The Varginha UFO

Article:
Marco Eli Cherese had a cyst under his left armpit and had already scheduled surgery to remove it some time ago, according to Maurício Antonio Santos, then commander of the 24th Battalion of the Varginha Military Police. "The death occurred due to a strong hospital infection after the operation", said the commander, who included in the IPM copies of the medical report prepared by the Institute of Propedeutics and Diagnosis of Varginha one day after the death of the police officer. "Ex-soldier Cherese was not involved in any occurrence with extraterrestrials", concluded the witness
 
I've tried to establish it from the film itself,
are these clips from the film? (no that im gonna search but someone might)
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Source: https://youtu.be/S9Im60JGb2w?t=112
 
Skeptic Brian Dunning points out that the soldier who died had a cyst that was due to be removed and he actually died from infection following its removal. Tragic case....but actually nothing to do with any UFO.....

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4853
Edit: Sorry, I copied in a wrong quote (the infection issue is discussed in the article I am quoting at the and). But still:

There are some pictures that make the "Mudinho Alien" pretty obvious:
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... more in this article:
https://web.archive.org/web/2011021...-oficiais-revelam-investigao-do-caso-varginha

Translation:
Coindidences
Something remarkable about the so-called Varginha Case is the conjunction of coincidences. Whatever the hypothesis used to understand what may have occurred in the city of Minas Gerais, which could be anything, including nothing, very curious coincidences will necessarily be considered.

Consider, for example, that the "Varginha Case" occurred in the town where Ubirajara Rodrigues himself resides, one of the few and leading UFO researchers active in the entire country for some decades. Consider also that the place where the three girls would have seen the "creature" is only a few blocks away from where Rodrigues actually resided, and that this is how he heard the very next day the rumors spreading around the blocks and soon the city about the event.

Or remember that a few months before the girls' encounter, aliens aroused enormous popular interest with the film of a supposed "Alien Autopsy", seen by hundreds of millions of people all over the world, and in Brazil, shown in exactly the same media outlets that would cover the Varginha Case. It is no surprise that the "creature", which the young women never claimed to be a being from another planet, was soon known as the ET of Varginha. ETs were in vogue, and a few months after the Varginha case, the blockbuster "Independence Day" would cause an even bigger stir and in the end make almost a billion dollars.

There are more coincidences. Exactly on that day, January 16, 1996, moments after the girls took a shortcut across a vacant lot and saw the crouching "creature", an intense hailstorm hit the area. It caused some damage, and fire units would have moved in to respond to some of the incidents. Including, rumor had it, capturing more creatures.

Finally, we return to the coincidence of Luizinho. Absurd as it may seem at first, and promptly rejected by witnesses, there is a remarkable coincidence:

Luizinho lives across the street from the lot where the girls had their terrifying encounter. And the man usually squats, in exactly the same position as the supposed creature that frightened the girls.

Even if the idea that he was mistaken for "it" is dismissed out of hand, one would have to accept the equally or even more bizarre coincidence that an unknown creature, perhaps even from outer space, came to Earth to squat in the lot in front of the house where a humble and quiet disabled man usually stands in exactly the same position.

It would be a cosmic coincidence of squatting.

The possibility that the girls had indeed mistaken the resident they had known for a long time should not be dismissed out of hand. It cannot, on the other hand, be accepted so easily. Bizarre coincidences are part of the Varginha case, whatever the thesis defended to understand it.

The official explanation is possible, and yes, plausible, but we will hardly know for sure what in fact the three girls found that day. What we do know is that whatever it was, Luizinho lived across the street, in the same position as described.

At the very least an unbelievable coincidence, at the most a surprising explanation.

Conspirations
Incredibly, accustomed as we are to Hollywood stories about top secrets, the contents of the inquiry have long been available to the public: "A police inquiry is generally public," commented Rodrigues. "When it came to the attention of the IstoÉ reporter the existence of such an inquiry, he simply went to the Military Justice in Brasilia, requested that he be allowed to take copies and was granted." It was as simple as that.

And simple as that, anyone could have had access to such information - if they hadn't already read the hypothesis in Rodrigues' book published in 2001 - just by making a request to the appropriate public agency. So much so that Ubirajara Rodrigues himself was already aware of the contents of the inquiry. In his case, it must be conceded, among other reasons because he was also one of the civilians who gave testimony. Which in turn would become grounds for more conspiracy theories.

Similar to the recent report, recently the critical position of Ubirajara Rodrigues became better known, and was also publicized by some as a "turnaround".

In search of explanations, accusations even emerged that Rodrigues had been forced to deny the affair he discovered and promoted, and the conspiracy theory quickly converged on a dramatic detail: the military inquiry at which he testified would mark the moment of the "turn of the tables". Still in Hollywood terms, who knows what the terrible military might not have done at such an inquiry to silence the ufologist?

In the real world, however, this is exactly the same military inquiry closed in July 1997, years before the publication of the almost 400-page book about the case, by the same Rodrigues. A coercion that leads a ufologist to publish a book of hundreds of pages is strictly speaking like a conspiracy in which an inquiry can be read and copied by anyone who makes the request. Something fanciful, Hollywood-like, that simply isn't real.

Unlike the best of fantasy, where good and evil are very clear, where Great Conspiracies would control the world and all major historical events were part of a Great Plan - however evil - reality can be confusing and uncertain.

Would the girls have been terrified of a resident they already knew? It would be absurd, but equally absurd is that an unknown creature from space would crouch in front of the house where a resident usually crouches. To understand this is to understand one of the true real values of ufology, that of offering small riddles to which any answer may be unsatisfactory.

Can a ufologist claim that he can claim nothing? It sounds confusing, but this is exactly how Rodrigues concludes his 2001 book, acknowledging that despite hundreds of pages of stories and possibilities and more than five years of research - four of them after the military inquiry in which he testified - he could not find conclusive evidence that would clarify anything. Today, almost 15 years after that January day, Rodrigues has even stepped up his critical stance and has just published the book "The Deconstruction of a Myth.

It is much simpler to believe that a cigar-shaped extraterrestrial mother ship malfunctioned and launched alien creatures through the interior of Minas Gerais, which was promptly covered up by the Brazilian military in collaboration with Americans, shutting up ufologists and creating ridiculous explanations to the events witnessed by many. Like the Roswell case covered in the X-Files. The alien creatures would then have been... autopsied. And the remains of the flying saucer sent to the US, probably to Area 51.

Not coincidentally, Alien Autopsy and Independence Day, works of fiction, mix with the easier fantasy to which the rumors converged. The whole Varginha story involving aliens is just a pastiche of themes explored in an incestuous relationship between ufology and fiction.

The reality of fact can be ambiguous and thus uncomfortable. Not knowing for sure what happened, amidst a mountain of evidence consisting on the other hand only of testimonies and circumstantial events - such as coincidence - is a more difficult and therefore uncomfortable position, but if there is one thing that can be stated with certainty it is that nothing can be stated with certainty.

The Varginha Case is not just about the sighting of the three girls, and even the girls' encounter with the "creature" is not just about someone crouching down. An entire city was left in a state of turmoil for months, and an entire country was moved by a figure that entered the collective imagination. There are endless details and angles to be addressed.

Here, we briefly touch on some of the new, or not so new, developments and related rumors, and close with the promise to review in greater detail the most famous Brazilian ufological, or not so ufological, case at a future date.

Another article, translated excerpt:

Ubirajara Rodrigues, ufologist, who believed the ET story and divulged it in 1996

In the eight days that the inquiry lasted, in May 1996, inside the ESA, 23 military personnel were questioned. In the IPM, which took place during the first seven months of 1997, eight authorities - including members of the Army, Military Police and Fire Department - and three civilians provided explanations. One of them, the lawyer and ufologist Ubirajara Rodrigues, now 55 years old, told ISTOÉ that his attitude is no longer the same as when he testified in the IPM. "There is no proof that an extraterrestrial being was captured in Varginha," he says.

One of the most engaged members of the ufological community in the story, who acted interviewing military personnel, Rodrigues says that the Varginha Case has all the characteristics of a myth. "I still believe that there was a series of complex facts that involved the Army, Military Police, Fire Department and hospitals. People said they saw, that they touched an extraterrestrial, but this does not serve as scientific proof. At that time, our tendency was to believe that it would have been a being from another planet."

Then lieutenant-colonel of the ESA, Olímpio Vanderlei Santos testified in the IPM pointed out as the chief and the main responsible for the team that would have captured the creature. Currently in reserve, at 60 years old, living in Franca (SP), he again denied his involvement in the case. "We used to go to Varginha by car because the city was our support point in terms of fleet maintenance," he says. "There was a climate of concern, colleagues were scared at the time. I was surprised when I saw my name involved."

Another intriguing fact of the Varginha Case is the death of a military policeman supposedly as a result of a strange virus acquired from an ET that would have been captured by him. Marco Eli Cherese had a cyst under his left armpit and had already scheduled a surgery to remove it for some time, according to Maurício Antonio Santos, then commander of the 24th Military Police Battalion in Varginha. "The death occurred due to a strong hospital infection after the operation," said the commander, who included in the IPM copies of the medical report issued by the Institute of Propaedeutics and Diagnosis of Varginha one day after the officer's death. "The ex-soldier Cherese was not involved in any occurrence with aliens," concluded the witness. Fruits of fantasy or not, the fact is that the mining town has embraced the UFO cause. A giant water tank in the shape of a spaceship and bus stops that resemble flying saucers can be seen in the city. The ET is Varginha's mascot.
https://istoe.com.br/105958_A+HISTORIA+OFICIAL+DO+ET+DE+VARGINHA/
 
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James Fox tries to give the impression these events are simultaneous and at a similar location. They are not !

Basic facts...that have mysteriously changed over the years...

But that's the point. Simple stories are embellished, miss-remembered and then mixed together with other unrelated, or only tangentially related incidents until a complete mythos is created. That mythos then becomes the "factual" account.

I think it was Joe Nichoel that dubbed it the Roswell Syndrome, that goes something like this:
  1. There's an incident. Something happens, like a rancher finding unusual debris on his property.
  2. There might be a bit of a stir at first, but...
  3. The incident is shown, pretty quickly, to be something mundane, like a crashed weather balloon (Project Mogul balloon).
  4. Story goes away and percolates.
  5. The same old incident is revived sometime later with "new" evidence, witnesses and a greatly expanded narrative.
  6. More people pile on to the new version of the story adding even more "new" evidence.
  7. The new mythologized version becomes the canonical version, often bearing little resemblance to the original.
All the things associated with Roswell, like multiple crash sites, alien bodies, meta-materials, actual crashed ships, Hanger 18, Area 51 were all added 30 years after the original incident, which was mostly just a collection sticks and foil.

This pattern repeats with Kecksburg, Malmstorm, Rendlesham and much of UFOlogy.
 
I think it was Joe Nichoel that dubbed it the Roswell Syndrome, that goes something like this:
  1. There's an incident. Something happens, like a rancher finding unusual debris on his property.
  2. There might be a bit of a stir at first, but...
  3. The incident is shown, pretty quickly, to be something mundane, like a crashed weather balloon (Project Mogul balloon).
  4. Story goes away and percolates.
  5. The same old incident is revived sometime later with "new" evidence, witnesses and a greatly expanded narrative.
  6. More people pile on to the new version of the story adding even more "new" evidence.
  7. The new mythologized version becomes the canonical version, often bearing little resemblance to the original.
this kind of sequence is by necessity "conspiracy theoretical" because step 5 requires step 3 to be handwaved away with "the government covered it up" or similar. The people close to the original event want an explanation; the people who revive it want a titillating story,
 
are these clips from the film? (no that im gonna search but someone might)
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Source: https://youtu.be/S9Im60JGb2w?t=112


Yes they are clips from the film, and the 'crash' location is a few hundred yards down the slope James Fox is pointing to. A brief overhead view of the 'crash site' is also shown....and I've tried to use that to see where it is, but the width of the site shown is maybe only 1000 feet across and all the farms around there look very similar. I suspect one could find it on Google Earth....but it would be a needle in a haystack sort of thing..

The article written by Robert Leir ( referred to earlier ) does an appalling job of describing the location. He says Marco De Sousa was driving north-east on highway 381 when the object was first spotted ' 3 miles south of the intersection with MG-26 '. Trouble is, there is no MG-26 highway....the only possible highway being referred to ( 'from Varginha to Tres Coracoes' ) must be the MG-167/491. He can't be referring to the MG-267 as that goes to neither town. We are told that Marco de Sousa then drives another 10 miles north on the BR-381...following the object. Well....if he was 3 miles south of the MG-167/491 then that places him 7 miles north of Tres Coracoes.

Leir then relates how Marco de Spousa leaves the highway and follows the object east of the BR-381..on a dirt track. We then have 20 minutes in which it is not at all clear what is being done. And the only remaining clue is that the crash location is about '7 miles from the ESA army barracks at Tres Coracoes' . Leir clearly knows the location...but in all his long ramble he never directly tells us. Sigh.

Here I have placed on Google Earth the location ( marked 'This Area' in top left of image ) where the farm couple saw the UFO....6 miles north west of Varginha. And I have drawn a 7 mile radius circle round the army barracks at Tres Coracoes......and we know that the alleged crash was east of the BR-381.....so has to be somewhere in the north-east quadrant of my red circle....or in other words about 20 miles from where the farm couple supposedly saw it and about 14 miles from Varginha.

That's about as close as I can get to determining the 'crash' location....

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are these clips from the film? (no that im gonna search but someone might)
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Source: https://youtu.be/S9Im60JGb2w?t=112


An update. Amazingly...I found the crash site in the James Fox documentary. A huge clue was that at one point they showed it was actually only 1/4 of a mile from the main BR-381 highway....as you can see the motorway in the background. When I compared it to the overhead view they briefly show.....this is the exact location in the film......

Two images from Google Earth...first is close up showing the farm close to the main highway....second ( with 'UFO crash site' marked ) shows the crash site in relation to Varginha and Tres Coracoes. It's about 6 miles from Tres Coracoes...so Leir was not that far off.

So...far from crashing in the middle of nowhere ( as James Fox tries to convey...with them travelling lonely country roads to get there ), the alleged crash was within spitting distance of a busy highway in broad daylight. Yet Marco de Sousa was the only person who saw it. Hmm. And Fox didn't need to drive miles across country to get there......as it is literally a 1/4 mile turn off from the busy highway !






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the big bump next to the house is where the alleged crash was?

those yellow trees really show up on Google Earth and this looks like a highway ?? with some signs to me. or do we think that is just houses or business ?

then you have mountains in the background.
yuo saw the same thing
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Yes....I was searching all over the place and the last thing I expected was the site to be literally right next to the main highway so I didn't look there. It was only when ( right at the end of the Marco de Sousa interview ) they almost inadvertently showed the busy highway in the background that i looked and managed to match the film's overhead drone view exactly with Google...

So this is the exact spot Marco de Sousa claims the crash occured....and, we can now establish that the alleged aliens had to cross 14 miles and a major highway and several rivers to get to Varginha.

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Yes....I was searching all over the place and the last thing I expected was the site to be literally right next to the main highway
i looked quick next to highways last nigh,t but i thought the crash happened "in the hills around varginha" so i didnt look so far away. and i thought the military was seen there but they do their maintenance in varginha so really only looked off 491.


cool you found it. big thumbs up!
we can now establish that the alleged aliens had to cross 14 miles and a major highway and several rivers to get to Varginha.
probably why he looked so sad and soft ;)

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So this is the exact spot Marco de Sousa claims the crash occured....and, we can now establish that the alleged aliens had to cross 14 miles and a major highway and several rivers to get to Varginha.

Nice work! Remember though, despite crashing, aliens can still use anti-gravity devices to float over to another area to scare the shit out of other humans.

Seriously, it would seem the people that lived right near the crash site and maybe even own the property would be of primary concern. Maybe they were out of town, or the government shut them up. It appears to be ranch land and they have goats or cattle it looks like:

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Remember though, despite crashing, aliens can still use anti-gravity devices to float over to another area to scare the shit out of other humans.
with a little more imagination, the Varghinha aliens are obviously the search party sent out to find their crashed brethren—or would be if we had a shred of evidence.
 
with a little more imagination, the Varghinha aliens are obviously the search party sent out to find their crashed brethren—or would be if we had a shred of evidence.
Yeah! Honestly, we could come up with a much better UFO story than most of the UFOlogists.
 
Nice work! Remember though, despite crashing, aliens can still use anti-gravity devices to float over to another area to scare the shit out of other humans.

Seriously, it would seem the people that lived right near the crash site and maybe even own the property would be of primary concern. Maybe they were out of town, or the government shut them up. It appears to be ranch land and they have goats or cattle it looks like:

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Now that the location has been found....a few justifiable comments can be made...

1) I'm far from being the only person who, over the years, gained the impression that the 'crash' happened just a few miles from Varginha. Now we know it was 13 miles from the town and actually much closer to Tres Coracoes.
2) Knowing the 'actual' crash site throws off the other alleged sightings. The farm couple who claim to have seen the object coming down 6 miles north west of Varginha...well, that is 20 miles the allegedly damaged and crashing UFO would have had to travel...and remain hovering for 3 hours until De Sousa saw it crash. And nobody else saw it in those 3 hours ? In fact, to get to the crash site it would have had to fly right over Varginha town and there should have been hundreds of witnesses.
3) We now know the alleged crash happened right next to the busy BR-381 highway ( you can see how much traffic there is on it, in the video ) right at the height of the rush hour in broad daylight. And yet not a single other person saw it...or even the people living in the farm house just a few hundred feet away.
4) We are told the crashed craft emitted some fluid....possibly ammonia. This would have had an effect on nitrates in the soil that I'd have thought would still be detectable. Yet James Fox made no attempt to have the soil analyzed. Neither was any attempt made to find any small parts of the alleged craft that may remain. Instead they wasted time focusing on Carlos de Sousa crying over the incident.
5) Those who sill believe in the alien hypothesis now have to explain how two aliens got into the middle of Varginha, from the east, without having to cross the Rio Verde river ( 300 feet wide ) or pass through over a mile of densely populated parts of the town.....without being spotted by a single other person.
 
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As a Brazilian who was in my early teens and into sci-fi when this happened, back in the 90s, I used to believe in this story and remember waiting eagerly for the next story to be published by the main TV channels.

To give some context: This was shortly after the famous Alien Autopsy hoax, so UFO and "alien" were still on the top of people's - especially media people - minds.

That video, according to Wikipedia was first aired in the US on Fox Channel on August 1995. I remember it being aired in Brazil by the extremely popular TV show "Fantástico". A variety show that still airs on Sunday nights on TV Globo, the largest TV channel in the country. It was later and probably in that same year, although I obviously don't remember and can't find an exact date.

I remember they were announcing it for at least a couple of weeks, hyping it up, and when it finally aired everyone was talking about it the next day. So, not a half year later, in January 1996, when a story pops up of a few girls having seen an alien in a small town, they scoop it up and make a huge deal out of it. After some local media coverage, Fantástico also picked it up and aired this highly sensationalized story on February 4th, 1996. There was no mention of a UFO sighting or crash, all of these stories were "remembered" after the fact.

I did my best to improve the Portuguese Wikipedia article on it a couple years ago. It is hard to push back on the credulousness of other Brazilian editors, but it is still better than before I touched it.

The couple who claimed to having witnessed a UFO on their property only did this weeks after the girls' sighting story made the news, and, at first, they were not sure on a date. Later their story started matching the dates.

The pilot who said he saw it crashing in Três Corações, said it happened a whole week earlier, in January 13th.
Carlos de Souza descreveu que viu, na manhã do dia 13 de janeiro de 1996, um objeto com as mesmas características relatadas pelo casal. Tinha certeza da data porque seguia para o interior de Minas Gerais onde participaria de uma demonstração de voo de ultraleves com amigos. Ainda na Rodovia Fernão Dias, viu o objeto passando e aparentemente caindo em algum ponto entre Varginha e a cidade vizinha, Três Corações.
[My translation:] Carlos de Souza describes having seen, in the morning of January 13th 1996, an object with the same characteristics as those reported by the couple. He was sure of the date because he was flying to the interior of Minas Gerais where he would attend an ultralight [aircraft] flight demonstration with friends. Still on Fernão Dias Highway, he saw the object passing by and apparently crashing at some point between Varginha and the neighbor city of Três Corações. (source)

After reading and watching everything I could, on it, here is my veredict (There sure is a lot more out there, but nothing informative, I don't think.)
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The girls got frightened by a strange man crouching near a wall on a windy and rainy afternoon (weather information often omitted by the media) when they were trying a shortcut through an empty and somewhat unkempt lot. They ran home and imagined what they had seen, at first describing it as "the devil". Later the story grew through gossip and speculation, caught the attention of the media and one notable local UFO nut, Mr. Ubirajara Rodrigues, who went after anyone claiming to have witnessed anything. Later, even that guy, who was the main pusher of the story, admitted that there is no evidence of anything, only witness accounts.

(Image above cropped from one of the military investigation reports, here.)
 
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Carlos de Souza.
weird, John de Souza was a big name in the "missing 411:ufo contact" movie i just watched from another thread. and it seems both connect-the-dots movies were produced by some company called 1091 Pictures. <insert creepy coincidence music here
 
I've done a more in-depth review of the case, with chronological dates of the events as they occurred or when they became known.
It is clear why this is one of the greatest miscommunications, witness suggestioning, and hoaxing in Ufology, accompanied by so much wishful thinking it is borderline mental. It is no wonder the most serious of the Ufologists, Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues, dropped the case. James Fox's documentary is an enormous disservice.




The Events were documented as follows;

Saturday - January 20th 1996 - Afternoon
  1. At 15:30, the three girls (Liliane(14) e Valquíria Fátima Silva(16), and their friend Kátia Andrade Xavier(22, mother of three toddlers)), Taking an unusual route back home, saw a "kneeling creature that looked like a Cow's Heart, a brown veiny blob, with oily skin and huge rugged pulsating veins on its back, large and bulging red eyes without Irises, pupils or eyelids, large head with three protruding rows like three horns on a bald and bulbous head, torso and limbs, neither mouth nose, hands or feet were perceived", squatting in an empty lot.
  2. Alleged creature sighted:
  3. Being very religious, they thought they saw "The Devil", and hysterically ran towards home.
  4. They were received by the teenager's mother, Luiza Silva, who demanded to know what happened. Sobbing, the girls answered "We saw something evil"
  5. Wilma Abreu Cardoso, their Neighbor, hears the commotion and requests her sister's truck to drive Luiza Silva, to the empty lot where they saw the alleged creature. She claims the place has a heavy smell of ammonia, and to have seen a mark on the ground that she interpreted as a "footprint with only three long fingers". The driver DID NOT make these claims.
  6. The Neighbor spreads rumors about the "Devil of Santana" - Santana being the name of the neighborhood the girls lived in, which is very close to Jardim Andere's sighting spot.


Sunday, January 21st 1996 - Afternoon
  1. Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues, one of the main researchers of the case, hears about such rumors. He lives in Varginha and speaks with the girls.
  2. He then proceeds to inquire the Fire Department and the Police Department, both state to be unaware of any disturbance within the city.

Between the 21st and 28th
  1. As stated on a podcast episode (20:30) Vitório Pacaccini, the other main researcher of the case, reads about it on the cover story of the Newspaper "O Estado de Minas". This may have occurred on the 21st or the 28th. The alleged title "Meninas que viram Demônio" ("The girls who saw a Demon") - [the newspaper may have a copy online, but I was unable to find it]
  2. Vitório Pacaccini has a meeting with CICOANI in Belo Horizonte, and goes to Varginha to investigate, as he is very familiar with the region.
  3. Pacaccini calls several friends looking for more information. Many childhood acquaintances worked at the regional Army base named Escola de Sargento de Armas in Três Corações, near Varginha. He believes the army must have more information if something happened in the region.
  4. One Military insider asks Pacaccini to meet in person, in a very secure rural area, between Três Corações and São Tomé das Letras, far from public view. There, soldiers escort an alleged first-hand witness who appears to be nervous. This witness states that a creature was captured, and describes the creature just as the girls described it. Pacaccini records this interview in a tape-recorded for 30 minutes, and it is the ENTIRE source of the Varginha case after the girls testimony.
  5. Pacaccini reaches Ubirajara, and shows him the tape.
  6. They reach other ufologists around Brazil, urging them to investigate.

January 27th, 1996
  1. The first TV report on the case, from Local TV Newstation EPTV


February 4nd, 1996
  1. The biggest TV show in Brazil, "Fantástico", with a viewership between 52% and 60% of all open broadcasting, reports on the "ET of Varginha" case.


February 12th, 1996
  1. Police Officer Marco Eli Chereze is Hospitalized at Hospital Bom Pastor, complaining about abdominal pain.

February 15th, 1996
  1. Chereze's health rapidly deteriorates and he is taken to Bom Pastor's Intensive Care Unit. One of Chereze's doctors is Césario Linclon Furtado. Marco Chereze is declared dead by nightfall. He is buried on February 16th, at 18:00 - as it is customary to bury the dead quickly in Brazil and other tropical countries.


After February 16th and before March, 1996
  1. Marta Tavares Chereze, Sister of Marco, claims at 39:10, that she attempted to file a lawsuit without legal representation, claiming that the Hospitals were responsible for Marco's death due to Medical Error. The appeal is shelved by the local deputy, presumably due to errors.
  2. This is the audio recording of a Firefighter who allegedly participated in the capture of one of the creatures. The firefighter would later claim he made the story after the request of a Ufologist (presumably, Paccaccini)


March 3rd, 1996
  1. The "Fantástico" TV Show makes another report on it; this time with Pacaccini displaying the main source of "official" information - this alleged recording of an army officer (to this day, still unidentified):


Somewhere in Later April, 1996
  1. Marta Tavares Chereze, claims at 44:30 She was reached by Ubirajara and Paccacinni, who asked her if "She would believe/thought it to be possible that her that her brother was involved in the capture of an alien creature"
  2. Marta Tavares Chereze, goes to Doctor Cesário Lincoln Furtado's private practice and claims that[1] Marco Eli Chereze revealed in his deathbed that he took part in a secret mission to recover the alien creature. Marta is the only person to have heard this, and her close family disputes such a claim, as can be seen in another video where the Mother claims Medical Error on an undisclosed date, 1996.
6th May, 1996
  1. CNT Journal - TV Report with Paccacinni making the claim that the colonel Olimpio Wanderley orchestrated the UFO and Alien retrieval program.

12th May, 1996
  1. Another "Fantástico" report; this time with more and more witnesses, and the first official declaration by the Army and the testimony of the Girls being visited by "4 Men in Black" on the night of 28th of April offering money for them to dismiss their claims.

9th of June, 1996
  1. John Mack, PhD psychology from Harvard, the famous abduction UFO researcher interviews the three girls.
  2. Mack stated he would "Resign his Academic achievements if these girls were ever proven to be lying about this experience"
2nd of October, 1996
  1. Carlos de Souza sends his testimony of a crash to the ufologists, through Fax
  2. The site where he claims the crash happened is identified 3 days later, on October 5th. It is the same place shown in the "Moment of Contact" documentary. The alleged crash site is located 13 miles in a straight line over several houses, homesteads, hills, and a river crossing from where the girls saw the creature.
  3. On the 12th of October, Carlos goes to the site with Ubirajara and Pacaccini
  4. On the 19th of October, Fourteen Ufologists go to the alleged site to perform a "clean sweep" in search of any sort of debris. Nothing was found.
  5. The Ufologists also interviewed several of the farmers, homeowners, Church members, farmhands, homesteads and cattle ranchers in the area - none stated anything unusual - which would contradict Carlos de Souza's statement of an Army Helicopter, two army trucks carrying 30 to 40 men and two police cars - not to mention, the crashing UFO and its Debris Field.
  6. The Ufologists disregard Carlos de Souza, considering him an "unreliable witness."
29th of January, 1997

  1. A Military Police Inquiry investigating the alleged events, with 357 pages in length, attempted to explain what occurred in the previous year. There is a wide dismissal of all claims. It can be read online here: [Vol. 1] [Vol. 2]

Further Details:
  1. This is a video of the man whom the Army report states the 3 teenage witness saw, and which sparked the case.
  2. It is stated by Ubirajara that the Farmer Eurico de Freitas reached out to the ufologists two weeks after the first Fantástico report, placing the news almost a month after the alleged sighting. There are so many different reported dates for their sighting: Initially, it was reported that they saw the "cigar-shaped UFO" hours before sunrise on the 20th of January. Then it was stated to be on the 17th, and sometimes even on the 13th of January. Which one of these dates is the correct one, and why did it change over time? His wife Oralina didn't recall any precise date, but stated that it was 'around that time'.
  3. Carlos de Souza's initial statement said that a Police Officer was responsible for expelling him from the area. In the documentary, he states that it was "a big Strong black man in an army uniform", increasing, even more, the inconsistencies in his report.
  4. Notwithstanding, still dissatisfied with the insufficient amount of shame already endured, Carlos de Souza subjects himself to a regressive hypnosis session in December of 2022, where he further ""enhances"" his narrative, complete with fallen beings who communicated telepathically while suffering in pain.. What remains to be noted is that, during the 27 years up to this date, the witness never mentioned or implied having seen a small being emerging from the wreckage, who telepathically informed him that others had already escaped and were running towards "the river, as they needed water." Much less did he say that his telepathic contacts continued over the years, with information that beings had been killed by someone and that an artifact had been implanted in his right leg. Conveniently, removed. He also never hinted at any implant whatsoever, much less the abductions he would claim.
  5. Vitório Paccaccini, after years of silence, is "brought back to life" shortly after the announcement of the "Moment of Contact" documentary. He is one of the the consultants for the Varginha ET Museum, which was inaugurated on November 2022.
  6. Ubirajara is ALSO brought back to the scene, but on the opposite front - now a skeptic. His contributions include the dismissal of the "main military witness", and the rebuttal that Marco Eli Chereze gave a confession to his doctor before dying.
  7. The three Women, the teenage witnesses, DID NOT request money to do interviews during those first years after the incident; they gave interviews repeatedly, albeit begrudgingly, from 1996 to 1999. During the 2000s, they refused to not be compensated for their time to speak on the matter. They've been recorded stating "Everything that we did and saw has already been spoken. There is nothing else to discuss." They've been victims of bullying at school, been fired from work due to harassment from their clients and the curious, and even a divorce directly linked to the external pressure they would suffer. To this day, they have never claimed to have seen an extra-terrestrial or an alien. Quoting Liliane: "We lost so much, and for what? For being scared of something that I could not explain. It was a terrible time of my life, of our lives. It was a terrible thing that I saw. I do not enjoy remembering the feeling of that moment, of that sight. I never wanted to recall it, and in every interview I gave people asked the same questions, thick always brought up the same emotions. It was a joke for the entire nation, but to me, it was a nightmare - I was terrified of what I saw and was harassed for speaking my experience. If I could return in time, I would change two things; I would have taken a different route back home that day, and I would have accepted the money that was offered to us to dismiss our claims of seeing that thing." - Referencing the episode with the 'Men in Black' on Late April.



Sources:
  1. Most statements are linked with video references, often timestamped
  2. Book: O Caso Varginha, (2001), by Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues
  3. Book: Varginha - Toda Verdade Revelada (2015), by Marco Antonio Petit
  4. Documentary: Moment of Contact (2022), by James Fox




Conclusion: This is such a bullshit sandwich.
After researching this case in depth for more time than I am proud to state, the only testimony I see merit is of the three teenage witnesses who saw a weird *something* - animal, creature, man, whatever. They did indeed get scarred for life. Personally, I pity them.

EVERYTHING else - the army presence, the couple of farmers who saw a smoking aircraft, Carlos de Souza crying, the creature sightings by other people, the police officer who supposedly rescued a creature and then died with a mysterious infection, the doctors and nurses who worked in the hospital and claimed they saw or knew someone that rescued the aliens... fugazi. I think most of this case was being hoaxed by fictitious witnesses and bogus reports made by Paccaccini.

Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues, the first on-site, researched the topic for years and concluded that although he believed the girls saw something that shook them profoundly, nothing out of the ordinary had any semblance of having happened.

Why do many keep pushing the story?
Because It's a really cool story. It also sells a lot of products in Brazil. Can you imagine Roswell was (hypothetically) proven to be a hoax; the council members would do whatever to keep the public interested in the myth. When a small town suddenly appears on national television for any reason, it's great publicity. In fact you can read the entire "Varginha Incident Cultural Manifest" that the town created to request State financial funds. The Varginha Incident is the most well-known UFO case in the country because it was heavily reported on TV when it occurred in 1996, a time when there were very few options on broadcast tv channels.

There are currently 2 TV/Streaming Series and at least one Feature Movie in production regarding the Varginha case.
 
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I am struck by how often these sorts of mass panics are set off by an initial incident involving teen/preteen girls, or more broadly involving unspecified "children." It is not ALWAYS the case, but it happens often enough that this is a red flag for me.

Cases would include:
The Salem Witch Panic --
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The trials began after a few local women in Salem Village were accused of witchcraft by four young girls, Betty Parris, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam Jr., and Elizabeth Hubbard. The accusations centered around the concept of "affliction", and the witches accused of having caused physical and mental harm to the girls through witchcraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials

The Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic of 1962 --
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The laughter epidemic began on January 30, 1962, at a mission-run boarding school for girls in Kashasha. It started with three girls and spread throughout the school, affecting 95 of the 159 pupils, aged 12–18. Symptoms lasted from a few hours to 16 days, averaging around 7 days. The teaching staff were unaffected and reported that students were unable to concentrate on their lessons. The first outbreak in Kashasha lasted roughly 48 days. The school was forced to close on March 18, 1962. When it reopened on May 21, a second phase of the outbreak affected an additional 57 pupils. The all-girl boarding school reclosed at the end of June.

The epidemic spread to Nshamba of the Muleba District, a village 55 miles west of Bukoba, where several of the girls lived. In April and May 1962, 217 mostly young villagers had laughing attacks over the course of 34 days. The Kashasha school was sued for allowing the children and their parents to transmit it to the surrounding area. In June, the laughing epidemic spread to Ramashenye girls' middle school, affecting 48 girls. Additional schools and the Kanyangereka village were also affected to some degree. The phenomenon died off 18 months after it started. All areas affected were within a 100-mile radius of Bukoba.[4] In all, 14 schools were shut down and 1,000 people were affected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_laughter_epidemic

The Ketereh Face of Pure Evil --
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In August 2019, the BBC reported that schoolgirls at the Ketereh national secondary school (SMK Ketereh) in Kelantan, started screaming, with some claiming to have seen 'a face of pure evil'. Professor Simon Wessely a former president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, suggested it was a form of 'collective behaviour'. Robert Bartholomew, a medical sociologist, suggested it was due to the stricter implementation of Islamic law in the school. The school responded to the outbreak by cutting down the trees around the school, believing they were home to supernatural spirits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_panic_cases -- about halfway down page

Although the age of the witnesses is not given, the case of Spring-Heeled Jack may fit the pattern, while there are said to be earlier reports of "Jack" leaping around rooftops, the hysteria took off...
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... in January 1838 this strange creature received official recognition when a barmaid, Polly Adams, was attacked while walking across Blackheath in south London. Mary Stevens, a servant girl was terrified by what she saw on Barnes Common, and in Clapham churchyard a woman was assaulted!

(Added by me -- A coachman also claimed to have seen Jack the night of the Polly Adams incident, he claimed to have been startled when Jack leaped in front of his coach causing him to crash, omitted from this article -- JM)

Lucy Scales, a butchers daughter was attacked in Limehouse and Jane Alsop was almost strangled by a cloaked creature in her own home before her family managed to beat-off her attacker…at which point he leapt and soared off into the darkness.

Jane Alsop described her inhuman attacker to London magistrates…"He was wearing a kind of helmet and a tight fitting white costume like an oilskin and he vomited blue and white flames!"
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During the 1850's and 60's Spring-heeled Jack was also seen all over England, particularly in the Midlands.

The Army in 1870 set traps to catch him after scared sentries reported being terrified by a man who sprang on to the roof of their sentry box.

Also in 1870, angry townsfolk in Lincoln are reported to have shot at him in the street, but he just laughed and bounded away, leaping over fences, and even small buildings!
https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Spring-Heeled-Jack/

And of course the Creepy Clown Outbreak of 2016, which I have mentioned elsewhere: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/1977-colares-ufo-flap-operação-prato.11765/post-325580

And so on... I've restricted this list of examples to cases that spread beyond the original locale, and/or included reports of strange things seen beyond the even more common health effects.
 
I created a thread on r/UFOs with the contents of the previous post and received quite a lot of flack for it.
Most of it were requests of why I didn't mention certain alleged events that occurred;

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Brazil has a FOIA law just like the U.S., where all documents that don't threaten national security are to be released within 25 years of their creation date. Brazilian Congress members have posted public letters on the Brazilian Congress site showing their appeals to the government to release the Varginha incident and arguing that instead of becoming declassified by 2021 as expected, it was reclassified for another 25 years.

The letter, use Google Translate or ChatGPT to translate from Portuguese to English
https://www.camara.leg.br/proposicoesWeb/prop_mostrarintegra?codteor=1656251

The government refuses to respond after multiple letters, says so right in this letter. Why do you not even mention that with all your homework?

  1. The Army can only release documents that exist. I made a pretty extensive analysis of why and how the myth of the army's presence and operation was hoaxed. There is no secret document because there was no secret operation. There was no UFO, and there (probably) was no Alien.
  2. The Army did respond.
Page 3 of the aforementioned document, the petitioner states "(...)-If- these documents do indeed exist and were generated between 1996 and 1997, as an abundance of circumstantial* and testimonial** evidence suggests, they could only remain classified if they were categorized as ULTRASECRET at the time, which carries a confidentiality period of 25 years."

* = Circumstantial evidence refers to the notion that there was the involvement of the army in this alleged operation, whose main point of inflection is the testimony of townsfolk stating an "unusual number of army trucks" in the Town - something that was unfortunately not registered by journalists, columnist, photographers, police reports... but was registered in the army garage - the trucks had scheduled maintenance in Varginha. Can you imagine an ultrasecret operation sending empty trucks and enlisting police officers instead of using soldiers?
**= Testimonial evidence referred to the taped testimonies of unknown armymen that never came forward.

The same document states on the same page that "There is no documented batch space that was classified as ULTRASECRET since 1992". A quick reminder - Varginha happened in 1996. From 1992 to 2018, there was not a single instance of an ULTRASECRET army document created.

And finally, the government did respond - 4 months later. Here's the link for the reply:
https://www.camara.leg.br/proposicoesWeb/prop_mostrarintegra?codteor=1758889&filename=Tramitacao-RIC 3515/2018

On page 13, It reads:
"The Brazilian Army has already made available the documents that should be included in the lists. The nonexistence or absence of documents demonstrates that the Army does not possess documents related to the subject in question."

On page 15, it reads:
"From the analyses conducted regarding the alleged occurrence of a UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) crash with crew members in the city of Varginha/MG in 1996, the Brazilian Army does not possess documents or information on the subject, except for what was sent via Official Letter No. 9228-GM/ASPAR-MD, dated August 16, 2011, to this Legislative House in response to Information Request No. 679, from 2011, authored by the same person who submitted the current Information Request.


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You didn't mention couple of important points.

  1. You didn't mention people who came forward with information that NORAD warned Brazilian military about unidentified object which will crash near Varginha. They are mentioned in Moment of Contact and one radio controller also came forward. They came forward, both in Moment of Contact and you can also see it here:
    Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/19d9xc7/brazilian_flight_controller_confirming_of_a/
  2. You didn't mention that firefighters captured one alien being hours before three girls saw similar creature. Kids saw being, they threw rocks on it, then firefighters came and capture it in the net.
  3. You didn't mention that friend of Marco Chereze, Eric Lopez decided to not talk about what he saw and threaten those who ask.
  4. You didn't mention old woman who saw creature at the zoo. Few animals include ocelot were found dead there. Absurd. You put a link to something, without specifying that there was testimony of another eyewitness. That's witholding information from potential reader.
  5. You didn't mention that Pacacchini claimed to see in 2012 footage of captured alien being. I don't care if there is evidence that Pacacchini saw anything. Where is evidence that three girls saw creature? There is no. But you still mentioned their claims. You didn't mention the claim of Pacacchini about what he saw in 2012 in VHS video. That's witholding information from potential reader.
  6. You didn't mention that officials have said that girls confuse creature with disabled guy who was wet and full of mud because of heavy rain and storm. Meanwhile girls saw creature in daylight with clear sky.
  7. You didn't mention funny official statement that alleged creatures were actually dwarf who got birth in local hospital.
  8. You didn't mention statements of doctors and military X. They went on camera speaking about it. Here you have neurosurgeon Dr. Italo Venturelli about video of the being that he saw.
    Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/14jo1d5/dr_italo_venturelli_neurosurgeon_from_regional/
  9. You didn't mention statements of local citizens who claimed to see UFO that day in the Moment of Contact.
  10. You didn't mention statement of local journalist that he was threatened to not cover the story.

Either you deliberately didn't mention any of that, or you are uninformed of those claims. Anyway, your post doesn't give the reader the full story.
  1. Nobody came forward and it's unknown where the NORAD information came from. The link you provided here is a Flight controller who claims a USAF plane entered airspace and landed in Campinas - it has nothing to do with NORAD warning Brazil about UFOs. I did search for that information as it is indeed part of the "Varginha Lore", but it appears to have been fabricated for sensationalism on TV series.

  2. I did mention the firefighter; Feb 16th, 1996

  3. If what you meant is that Eric Lopes threatens those who ask about the ET to him, I do not blame him. Marco Eli Cherece was his best friend and also his brother-in-law. Every character in this story was harassed and bullied, be it by the media, by the curious, or by the Ufologists. Then at the 1h30m mark of "Moment of contact"t (which is the only evidence we've seen of Eric Lopes ""threatening"" someone), we see an entire crew arriving at his homestead uninvited. at 1h31m03sec, he speaks in Portuguese "Sério, see chegá(sic) na porta, vou tirá ocês na bala" - A very fair adaptation of what he's speaking would be ->"I'm being serious ('For Real'), yall come near my door, I'll remove you by (using) bullets" In certain states of the USA, he would be in a legal position not just to threaten them, but to shoot first. Considering how much the 3 girls lost for claiming to have seen the creature - I do not doubt that Lopes lost a lot too.

  4. Therezinha is mentioned in the fantástico report on the 12th of May. it is stated "More witnesses". Therezinha's testimony of witnessing a similar creature with a golden helmet at the zoo on the 21st of April 1996 does not add a lot to the overall case. Witness testimony is often a good starting point for research, but this one does not add much to the overall case unless coupled with the information that on the 12th of March, a deer died, on the 19th of March an Ocelot died, on the 22nd another deer died, and on the 25th a Tapir died. The streak of death ended 4 weeks before Mrs. Clepf alleged sighting. If anything, I find this a detriment to the UFO lore that the animals could have been infected by some 'unknown' "alien pathogen" - According to Marco Mina, the Veterinary at Varginha Zoo during the time, all these animals had a necrosis in their gastric tract, which raised the hypothesis of poisoning - be it involuntary or not. The necropsy of one of the deer's viscera revealed the presence of a caustic substance - could the poisoning of these animals be related to Sodium Hydroxide (Lye), Sulfuric Acid (used for cleaning drain pipes), and Potassium Hydroxide?

  5. As previously stated, the chain of events that happened during that first year was my focus and is more than enough to discredit Pacaccinni. If what was said wasn't enough; Paccaccini claims that he saw the VHS tape in 2012 - at least 16 years after it was recorded. He also claims that a video was shown to him on a laptop, by a high-ranking officer accompanied by soldiers who secured the perimeter, at an undisclosed location. Back in January 1996, it was Paccaccini who met with the army men who gave the testimony that whatever the girls saw, was an alien. What a lucky fella! Isn't that odd? Always Pacaccinni, never any other of the 6 renowned researchers were already famous in 96 that were also there during those first months, nor any of the 18 Ufologists who were in Varginha and were very already previously famous before Varginha; Not Ubirajara, not Gevaerd, not Petit, not Claudeir Covo... Doesn't that raises at least a tiny redflag? The military concluded in their investigation (IPM) that Paccaccini was simply a naive, incompetent person who had given credibility to untrue people and facts when writing his book. None of his witnesses nor any other alleged corp ever leaked a single piece of evidence that would even confirm their presence in Varginha during those weeks. I would think twice before trusting his claims doubtlessly.

  6. I did show footage of "Mudinho". The storm that happened on the 20th of January occurred at 18:00 local time - after the girl's encounter. It does not change their sighting; I believe you're piecing information that you know with information that I didn't state because it is unnecessary. Should we state that the sun goes down at 18:33 as well? of course not - it has no impact on the narrative, it would just add noise to something that has to be as objective as possible. I relayed the facts as they were made public, and left my conclusion at the introduction and the end.

  7. I presume you're speaking about Major Calza, here. Major Calza's statements are weird even within the Varginha Lore. Calza's statement is "On the 20th of January, a heavy rain was pouring down. We had to get our trucks to Varginha to do their scheduled maintenance. A series of coincidences ensued. In one of Varginha's hospitals, a female dwarf was about to give birth to a baby. This coincides with the fact that the people at the hospital encountered a couple of ETs (...) [The interview is clearly cut midsentence, transitioning to a firetruck and a narrator's voice over questioning Major Calza's statement]

    His interview is only available as the heavily edited final cut seen in Bruce Burges's series "Beyond the Truth - Alien Encounter", another among several series whose author's records of sensationalism should not be understated. Not only that but the episode was aired in 1998, which means that Major Calza would have been interviewed after having been part of the force tasked with the development of the 357-page IPM report the army produced to communicate the institution's conclusions about the case... of which no dwarf couple are involved. I personally believe it was a construction by Burges's editing and off-screen suggestions. He is the filmmaker behind several paranormal pseudo-documentaries featuring heavy editing. His interest is neither journalistic nor ufologic- he wants to sell the story.


  8. A lot of people claim to see UFOs. The ones in the moment of contact didn't make those claims in 1996 to the ufologists.
    Referencing your new request to clarify Dr. Itallo's claims; here is the full-length interview he gave, not just 1min41secs of cherry-picked information:
    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vl6v9oYd3w


    He states his younger colleague, unfortunately already deceased and with the name censored (why?) showed this video to him. Dr. Italo's words describing his colleague are "Uma pessoa maravilhosa, mas muito BRICALHÃO." -> "A wonderful person, but a jokester."

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    The Brazilian Portuguese term "Brincalhão" translates to "playful" or "jokester" in English, but it carries deeper nuances depending on context. Derived from "brincar," which means "to play" or "to joke." The suffix "-ão" gives it an intensified, often masculine form, indicating someone who habitually engages in a mischievous manner.

    • Meanings: Playful Personality: A "brincalhão" is someone with a light-hearted, fun-loving nature, constantly engaging in jokes or playful activities. This is typically affectionate, implying a person who enjoys making others laugh or feel comfortable.
    • Teasing or Mischievous: While mostly positive, "brincalhão" can also refer to someone who engages in teasing or light-hearted mischief. The intention here is playful, not malicious, but the teasing can occasionally border on annoying or excessive, depending on the context.
    • Informal and Fun: It reflects a casual, easy-going vibe. A "brincalhão" usually doesn't take life too seriously and can infuse humor into everyday situations, which can be contagious in social settings.
    • Jokester/Clown: Sometimes, "brincalhão" might refer to someone who is always making jokes, akin to a "class clown" or someone who frequently acts in a humorous, exaggerated way to entertain others.
    • Usage Context: This word can be used endearingly in both personal and professional settings, though in formal environments, it may not always be appropriate if the playful behavior is viewed as unprofessional.
    In short, "brincalhão" describes someone with a lighthearted, playful demeanor, who enjoys teasing and joking, often making them the fun, lively presence in any group.

    This is the person showcasing an ET Video as if it were real, keep that In mind;

    In the full-length interview, Dr. Italo describes the occasion and what he saw on the screen.
    He states at 2:40 that this colleague would like his opinion on a procedure he had done, "placed a valve, etc", referencing that this younger doctor had done a heart procedure. He states at 6:35 that he can't say if it was a hoax, because he was shown "there and then". He states at 9:35 that the video was on the doctor's computer at the hospital. He states that the creature had a waterdrop shape, and had a white sheet covering his lower half - he also states that the creature was moving. Do you know what this describes almost exactly? The scene at 1h11m of the movie Roswell: UFO Cover Up, from 1994. You can watch it here;
    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h62uhVITYA


    So let's get it straight; This person who is known to be a jokester, appears with a video of an alien autopsy that is very similar to a movie that was released two years prior, on his computer both at work in the hospital and on his home, showed it to several friends, allegedly displayed it to everybody who went to his house (as stated by Dr. Italo), and such video never got leaked nor referenced by anyone else, ever.

    I think we can infer that Dr. "Censored" was showing a VHS tape or video file of the movie, and the low resolution of tube monitors from the mid-90s aided a lot in viewers being unable to identify what was shown.

  9. There was no such claim in 1996 other than the Farmer couple, which are mentioned.
  10. I will not give credence to anything that is not substantiated by either evidence or credible testimony. Most of these events you mentioned were "remembered" years after happening. As you might not have realized, the chronological order is of events as they were publicly declared, and not as they are alleged to have happened.
 
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