Profile: Mojo Jojo

Personal background
20 years ago ( I was 16) my friends and I were vacationing in a farm in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. the location was 30 kilometers away from the closest small town and about 150 kms from the closest urban center.
Late one evening we witnessed for approximately 2 minutes a slow moving flying "yo-yo" shaped object the picture I have attached is the closest thing I have found on the internet). It was a very clear, moonless night and this object was about 100 to 150 yards from us. It was the size of a small 3 bedroom house and had one milky white luminescent dome of light on top (to what seemed to be almost the same diameter as the disk itself) and three half-globes of luminescent red on the bottom. It was close and sharp enough for us to notice structural details (the bottom lights were in a recession on the disk and there was and indentation mid-ships -hence the yo-yo analogy-). The surface was smooth and -from the side visible to us- had no noticeable markings. There were no flashing, spinning lights, no sounds whatsoever and, contrary to folklore, we did not loose electric power in the house.
It came from behind a hill and traversed the valley where the farm was located. This trip took about two minutes and the 100 to 150 yards was the closest it got to us (the farm is in the middle of the valley). After it "disappeared" behind the other hill, a "wave" of fog started to descend from the hill the UFO had originally come from. Within 5 minutes there was 0 visibility as the fog was very thick. This was the only day (in the 4 days I spent there) that such a fog came about, although the conditions did feel right for such an atmospheric phenomena (warm days and cool nights).
Ever since I have been fascinated in trying to figure out whether that is extraterrestrial or terrestrial technology. As far as I am able to describe, it was a flying saucer. It remains to be seen whether of local or alien origin.
If anyone out ther have seen a similar object (I've never found a diagram or reference to this "model" of UFO) I'll appreciate if you let me know.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I truly believe that life exists elsewhere. And I believe that some of it will be more advanced technologically, physically and mentally. I also believe that there is more life out there that will be less sophisticated than us. And there will even be life that is truly alien to our concepts and imagination.
Of course these opinions stem from my ethnocentric view of the proportions we experience here on Earth. Therefore I tend to assume that such proportions of "rational" to "animal" life would extend to the rest of this vast universe.
And it is the tremendous, unbelievable vastness of the universe that lends me to believe on the gigantic odds against intelligent life finding us and coming to visit. Unless, of course, we are a big experiment and they ae simply the observers. Or perhaps it all happened by chance.
So, like religion, we choose to interpret our own imaginations to fit whatever mood, culture, educational level, or social norms we happen to be living at any time. Who knows?! Maybe one day I'll find out that the hamster God of the micronesian islands of Plucka-Plucka is the ONE and ONLY god and that the flying yo-yo I saw was, in fact, piloted by the super-intelligent gelatinous masters of a distant galaxy empire...
For now I'll be very, very happy if one day someone tells me that I helped tune in a far, far, far, far away soap opera. Where the infant pod was generated by the 5-eye thing on the left. Not the one on the right, as everyone thought. :-)
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