuguese (the rest can be found searching on Youtube).
The central mystery is what/who/how the victims were killed, and that is a question because the autopsy, including toxicological exams, found nothing. Now, the small detail:
the exams found nothing because they weren’t conducted. As it happens, the local coroner’s office was full of work at the time, and the victims guts went stored until, when they were finally going to be examined, they were already rotten and useless. No test was made on them. This is somewhat stressed on the TV show. It also stresses that the two men had no money when found.
Another detail: when Vallee revisited the site years later, he was puzzled by the absence of vegetation in the area where the two bodies were found. Mystery? Probably not. In the TV show we are also informed that the police threw copious amounts of formalin on and around the bodies to help cope with the smell – contrary to some accounts, the bodies were decomposing and smelling intensely. They don’t make the connection in the show, but we can suggest that that could explain why there’s not much grass growing there now. The formalin contaminated the soil.
Some more: the strange codes they also had among the other notes. Much fuss is made about this, but this is a question we can most surely say there’s nothing to wonder about. The codes were simply to electronic components. The two were TV repairmen, they told their families they were going in that trip to buy electronic components. And they had the codes for the components written down. This is another connection that neither the TV show nor any account on the case I have read makes explicitly, despite being so obvious. I checked at least one of the “mysterious codes” and was able to find it does correspond to an electronic valve used on TVs at the time.
INGEST THE CAPSULES. WAIT UNTIL DEATH
So, what to make of all of it? One plausible explanation is that the two men were conned by one (or more) fellows, with deadly results. The murderer(s) used the victims gullibility to effectively make them kill themselves.
The notes, including the one about ingesting the capsules, have many orthographical and grammatical errors, and the police thinks they were probably dictated by someone else, with the instructions, or better yet, orders as to what the victims should do.
They may have expected to contact aliens, but ingested poison in the process. The toxicological exams that could have determined this were never conducted.
As is mentioned in the TV show, and also in Vallee’s book, there were reports that the two victims weren’t alone, the murderer(s) were along with them in the hill. They waited for them to die and simply took their money. An especially despicable way to rob someone.
If Cruz and Viana were indeed made to kill themselves through their own gullibility, then this is an important cautionary tale. It’s more worrying than famous cases such as Heaven’s Gate, where in some level the victims knew they were committing suicide.
The victims of the Lead Masks case almost certainly didn’t kill themselves on purpose: before going atop the hill and buying the bottle of water they took with them, they got a coupon to later return the bottle when they returned. They would also actually buy the electronic components in that trip, just as they told their families. Their adventure atop Morro do Vintém wasn’t intended to be their last and desperate attempt to contact aliens. They didn’t know they were going to die there. They were killed.
The lead masks, which names and represents the case, are indeed representative of the danger here. They were crudely made by the victims themselves inside their shop, where the police found the plates from which they were cut.
The saddest thing is, I don’t think Cruz and Viana where nowhere near contacting any aliens despite all their efforts. Lead masks, capsules, even explosions – which they attempted before – are not going to facilitate any close encounter. But they can kill you.
Finally, I must also comment on the fact they had towels with them. Towels are a big part of the sci-fi comedy series by Douglas Adams, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and actually a means to make contact with aliens – to hitchhike around the Galaxy.
I do not intend to joke about their deaths, but it is telling that we can find this coincidence. If Adams’ stories weren’t simply good comedy, would ufologists be speculating seriously about these towels? I guess so.
So, beware. Gullibility kills.
http://forgetomori.com/2008/ufos/the-lead-masks-case/
Lisää ihmisten englannin kielistä pohdintaa alkuperäissivustojen pohjalta
"The bodies were found on a "bed" made with palm-tree leaves.
The autopsy did not show any signs of violence, poisoning, organic failure or radiation contamination.
The note was written by Miguel José Viana.
The masks were made on their shop, the rest of the lead sheet was found there.
They were seen arriving near the Morro do Vintém (a "morro" is somewhat like a hill) on a jeep with two other men, that were not identified.
The bodies were first found on the 18, and a policeman was warned by the boy who found them, some people suspect that this policeman was the one who took the money they had (around 1000 dollars).
A friend of both was interrogated but he was not arrested, he had introduced both to some strange experiments to try to communicate with spirits, and the three were responsible for a large explosion on a beach.
A priest and parapsychology professor said that they could have been making an experiment to see to the "other world", some people apparently say that there is a very strong light for which protection is needed, and that people who make that experiment take some kind of drug before.
Apparently, four years before, a television technician died in the same place in similar circumstances; no signs of violence, no other objects and a lead mask. He was trying to catch a "television signal" without any electronics and he died after taking a round pill.
The second batch of exams was made one year latter.
In 1980, Jacques Vallée went to that place to study the case, and the area was clean of vegetation and the bodies were like imprinted on the ground, the ground looking like it had been burned."
“Las Mascaras de Chumbo” (The lead masks case)
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Location. Morro de Vintem, Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Date: August 21 1966 Time: night
The bodies of two men were found in a hilltop clearing near Niteroi. Two lead half-masks, for covering the upper half of the face, and strange, partially coded notes were found besides the bodies. The two men were identified as Manuel Pereira di Cruz, aged 32, and Miguel Jose Viana, and aged 34. They were both radio and television technicians. According to an autopsy report they died from stoppage of the heart. There was no apparent cause of this. The men had been dead for about four days when they were found. A mathematician reported that part of the notes contained only the ohm equation (dealing with the strength of electric current) and the rest was unintelligible. A number of people came forward during the investigation with reports of an oval, orange colored object hovering over the top of the hill. One woman reported seeing the object at the time the men went up the hillside. Local detectives and experts from Rio de Janeiro with the help of troops and the Brazilian Information Service investigated the affair, a weird array of theories was considered including murder, suicide, sorcery, spiritualism, and attempts to contact extraterrestrials, atmospheric electricity and radio waves. A man who reported that the men had been trying to contact the planet Mars was held by police for questioning. This man was said to have exercised a powerful influence over the dead men and to have owed them money. According to one report, a ma and a woman were arrested in connection with the case. The men were said to have had a great deal of money with them when they went up the hillside. The notes found on their bodies indicated that they had “taken orange capsules” and were “waiting for the promised sign.” When detectives searched Manuel Viana’s workshop they found lead from which the masks were apparently made, and a book on scientific spiritualism, with marked passages referring to masks and intense rays of light. The police eventually called off their investigation, having failed to solve the mystery. Detective Idovan Ferreira who led the investigation said, “I have no doubt they died of an experiment with psychic forces, for which they were ill-prepared and which turned out to be fatal.”
HC addendum
Source: MUFOG Bulletin, October 1966, Bufora Newsletter # 2
Groupement pour l’Etude des Sciences d’Avant-Garde, Belgium Type: F?"
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread393194/pg1
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