IstoE Magazine
Brazil, May '96
This page shares an extensive report on the Varginha case in
Brasil where two(?) ETs were captured in January of this year.
These reports were shared by my good friend and fellow UFO
researcher in Brazil, Pedro Cuhna. At the end of this page is a
web site address that contains more information. IstoE is the
name of the Magazine in Brazil where this article appears. The
general consensus form all the various UFO researchers in Brazil
who have checked into this case is that there is doubt that it
did happen. In any case, read the article and see the various
reports to discover why all these researchers have come to this
conclusion ...
Enjoy ...............Illinois
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Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 13:10:04 EST5EDT
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Published by Luiza Villamea in the brazilian magazine IstoE,
about the Varginha EBE:
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THE VARGINHA ET CASE
IstoE/1390-22/5/96
The extraordinary report of an alien contact mobilizes ufologists
and involves the Army in the accusation of an abduction.
by LUIZA VILLAMEA
It fell from heaven the recent economic lode in the town of
Varginha, in Minas Gerais. A known coffe exporter, the
municipality gained sudden national fame thanks to a product that
has nothing to do with soil. On last Monday 20th, its inhabitants
celebrated four months of the most extraordinary report of a
close encounter of the third kind between humans and an
extraterrestrial being in the country.
At 15h30 of a sunny Saturday, 20th of January, three girls going
down a track of an empty plot of land in the grounds of Jardim
Andere, and two kilometers away from the town center, when one of
them, Liliane Fatima da Silva, 16, looked over her left side and
screamed. A strange creature, with three protuberances on the
head and viscous skin was about seven meters away, near a wall
which separates the lot from a garage.
"It was squatting, with the long arms between its legs", recalls
the girl. "At first I saw the eyes, enormous and red."
Frightened, Liliane turned her back to the creature, while her
sister Valquiria, 14, and her friend Katia Andrade Xavier, 22,
continued to observe. "It was not animal or human, it was a
horrible thing", says Katia, who works as a housemaid and has
three kids. "It looked dumb, didn't make any noise", adds
Valquiria. The creature, however, appeared to move slightly with
the head and the three girls run away. Forty minutes later, the
mother of Liliane and Valquiria, Luiza Helana Silva, 38, arrived
at the empty plot of ground to look for what had frightened her
daughters. She found nothing.
The story gained proportions because, apparently without any
communications with Liliane, Valquiria and Katia, the couple of
farm workers Oralina Augusta and Eurico Rodrigues assured to have
seen, after midnight on 20th, an unidentified flying object. They
were sleeping in the house of the farm that sits at the edge of
the road that leads from Varginha to Tres Coracoes when they were
awakened by noise of the animals. "The cattle ran from one side
to another of the pasture before our window", says Eurico. "We
looked at the sky and we saw a grey object, with the shape
similar to a submarine, about the size of a small bus, slowly
hovering over the grazing land, at 5 meter above the ground",
describes Oralina. "It was releasing a whitish smoke, did not
have lights nor made any noise." In the town, the association
between the craft and the ET that had shown up 14 hours late was
immediate.
Lawyer and Law professor in one of the four Faculties of the
town, Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues, 40, started to investigate the
case on the following day. Ufologist for more then two decades,
he estimates that only 1% of the descriptions of sightings of
space ships are true. For him, the Varginha case is the exception
that confirms the rule. "What they saw was, as a matter of fact,
a creature unknown on Earth", assured Rodrigues. He concluded,
still, that at least two extraterrestrial biological entities,
name by which the ufologist designate the ETs, were in the town
on day 20th of January. Since then, a legion of researchers of
the phenomena have arrived in Varginha. More precisely, 66
ufologists have already passed by the town to make their
investigations.
"It's a case without precedence in our logs", says the engineer
Claudeir Covo, president of Instituto Nacional de Investigacao de
Fenomenos Aerospaciais (INFA). The psychiatrist professor at the
Harvard Medical School, John Mack, who researched human
encounters with aliens, came down from the United States to make
a series of interviews with the women.
The phenomena ended up outside the circle of researchers of the
theme. Fantastico, of Rede Globo, alone, dedicated three reports
to the case. Under the skin of the actor Reinaldo, the ET arrived
at the program "Casseta & Planeta" on Tuesday, 14th.
Watching himself on television, the mayor Aloysio Ribeiro da
Silva (PPB) was happy. "The ET gave a tremendous publicity to
Varginha", he celebrated. "I am willing to sponsor an
international ufology meeting." Before organizing an event of
this kind, the ufologist intend to conclude an investigation that
takes already four months and points out the Army as responsible
for the capture and occultation of at least one of the two ETs
that allegedly appeared in Varginha. In a document signed by ten
entities, they point out "a true and complex operation involving
military authorities and civil professionals, that resulted in
the capture of creatures non biologically classified, which were
maintained under medical observation and later taken away from
the town." Besides the lawyer Rodrigues, coordinating the
investigation is the ufologist Vitorio Pacaccini, 31, who lives
in Belo Horizonte and went down to the region in the last two
weeks. Both swear that they already heard 14 witnesses of the ET
apparition, among them four military people. But they refuse to
reveal any name or proof, besides a photo of a alleged interview
with two military people who would have participated in the
operation. The ufologists support that one creature would have
been captured by four men of the Fire brigade of Varginha at
10h30 of 20th of January, in the neighbourhood of a wood, only
three blocks away from the empty plot of land in which the girls
would have seen an alien only five hours later. Put in a wooden
box covered by a white fabric, the ET, say the ufologists, was
immediately taken by a military truck to the Escola de Sargento
das Armas (ESA), to the town of Tres Coracoes, 25 kilometers away
from Varginha.
On the following day, still according to the ufologists, another
creature had been seen in the Hospital Regional, in the center of
Varginha - and there the ET would be observed closely by the
three friends. In an operation involving military people from
ESA, Military Police officials and men from the Fire Brigade of
Varginha, the ET, in Rodrigues and Pacaccini version, had been
transported after midnight on Monday 22nd to the Hospital
Humanitas, 1.5 kilometers away from the center, the most
well-equipped of the region.
At about 18 hours of the same day, the creature, already dead,
had been taken to ESA, in a convoy formed by three army
transportation trucks. The same convoy had left Tres Coracoes
military school at 4 hours, Tuesday, 23rd January heading towards
Campinas (Sao Paulo state), where the cargo had been delivered to
another military unit, possibly Escola Preparatoria de Cadetes.
"The whole operation was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Olimpio
Wanderley Santos", says Rodrigues. "We have the testimony of one
military people at ESA, directly involved in the operation,
describing the manouvres", assures Pacaccini. In the recording of
42 minutes, the military tells that, on leaving the Hospital
Humanitas the body smelled very bad.
The Army denies the story. The Comando Militar do Leste
spokesman, colonel Luiz Cesario da Silveira Leite, says that no
military people of the corporation captured any ET. "Our concerns
are with national and foreign aliens, but terrestrials, and not
with extraterrestrials that, I hope, are in peace", he told the
reporter Helio Contreiras, from IstoE. The colonel classified as
"exagerated information that makes relation between the Varginha
ET and the Army". "The ufologists statements are so absurd that
come to be ridiculous", adds the general Sergio Pedro Coelho
Lima, ESA commander. In his office, the general keeps an yellow
file entitled Caso Extraterrestre whose cover reproduces the
solar system. Inside it are filed all the publications about the
subject.
Pointed out as the ET abduction and transportation operation from
Varginha to Campinas, the lieutenant colonel Olimpio Wanderley
Santos says that he knew about his involvement in the case
through telephone calls. "At that time, I thought it was a joke."
In the Army Forces the Air Force is more concerned about the
extraterrestrial phenomena. The I Centro Integrado de Defesa
Aerea e Controle de Trafego Aereo (CINDACTA - Air traffic
control), localized in Brasilia, has a dossie about OVNIS (UFOs).
"There are today non explained cases by the Air Force in relation
to the OVNIS (UFOs)", assured Brigadier Cherubin Rosa Filho (Air
Force), minister of Superior Tribunal Militar. In one of these
most famous cases that involved a former minister, had the
approval of the then Ministro da Aeronautica (Air Force
Minister), brigadier Octavio Moreira Lima, and is completing ten
years without the investigation having reached any conclusion.
The Varginha's ET problem is an episode not clarified and a
coincidence of facts only now revealed increase even more the
mistery that moves the case. The housemaid Luza Helena, mother of
two of the three girls that had seen the alien, denounced that in
the beginning of this month four men in suits visited her in her
house and proposed to pay for her daughters to deny publicly the
ET contact. "They said they would pay in cash", says Luiza
Helena. "They said they would return, but we don't have how to
hide the truth." The quartet did not identified themselves and
the visit was only witnessed by the girls. Their father, a bus
conductor Joao Lopes da Silva, was working when the bribe attempt
took place. The coincidence between the version of ufologists and
the facts only was made public last week.
The Hospital Regional Administator, Adilson Usier Leite, reveals
that in the following week of the alleged ET appearance, the two
town hospitals were stage of exceptional movement. In Hospital
Regional, a Fire Brigade car took a exhumated body to have an
spine x-ray. It was a engineering student, son of a traditional
family of the town, that was found dead in his civil Police cell,
after being arrested, accused of stealing. In Hospital Humanitas,
that Leite also administrated on that occasion, the exceptional
movements was because of the arrival of equipment for the
realization of the first heart transplant in the town.
"When this ET story appeared, I thought better not to comment
that police and fire brigade had been in the Regional", says
Leite. None of this, however, convinced the ufologists. They
insist that they speak the truth when they say that, instead of
new equipment or any special case, the town hospitals as well as
the fire brigade were acting, yes, around a dead ET. And they go
even more: last Tuesday, Rodrigues and Pacaccini returned to
Varginha after a investigation trip to Campinas. "We know
absolutely for sure that the creature had ist necropsy done by
Badan Palhares", says Rodrigues, refering to a known pathologyst
of Universidade de Campinas (UNICAMP).
"At this point, there is a possibility that the creature had been
taken from Brazil to the United States", adds Pacaccini. "I don't
know where they had this imaginative idea", says Palhares in
Campinas. "Effectively I don't know any type of alien matter that
had come to IML or to the UNICAMP."
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Note: IML = Instituto Medico Legal (where postmortem autopsies
take place).
[...]s
Pedro Cunha
P.S. --
Joshua,
You can visit magazine ISTO E home page and find the 22nd of May
edition where you can see pictures of the witnesses and other
ones.
http://www.folha.com.br/istoe/
Greetings,
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