The Kraspedon File

History of the book My Contact with Flying Saucers

• March 1957: first Brazilian edition of the book Contato com os discos voadores by Oswaldo Oliveira Pedrosa.
• November 1957: second Brazilian edition “revised and expanded” by Aladino Félix.
• 1959: first English edition under the title My Contact with Flying Saucers printed in the United States and England (augmented with a drawing of a saucer and an additional chapter titled: “The Aberration of Light”).
• 1960: additional editions of the English version in 1960, 1961, 1966, 1973, etc.
• 1977: English pocket edition under the title My Contact with UFOs printed in Great Britain.

Why revisit this file 30 years later?

After reading the book My Contact with Flying Saucers, I had the deep conviction that it contained a true transcendental teaching, which could only come from an awakened being from another world.

And I was saddened when I saw how this work had been dragged through the mud on the web, due to the conflict between the two individuals who both claimed to be the authors. There is a lot of information circulating about Aladino Félix, but little about Oswaldo Pedrosa. I will therefore publish in future articles what I have in my possession, to allow people to become better informed about the whole case.

I will translate this book into French and make it available for download, along with the book Kraspedon: Who Is This Man by José Coutinho Maia, as well as the interview video with Pedrosa from the 1990s.

This material will be offered here very soon, in the hope of giving new momentum to the dissemination of this important work, regardless of who the author may be. But let us now return to the topic of this article and compare the two versions of the story…

The Pedrosa Version of the Story

Oswaldo Oliveira Pedrosa claimed to have had eight encounters with an extraterrestrial between 1952 and 1953, totaling around 30 hours of conversation. “[He was] a carefully dressed individual, wearing a fine English cashmere suit that fit perfectly on his athletic body. […] He had a spotless shirt and a starched collar, with a blue tie patterned with white geometric shapes. Only the shoes showed signs of having been worn for about two months. What caught my attention were the gloves he wore, made of a very fine fabric […].”

“I simply wrote down the commander’s phrases and drawings. I never studied physics. I didn’t believe in flying saucers.”

In early 1957 (he mentioned January or February, though his introduction is dated March), under the pseudonym Dino Kraspedon, he reportedly published Contato com os discos voadores (Contact with the Flying Saucers), in a modest edition of only 100 copies (he also mentioned the number 30 at one point). “The first name Dino came from a family friend. As for Kraspedon, it was a suggestion from friends who told me: ‘Pick a strange name.’ They suggested Kraspedon, and it worked.”

Divided into 13 chapters, the book is largely an interview with the Jovian commander. “He was the one who asked me to write it. I simply fulfilled a mission… and it’s the only book I ever wrote in my life.”

“[This book is] not the account of a single interview, but the result of five encounters we had, which took place in the following locations: once aboard the saucer itself, once at my home, twice at Republic Square, and once at Roosevelt Station. It is important to add that the two conversations we had at Republic Square were attended by a professor of physics and mathematics, whose identity we keep confidential out of respect for his current high-ranking position.”

“In 1957, someone sent a copy of the book to Russia, and in March of the same year, the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union sent a thank-you letter to the publishing house in Brazil. As expected, the Department of Political and Social Order of the government intercepted the Russians’ letter, opened it, and went to the publisher to ask for explanations. They ended up coming to my house. I was detained and imprisoned. They confiscated all the books they could find. And I had to promise to keep quiet and never speak about the subject again.

And so, I remained silent for 37 years of my life. I didn’t speak to anyone about it. That lasted until the day, in Uberaba, where I live, when I wrote an article about flying saucers. Ufologists found me, I republished the book, and today I speak openly about the subject. But when they found me, I was in total exile.”

Without his knowledge, his book was translated and published in the United States and England as early as 1959, but he only learned about it in 1993 through ufologists.

In 1997, Aladino Félix’s son, Raul, convinced that his father was the true author of the book, sued Pedrosa (then 92 years old) in Brazilian court. Based on the documents presented, a court ruled against Pedrosa for publishing a book for which he supposedly did not hold the copyright. As a result, he agreed never to use the pseudonym Dino Kraspedon in any literary work again.

Oswaldo Oliveira Pedrosa died in 2004 at the age of 99.

The Félix version of the story

For five years, Aladino Félix supposedly kept secret the encounter he allegedly had with the occupants of a flying saucer on the road to Angatuba, in São Paulo. They were tall beings, with shaved heads, dressed in tight-fitting nylon suits. Since November 1952, Félix is said to have kept silent not only about this contact, but also about the visit he received a year later from the commander of this craft, who came disguised as a Protestant pastor, as well as the long discussions that followed in downtown São Paulo.

Why would he have kept these extraordinary events secret? It seems he gave no explanation… Supposedly written in only four days, Contact with the Flying Saucers, a book of great scientific and philosophical complexity, would have enjoyed relative success. And eight months later, in November 1957, he allegedly released a second, revised and expanded edition with 34 additional pages.

The pseudonym Dino Kraspedon is said to have been used by Félix for the second and last time in January 1959 for the book The Orbit of the Earth and Gravitation, which appears as an appendix to Contact with the Flying Saucers.

Raul Félix says about this: “When the printing house delivered Contact with the Flying Saucers to our home, piles of books stacked up (3,000 copies).” Raul reportedly remembers seeing his father draw the illustrations contained in the books Contact with the Flying Saucers and The Orbit of the Earth and Gravitation: “We played with his felt-tip pens and India inks. He had made those drawings himself, showing the Sun and the planets.”

The book is said to have been sold not only in England, but also in Denmark, France, and Germany. Despite that, Raul supposedly stated: “The amount of money they sent us was minimal, and sometimes my mother got angry because we needed money and my father didn’t care about asking them. We received money for the last time in 1969.”

Aladino Félix died in 1985 at the age of 80.

Who lied between the two?

In the 1990s, a student named Cláudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga conducted research on the subject. But I must admit that after reading everything he made public online, I don’t agree with the conclusions of his investigation. I believe that nothing concrete was brought forward to definitively establish who wrote the first edition of the book.

At the end of the 1990s, Aladino’s son was able to present enough documents before a Brazilian court to obtain a ruling in his favor. But that does not prove beyond any doubt that his father was the author of this book. Unless a dated copyright registration was submitted to the court—but this information has never been made public.

One possibility is that in 1955, Pedrosa didn’t have time to register his copyright, because the military forces in power had seized all his books and forced him to stop his activities. So it wouldn’t be surprising if, in 1997, before a judge, this man—then over 90 years old—didn’t put up much resistance.

So, it won’t be through documents that we will unmask the impostor in this story. We’ll have to take a step back, look at things objectively, and rely on the sound judgment of our conscience.

What would the motivations be?

Mr. Pedrosa absolutely did not fit the profile of a narcissistic fraud or a charlatan seeking fortune or media attention. He seemed to be just a simple citizen who told what had happened to him in the 1950s. He had promised to publicly share part of the revelations that had been made to him with the same courtesy. Unfortunately, the effort to spread the message was abruptly stopped by the authorities, as he was suspected of having ties with Russia (because a copy had been sent there by Aladino Félix). In the 1990s, he was invited to step out of the shadows by ufologists—not because he wanted to make the front page of UFO magazines.

And yet, this is exactly what the supporters and devotees of Félix want us to believe: that this man, over 90 years old, a retired bank employee, living peacefully with his wife, suddenly woke up one morning with the idea of claiming to be the author of an old book about an extraterrestrial encounter.

On this subject, Cláudio Suenaga says in his investigation: “Oswaldo Pedrosa, still in the role of Dino Kraspedon, appeared once again in 1994 at a UFO congress. He was already weak, nearly blind, and had difficulty moving. After that time, before a judge, he would end up confessing his lie.”

Confessing his lie? It seems to me that he simply told the judge: “I wrote and published this book.” That hardly sounds like a confession of a lie.

But Suenaga is acting in bad faith and seems to harbor an excessive grudge against Pedrosa, which is hard to explain. Here’s what he says about Pedrosa: “After his death, Aladino Félix would see his name […] usurped by a simplistic, prosaic, and mediocre figure, far beneath Félix’s stature. […] There are still those who believe that retired banker Oswaldo Pedrosa really was Dino Kraspedon, despite his limited knowledge and insignificant discourse.”

When we look into Oswaldo Oliveira Pedrosa’s background, we can only see that he was a simple and honest man, who worked hard all his life and was loved by his family and those around him.

But to better understand this situation, let’s now turn to Aladino Félix and see, in a few words, what kind of person he seemed to be…

A Sketch of Aladino Félix’s Portrait

Usually, it’s fairly easy to describe a person, but here we are dealing with quite a colorful character. If we analyze what’s available online, as well as in Suenaga’s investigation, we can begin to form an idea, but Aladino Félix remains a complex subject, difficult to pin down in just a few lines.

In short, his life appears to have been filled with wild adventures, in an atmosphere of conspiracies involving governments, high-ranking military officers, terrorism, imprisonments, escapes, and so on.

He was reportedly a graduate of the CIA (but was dismissed from his position for unknown reasons), allegedly had connections with military authorities (which were always denied by the government), appeared on television and in newspapers, was said to have been involved in terrorist activities (planting bombs), was imprisoned multiple times, and managed to escape from prison more than once (though again, none of the sources provide any details).

Additionally, he reportedly had a group of followers who considered him nothing less than the incarnation of the new Messiah and Savior of the Tribes of Israel (this is what was revealed to him in a dream). And finally, as we know, he was allegedly contacted multiple times by a being from Jupiter (though he kept this secret for no apparent reason). It was then that he supposedly wrote the book Contact with Flying Saucers in just four days.

And this is only a summary of a few selected elements… This larger-than-life portrait leads me to believe that Aladino Félix may have suffered from at least one mood disorder, known as bipolar disorder, formerly called manic-depressive illness. I say “at least” because he could have suffered from other conditions in addition to bipolar disorder.

His sharp intellect, his messianic delusions of grandeur, his paranoia, his fabrications about the CIA, conspiracies, etc., and finally his retreat into the shadows all point to a very high degree of bipolar disorder. If this scenario were accurate, we could assume that a large portion of what Félix told those close to him was pure fabrication stemming from a delusional state.

Another possibility is that we are dealing with a compulsive liar suffering from megalomania. Many similar cases are well-known today. These are people who invent extravagant lives because they cannot stand the idea of being ordinary and poor.

Or, it is also possible that our good judgment is completely wrong about Aladino Félix, that everything he said was entirely true, and that Pedrosa is the liar and a vile scammer (probably an agent from a Brazilian government intelligence service sent to sabotage his extraordinary work, which aimed to revolutionize the world). Public conscience will have to decide for itself.

About The Orbit of the Earth and Gravitation

I had started translating this “second book” into French, but its content is dense and doesn’t seem to have been written by the same author. So I decided to set the project aside while waiting to find more information about it. Pedrosa had nevertheless stated that he had only written one book… which bothered me. But I want to share something interesting regarding this.

Twice, using different excerpts from this book, I asked the artificial intelligence if it could identify the author of these texts. Here’s what the AI replied: “The excerpts you provided come from the book A Verdadeira Teoria da Gravitação Universal by Júlio César de Mello e Souza, published under the pseudonym Malba Tahan in 1959.”

I was surprised… Could Aladino Félix have gone so far as to use texts from a Brazilian scientist to create a sequel to Kraspedon’s book? It’s possible, but AI does sometimes make mistakes. So I tried to track down this book by “Mello e Souza” to compare the texts, but it appears to be very rare and impossible to find. It would have been interesting to know whether Félix had that book in his library…

Then I wanted to repeat the same experiment with another book by Félix. This time I used paragraphs from the book titled The Antiquity of Flying Saucers, and here’s what the AI replied: “The text you provided is an excerpt from the book On the Way to the Light by Francisco Cândido Xavier, published in 1939.”

Still unconvinced, I randomly selected two more paragraphs, and here was the AI’s response: “The text you shared comes from the book Genesis by Francisco Cândido Xavier. This book was first published in 1937.”

And because things come in threes, a third attempt gave the following result: “The text you provided is excerpted from the book What Men Say About the Stars by Joaquim Alves.”

Could it be that Aladino Félix used texts from various authors to create his books? It’s possible. Pulling off this kind of scam in the 1960s without getting caught might have been entirely feasible.

My Thesis

In conclusion, a possible and probable sequence of events is that Pedrosa wrote the first edition, and among the few copies that were sold in 1957 (before being seized by the authorities), one ended up in the hands of Aladino Félix. He may have sent a copy to Russia, which would have derailed the project.

He then may have had the idea to republish the book, adding notes and additional drawings. And he would have made sure to register the work under his own name. He likely sent copies to the United States and England to have them translated. And the years went by…

It’s fair to say that Aladino’s family and friends would have had no way of knowing the truth, of realizing that the book didn’t actually belong to him. They might have suspected something was off, but as his son Raul reportedly said: “We never got involved in my father’s affairs.”

In 1993, when Pedrosa learned that his book had been republished by Aladino Félix, the latter had already left this world 8 years earlier. The ufological community would therefore never have the opportunity to hear these two men face off over the authorship of the work and possibly uncover the truth.

This article was written based on a compilation and adaptation of texts from various sources found on the web, including the investigation by Cláudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga, which you can consult in full at the following addresses:www.claudiosuenaga.com.br and suenagadownloads.yolasite.com