Hi,
Remarks: Before I start I want to say that I have no concrete evidence to prove anything that I am writing here, also I never talked with anyone about it except the two other friends which one does not believe at all it was an alien or something extraterrestrial, I do believe it was.
Well, back in 2000 I was 23 years old, living and working in Brazil, from 1999 until about 2004 I was engaged in off-road (weekends only) with a Japanese friend that moved to Brazil that time, we went to many different places in the country side, sometimes very remote parts of the country, Brazil is a big and beautiful country by the way, our intention was find good off-road places to enjoy nature and life, but one day we had this extraordinary experience in the woods.
The place where the supposedly "encounter" occurred is called in Portuguese "Serra da Cantareira" which is a range of mountains near the Sao Paulo Capital City, we got a map from a friend and he said there were very nice waterfalls in the woods, the place were never explored by tourism then it was nature in perfect order, since it met our goals, we decided to go, geared up and went to the mountains, arriving at the supposed location, the dirty road was in very bad shape and there was a huge tree blocking all the way, even with a Jeep CJ we could not get in further, but the maps showed that we were just 2 km from the falls (that time we got no phones with GPS, we used old fashioned paper maps), then we decided to take a hike, after 1 hour we got there, beautiful place, pristine nature, everything we were expecting, we decide to camp over there, light a bonfire and prepare some food, then after a long talk me and the 2 other friends, we spot something in the woods, it was like watching us, and we saw two strong lights resembling eye balls lightened up, slightly moving, it was deep in the woods but we could perfectly see the lights moving, our first thought was, it is a wild cat, since that area there is many of these creatures and it was night, of course animals go hunt at night, after that it just gonna, we kept talking until we heard noises in the wood, seems like someone was walking but this time much closer and then again those lights, the same light 100% sure, and it started to come close to us but never leaving the woods, that's when we saw a shadow, it was tall, maybe 2.5 meters tall, I really do not know, I am sure it was not an animal, because animal does not stand like that, and they got no bears in Brazil, then it was not a bear, it was something else, it made some weird noise like a pipe or a flute, at this point I was freaking out and we look each other and said run to the Jeep, we left all our gear at the spot and run as fast as we could, got into the Jeep and rushed away from that place, in the other day at morning we returned there to recover our gears, it was all there, untouched, then my conclusion was: not a thieve, not a bear, it was something else.
This event bugged me for all these years, today I am strongly convinced that it was a kind of encounter with an extraterrestrial entity, my Japanese friend believe as much as I do, my other Brazilian friend do not believe at all, in his mind it was a wild animal with a very bright light in the eyes.
I never post this experience anywhere else before today, also I never talked to anyone about that (you all know how people look at you when talking about aliens), I do believe Project Avalon is the right place to post this type of thing, but if I am wrong please Mods remove it or transfer to the correct place.
Thanks for reading, it is no joke at all, it happened to me, as I said I got no way to prove that, it is just my memories, and my friends memories, and this was not the only experience I got with weird stuffs, when a boy only 9 years old I saw strange lights in the sky, I was with my mother and sister and 4 or 5 other people and we all saw the lights moving up and down pretty fast and disappearing.
First I saw the lights in the sky when a young boy, then when on my twenties I had this encounter with unidentified living being, I am looking forward for my next experience, but I am not forcing it to happen, if it does I just hope to survive to tell the tale.
I just do not like to comment much about these stuffs and look like a weirdo, liar or whatever, this is my first report ever, please bear with me.