# Something Answered — The Schneider Encounter (1968)

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Podcast: [Stories Lost](https://stenobird.com/podcast/stories-lost-7030881)
Published: 2026-01-16T21:00:42+00:00
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In September 1968, in the backyard of a small pottery workshop in Brazil, something answered.This episode of Stories Lost explores the Schneider Encounter — a close contact that didn’t feel like a meeting, but like a system responding.A courtyard freezes at 3 a.m.Two flat silhouettes “answer” without voices.Evidence lingers long after the light.This week on Stories Lost, we travel to Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil, where industrial chemist Henrique Schneider Jr. steps from his pottery workshop and meets two silent, rectangular forms—and a voice that isn’t a voice. The phenomenon is precise and unsettling: paralysis; instant, thought-to-thought replies; a conical craft with a ramp that never touches ground. Then the aftermath—burnt grass, displaced roof tiles, a failing truck—pulls the story from experience into material trace.But that’s only part of the story.🔹 Ten minutes face-to-face with “panels”🔹 Ramp retracts, door seals with a click🔹 Blue welding-glow & whistling ascent🔹 Circle scorch, tripod marks, dead grass🔹 Promised return: fast overflight witnessed🕰 Chapters00:00 – The Kiln and the Silhouettes01:31 – The Case Reaches SOBEPS03:37 – The Panels and the Craft06:41 – The Telepathic Exchange08:47 – Takeoff and Blue Light09:33 – Heat, Smell, and Physical Traces12:32 – The Promise and the Second Sighting15:45 – Automatic Answering System16:13 – Memory vs. Material Evidence17:29 – A System, Not Visitors19:17 – It Wasn’t Talking to Him20:05 – Final ReflectionsSources:https://caravaca.blogspot.com/2014/06/asombroso-encuentro-cercano-en-brasil.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawPHbSFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBlaWZFSmFXNVhJZWZZZlJmc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHtJuDKQwvGvoPssSTmDeMBobDpINqr8kWa8IL5Yjx5wDflyCpNcuJvLdAtDK_aem_fjGrO1A2vY_YpCHdbuPq8Ahttps://files.afu.se/Downl…

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