Would love to know if this group has a "better" explanation for what might have happened in Varginha in 1996?
I watched the film
The film is not an impartial, unbiased investigation. Like many other UFO-related films, It takes it as axiomatic that something extraordinary happened. Claims are taken as evidence without consideration of more likely alternatives.
You will be able to find films that present the events at Corona/ Roswell, 1947, as something mysterious and unexplained, complete with claimed witnesses testimony and tales of recovered extraterrestrials and autopsies. They are bunk.
Largely based on the presence of
Policia Militar?
The Brazilian
Policia Militar is the major visible public policing organisation in most parts of Brazil, and was in 1994- perhaps more so.
It's a bit like seeing
Gendarmerie vehicles in a provincial French town and assuming that something extraordinary is happening.
An increased policing presence can be due to other things than UFO crashes. Brazil had a military junta at the time, and the PM had a role in enforcing government power; in some areas the presence of PM units may have caused anxiety, at least amongst some people.
Carlos de Souza's account of following a damaged spaceship down in his microlight might be unlikely. The speed of the claimed army (not local PM IIRC) response might imply it was known where the UFO would crash; again this seems unlikely.
Carlos de Souza claimed these events happened some days before the girls'/ young women's sighting, but he reported it some time after their account was widely known. The "swift cleanup", the whole thing, rests entirely on de Souza's claims, which seem to have changed over time.
There isn't a single collaborating witness, all these years later, yet supposedly there were quite a few soldiers there.
If an alien spacecraft crashed in 1996, there is absolutely no evidence. The military government did not capitalise on it in any way, e.g. taking credit on the international stage, using it as a reason to call for national unity/ support for the armed forces in the light of a possible threat, or simply to distract from their human rights abuses- the sort of things we might expect a dictatorship to do.
Nothing of scientific value has been published as a result. There are no new technologies, materials or scientific theories that can be linked plausibly in any way to a crash of an alien spacecraft in Brazil in 1996, or anywhere/ anywhen else.
(The 3 girls testimonies, the ex-soldier who witnessed the autopsy). Suprising amount of overlap in their descriptions of the creature's features
The autopsy claimant could have known of the girl's description. It was widely publicized.
Autopsies are rarely conducted in places where a passer-by might inadvertently see them. The Brazilian military would have had sufficient numbers of trusted career NCOs / "elite" troops to provide security for a sensitive asset without involving "ordinary" soldiers or conscripts.
Not to mention, a soldier, Marco Eli Cherese died after making contact with whatever this 'something' is.
Policia Militar corporal Marco Eli Chereze's autopsy report (
post #90) concludes that he died of septicaemia caused by
Staphylococcus schleiferi.
The presence of
S. schleiferi was established by histology. It is likely it was a hospital-acquired infection; Chereze had had a minor surgical procedure to remove a cyst.
Chereze didn't say he saw or interacted with anything unusual AFAIK. Claims that he did lack evidence.
S. schleiferi was only first described in 1988, Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staphylococcus_schleiferi but it has since been found to be fairly common in domestic pets in Brazil.
Some strains are methicillin resistant, which might have been the source of overblown claims of the organism having unusual defence mechanisms;
External Quote:
The most isolated species, among methicillin resistant coagulase negative Staphylococci, was S. schleiferi subsp. schleiferi.
"Dogs as reservoir of methicillin resistant coagulase negative staphylococci strains – A possible neglected risk", Izabel Mello Teixeira, Eliane de Oliveira Ferreira, Bruno de Araújo Penna, 2019,
Microbial Pathogenesis 135
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S088240101930703X.
Some further discussion in
post #95:
S. schleiferi has been found to be reasonably common in animals in Brazil, some strains are antibiotic resistant, infections in humans occur and can be fatal but might have been under-reported, recent surgical procedures are a risk factor.
It isn't likely that an alien astronaut would carry
S. schleiferi. Unless it had a pet dog/ cat/ worked at a monkey sanctuary. And was capable of hosting terrestrial bacteria. And despite having star-faring technology, took no precautions to protect itself in an alien biosphere. Maybe it couldn't resist stroking our furry friends.
We have recently been reminded (the disappearance of William Neil McCasland etc. etc.) that some "UFO investigators" and conspiracy theorists are prepared to weave the misfortune of others into their narratives, regardless of evidence and irrespective of any distress to relatives.
This is what I think might have happened:
Three girls/ young women were startled / frightened by seeing something or someone that they weren't expecting.
We don't know how objectively accurate their description was.
They said they had seen the devil; later UFO "researchers" told them it was an alien, and they agreed.
Of course the UFO researchers
weren't there, and they don't really know what aliens might look like, but they believe that an alien is more likely than Satan; perhaps the young women thought the opinions of these maybe better-educated people, "experts", was more plausible.
The story quickly spread.
Other people not involved in any way with this sighting made different claims and linked them to the sighting. Some of those claims seem improbable and lack
any supporting evidence, they are anecdotes from people saying we should believe them and (it is implied) their accounts are more believable because they happened around the time of the girl's sighting. (
All were reported after the original sighting was publicized).
Some of these claims might result from misunderstandings/ misperceptions, others are probably deliberate falsehoods.
There is no testable evidence of anything else.
We have seen a similar pattern post-Corona/ Roswell; claims made (sometimes many years) after the event are accepted as true, or at least possibly true, by UFO enthusiasts. The fact that a prosaic explanation adequately explains the original events, and so the subsequent claims (autopsies etc.) make no sense, is ignored.
Some people reported seeing UFOs similar to George Adamski's scout ship (which we have photos of) and met Venusians; we know the scout ship was a hoax. The later witnesses did not see it. And there aren't blonde tanned people on Venus.
