ET Captured in Varginha, Brazil

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     From: "AUFORA News Update" {watanabe@acs.ucalgary.ca}
     Originally to: auforatag3@nowhere.com,
     Original Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 20:59:47 -0600

     AUFORA News Update
     Thursday, May 30th, 1996
     _______________________

     **This article originally published in the ISTOE magazine in
     Brazil.**
     It has been kindly translated by Regina Guimaraes

     This article can also be found at:

     http://ume.med.ucalgary.ca/aufora/news/updates/053096.html
     [english]
     http://www.folha.com.br/istoe/politica/139037.htm

                              The Case of the
                         Varginha Extraterrestrial

     Varginha, a small town in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, has
     become famous overnight because of something other than its
     excellent coffee. Local people celebrate now the four-month
     anniversary of the most extraordinary close encounter with
     extraterrestrials ever to be registered in the country. At 3:30
     p.m. , on a sunny and bright Saturday afternoon , January 20th,
     three girls were coming down a narrow path in the area known as
     Jardim Andere, 2 kilometers away from the city centre, when one
     of them, Liliane Fatima Silva, 16 years old, looked left and
     screamed. She had seen a strange creature, with slippery brownish
     skin and what looked like three small rounded horns protruding
     from its head, at about 7 meters from the point they were
     standing. it was near the back wall of an old garage. "He was
     squatting , with his long arms between his legs", the girls say.
     "The first thing to call my attention were his eyes, huge and
     red". Terrified, Liliane turned her back while her sister
     Valquiria, 14 years old and their friend Katia Andrade Xavier, 22
     years old, stayed looking at the creature, unable to move. "It
     was not an animal and it wasn't certainly human.It was a horrible
     thing!" , says Katia who works as a maid and has three children.
     "He seemed stupefied. He didn't make any noise.", says Valquiria.
     But then, the creature made a small movement and the three girls
     ran for dear life. Forty minutes later, Liliane and Valquiria's
     mother , Luiza Helena, 38 years old, arrived at the place to find
     out what had scared her daughters so much. She found nothing.

     The story has been widely publicised because, apparently without
     knowing about the incident involving the 3 girls, an elderly
     couple, Oralina Augusta and Eurico Rodrigues, who work as
     farmhands , insist on having seen a UFO very early in the morning
     of January 20th. They were sleeping in their house which is
     located near the road which goes from Varginha to Tres Coracoes
     when they woke to the noise made by the cows. They looked out of
     the window to see the animals totally disoriented and running
     around the house .

     Eurico says: "We looked at the sky and saw a grey object, similar
     to a submarine, the size of a small bus, flying very slowly over
     the ground", describes Oralina. "There was something like white
     smoke coming out of it. There were no lights and it wasn't making
     any noise." Local people immediately associated this spaceship
     with the ET who appeared 14 hours later.

     The day after, Mr. Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues , a UFOlogist and a
     lawyer who teaches at one of the four colleges in Varginha,
     started investigating the incident. Mr. Rodrigues has been
     studying UFOs for over 20 years now and he says that only 1% of
     the so-called UFO sightings are authentic. For him, the Varginha
     episode is the exception which confirms the rule. "What these
     women saw was, without any doubt, an alien creature", says Mr.
     Rodrigues. He has also concluded, after his investigation, that
     at least 2 EBEs (extraterrestrial biological entities) and not
     only one were seen in town on January 20th.

     Since then, a great number of ufologists have visited Varginha.
     To be more precise,66 specialists have been to the city to
     investigate the event. " It is certainly the most extraordinary
     thing we have ever heard about ,and we have lots of registers of
     UFO apparitions", says Mr. Claudeir Covo, an engineer who is the
     president of the Instituto Nacional de Investigacao de Fenomenos
     Aeroespaciais (INFA). Mr. John Mack, a professor of Psychiatry at
     Harvard Medical School is a specialist in research with human
     beings who have been in close contact with ETs. He travelled all
     the way from the U.S. to Varginha especially to do a series of
     interviews with the three women who said they had seen the alien.

     The repercussion of the episode reached beyond the specialists in
     UFOs. The most popular Brazilian TV program covered the subject
     three times in less than two weeks and the mayor of Varginha is
     considering the possibility of organizing an international
     congress. But before such an event, the ufologists working there
     intend to finish their investigation which lasts 4 months already
     and which points at the army as the party responsible for the
     CAPTURING AND HIDING of at least 1 of the 2 aliens who are
     supposed to have been seen in Varginha. In a report signed by 10
     DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS, they unveil "a REAL , complex operation
     involving military personnel as well as civilians, which resulted
     in the capture of unidentified biological creatures . These
     creatures, according to these organizations, were kept under
     medical observation for some time and later on removed from the
     city".

     Apart from Mr. Rodrigues, another ufologist, Mr. Vitorio
     Pacaccini, 31 years old, has been travelling to the area over the
     past few weeks. Both specialists swear to have listened to 14
     witnesses of the ET episode, among which 4 people from the army.
     But they refuse to reveal any names or evidence, apart from a
     photograph of a supposedly interview with 1 of the officers or
     soldiers who would have participated in the operation. The
     ufologists insist that an alien would have been captured by 4
     firemen at 10:30 a.m., on January 20th near a wood which is
     located a few meters from the place where the girls would have
     seen their ET and about 5 hours before Liliane, Valquiria and
     Katia had the fright of their lives.

     According to the ufologists, the alien was immediately placed
     inside a wooden box, covered with a white cloth, put inside an
     army truck and taken to the Escola de Sargentos das Armas , in
     Tres Coracoes, a bigger town about 25 kilometers from Varginha.
     The day after, still according to the specialists, another ET
     would have been seen at the Hospital Regional, in the city centre
     and this time, yes, it would be the alien seen by the 3 girls. In
     an operation involving military personnel from the Escola de
     Sargentos , officers from the military police and the fire
     brigade, the ET, said Mr. Rodrigues and Mr. Pacaccini, would have
     been taken , before dawn, on Monday, January 22nd to the Hospital
     Humanitas, the best hospital in the area, 1.5 kilometers from the
     city centre . At about 6:00 o'clock p.m. , on the same day, the
     ET , already dead would have been taken back to the Escola de
     Sargentos in one truck which was part of a convoy of three
     vehicles.

     The same convoy would leave the school in Tres Coracoes at 4:00
     o'clock a.m. , on tuesday, January 23rd . Destination: Campinas
     (a much bigger city upstate Sao Paulo) where the "cargo" would
     have been delivered to another military unit, probably the Army
     Cadets Prep School.

     "All this operation was coordinated by lieutenant-colonel Olimpio
     Wanderley Santos", says Mr. Rodrigues. "We have the testimony of
     an army officer from the Escola de Sargentos in Tres Coracoes who
     was directly involved in the operation. He describes in detail
     everything that happened during those days", adds Mr. Pacaccini.
     In the 42-minute recording, this person says that decomposition
     had already begun and when the corpse left Hospital Humanitas the
     smell was pretty bad.

     The army, of course, denies everything. The mouthpiece for the
     East Military Area, colonel Luiz Cesario da Silveira Leite, says
     that no military personnel of any kind helped capture an alien.
     "We worry a lot about national and international beings but only
     if they are terrestrials...", said the colonel to the reporter.
     The colonel has also classified as "exaggerated" all the
     connections between the ET and the army. "What the ufologists say
     is ridiculous", says general Sergio Pedro Coelho Lima, the
     commanding officer of the Escola de Sargentos. According to him,
     the Air Force is the military organization which looks after
     extraterrestrial phenomena. The Centro Integrado de Defesa Aerea
     e controle de Trafego Aereo (CINDACTA) located in Brasilia has a
     dossier about UFOs. "It is true that there are lots of cases
     which remain unsolved until today", confirms brigadier Cherubim
     Rosa Filho, a minister of the Military Supreme Court. One of the
     most famous cases involving an ex-minister, was confirmed by
     brigadier Otavio Moreira Lima (the minister for the Air Force at
     that time)and is now celebrating its 10th anniversary without any
     conclusive facts.

     But what made the Varginha episode unique are some of the details
     which only now are known to the public and which intensify the
     mystery involving the whole thing. Luiza Helena, the mother of
     Liliane and Katia , the girls who insist having seen the ET,
     insists that at the beginning of this month, 4 men wearing suits
     came to her house and offered to pay a large sum if her daughters
     denied their contact with the alien. "They said they would pay
     cash", says Luiza. " They also said they would come back, but we
     can't hide the truth". The 4 men did not identify themselves and
     only the girls were present when they arrived. Their father, Joao
     Lopes da Silva, a bus conductor, was working when the attempted
     bribery happened. The coincidence between what the ufologists had
     discovered and these facts only got publicised last week. The
     administrator of Hospital Regional, Adilson Usier Leite, confirms
     that the week after the appearance of the supposedly ET, the 2
     city hospitals went through unusual commotion. In the Hospital
     Regional, a car belonging to the fire squad brought a corpse
     which , they said, had been exhumated and needed an X-ray. The
     body was said to belong to a young boy, a university student and
     the son of an influential family in town who had been found dead
     in a cell, at the police station , after having been arrested for
     burglary.At the Hospital Humanitas, also administered by Mr.
     Leite at the time, the unusual movement was connected with the
     arrival of new equipment to be used during the first heart
     transplant to be done in Varginha. "When everybody started
     talking about this ET story, I thought it would be better not to
     mention that policemen and firemen had been at the hospital",
     says Mr. Leite.

     But nothing convinces the ufologists. They insist that they are
     telling the truth when they say that instead of new equipment or
     a special criminal occurrence, both hospitals in town as well as
     the fire brigade were trying to HIDE THE BODY of an ET. And they
     go further: last Tuesday, Mr. Rodrigues and Mr. Pacaccini went
     back to Varginha after having been to Campinas. "We know without
     any shadow of doubt, that the creature was autopsied by Dr. Badan
     Palhares", says Mr. Rodrigues referring to the very well-known
     coroner of the Universidade de Campinas (UNICAMP). " By now, it
     is very likely that the body has already been flown from Brazil
     to the U.S.A.", finished Mr.Pacaccini. "I don't know where this
     idea came from", denies Dr. Palhares in Campinas.

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     PUBLIC REPORT SIGNED BY
     BRAZILIAN ORGANIZATIONS
     INTERESTED IN UFOS

     THE VARGINHA ET
     URGENT

     The Brazilian ufologists here represented by the organizations
     they belong to, after more than 3 months of intensive
     investigation, have no doubts of any sort that what happened in
     Varginha in January of 1996 was a gigantic cover up operation
     involving military personnel and civilians , and which resulted
     in the CAPTURE OF BIOLOGICALLY UNIDENTIFIED CREATURES. These
     creatures were KEPT UNDER MEDICAL OBSERVATION AND LATER ON WERE
     REMOVED FROM THE TOWN. This is a unique event in Brazil with
     unimaginable repercussion both scientific and philosophical.
     However, ufologists all over the world have come to the consensus
     that there is a widespread tendency for countries where these
     events take place to hide them from the public.

     Ufology has been fighting for over 50 years now so as to make
     sure people in general have access to information about such
     events since the right to have access to the truth should be
     unquestionable to all humanity,

     If you are a direct or indirect witness to the Varginha episode,
     get in touch with us since this event may have an enormous
     significance to all mankind. Be sure your anonymity will be
     preserved. Researchers, journalists and specialists are united in
     this task. Our telephone number for contacts is: (035)222-1020 -
     Varginha - Minas Gerais.

     Signed by:

     Claudeir Corvo - Instituto Nacional de Investigacao de Fenomenos
     Aeroespacia= is.

     Edson Boaventura Jr. and Jamil Vilanova - Grupo Ufologico do
     Guaruja - Sao Paulo

     Oswaldo and Eduardo Mondini - Centro de Pesquisas Exologicas -
     Sumare - Sao Paulo

     Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas de Discos Voadores e revista UFO 0
     Campo Grande - Mato Grosso

     Marco Antonio Petit de Castro - Associacao Fluminense de Estudos
     Ufologicos - Itaipava - Rio de Janeiro

     Rafael Cury - Associacao Nacional dos Ufologos do Brasil -
     Curitiba - Parana

     Irene Granchi - Centro de Investigacao sobre a natureza dos
     Extraterrestres - Rio de Janeiro -

     Marco Antonio Rodrigues Silva - Grupo de Estudos de Objetos nao
     Identificados - Sao Paulo

     Vitorio Pacaccini - Centro de Investigacao Civil de Objetos
     Aereos Nao Identificados - Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais

     Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues

     Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisa de Discos Voadores - Campo Grande -
     Mato Grosso.

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     AUFORA News Update Issue 05.30.96
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