Varginha UFO Incident

Varginha UFO Incident

Date: January 20, 1996

Location: Varginha, Brazil

Military forces captured 2 extraterrestrial creatures still alive in Brazil.

The capture occurred in neighboring areas of city of Varginha, State of Minas Gerais, Central Brazil.

The fact is to be considered one of the most significant ever registered in this country and in the entire world.

Military authorities are keeping secret all details of the operation, but some information has already leaked to the UFO community due to the investigative job of Dr. Ubiraja Franco Rodrigues & Vitorio Paccaccini who live nearby and recognized as serious and dedicated researchers.

On the afternoon of January 20, about 3:30 p.m. local time, 3 young girls named Liliane, Valquiria & Katia observed a strange creature in a field of small bushes a few blocks from where they live.

It was Saturday, and they were coming back from their jobs when, crossing an empty area their attention was attracted by a strange being a few feet away.

The extraterrestrial was kneeling and looked like it was hurt, suffering some sort of pain.

No UFO was ever seen.

The girls observed the entity for a few minutes and ran away, afraid that they had just encountered the devil.

The girls were extensively interrogated by above mentioned researchers, leaving no doubt whatsoever about what happened.

Very simple kids, they described the extraterrestrials as being a dark brown creature, with a small body of 4' to 5' in height, no hair at all, big brown head, small neck.

It also seemed to have some greasy, dark oil on its skin.

A strange odor was noticed by the mother of the girls, when she went to the site.

The head of the creature had 2 big red eyes, no pupils, very small mouth and nose and, what is interesting, 3 protuberances in the head.

The girls described such protuberances as horns.

Following the leads, researchers Rodrigues & Pacaccini started making inquiries everywhere in the town of Varginha, in order to know if anybody else had seen the same creature.

They found several other people who also observed the extraterrestrials in the same location and maybe other extraterrestrials in different locations.

While conducting their own investigations, both discovered that different witnesses has seen army trucks and other military vehicle and personnel that very morning of that day, a few blocks from the place the girls saw the extraterrestrials.

In trying to find out what the military were doing, Rodrigues & Pacaccini came to meet a few soldiers and sergeants.

One of them decided to talk secretly about their mission, in a confidential taped interview.

This Sergeant confirmed that, about 9:00 a.m., January 20th. the Fire Department of Varginha was required to capture a strange animal in the area.

When 4 fireman arrived in a truck in the place, they noticed that it was not any strange animal at all, and reported the fact to the Army Sergeant School Commander in neighboring city of Tres Coracoes, about 10 miles East of Varginha.

An army truck was sent to the place and both forces captured the creature, using nets and equipment regularly used to capture wild animals.

The extraterrestrial was placed, still alive in a box that was then covered by resistant fabric.

The box was placed on top of the truck, the vehicle headed to the Army Sergeant School and all personnel involved was ordered not to talk about it with anyone else.

It was a secret operation, told them the lieutenant colonel Wanderley, who commanded the operation.

After such an unusual, confidential report a few other military decided to come forward and speak about the captures as long as their identities were totally kept secret.

They all confirmed, on taped interviews, that a second creature, possibly the same one seen by the girls that afternoon, was captured on the night of January 20, by personnel from the Army and the Fire Department.

Details of such an operation is fully known.

This creature was identical to the first one, and taken to the Regional General Hospital of Varginha that same night, stayed there for a few hours and then was transferred to a better equipped facility, the Humanitas Hospital.

A few nurses & personnel from Regional General Hospital had confirmed some facts and they were all suppressed.

Individuals who had contacts with the second creature were advised to avoid press and UFO Researchers and not to talk about it with anyone, not ever their families or relations.

At the Humanities Hospital the second creature was kept at least for 2 days and on the second night on January 22nd a huge military operation took place to remove the creature, already dead.

Interviews with some of the military who participated in this new operation, removing the creature from the Humanitas Hospital, declared that 3 Army trucks were used, each one driven by 2 different soldiers.

It is believed that 3 trucks were used to remove only one body in order to avoid the soldiers to know in which truck would it be transported.

The drivers and their followers couldn't see the details of the operations, as they were kept outside the hospital area.

Military personnel from the Army Internal Intelligence, called S-2, in Brazil.

And extremely violent and repressive, were responsible for getting the corpse from the interior of the hospital, placing it in a box and then in one of the trucks.

All 3 trucks then were taken to a military facility in Campinas, State of Sao Paulo, about 200 miles from Varginha, in the middle of the night.

There, the corpse was removed to the University of Campinas, one of the best institutions in the country.

It is believed, and we already have detailed information to be soon released that the extraterrestrial body was autopsied by Dr. Badan Palhares, worldwide acclaimed as one of the best professionals in that live in the area, he was the one who autopsied German Nazi Mengele, about 10 years ago.

Palhares, as well as any other authority involved, denied he was involved in any such operations.

UFO researchers from all over the country have been helping closely Rodrigues & Pacaccini, in order to discover each and every detail of the capture of the extraterrestrials.

Media in Brazil has never been so active and a great majority of population believes that the case is real and that the military and civil authorities involved are keeping the facts secret.

Many strange facts are happening simultaneously, such as prison of soldiers, Sergeants being transferred at short notice and so on and so forth.

The phones of many UFO researchers involved in the case are confirmed to be tapped and a few threats have been made anonymously.

A college professor and amateur ultralight pilot named Carlos de Sousa said he witnessed the crash in Varginha, Brazil on January 13, 1996.

In the film, De Sousa describes the spacecraft as the size of a school bus but shaped like a submarine with white smoke leaking out of a gash in its back.

He compares the UFO to a malfunctioning washing machine, rocking and jerking around in the sky.

De Souza says he ran to the site of the crash where he saw pieces of metal, like a thin aluminum foil, spread across the field.

He said he picked up a piece of the metal, crumpled it in his hand, and then let it go, at which point it returned to its original shape.

Immediately afterward, he says the military showed up and soldiers started screaming at him to go away.

Go away. Go away. I’m ordering you, they yelled, as one officer held a rifle to his face.

7 days later, sisters Liliane & Valquíria Silva and their friend Kátia Xavier were walking through an empty lot in between 2 houses when they spotted the creature just 8' away.

I was in the front and they were a little farther back, Liliane, who was 16 in 1996, explains in Moment of Contact.

Passing by here the graffiti caught my attention.

I looked and I saw the creature, it appeared to be suffering from the heat.

When Liliane screamed, I looked and felt fear, said Valquíria, who was 14 at the time.

I looked into its eyes and saw that it was frightened. Just as I was frightened, the creature was also frightened.

I saw that it was afraid of us, it was an exchange of fears.

It for ours, afraid of us in the same way we were afraid of it. A being we weren’t familiar with.

What I saw stopped me in my tracks, says Katia, who was 21 at the time.

It glued me to that spot.

It had red eyes, oily skin, I couldn’t see an open mouth.

Not smiling, a ad expression.

Shrunken back, it didn’t have hair and eyes 3 times bigger than ours.

After Liliane screamed she started running away and the other 2 girls joined her.

What we saw wasn’t human and wasn’t an animal either.

Nowadays I do think it was a being from another planet, says Liliana.

It wasn’t a man, it wasn’t an animal, what it was, I can’t say, says Valquíria.

After we ran for a while we stopped and asked what we saw and then we ran to our mothers.

I came out to meet the girls, their mother, Luiza, says in the film.

Because mothers have a sixth sense, they were scared and walking slowly and dragging each other.

We were children of Catholics and thought it could be a demon.

That’s why we were so scared, said Liliane.

Luiza made the girls return and when they got back to the spot, their mother saw the footprint in the dirt, which she drew for filmmaker Fox.

It was a round foot with three long toes.

For 20 days I smelled its smell, I couldn’t stand the smell, I don’t know where it came from, I even washed my nose with alcohol and water, said Luiza.

It was an ammonia smell” says Katia.

I couldn’t stand the smell, I don’t know where it came from, It smelled worse than sulfur, Luiza Silva said, describing the creature’s scent.

No, it wasn’t ammonia, says the mother. It smelled worse than sulfur. What a strange smell.

I grabbed Katia and said:

Let’s get out of here.

They told their story to the press and were met mostly with ridicule at the time.

But the girls have not changed their testimony in the 25 years that passed between the event and the making of the film in 2021.

6 miles away from the crash site, according to the film, the military set up a blockade in a residential neighborhood.

Sources say the local fire department, which is under the control of the military police, captured one of the creatures in the morning, and another officer captured a second near where the three girls had seen it later that afternoon.

That was when the creature scratched the young officer, Marco Chereze, who soon grew sick, and sought help at the hospital, according to the film.

The doctor who treated him said Chereze spoke openly about what happened because he feared he was dying and was fighting to survive.

2 people who did not participate in the movie spoke exclusively to The Post about senior Brazilian officials who told them about their own encounters with the creatures.

It was skinny, weak, and fragile, said Vitório Pacaccini, a civilian UFO investigator who said he was shown a 35 second film fragment of the creature by a senior officer in 2012.

It had brown skin with an oil or grease on the body.

It had a big head with red eyes and no pupils.

The face was like a reptile, like a frog with strange red eyes, and 3 protuberances on the top of its head.

Pacaccini said the creature was alive but looked like it was about to die.

It made a little sound, like a bee, he said.

Patricia Fernandes Silva described 2 creatures that were nearly identical to the one described by Pacaccini and the 3 girls.

She says the former sheriff of Varginha who learned she was a UFO researcher invited her into an office building in 2014 where he and 4 other officers interrogated her for hours.

The whole time they were asking me about my relationship to Varginha but I had never investigated the case.

I knew about it, but I had nothing to do with it.

Finally, the senior officer asked the other officers to leave the room.

It was then that he showed her a color photo, shot on film, and printed on Kodak paper.

In the photo, says Silva, were 2 creatures, one dead, and the other crouched in the same way the 3 girls had described it.

It had 3, I won’t say horns, but 3 high abscesses on the forehead, she said.

He took the picture and said:

Are you sure you don’t know anything about this day?

Look at the photo.

I was scared.

But I said:

No. I had no knowledge.

The former sheriff told Silva that his hands had been paralyzed ever since he grabbed the creature by the legs.

The man’s hands were cupped, and he struggled awkwardly to pull the photo out of an old newspaper he kept in a transparent folder, she said.

Unlike Pacaccini and the girls, Silva said the eyes of the creature were black, not red.

But otherwise, she described identical creatures.

The mouth was very small, she said.

The skin of the alive one had a shine, but it was not an oily shine.

It was kind of gooey like he just stepped out of a swimming pool.

It was wet, damp skin.

Pacaccini said he has videotaped interviews with at least 7 military officers about the encounter that he is keeping in secure locations.

After he accused the military of a cover up, he said hostile drivers on 4 separate occasions bumped his car on the highway.

On the fourth time, 2 shots were fired at his car.

He said he has received hundreds of death threats over the years and, in 2004, he moved to Italy to escape.

Moment of Contact comes at a moment of heightened interest in UFOs.

In 2017, mainstream news media covered reports by Navy pilots of UFOs, renamed Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, UAPs, recorded on infrared films.

In May of this year, a Navy intelligence officer said the military had a database of 400 UFO incidents, but no evidence that aliens had ever been found.

At the same time, the military has not ruled out that the UFOs are operated by extraterrestrials.

In June, NASA announced it was joining the military’s investigation into UFOs.

Jacques Vallée, an astronomer and leading ufologist, said members of the public are increasingly starting to believe extraterrestrials are real.

But the girls have not changed their testimony in the 25 years that passed between the event and the making of the film in 2021.

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