Comprehensive Historical Report
                            of theVarginha Case

                               Claudeir Covo
            (August, '96,-- To Appear in Planeta Magazine 9/96)

     It is clear that the Varginha case is one of the most convincing
     UFO cases in the public eyes. Continuous information is coming
     out of Brazil due to the dedication of the UFO researchers there.
     Included on this page is a very comprehensive report from one of
     the most well known Brasilian UFO Researchers, who I had the
     pleasure to meet in February of 1994, Claudeir Covo. This
     information was sent to us by our dear friend Pedro Cunha,
     another tireless and dedicated researcher, who (with the help of
     his wife) translated this report into English.

     Enjoy ...............Illinois

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     Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 20:00:58 EST5EDT
     From: Pedro Cunha {pedro.cunha@navigat.ax.apc.org}
     Organization: The Navigator BBS * 011-61-2437676,Brazil
     Reply-To: Pedro Cunha {pedro.cunha@navigat.ax.apc.org}
     To: rshapiro@interaccess.com
     Subject: UpDate About Varginha

     Hello Joshua,

     This is an article to be publisbed in Planeta Magazine in Brazil.
     It was received in our private list ovnibr-l on 23rd of August,
     1996:

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     From: "Sergio Valle" {valleser@embratel.net.br}
     Originally to: aviacao.ufo-rbt@rbt.plug-in.com.br
     Original Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 19:10:40 -0300 (EST)

     From: TERRAQUEOS {asaliah@portoweb.com.br}
     To: "'Aos Terraqueos'" {rherrera@music.pucrs.br}
     Subject: Relatorio Varginha.
     Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 21:19:46 -0300

     People of Terraqueos (earthlings list):

     From the ufologist Rogerio Porto Breier, who is kindly
     colaborating with the Terraqueos list, I got this report about
     the Varginha case which will be published in Planeta Magazine
     this month. Unfortunately, I am publishing this document with a
     delay of one week, because as I explained before, I don't know
     what happened to the original diskette. I re-scanned the text
     again. It maybe happen that some of the written words are wrong
     (TN: in the original text in Portuguese) because of the OCR
     conversion. Read, and then tell me what you think.

     HERRERA

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     THE VARGINHA'S ETs

     The ufologists below represented by the renown groups of research
     to which they belong to, after more than three months of intense
     investigations, as well as comparisons of information from
     different orders, don't have the slightest doubt of what happened
     in Varginha. On the following 2oth day immediatly after January
     of the year 1996, a truly and complex operation involving
     military authorities and civil professionals, which resulted in
     the CAPTURE of non biologicaly classified creatures,
     para-scientifcaly called "EBEs" (Extratrrestrial Biological
     Entities), which were maintained UNDER MEDICAL OBSERVATION AND
     LATELY TAKEN OUT OF THE CITY. This is a unique fact in Brazil,
     which confirmation can bring invaluable and non mesurable impacts
     of cultural, philosofical order and of a huge proportion.

     But, the consensus among ufologists of all over the planet that
     there's clearly a world process of cover up and disinformation
     about facts of that type, being known the incontestable evidences
     of such a procedure, whose reasons are obvious and inumerous. The
     Ufology and related studies are fighting for more than fifty
     years for the actual information and the public recognize of such
     events occur, because the right to the truth is one of the main
     targets of all the Human race.

     If you were a direct or indirect witness of the happenings in
     Varginha, please look to us and help us to definitely solve them,
     which means a spectacular aquisition and also history marking.
     Being asked, the secrecy will granted. Researchers, colaborators
     and press responsible members are united under this ideal.

     Our telephones will answer through the number 55-(0)61-2721441,
     in Sao Paulo, SP.

     Claudeir Covo
     INFA - Instituto Nacional de Investigacao de Fenomenos
     Aeroespaciais - Sao Paulo - SP

     Edison Boaventura Junior

     Jamil Vila Nova
     GUG - Grupo Ufologico do Guaruja - SP

     Eduardo Miondini
     Osvaldo Mondini
     CEPEX- Centro de Pesquisas Exologicas - Sumare- SP

     Ademar Jose Cevaerd
     CBPDV - Centro Bras. de Pesq de Discos Voadores e Revista UFO -
     Campo Grande - MS

     Marco Antonio Petit de Castro
     AFEU - Associacao Fluminense de Estudos Ufologicos - Itaipava- RJ

     Rafael Cury
     ANUB - Associacao Nacional dos Ufologos do Brasil - Curitiba- PR

     Irene Granchi
     CISNE - Centro de Investigacao Sobre a Naureza dos Extaterrestres
     - Rio de Janeiro - R J

     Marco Antonio Rodrigues Silva
     GEONI - Grupo de Estudos de Objetos Nao Ideniificados - Sao Paulo
     - SP

     Vitorio Pacaccini
     INFA - Instituto Nacional de Investigacao de Fenomenos
     Aeroespaciais - Sao Paulo - SP

     Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues
     INFA - lnstituto Nacional de lnvestigacao de Fenomenos
     Aeroespaciais - Sao Paulo - SP

     Varginha - MG - May, 1996
     ======================
     Claudeir Covo

     The Engineer Claudeir Covo is the president of INFA - Instituto
     Nacional de Investigacao de Fenomenos Aeroespaciais, as well as
     taking part of the front line of the group of ufologists who are
     researching the Varginha Case. Any military or civil people who
     had any participations in the facts or knowledge of details and
     who wish to help to definitely elucidate what happened in
     Varginha and later in Campinas, please get in touch through the
     telephone 55-(0)61-272-1441 or Caixa Postal 42.700 - CEP 04299
     970 - Ipiranga - Sao Paulo - SP.

     For obvious reasons, please call from public telephone boxes and
     don't give your names or addresses in letters. Change your voice
     and writing. If this is the case, we will set up a meeting.
     Absolute secrecy of the informer will be kept. Help the
     ufologists to solve completely all that happened in the Varginha
     Case. The Human race has the right to know the truth.

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     The Varginha's ETs
     by Claudeir Covo

     The great majority of the population of Varginha, an important
     town in the South of Minas Gerais, still have no notion of what
     happened in the region, on 20th/01/1996 (January 20th, 1996).

     Even today, when the research is still at full steam, the whole
     town still asks if everything of what was said is not a
     "halucination" of the brazilian ufologists or if really there was
     something real. Of the 120,000 inhabitants, several hundreds saw
     something strange in the day and following of 20th/01/1996, but
     only a few dozen of people, and some civilians and military,
     truly national heroes, had the courage to come to the public, or
     looked for ufologists who are taking care of the case, and
     reported what they saw. Many civilian people had a direct of
     indirect participation of the facts, but unfortunately the great
     majority lost courage before the press and the ufologists. Fear
     of being laughed at? Fear of the ridiculous? Fear of loosing the
     job? Fear of retaliation? Hidden interests? Lamentable.

     The fear to "open one's mouth", to the military, is perfectly
     understandable, as the reprisals are grave, that is, military
     prosecution, humiliation, jail, transfer (invisible punishment),
     removal, expulsion, etcetera, but, by the civilian people, it
     doesn't make sense. Of the inumerous names that we have in our
     hands, of people that lost the courage, in the future, in the
     right moment, will be published by the press. The ufologists in
     the front line of this case are writing a book, and soon we will
     have news of a great movie production from North America.
     Contacts have been done. The Roswell case is small before what
     happened in Varginha. It won't be strange if Steven Spielberg
     gets interest for the case. Thus, television, radio, newspapers,
     magazines, cinema, books, etc..., are and will continue to
     register the historic facts, as well as praising the name of the
     heroes and revealing the names of those who lost courage. There
     is still time for those people to look for the ufologists and
     talk about what they saw and heard. It is a matter of revealing
     the truth to the public. All the population should stop and
     evaluate what the press is divulging. It is time to stop teasing
     and to reflect about the facts. Don't forget that several
     ufologists who got involved in the Varginha Case are lawyers,
     entepreuners, engineers, medical doctors, etcetera... Such
     persons will never "waste time" if there weren't something of
     real and concreet in the facts.

     THE UFOLOGIC "SENSE OF SMELL"

     Probably all that was divulged about the Varginha Case, would
     have been passed in white clouds, and the population would never
     had knowledge of the facts, if in Varginha wouldn't live the
     important lawyer, ufologist and friend Ubirajara Franco
     Rodrigues, that with his ufologic "sense of smell" soon realized
     that something real happened in the region. Ubirajara returned
     from Sao Tome das Letras, a known town near Varginha, in
     21st/01/1996, when he learned that some of the youngsters had
     seen a strange being, the day before, which had been captured by
     the military people in the region and taken to the town's
     hospital. After one week at starting the research Ubirajara was
     already divulging the facts to the press in general.

     The entrepreuner, ufologist and friend Vitorio Pacaccini, from
     Belo Horizonte, after getting to know the facts through the
     press, went down to Tres Coracoes, town where his mother lives,
     getting together with Ubirajara to research the case. Pacaccini
     also was an important researcher in the Varginha Case, mainly
     after the contact with several military people who reported the
     fact. After that, INFA - Instituto Nacional de Investigacao de
     Fenomenos Aeroespaciais, presided by Claudeir Covo, together with
     Edison Boaventura Junior, Jamil Vila Nova, Eduardo Mondini and
     Oswaldo Mondini, got together into the investigation of the
     Varginha Case, thus forming the already known Group of the Seven,
     who obtained important information about the passage of the ETs
     in Campinas, and Sao Paulo. Many other ufologists, directly or
     indirectly, also contribuited for the case.

     After six months of research, being that the Varginha Case is
     still under research, the ufologist got 15 important testimonies
     taped in audio and video, and seven being of civilians and eight
     from military people who reported many details and the several
     steps of the facts that occured in Varginha. For obvious reasons,
     the names of the informers are under absolute secrecy. Who knows
     in the near future such names will be liberated to the press, and
     when there will be authorization for that.

     Thus, based in the investigations, the ufologists found out
     thousands of important details, which will be presented in a
     short form in this article. Many details area totally the
     expression of the truth, being that some came in a fragmented
     form, of which they will be better researched, but helped to put
     the enormous puzzle together. For sure, all that is being
     reported here, is only a small part of what happened in Varginha.
     All the action involved military from different areas, and we
     have here a great difficulty to clear the facts, because they
     deny everything, officialy because, lamentable, the subject
     flying saucer and extra-terrestrial beings, at a world level, are
     considered as "NATIONAL SECURITY", and are visibly covered up.

     THE GREAT WORLD FLAP

     Since August/1995, when humanity had the knowledge of the autopsy
     of an alleged extra-terrestrial, which sadly is a fraud (read
     Revista Planeta, September/1995), coincidently there were an
     frightening increase of ufologic occurences, where people from
     different countries sighted, photographed and filmed serveral
     UFOs over the skies. There was a great world Flap, that still
     continues, that took the main means of communication to dedicate
     many programs about the ufologic matter. In Brazil, besides
     Varginha, there were several towns which appeared, not only in
     sightings, but also with photographs, films, landings,
     eletromagnectic effects, sightings of beings and even cases of
     people being attacked by "strange creatures". Joacaba in Santa
     Catarina, Sumare and neighbouring towns in the interior of Sao
     Paulo and also in the coast line, and south of Minas. Guarabira
     in Paraiba and Manaus in Amazonas. Some military sources, radar
     operators, confirmed that there was an increase in the number of
     significative 'plots' on the radar screens in the last 13 months.

     NATIONAL ALERT

     In the days preceding the facts occurred on 20th/01/1996 (January
     20th, 1996) in Varginha, many people saw several lights in the
     region's skies. Brazilian military secretly, informed the
     ufologists that the north american military were tracking these
     objects through satellites and informed the Brazilian Government
     of the great UFO concentration in the South of Minas Gerais.
     Without any doubts, CINDACTA I, in Brasilia, was also tracking
     such objects. Many military people speak about a military
     cooperation agreement between Brazil and USA. The tracking by
     satellites allow the detection of the fall or landing of a craft
     with an error of a few meters.

     By the action of the military people in Varginha there's no doubt
     that they really knew in anticipation of what was happening. Such
     information was obtained in fragmented form, but give us an idea
     of how the military people acted quickly. Probably CINDACTA I
     realized that a "plot" disappeared from the radar screens.
     Conclusion, if crashed or landed, where abouts? Varginha. South
     of Minas. What was the nearest military base to that point? ESA,
     Escola de Sargento das Armas of the Army in Tres Coracoes, 27 Km
     away from Varginha. A simple phone call and all the operation was
     started, under the coordination of the Servico de Inteligencia do
     Exercito (Army Intelligence Service), known as S2.

     20th/01/1996 (January 20th, 1996) - 01:30 Hs (AM)

     The couple Eurico Rodrigues de Freistas (40) and Oralina Augusta
     de Freitas (37), in a farm 10 Km away from the Varginha's center
     woke up because of the noise of frightened cattle, which were
     running from one side to another. As they opened the window, they
     saw what seemed to be a small craft, about a minibus size, in a
     submarine shape, that hovered slowly over the place, for about 40
     minutes, at an altitude of 5 meters high above the ground. The
     ship was dark (lights off) and had on one of its ends an
     apparently damaged structure and was releasing a lot of smoke.
     The couple described that there was no noise from the ship and
     that apparently the damaged structure pieces of fuselage were
     hanging, swinging as clothes in the wind. The ship slowly flew
     towards Jardim Andere, a quarter block in Varginha.

     The first conclusion drawn by the ufologists, not a definite one,
     is that this ship had one of its ends damaged by an explosion,
     which scattered a great quantity of small metal pieces around the
     region, and the ship still remained in the air during some time
     and after that it crashed, near to Jardim Andere, probably
     wounding part of its crew, which seeked for shelter in the woods
     near the quarter block. There are military people assurring that
     the ship was recovered and sent to USA. This fact hasn't being
     confirmed so far.

     20th/01/1996 (January 20th, 1996) - 08:30 HS (AM)

     Varginhas Fire Corps received a phone call, no one knows from
     who, telling them there was a strange animal in Jardim Andere
     quarter. Perhaps one of the locals have called the Fire Corps, or
     perhaps that person had called 190 and the Military Police had
     called the Fire Corps. There is also the hypothesis that the Army
     had called the Fire Corps. Nets, gloves and equipment were
     prepared and a vehicle was moved to the locality, with 4 men,
     under the coordination of Major Maciel.

     20th/01/1996 - (January 20th, 1996) 10:30 HS (AM)

     Within Jardim Andere, Suecia Street, in front of number 3,
     there's a gully, right bellow the railway line, leading to a
     small wood. In this street, at least three adults and three
     children were following all the movement. Some people say that
     one of the kids threw stones at the strange creature, that was
     coming down the bank, crossed over the railway line and hid in
     the woods. The Fire Corps men arrived, went down the gully, and
     spotted the strange being, and with the help of a net, quickly
     captured the being. According to some of the witnesses, the
     strange creature was dizzy and did not offer any resistence.

     The Fire Corps climbed up the steep bank and found, besides the
     Fire Corps vehicle, a Army vehicle. The strange creature, still
     in the net, was put in a wooden box, which was covered with a
     tarpaulin, and was put on top of an Army truck, under the guard
     of two soldiers. This truck went to ESA, in Tres Coracoes, and
     the Fire Corps vehicle returned to its quarters.

     From a distance of 100 meters there were some bricklayers and hod
     carriers, who were filling up a cement slab, and followed all the
     military movements there. As for the adults and children who were
     there, they went up the road, and Henrique Jose de Souza, a
     bricklayer, asked them what the military people were doing in the
     gully, and they said they had captured a strange creature. At
     least two military people assurred that this being was kept in
     captivity, in ESA, for 24 hours. After that it was put in a cage,
     and by helicopter departed to Brasilia, and after that a jet
     airplane had gone to the USA with it. Such fact also is still not
     confirmed.

     20th/01/1996 (January 20th, 1996) - 14:00 HS

     A civilian witness, who had been in the military service, and who
     asked to not be publicly identified, observed at least seven
     military people from the Army, with tipical camouflage garment,
     armed with FAL (light automatic rifle), who were coming, on foot
     by the railway line and neighbourhood, doing a type of scanning
     of the region, when they got in the small wood where the first
     being was captured by the Fire Corps earlier in the morning. In
     one determined moment this witness heard three shots from the FAL
     rifles, which had a well known metallic sound. A military person
     in Campinas said that one of the creatures was helping another
     lying on the ground, apparently wounded.

     Perhaps this creature had shown an attack reaction sign against
     the military people and ended up hit on the chest by three FAL
     shots. The military person informed that one of these creatures
     was different from the others, with black fur covering its body.
     Such information is still not confirmed and is under
     investigation by the ufologists. The civilian witness said that a
     few minutes after the three shots, the military people came out
     of the woods with two bags, typically used by the Army. One of
     the bags had "something" moving a lot inside, while the other one
     had "something" imobile. The volume in each one of the bags was
     equivalent to that captured being by the Fire Corps earlier in
     the morning.

     Consequently, if these two bags contained two more strange
     creatures, one alive and the other one dead, we would have the
     capture of three of these beings, two alive and one dead. Such
     information, by arriving fragmented, were not 100% trustworthy.
     We are waiting for some of the military people who participated
     in this operation, to tell us more details.

     20th/01/1996 - (January 20th, 1996) 15:30 HS

     The youngsters Katia Andrade Xavier, 22, Liliane Fatima da Silva,
     16 and Valquiria Aparecida da Silva, 14, were returning home by
     foot, after work. When they were crossing over a empty plot of
     land, at Benevenuto Braz Vieira Street, beside number 76, land
     that is three quarters blocks away from the place where the Fire
     Corps had captured the first creature, they saw something
     frightening. A being of about 1.60 Meters height, skinny, dark
     brown shiny skin, as if it had passed some kind of cream on it,
     with many bulgy veins, two legs with enormous feet with two toes
     on each one, with two arms and hands with three fingers in each
     one, a big head with three bone formations on the top, one on
     each side and the other on the center of the head, without any
     apparent hair, big eyes, blood red color and bulging out like
     frog's eyes. The military people who saw the captured beings,
     besides confirming this description, added by saying that the
     beings had only two holes instead of a nose, a small mouth, a
     black thin tongue, and about the damages caused by the storm. As
     a matter of fact, the military had knowledge that there were more
     beings in the region. At least one, the one that Katia, Liliane
     and Valquiria had seen at about 15:30 o'clock. And one more
     capture happened, the fourth one, now by the Military Police. The
     captured being may or may not be the same seen by the three
     girls. In the same way as the capture earlier in the morning by
     the Fire Corps, this strange creature also did not offer more
     resistance as it was being captured. It was apparently dizzy, or
     ill, or wounded. The Military Police took the creature at first
     to the town's first-aid station, were its entrance was refused.
     Consequently the creature was taken to Hospital Regional.

     21st/01/1996 - (January 21st, 1996) 01.30 HS (AM)

     We don't know why there was the transference of the strange
     creature from Hospital Regional to Hospital Humanitas. The
     Regional is nearer to the center of Varginha, while Humanitas is
     nearer the outskirts. Many people saw the strange movements of
     the Army, Fire Corps and Military Police in the two hospitals.
     Probably, the reason for the transference was because Humanitas
     is a better equipped hospital, and for fact of being away from
     towncentre, less people would see all the military activity. On
     the following day, Sunday, cars were observed arriving at
     Humanitas with number plates from Belo Horizonte, with military
     people, as well as medical doctors from USP (University of Sao
     Paulo) and UNICAMP (University of Campinas). We still don't know
     what kind of treatment the beings have or had, since we don't
     know if the being that was shot three times (FAL) was also taken
     to the Hospital. Everything points out that it was. The
     examination, X rays, photographs, the films and thousands of
     other details remained restricted to the military people. The
     being that entered the Humanitas alive ended up dying there. We
     don't know if it died of natural causes, or if it was badly
     injured, if it was ill or yet, what would be regretful, if it had
     'been' killed.

     22nd/01/1996 (January 22nd, 1996) - 16:00 HS

     The ESA, with the help of three Mercedes Benz trucks, 1418 type,
     covered with tarpaulin on the top, and many vehicles without
     identification, surely working for the Intelligence Service (S2),
     start the retreat action of the beings from Hospital Humanitas. A
     series of manoeuvres to elude, through the town, with the help of
     portable communication radios and mobile telephones, one by one
     each truck parked backwards on the side door of the Humanitas
     Hospital. In this place there were about 15 people, doctors,
     nurses, military people from the Army, from the Fire Corps and
     Military Police. A special reinforced box, a kind of coffin, on
     top of two easels, received the body of the being. The cover,
     that was larger on top, was put on the box, and sealed. After
     that, the box was wrapped with black plastic canvas, was put in
     the truck, and secure tightened. The back tarpaulin was put over
     the back of the truck and its sides where there were plastic
     windows, which were also shut down, in a manner that no one could
     see what was inside the truck. The three trucks returned to ESA
     before dark. A special security scheme was made for the arrival
     of the trucks at ESA. One of them ended up going through a road,
     against the traffic, right in front of the side gate of the
     quarter. A special security scheme was made to "take care of the
     trucks". When the trucks returned to ESA, in Campestre quarter,
     they were seen by Dr. Marcos A. Carvalho Mina, veterinary doctor
     in Varginhas Zoo.

     23rd/01/1996 (January 23rd, 1996) - 04:00 HS (AM)

     A special convoy leaves ESA towards Campinas. A Kombi van is
     ahead, the three trucks in line and behind other several vehicles
     without identification. Five hours journey. Around 9:00 (AM) they
     arrived at Escola Preparatoria de Cadetes do Exercito (Cadets
     Army Academy), in Campinas, in Sao Paulo State interior. Later,
     the beings were taken to UNICAMP, and delivered to the well known
     forensic doctor Dr. Fortunato Badan Palhares, who together with
     Dr. Koradin Nesve and a special team of civilians and military
     people, started the autopsies and scientific study on the beings.
     Employees of the laboratory where Dr. Badan works, thoght it
     strange the fact that, on the arrival of the beings to the lab,
     they were asked to leave the place, fact that had never happened
     before.

     At least three military people informed that one of the beings
     was taken to a secret underground laboratory underneath Clinicas
     Hospital, in UNICAMP. They also informed that there is another
     underground laboratory underneath the Biology Building. And
     another creature had been taken to one of the IML refrigerators
     (Legal Medical Institute) where the morgue of the Amarias
     Cemetery is. Several military people informed they had never seen
     this place so well guarded as in February, March and April, 1996.
     Also, the number of military people seen within this period,
     circulating in UNICAMP was frigthening. All these capture
     operations, transportation to Regional Hospital, transference
     from the Regional to Humanitas, the retreat from Humanas to ESA
     and transportation to Campinas were coordinated by Lieutenant
     Colonel Olimpio Wanderley dos Santos, by Captain Ramires, and by
     Lieutenant Tiberio from PE (Army Police ) and by Sargeant
     Pedrosa. The convoy was driven by truck drivers corporal Vassalo,
     Soldier Cirilo and Soldier Melo. All these military people are
     from ESA.

     One of the military people informed that in one of the trucks
     there were thousands of tiny unknown metal fragments. Probably
     the fragments are from that ship sighted by the couple, Eurico
     and Oralina, apparently damaged. Therefore, in this big puzzle,
     we conclude that the three trucks that went to Campinas were
     carrying in the first of the convoy a dead being, in the second
     another dead being and in the third the metal fragments.

     23rd/01/1996 (January 23rd, 1996)

     A Buffalo airplane leaves the Canoas Air Force Base in Rio Grande
     do Sul. Inside it there were three containers, a box and many
     military people. In the first container there were generators, in
     the second the receiver equipment and computers, and in the third
     a small workshop. In the box there was an dissassembled anthena.
     In other words, a portable sophisticated radar. The airplane went
     to the South of Minas. This radar must have been installed in
     some region or town near Varginha. At this time there were many
     alien ships flying over the region. Military people from within
     ESA said that on a certain night they were worried with the
     hypothesis of a retaliation from the extra-terrestrials. At this
     time, several military people from the USA Army and Air Force
     arrived at ESA by helicopter. An area within ESA was interdicted.
     Several agents from the Intelligence Service (S2) and from
     various points of the country were sent to ESA. Local
     inhabitants, of many years, had never seen such activity in ESA.
     That was something to call the attention of even the most
     'naive'. If they were trying to hide something from the public,
     they failed in their methodology. The Military people who took
     part in the operation, and even today, are being observed and
     followed by S2. Even today, the situation is not good in ESA.
     Recently, some of the military people from ESA said that "inside
     here, things are heating up". They also said that if General Lima
     and Lieutenant Colonel Olimpio hear someone pronouncing the name
     "ET" or Pacaccini, they will get at least 10 days in jail.

     26th/01/1996 (January 26th, 1996)

     Several NASA Military officers arrived at UNICAMP. The official
     excuse was that they wanted to select Brazilian scientists to
     take part in future space missions with the americans. Probably,
     they were military officers who know deeply the details about
     flying saucers and extra-terrestrial beings. Military people said
     that the american military personel was working together with
     Brazilian military people inside the underground laboratory. The
     proportion is 50% of brazilians and 50% of americans. Certainly,
     if there is a list with the names of the Brazilian scientists,
     those scientists will only travel in their dreams in the space
     shuttle. They will remain the rest of their lives thinking about
     that possibility.

     28th/02/1996 (January 28th, 1996) - 19:50 HS

     Mrs. Thereza Christina Strarace Tavares de Magalhaes Texeira,
     wife of the deceased Mayor of Campinas, Mr. Adlaberto Magalhaes
     Teixeira, was forbidden to enter the Hospital das Clinicas (HC)
     at UNICAMP, where her husband was when sick. She was very uspet
     at the lack of organization of the local security scheme. With
     the help of a mobile phone, after explaining that she was the
     wife of the Mayor, on the arrival of Dr. Otavio Rizzi Coelho the
     problem was resolved, and she was allowed inside. Some people
     believe that on this night the body of the extra-terrestrial was
     sent to HC for some type of examination, and the whole place was
     "closed" for security reasons, restulting in this confusion. Mrs.
     Thereza entered inside because she was the Mayor's wife. The same
     didn't occur with other people that were prohibited to enter into
     HC.

     01st/03/1996 (March 1st, 1996)

     The American Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, signed with
     the Brazilian Ministry of Foregin Relations, Felipe Lampreia, the
     "Agreement of Cooperation for the Pacific Use of External
     Space"... A question hangs in the air. Would that be something to
     do with the Varginha Case?

     02nd/03/1996 (March 2nd, 1996)

     The general administrator of NASA, Daniel Goldin, visited the
     installations of the National Institute of Space Research, the
     INPE, and signed agreements of space cooperation between the two
     entities. There had been such such agreements in the past, but it
     is the first time that the principal director of NASA comes to
     the country to get to know the national scientific display.
     People who are following the Varginha Case, civil and military,
     believe that the presence of David Goldin and of Warren
     Christopher in Brazil ivolves agreements in relation to the
     beings captured in Varginha, and also a form of "justifying"the
     presence of military staff who acts inside NASA at UNICAMP.

     21st/04/1996 (April 21st, 1996) - 21:00 HS

     Inside Vaerginha's Zoo there is a restaurant called Paiquere,
     which is rented out to third parties. On this night when a party
     was being held, Mrs. Terezinha Gall Clepf, 67, wife of Mr. Marcos
     Clepf, an former council member of the town, went out - on the
     varandah - to smoke a cigarrette. The place was totally dark,
     looking to her left, about 4 metres away she saw a being exactly
     like the one described by the young girls and by the military,
     being that this one had sort of yellow helmet on its head. Mrs.
     Terezinha said that she had the impression that the enormous red
     eyes of the being amitted a kind of luminiscence, which allowed
     her to see its face very clearly. The being was standing up
     behind the railinigs that go round the varandah. Being dark, she
     couldn't see further details of the body. For a few minutes, Mrs.
     Terezinha remained still looking at the strange creature and
     vice-versa. In no moment did the creature move or make any kind
     of noise. Frightened, Mrs. Terezinha entered the restaurant and
     remained silent under the emotional impact of the vision. Soon
     after she returned to the varandah, and there was the creature.
     Desperate, she went back, pulled her husband by the arm and made
     out of the place quickly. Mr. Marcos, seeing that his wife was
     not well and was upset, took her home. Only afterwards in the car
     did she tell her husband what she saw.

     Until today, Mrs. Terezinha shows signs of nervousness when she
     remembers that strange being. Coincidence or not, at that time,
     in 12 days, 5 animals mysteriously died. Two deer, a tapir, and a
     blue macaw and an ocelot. The bilogist and directors of the Zoo,
     Dr. Leila Cabral had never seen anything like it before. The vet
     Dr. Marcos sent the entrails to Belo Horizonte for examinations.
     Only in one of the deer was there found a kind of caustic
     intoxication. Nothing was found in the other animals. The reason
     for their death is not known. Dr. Marcos believes it was merely
     coincidental. But Dr. Leila believes that it has something to do
     with the presence of this strange creature at the Zoo. At the
     time at the end of January/1996, when everyone was comenting
     about the extra-terrestrials in the town, Dr. Leila met a fireman
     and joked to him. You captured the ET andf I will look after him.
     Frightened, the fireman told her to keep quiet and asked her not
     to comment about it to anyone. About the mysterious animal
     deaths, a doubt remains. Do these extra-terrestrials beings carry
     some virus or bacteria, that could contaminate and kill in a few
     days? Would this be one of the reasons that the military hide
     everything from the public? Would the confirmation of this create
     some kind of panic? Probably we won't know so soon.

     29ht/04/1996 (April 29th, 1996) - 22:00 HS

     Mrs. Luiz Helena da Silva, mother of Liliane and Valquiria
     receives the visit of four men, who did not identify themselves,
     practically almost invading her house, dressed in black suits and
     tie. Two young men and two older ones. Two brownish skin and two
     white skin. After hearing the girls, they said that they were
     their "gold mine". In an attempt to bribe, these four men offered
     them money enough to make their dreams come true, in exchange for
     a tape recording or video where Liliane and Valquiria would say
     that they had seen no strange creature, and that everything was
     only a joke. We don't know if these four men were military
     people, or religious fanatics or someone else "testing" the
     girls.

     04th/05/1996 (May 4th, 1996) - 17.00 HS

     In a historic meeting at Ubirajara's home, in Varginha, with 48
     people, between ufologists and journalists, Mrs. Luiza, Liliane
     and Valquiria told the press about the bribe attempt from four
     unknown men. Claudeir read a manifesto that was given to the
     press, about the cover up of the case in that region and
     Pacaccini revealed the names of the military officers who took
     part in the whole operation. At the same moment the press started
     to call ESA to know more details, but everything was denied.

     08th/05/1996 (May 8th, 1996) - 11:00 HS

     ESA Commander, Brigadier General Sergio Pedro Coelho Lima held a
     press conference and read a clarifying note, saying that no
     element or material from Escola de Sargento das Armas had any
     connection with the alleged facts. At the end, a reporter from
     EPTV asked him where were the other military people that were
     cited? He answered, working, for the Army and the Nation. Can you
     prove that? Prove to who? To the press. We don't have anything to
     prove and what I had to say was read in this note. Thus, General
     Lima turned his back and left, leaving the reporters totally
     convinced that something really strange had happened in Varginha.

     11th/05/1996 (May 11th, 1996)

     Another historic fact in the Varginha Case was the research done
     by Dr. John Mack, a Psychiatry Professor in Harvard Medical Shool
     in USA. Dr. Mack, besides being a Psychiatrist is a Phd on this
     subject. He is the author of the book "Abduction - Human
     Encounters With Aliens", and also was represented in the film
     "Intruders" by an actor in the main role of a Psychiatrist. After
     many hours of questions with Liliane, with Valkiria and Mrs.
     Luiza and with Mrs. Terezinha, Dr. Mack concluded that they are
     speaking the truth, and they really saw a very strange being. For
     Ufology, this conclusion from Dr. Mack is very important.

     29th/05/1996 (May 29th, 1996)

     In almost absolute secrecy, for the first time in Brazil, a state
     Minister met with with the Armed Forces High Command outside the
     capital of the country. A Historic fact. The army Minister
     Zenildo Zoroastro de Lucena, along with 29 generals, including
     the Armed Forces General Staff Chief, General Paulo Neves de
     Aquino, the chiefs of management and departmets and the eight
     military commanders of the area met together in Campinas, to
     carry out a task, that would easily be carried out by military
     people of lower rank. They visited the Escola Preparatoria de
     Cadetes do Exercito (Academy School for Army Cadets) to evaluate
     the EsPCex 2000 project, that aims at getting informatics into
     education and the creation of a modern teaching environment for
     the cadets as well as the installation of monitoring system by
     satellite. After visiting the 28th Armored Infantry Battalion
     (BAB) to evaluate the 16 computers already acquired from a total
     of 26, that aim to create administrative procedures and the
     preparation of soldiers. So being, they went to EMBRAPA (A
     Brazilian Research Center for Agriculture and related subjects)
     to get to know the geographic information system. On the
     following day they went to the town Pirassununga (Sao Paulo), to
     the 2nd Regiment of Combat Vehicles a unity of the 11th Armored
     Infantry Battalion, to accompany the work being done to receive
     40 Leopard Combat vehicles of German make, recently acquired.
     Military people from various places of the state of Sao Paulo,
     including the littoral, informed us that on the days before the
     visit of the Minister in Campinas, several meetings took place in
     Campinas, in Pirassununga, in Braganca Paulista, and probably
     also in other states, involving high rank military people. They
     said that everyone wanted to go to Campinas to look at the
     strange creatures. Disagreements and misunderstandings even
     occurred between some military people.

     23rd/06/1996 (June 23rd, 1996) - 11:00 HS

     One of Ubirajara's friends, from Varginha, kindly provided his
     Seneca bimotor airplane. During 40 minutes we flew over all the
     region, from the farm of Eurico and Oralina, until the place
     where the strange creatures were captured. The main objective was
     to find out the place of UFO crash. We were looking for a
     depression in the ground, or for a clearing in the undergrowth or
     still some burnt area. Unfortunately, we had no success, but the
     photographic and videos registers remained in this part of the
     research, as well as the gratitude to the owner of the airplane
     and his pilot.

     03rd/07/1996 (July 3rd, 1996)

     In Brasilia, the Congress approves a project that allows the
     Brazilian Air Force to have powers to shoot down hostile
     airplanes.

     The measure aims to give more power to the Air Force, in its
     combat agaist narcotrafic and contraband, being able to shoot
     down airplanes in clandestine flights who don't respond to
     identification orders. Of course everyone now is asking what the
     Air Force will do if the target is a flying saucer. Certainly,
     becauser of former failures, when to an extent, the Air Force
     will accopany the target from a distance, only registering the
     fact in photos and videos.

     STRANGE CREATURES

     Until the present moment, we have absolute certainty of the
     capture of two beings, confirmed by military people who
     participated in the facts. The other two, we are still
     researching, in the sense of finding military people who had
     participated in the facts and decide to colaborate with the
     ufologists, under secrecy. If really the military captured four
     beings, two being dead, they were taken to UNICAMP, one of them
     alive, would have been taken to USA. The last one, also captured
     alive, we have no news of its whereabouts. These beings are
     classified as Delta types. They are a species of trained animals
     and used by Alfa and Beta beings in more simple missions, as for
     collecting minerals and vegetals. They would be a specie of
     simian of extra-terrestrial origin, as well as more intelligent
     than our simians. The ufologists have classified them as EBEs -
     Extra-terrestrial Biological Entities. As far as we know until
     the present date, three beings were captured in Varginha, with
     viscous skin and brown color and one with all the body covered
     with black fur (hair), including on top of the head, being that
     the two types have red eyes, big and bulgy.

     To explain the great activity by the military people from ESA, it
     was said that on that day they were greeting the new recruits,
     being that this occurred one week before. To explain the great
     movement of Army trucks in Varginha, it was said that the
     vehicles were envoyed to Automaco Enterprise to balance the
     wheels and to align the wheels for the driving, being that the
     vehicles were seen on Saturday and Sunday, period in which the
     Automaco is not working. To explain the great activity of
     military people in Regional Hospital, it was said that it
     happened because the exhumation of a body of a young men who hung
     himself in the jail. According to the exhumation act, this
     happened in 30th/01/1996 (January 30th, 1996), and the movements
     occurred on the days 20, 21 and 22 in January. Nobody got to
     explain why the Army was accompanying the "exhumation". To
     explain the great activity of Military pe ople at Humanitas
     Hospital, it was said that it was because of the arrival of new
     equipment to be used in heart transplants. Well, it looks like a
     joke. What does it have to do with new equipment? Heart
     Transplant in an extra-terrestrial? Only an idiot would buy that.
     Many declarations of Dr. Adilson Usier Leite to the press,
     Director of Regional Hospital and one of the Humanitas Hospital
     owners, also left a lot to explain. He insists in saying that the
     body of such a person that was sent to Regional for the
     exhumation came in a Fire Corps car. On the other hand,
     CaptainPedro Alvarenga, Commander of the 13rd Fire Corps Company
     insists in saying that they were not called to transport a body.
     The Fire Department insists in saying that they were not called
     to transport any body. It is time for Dr. Adilson and Mr.
     Alvarenga to sit down at the same table and come to some
     agreement, if not, the people of Varginha will end up suspecting
     that what arrived at the Regional Hospital, in a coffin that was
     on top of a fire engine, was really a extra-terrestrial being,
     and not the body of a common human being.

     CONCLUSION

     The Brazilian Ufologists have no doubt about what happened in
     Varginha. All that was descrbed here is only a part of the story.
     Many other facts will be discovered. It's only a matter of time.
     And the research continues.

     Claudeir Covo

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