Ominous images of a perfectly spherical UFO, seemingly dotted with yellow ‘landing lights,’ have left some researchers certain one is ‘the first selfie with a UFO in history.’

Taken by Brazilian UFO researcher and author Edie Meireles in 2011, the snaps show the apparent craft above a hiking trail to ‘La cascada de la purificación,’ a chilly waterfall in Brazil’s high-altitude Chapada Diamantina National Park.

What followed, at least, according to one of Meireles’ UFO-hunting peers, was years of ‘threats and intrigues’ — with two members of their group ‘killed by the military’ and three more ‘abducted.’