VARGINHA CASE BLOWS WIDE OPEN
The reported capture of aliens at Varginha, in the state of Minas
Gerais, on Saturday, January 20, 1996 continues to make headlines
in Brazil.
The July 1996 issue of UFO Magazine, published in the capital
city of Brasilia, contains more detailed information on the saucer
crash and subsequent capture of its alien occupants.
According to ufologist Pedro Cunha, witnesses in Varginha now
claim that up to seven occupants were captured. The group included
one dead alien, two badly injured and five more flushed out of hiding
in the neighborhood of the Jardim Andere, a park on the north side
of the city. The dead alien was first taken to the Regional Hospital
in Varginha on January 20 before being shipped on to the Hospital
Humanitas in Campinas in Sao Paulo state for an autopsy.
The magazine article published more detailed descriptions of the
UFO occupants by the three girls who encountered an injured one
in the Jardim Andere at 3:30 p.m. on January 20. The girls were
Liliane Fatima Silva, 16, her younger sister, Valquiria Fatima Silva,
14, and their friend, Katia Andrade Xavier, 22, all of Varginha. The
girls were walking home from their jobs as housemaids when Liliane
spotted an alien crouched about 25 feet away.
In this week's article, the girls described the alien as "being dark
brown, with a small body of 4 to 5 feet in height, no hair at all, big
brown head, small neck. It also seemed to have some greasy dark
oil on its skin. The head of the creature had two big red eyes, no
pupils, very small mouth and nose and three protuberances on the
head. The girls described such protuberances as horns."
On Sunday, June 16, the show "Programma de Domingo"
aired a Varginha story on Brazilian TV. According to this story, many
witnesses saw Brazilian Army trucks heading for the Jardim Andere at
around 10:30 a.m. on January 20. The show also revealed that the
Varginha Fire Department received its first call just after 9:30 a.m.
Someone complained of "a wild animal" loose in the park. Figuring that
they were after a jaguar or a peccary, the firefighters arrived with nets
and cages. When they encountered their first injured alien, the crew
chief immediately put a call through to the nearest Army base, the
Escola Sargentos de Armas in Tres Coracoes. He reportedly spoke
to the school's commandant, Gen. Sergio Coelho Lima, who ordered
troops into Varginha to seal off the park.
"Programma de Domingo" also identified the men involved in the
three-truck convoy that transferred the aliens to Campinas on January
22. According to the broadcast, Lt. Col. Olimpio Wanderly Santos
commanded the convoy, accompanied by two officers, Captain Ramirez
and Lieutenant Tide, plus a Sergeant Pedrosa from S-2, Brazilian
military intelligence. Corporal Cirilo and Sergeant Pedrosa drove the
middle truck with the aliens inside. The other trucks were driven by
Private Vassalo and Private de Mello.
Gen. Coelho Lima is reportedly cracking down on leaks in his
command. Soldiers have been warned not to talk to ufologists like
A.J. Gevaerd, Pedro Cunha and Vitorio Pacaccini. Personnel returning
to Tres Coracoes from leave have been confined to barracks and, at
last report, at least one talkative sergeant is in the guardhouse.
(Note: Tres Coracoes is also the birthplace and childhood home of
Brazilian soccer star Pele.)
AGENTS TAGGED IN UFO HUSH MONEY PAYOFF
Rumors of American involvement in the Varginha saucer retrieval
and alien roundup of January 20 - 22 continue to surface. According
to Brazil's UFO Magazine, an American civilian was present when the
wrecked cigar-shaped UFO was loaded aboard a flatbed truck the
morning of January 20.
The crash site is said to be "north of Varginha." Wherever it is, it
had to be within easy walking distance for the two injured aliens, as
they reached the jungle-covered Jardim Andere before daybreak, i.e.
before 5 a.m. The most likely sites are the coffee-growing country
northwest of Varginha, between the village of Tres Pontes and the
reservoir, and the forested serra, or ridges east of Tres Pontes. Both
areas are within 10 kilometers (6 miles) of Varginha.
The UFO was first seen at 1 a.m. by Eurico and Oralina Rodrigues
at their farm midway between Varginha and Tres Coracoes. The cigar-
shaped UFO was flying slowly and enveloped in white smoke. The
crash must have happened between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m.
Brazil's UFO Magazine claims that the North American Air Defense
Command (NORAD) tracked the UFO late Friday night, January 19,
and alerted Brazil's CINDACTA that it was coming down somewhere
in southern Minas Gerais.
Luiza Helena Fatima de Silva, mother of two of the girls who saw the
alien in the Jardim Andere on January 20, says she "noticed a peculiar
smell" when she went to the park at 4 p.m. Senhora de Silva also
claims that she was visited by four men last February. The unidentified
men, who were not Brazilian, wore white and cream Armani suits and
offered Senhora de Silva "a large sum of cash" if she would come
forward and tell the media that her daughters had made up the story
about the alien.
Senhora de Silva said the men showed up at her house while her
husband, Jose Lopes de Silva, a bus driver, was at work. "They said
they would pay cash," she said. "They also said they would come back
but we cannot hide the truth."
(Persistent rumors that cannot be substantiated - Senhora de Silva's
callers drove a navy-blue 1994 Lincoln Continental with Distrito Federal
(Brasilia) license plates. The presence of a USAF transport plane,
either a C-5 or a C-17, at Sao Paulo International Airport on January 20
and at Campinas airport on January 22. The presence of several
unidentified American men at the restaurant Churrascaria Gaucha,
Avenida Dr. Campos Sales 515 in Campinas late in the evening of
January 21.)
AMERICAN AND BRITISH UFOLOGISTS AT VARGINHA CONFERENCE
A large contingent of American and British UFO researchers were on
hand at the big conference in Curitiba, Parana state, Brazil from June 5
to June 9. The conference was sponsored by A.J. Gevaerd and several
Brazilian UFO research groups.
During the conference, John Carpenter and Stanton Friedman of the
USA and Britain's Graham Birdsall interviewed Vitorio Pacaccini, 31, an
engineer from Belo Horizonte. Pacaccini briefed the trio on the Varginha
case for over two hours.
Arriving back in the USA on June 13, Carpenter said of Varginha,
"In short, it's a darn good case. I'd say it may be equal to Roswell."
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