Tonight’s World Cup clash between Brazil and Scotland at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens kicks off at 11pm UK time — and if one of Brazil’s most followed psychics is to be believed, it could end with thousands of fans and players being beamed aboard a UFO mothership.
Vó Bahiana, whose real name is Elisângela de Souza, has gone viral across the globe after posting a warning on 2 June to her 23.4 million Instagram followers, urging people to stay away from the stadium tonight. “Do not go to the stadium in Miami on June 24, 2026. Stay away,” she said in the video, which has since spread far beyond Brazil’s borders after actor Jay Klay shared his own take on TikTok, racking up 1.1 million views.
The 54-year-old spiritualist claims she had two separate dreams about the fixture, both featuring a similar sequence of events. In the first, a spacecraft descends on the Hard Rock Stadium pitch carrying more than 100 alien beings, who use enormous mechanical arm-like devices to pluck players from the field and carry them into the ship. When the first craft rises, a mothership — described as significantly larger — arrives and sweeps up over 700 people from inside the stadium, including fans, workers, referees and players. She says a second fleet of extraterrestrials follows, allegedly carrying so-called “Reptilians,” a category of alien being familiar to UFO conspiracy theory enthusiasts.
“When the ship rose, the mothership arrived, a much larger ship, and took in thousands of people from the soccer field,” she said in an emotional video. “I saw so much screaming, so much crying, so many tears, suffering. I am very terrified because it is the second time I am dreaming about this. They are saying that on the 24th, something very bad is about to happen at this game, at this soccer field in Miami.” Bahiana initially stated the abduction would take place on 26 June before correcting the date to 24 June — the night of the Scotland fixture, according to the Daily Record.
So who is Vó Bahiana and how credible is she? Her supporters in Brazil credit her with predicting the catastrophic floods that devastated Rio Grande do Sul state and affected more than two million people, as well as foreseeing the deaths of musicians Chrystian and João Carneiro. However, as Distractify noted, critics say her track record consists largely of celebrity breakups that were widely expected and political predictions that anyone following current events might make. She was notably wrong when she predicted a tsunami would strike Brazil in 2024. Sceptics on X were blunt. “This is so fake even the aliens don’t believe it,” one user wrote. Another posted: “This girl is, like, watching too many sci-fi movies and dreaming the same stuff.” A third predicted she would “lose most of her followership when this doesn’t happen.”
Not everyone is dismissing her out of hand. UFO enthusiasts have pointed to what they describe as a surge in unexplained aerial sightings over Brazil in recent months, and some have drawn parallels with predictions attributed to Baba Vanga, the late Bulgarian mystic who died in 1996 and who is frequently — though largely without independent verification — credited with predicting major world events. One prophecy linked to Vanga describes “a new light in the sky” appearing over a major sporting event watched by millions. The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have confirmed there are no credible security threats linked to the World Cup, and no government has ever provided definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.
On the football itself, tonight’s Group C fixture is shaping up to be one of the most anticipated matches of the tournament. Brazil come into the game as heavy favourites, featuring 34-year-old Neymar, back at his boyhood club Santos and making what many expect to be his farewell World Cup appearance. Scotland, meanwhile, will be desperate to build on a positive start to the tournament after beating Haiti in their opening group stage fixture, with Steve Clarke’s men hoping to reach the knockout stages for the first time in the country’s history. Brazil’s previous World Cup fixture against Morocco drew an estimated 250 million viewers worldwide, and with the overall tournament expected to attract more than five billion viewers globally, tonight’s match at Hard Rock Stadium could become one of the most-watched sporting events in history — alien intervention or otherwise.
Kick-off is at 6pm Eastern Time, 11pm UK time. Whether or not the mothership shows up, it promises to be quite a night.
