The Incident in Varginha may not be as famous as the Roswell case but it may be one of the most impressive close encounters of the third kind in the last 15 years.
THE CASE
January 13: NORAD notifies CINDACTA, the Brazilian
civilian-military air traffic control system, and CINDACTA alerted the ESA Army
command in Três Corações City.
January 20, 1996: A few days before January 20,
1996. A UFO movement is detected by the tracking system of U.S. satellites. It
turns out that the focus of the movement is Brazil, South of Minas Gerais. The
Brazilian armed forces are alerted.
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| IN RED: MINAS GERAIS STATE - BRAZIL |
He takes the dirt road and he suddenly sees at pasture several
metallic debris are being collected by identified militaries.
At the site there were two trucks, a helicopter and an Army ambulance.
A large piece of the crashed object, the size of a car is placed on the truck. Thousands of small pieces and debris spread around the pasture.
Carlos de Souza is approached and asked by the military to withdraw the site and "forget what you saw."
At the site there were two trucks, a helicopter and an Army ambulance.
A large piece of the crashed object, the size of a car is placed on the truck. Thousands of small pieces and debris spread around the pasture.
Carlos de Souza is approached and asked by the military to withdraw the site and "forget what you saw."
When living he stops at a gas station and he is again approached by two men, who advise him not to comment, with anyone, what he saw. This testimony was not confirmed by others, being isolated, after the investigations of Ufologists in farms, ranches and homes in that region.
January 20, 1996: Around one o'clock. Mrs. Oralina Augusta de Freitas looks out the window of the farmhouse owned by Mr. Castillo, situated 10 km from Varginha, on the edge of the highway that connects the city to Fernao Dias.
Mrs Freitas sees that the cattle appear to be disturbed as the entire herd bursts, running shot in the pasture. She notes an UFO artifact elongated shape which released a cloud of black smoke from the "torn" in UFO. She then screams for her husband, Eurico Rodrigues de Freitas, who was sleeping. Eurico also sees the object, which hovered over the grass to a maximum of five meters.
To cover an area of approximately 500 meters, the
object takes nearly forty minutes; It disappears after the hill, toward the
city.
January 20, 1996, 8:30: Six men from the Fire Department Varginha search for a "beast"
seen by some locals, primarily on the basis of a construction in the
neighborhood named Jardim Andere. Then the "creature" is spotted
moving slowly toward a eucalyptus plantation belonging to Mr. Joseph Gomes,
after the railway line in the large meadow at the back of Jardim Andere.
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| Actual local where |
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construction worker Joseph Henry, witnessed the entire incident from the
terrace of a neighboring house to the park and later told investigators that
four firefighters trapped the creature with their networks, imprisoned her in a
wooden box and then surrendered to the military. After about
two hours of searching, Firefighters locate the "being" and pick up a
network to capture animals. A truck carrying troops from the School of
Sergeants of Arms is also in place. The "creature" is placed in a
box, covered with cloth or canvas. The creature produces a very strange sound; kind
of buzz. The truck
takes off sprinting for the city called Three Hearts and enter the School of
Sergeants of Arms.
January 20, 1996, around 13 hours: Mr. "X", who was walking by the end of the region of
Jardim Andere and the pastures nearby, sees six men dressed in military
training search, automatic rifles and other weapons, just near the eucalyptus
grove where he had the first capture.
Running in search of a better point of
observation, Mr. "X" hears three rifle shots. Soon after sighting the
men climbing up the land prior to the pasture, carrying two bags. In one
something was moving.
January 20, 1996, 15:30: Liliane Fatima Silva (16
years old at the time), her sister Valkyrie Aparecida Silva (14) and Katia
Andrade Xavier (22), try the shortest path to the Santana district, next to the
Jardim Andere.
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| The 3 girls |
As they passed next to a garage in Braz Vieira Benevenuto
Street, two blocks up the grass and eucalyptus, surprise stop in front of a
"creature" whose skin glows as if greased with oil.
The “being” has big round- red-eyes that looks
like they are jumping out of their sockets without pupil or iris! Crouched beside the wall of the garage, his
head slowly back toward the girls.
They do not remember the characteristics of the
mouth and nose of that "being."
With purple veins that skipped up to the
shoulders, with long, thin arms and big feet, his three stout cranium bulges,
giving the impression of horns.
Three girls scream and soar toward home, where
they arrive in tears and in panic.
January 20, 1996, 17:30: A hail storm frightens
the population.
After the storm two soldiers come to the land
where the three girls had seen the strange creature and initiate a searching
operation by car; not long after they start searching something with head,
trunk and limbs, passes in front of the car and try to hide in the grass.
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The
policeman; Marco Eli Chereze 23 years old runs and grabs the creature's
arm, putting it on the backseat of the car and take it to the Regional
Hospital.
The unusual movement of police, fire and Army causes
hysteria in the Army hospital, where patients are transferred between wards and
staff told to shut up.
January 21, 1996 Early morning: The
"being" is transferred to the Humanitas Hospital by ambulance, with
no fanfare. The Humanitas creature is taken in the following Monday,
March 22, around 17:30 hours.
The
"creature" is dead. Transport starts with the placement of
"being" in a wooden box, covered with plastic sheeting and placed in
the bucket of a truck transporting troops, whose back was in the back gate of
the hospital. Several civilian and some military vehicles are part of the
train. People dressed in white clothes and medical masks are present. The
creature gives off an unbearable smell of ammonia.
The train
leaves for the city of Three Hearts and into the School of Sergeants of Arms.
On January 23, 1996 – 5am: The same train leaves to Campinas-SP, with
two loads now, the corpse removed from the Humanitas Hospital and a ventilated
box containing something alive. After standing in the Preparatory School of
Cadets, in Campinas, other military vehicles carry the "material" for
the facilities at UNICAMP (Considered to be one of the best Brazilian
Universities).
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| UNICAMP University |
During one week a team of researchers and scientists analyzes
and cares examinations and tests in the "creatures".
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| Phatologist- Prof Fortunato Badan Palhares |
The well-known Pathologist medical examiner Prof.
Fortunato Badan Palhares is one of the doctors involved (Palhares became famous
for being involved in a conspiracy carried in the 90’s to kill the political
campaign treasurer of Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello and a central
figure in the corruption scandal that resulted in Collor's 1992 removal from
Brazil's presidential office)
Works are carried out in the "material” in a
laboratory with modern facilities. No one knows the fate of such
"beings" after Campinas. Although an unidentified USA military cargo aeroplane arrived at the School of Sergeants of Arms.
February 7, 1996: Marco Chereze Eli (The cop that
grabed the creature by the arm)undergoes surgery to remove a pimple the right
armpit. With severe pain and onset of paralysis, is hospitalized and dies eight
days later of septic pulmonary thromboembolism, as completion of necropsy. In his
blood is detected the presence of 8% unknown culture, cop died of generalized
infection victim.
March 1996: Just five weeks after the initial incidents – A visit to São Paulo and other parts of Brazil of Warren Christopher, then U.S. Secretary of State, and NASA Director Daniel S. Goldin, ostensibly to arrange for a Brazilian astronaut to join a future Space Shuttle flight!
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| Robert L. Curbeam Jr - Left first row brazilian astrounaut May 1997 - Discovery mission |
I served in the school of Sergeant of Arms in the city of Three Hearts in 1996. I was at home when I received orders to go quickly to the barracks, I was part of the Special Operations Squad and that kind of call it was very common, I was one of first to arrive at the barracks; we embarked on a car, with an effective of 4 soldiers, 3 sergeants, 2 officers and headed for the city of Varginha. Nobody told us what was happening and we did not know where we were going or even the mission!
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| BRAZILIAN SOLDIERS |
It seemed just another exercise routine, only the presence of a senior officer (a Major), in charge of the operation was a little bit odd.
The commanding officer brought us together and said our mission was to "Locate and capture an animal in the woods." I asked if I had to do a "comb" (a search) in the area, and the captain informed us that the "animal" was isolated and that we should not harm the animal in any way.
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| VARGINAH WOODS |
I've seen humans and animals injured by bullets of the same calibre rifle and in all cases, the projectile passes through with ease, even in a much greater distance.
Soldier X
THE CREATURE AT THE ZOO, APRIL 21:
On the evening of April 21, Terezinha Clepf, her husband and
some friends attended a birthday party at a restaurant in Varginha’s zoo.
Around nine o'clock, after Mrs. Clepf finished eating, she went outside to sit
on the verandah by herself and smoke a cigarette. Several minutes she began to
feel uneasy.
“I felt that someone was looking at me,” she said later. The
porch was dark but some light was coming from the restaurant. “I turned to my
left and saw a strange creature staring at me.”
It was about fifteen feet away and appeared to be four to
five feet tall. “I didn’t know what it was, an animal or whatever,”Mrs. Clepf,
then sixty seven, said.
“It was very ugly. It
was brown and had a brightness or shininess to the skin. The eyes were big and
red and the mouth was just a stroke. He stayed there looking at me.”
She was so terrified she could barely move for several
minutes. Then, afraid to make any sudden movement, she slowly got up and walked
back inside. She looked back once and the creature was still staring at her. It
was several days before she could tell her husband about it.
THE ZOO DEATHS:
After that incident was publicized, Leila Cabral, director of the zoo, inform at the time that five animals had mysteriously died at the zoo about a week before Mrs. Clepf’s experience. An anteater, two deer, a blue macaw and a bobcat died suddenly and unexpectedly.
The anteater was healthy and tame. It died because of an“unidentified toxic substance,” Ms. Cabral said. The deer died of “caustic intoxication without apparent cause
THE ZOO DEATHS: