While much has been written on the topic of the Alien Autopsy footage, most of it concentrated on the people and events involved in the footage being made public. Though these things are important to the over all picture, the footage itself deserves an evaluation as well.

The consensus in ufological circles seems to be that the footage is a hoax, and the expectation that if it is not, should be proven real. There are two favored opinions for the hoax hypothesis. One, that what we are seeing in the footage is a human body, the other, that movie special effect artists created the footage. As any researcher knows, the facts in any case being investigated, must fit the theory. Both of these theories leave some unanswered questions.

Many of the comments made about the footage, are simply incorrect. Some of this is because many people have commented on only the footage shown on various television programs, rather than the entire footage itself. Others have watched the full footage but not examined it thoroughly. Contrary to what is being said, not all the frames in the footage are out of focus. Close and thorough examinations of the images reveals details missed during cursory examination.

SPECIAL EFFECTS CREATION

This theory would answer most of the questions and problems brought up by the human body theory, though it raises a few questions of its own as well.

These days, special effect artists can create practically anything, but this footage being created by some amateur as a practical joke, is not particularly likely. It required considerable time, work and money to produce the autopsy film. We must ask, “Who did this?” and look at what it would take to create what we see in the footage. As a special effect’s production, it’s carefully scripted and planned. There are too many details for it to have been accidental or thrown together in a hurry.

The props in the footage are correct for the period the footage supposedly depicts. The creators researched and obtained these. It was first thought that the telephone was the wrong year, but later it was proven to be correct for the time. Even the electrical outlets are consistent. It is not unusual for anachronisms or props to be wrong even in high budget Hollywood films, so we expected to find some in this footage. After exhaustive examination, there are none.

The clock is a very important prop. The entire autopsy footage, scripted so that the timing was perfect. That means, if they had to stop the clock for any reason, such as touch ups or adding body parts, they had carefully set it back to the correct time for the procedures depicted. Interestingly, the electrical cord on the clock has a kink. That kink remains consistent in the footage, from beginning to end. This means that if they moved the clock, they carefully put that cord back exactly the same way it was every time. Other options may be, a wall switch controlling the outlet, or a remote control device of some kind to stop and start the clock at precisely the right times. Perhaps this kind of detail is second nature to people that work in special effects. In any case, the accurate timing is evident, and shows careful attention to details.

Due to statements made that the autopsy procedures performed in this footage were not standard, I attended several autopsies, as part of my research. No two were exactly the same. However, the general, overall procedures in the footage are those used in autopsies. Therefore, the producers of this footage did research this area. The high cut on the neck, noted as non-standard, however, is used if removal of the skin on the face anticipated. We don’t see this procedure in the footage, as it ends while the doctor is still working on the head, but since it is an ‘alien autopsy’, presumably they would want to skin the face and examine the underlying structures. Good thinking by the special effect creators!

One puzzling detail is one of the props. The human brain is a gel-like substance and after removal during an autopsy, it’s suspended in a jar of liquid to “fix” it. The brain in this body is a solid organ, and so doesn’t need such suspension. Yet, sometime during the reflection of the scalp the type of jar used for this, is placed on the table, with the liquid in it. This shows remarkable insight on the part of the effects people, since they would have known the brain was a solid organ and they would not need that jar. However, they must have known that some of us were going to look for it. Had it been part of a ‘standard autopsy props’ kit one would expect it to be there from the beginning of the procedure, like the flask, the Bunsen burner and other items on that table are.

While there are many details missed about the body itself, the one fact that must be the most important is that many people believe it is a real body. This, to me, would be the highest compliment paid to someone in special effect field, implying that the creators were highly talented. However, as a special effect production it’s intentionally made to depict an alien autopsy. So why didn’t the creators make it look like the common aliens, the small, thin, frail, grey-skinned creatures that have become so popular in the past decade?

A detail, probably not noticed by many, is the jointed fingers on at least one hand. The hand gets caught on the doctor’s suit and the fingers curl up. The hand catching may have been an accident but the finger bending was not. Also the hands show creases and lines in the palms, much as our hands have. A wasted detail as most people miss it due to the intentional out of focus camerawork. This camera work is planned and scripted and has to be considered very well done.

Moreover, the autopsy room is not an open set as has been claimed. The four walls do appear in the footage. However, one has to look for them as they are not obvious. Of course, this doesn’t mean that it isn’t a set, only that it is a more complex set than what most people think. The producers hired the actors or played the various roles we see in the footage themselves and provided the costumes they wear. Another, puzzling detail, in a short sequence there is an extra person in the room wearing the same costume. At least five people were involved in the making of this film and so far, none are talking.

We don’t really know that the autopsy only took two hours, because the clock is a twelve hour clock, and it may have taken fourteen hours or twenty-six hours. Actually, what we are looking at is most likely about two hours worth of procedures. However, human autopsies, are done in about half an hour, and sometimes less. The viscera and necessary tissue are removed, the body is closed up and released. The in-depth examination takes place later. The person that wrote the script for this footage realized this and added extra time, since it supposedly is an ‘alien autopsy’. The doctor is still working on the body when the film ends, so it could have taken longer.

Also, if they had done a very lengthy examination, it would surely be evidence that this was a hoax. Consider that if the military was responsible for this autopsy, the scientific study of this thing would not be a priority. They were in the business of defense and the first thing they would want to know is how to defend against them. There would be more interest in how to kill it than what made it tick. The scientific analysis could come later. Again, the scriptwriter was paying attention to detail.

Not as much can be said about the debris footage included in this production, mainly because there isn’t much of it. Still, the debris would have had to be designed and created, especially for this footage, as these aren’t scraps that one can find lying around in any junkyard. Comparing the approximate size and shape of the hand prints on the panels to the hands on the body, they appear to be consistent.

In the debris part of the footage, there was an actual tent set up outdoors or a set that included wind. The sides of the tent billow, as though there was a breeze outside it. Another wasted effect, as very few people notice it.

The special effects theory is certainly a possible explanation for what we see in this footage. But it’s put together with considerable care and attention and is not a simple prank. The producers went to great lengths to try to convince someone that this was a real event. They went above and beyond what is needed for a simple money making scheme.

A GROUP of retired and serving police officers are risking ridicule by coming forward to tell all about their alleged encounters with UFOs.

More than 20 officers have responded to an advertisement in Police Review inviting them to recount their close encounters of the third kind. These include stories of alien abduction and gigantic blocks of light hovering above their squad cars. At least two former officers claim to have photographic evidence of their meetings with extra-terrestrials.

Their extraordinary stories are to be collected in a new book Policing the UFO, to include interviews with at least 20 former and serving police officers and as many as 200 recorded incidents involving police from around the world. Many of the examples from the second category will be taken from previously unreleased Ministry of Defence papers.

The book’s author, Irene Bott, has chosen to concentrate on police officers because of their relative position of trust in society. “They are less likely to be written off as cranks, loonies or anoraks,” she explained.

Others may, however, think they are boldly going beyond the call of duty and risking ridicule and professional suicide.

For this reason, many officers appear to have waited until they have left the police service before speaking out, although others who contacted the researchers feel so strongly about what they have witnessed that they are prepared to be named.

There have also been several reports from officers in Sussex – one as recently as last month – an area which is considered a fruitful zone for UFO sightings.

While the majority of the police officers who have been in contact are retired, some are serving and include an Inspector.

Ms Bott said: “In a court of law the person who is most believed is usually a policeman. Also, these people are out day and night observing things around them so they are excellent witnesses.

“A UFO is simply an unidentified flying object, it’s not little green men.

“Many officers do not want to talk about it openly while they are still serving because they can kiss their promotion chances goodbye.”

So far she has been in touch with about 20 serving and former officers – two serving officers contacted her a couple of weeks ago and claim to have seen UFOs in the past month.

Nick Redfern, an author of several books on UFOs, who is assisting Ms Bott with her project, added: “These people are willing to fly in the face of potential ridicule, which shows how strongly they feel about what they have witnessed – these are strong, credible witnesses.”

One of those to come forward was former Pc John Hanson. His encounter with a UFO took place on the evening of 14 June 1995.

Mr Hanson, 52, who retired from the West Midlands police force in 1994, after 27 years service, was at his home near Redditch, Worcestershire, when he looked out of his bedroom window.

“I saw a silver pear-shaped ball of light hovering over a tree,” he recalled. “It was about 40ft off the ground, and about 20ft long and 5ft wide.

“Immediately opposite was a red cigar-shaped object, about 30ft tall.

“The pear ball suddenly moved and there was a piece cut out of it like a wedge of cheese. It then changed into the shape of a jelly bean and jumped onto the cigar shaped object. The two objects then fused together, produced a rippling light and were gone.”

He said the whole episode lasted about five minutes and took place at 10.35pm, and that a similar sighting took place 20 miles away on the same night.

“I am not talking about flying saucers or space men, but an unidentified object – some form of energy source,” he added.

 

The Saturday that the ET capture took place, January 20th ‘96, I wasn’t in Varginha. The day after, Jan 21st, I arrived at about 10: 30 a.m. and received a call from a storekeeper who owns a shop in the center of the town, Mr. Milton. He asked if I had knowledge of what happened the day before and told me that “… some girls had seen a weird animal, something like a little monster”. (…) That same night, as I realized that the rumour was already spread throughout the city, I called Milton again to get further details. (…) An employee of his shop would have more information. (…) She knew the people that had seen the strange being. (…) The girls live at Rua Tapajós [ Tapajós Street ] , Varginha, to where I went. (…) I asked a near storekeeper if she knew the girls, she said so, adding that “she had also observed the movement around that area regarding the case”. This lady said she was friend of Luisa (the girls’ mother) and that she was told the girls arrived at home scared, that afternoon. They were screaming, crying and shaking. They had seen something very ugly. (…) Meanwhile, the rumours continue to spread through the city. Some people said the creature had been captured and taken to the “Hospital Regional” [Regional Hospital], that it had a big belly, seemed to be pregnant, and made a noise, like if it was crying. (…)

AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL AT THE HOSPITAL – This procedure is common in researches, because it helps to find contradictions in the testimonies. (…) Meanwhile, the rumours continued to spread, increase, and gained consistency in Varginha. The whole city started to comment on the story. (…) In Varginha, there are three hospitals, however the rumours converged only to the Regional Hospital. It wasn’t possible to be sure of anything, specially about which hospital would be involved with the fact. Everything was obscure, UNTIL I MANAGED TO TALK TO A NURSE OF REGIONAL HOSPITAL (which name cannot be revealed, in order to preserve her safety). She was very reluctant to receive and talk to me until, finally, she accepted to be interviewed. SHE REVEALED THAT, ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 21st , A STRANGE MOVEMENT OCCURRED AT HOSPITAL REGIONAL. THE FACT INVOLVED PHYSICIANS COMING FROM OUT OF VARGINHA, THE MILITARY POLICE AND ARMY VEHICLES. However, she didn’t speak a word about the Fire Department. (…) ONE OF THE HOSPITAL SECTIONS, according to our source, WAS CLOSED FOR SOME HOURS, IN ORDER TO AVOID THE ACCESS OF EMPLOYEES, PATIENTS AND VISITORS. She also said that, on Monday, January 22nd, she was called, together with other employees, for a MEETING AT THE DIRECTOR’S ROOM. According to her testimony, the director said that all that movement should be ignored, because “it was just a training for the doctors and military personnel”. (…) According to this witness, the meeting culminated with the following statement from the director : “Here in Varginha there is people who likes to deal with “cool” things, I mean, supernatural, strange … It is probable that these people will look for you, specially that lawyer, Ubirajara. TO THESE PEOPLE, YOU MUST DENY EVERYTHING. I mean , do deny”. Later, I spoke to a former pupil of mine, who said she had been at the hospital entrance hall that Sunday, by 10: 30 p.m., together with a friend of her. She asked the receptionist if it was true what the rumours said about the “little monster” received at the hospital. The employee CONFIRMED , saying that the being wasn’t there anymore, because it had been removed to another city hospital, the “Humanitas”. So, the women went there, too. Now, they were attended by a nurse who told them the following : “YOU CANNOT GO INSIDE TO SEE ‘THAT’AND, EVEN IF YOU COULD, I WOULDN’T ADVISE YOU TO … YOU WOULDN’T LIKE TO SEE IT”. The same time, some parallel witnesses, which live in Humanitas region, said they had seen troops movements at the lateral gate. This was everything I knew then. It was necessary to have stronger evidences. So I tried the military area, firstly Commander Mauricio, from the Military Police. When I met him, I identified myself and explained the situation. I asked him if he had knowledge of the rumours that the MP was involved in the capture case. His answer was negative. He, then, offered to check it out , and verified that there were no records of such occurrence. Even thus, he asked me to contact him again, because perhaps he would find something. The next day, as it was scheduled, I called Commander Mauricio, but he didn’t attend me. I MADE ABOUT 50 PHONE CALLS TO THE QUARTER, BUT WASN’T ATTENDED. So I began to feel that something was wrong. THEY WERE HIDING SOMETHING. A friend of mine managed to talk to a policewoman that was on duty at Saturday, January 20th, receiving the emergency calls, thru the number 190 [Note from translator : similar to 911 in the U.S.] . She revealed there were some calls : “IN FACT, SOME PEOPLE CALLED SAYING THAT THEY SAW SUCH A LITTLE MONSTER, BUT WE THOUGHT THEY WERE KIDDING AND WE DIDN’T GIVE ATTENTION TO THEM.” (…)

THE RESEARCHERS’ SECRET INVESTIGATIVE DIARY ON THE CASE

by Vitorio Pacaccini

Before the Varginha Case appears in the media, I didn’t know Ubirajara yet. (…) At first, I was investigating the case for CICOANI and had already contacted some people I knew from Três Corações, MG [State of Minas Gerais] in order to gather information about the case, specially at ESA (Escola de Sargentos das Armas – Army Sergeants School). This happened in the beginning of February. On Wednesday, in the carnival week, I received a call from a source who said that “it was time to the jaguar to drink the water”. In our language, it means that some important witness was about to talk.

The name of the witness, by now and for a while, cannot be revealed. I don’t want to put anybody in jail or harm people’s lives. (…)

So, on this Wednesday, I went to a friend’s home where he introduced me to the first witness. (…) After some minutes of conversation, this military began to speak about the subject.

THIS WITNESS IS EXTREMELY TRUSTWORTHY, KNOWS EVERYONE IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND GOT ACCESS TO SEVERAL CLASSIFIED INFORMATION. However, he is very afraid of revealing what he knows even to his closest people, due to the dangerous situation.

According to the description, the creature had sticky skin (seeming to have put an oil on the body), red eyes, big head with protuberances, long and thin arms, short and thin legs, big feet and a big salience at the abdomen. It had no kind of clothing, as well as no apparent genitals. In the ESA truck that conducted the being, there were two seargents and one major, ALL OF THEM WITH ‘GAÚCHO’ ACCENT [Note from T.: gaúcho = somebody who was born or lives in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul] . All these information were given in a 45-minute interview. The witness was emphatic, saying that the Fire Department command had knowledge of the whole operation, and that Captain Alvarenga simply lied when he said he didn’t receive any notification.

All of this reveals that somebody is lying in this case and it seems that it’s not the witnesses … – because they wouldn’t gain anything with it. (…) I MADE CONTACT WITH OTHER MILITARY WITNESSES FROM TRÊS CORAÇÕES IN SECRET MEETINGS. ONE OF THEM, BY THE WAY, WENT TO MY HOUSE AT 3 A.M. TOGETHER WITH HIS WIFE. HE EXPLAINED TO ME HOW THE ARMY’S SECRET SERVICE WORKS. It has a very-well-implanted unity in the city, with people taking turns over and over, in order not to be recognized. These “S-2”, as they are known, blend with the civilians, often use mustaches, long hairs, drive old cars and behave as civilians.

This one that came to my house said the capture had been extremely favorable to the Army, because it happened in a weekend (when ESA stays practically empty, only with guards) and also due to the fact that the secret service members could enter or leave at any time, without giving explanation to anybody. Inside ESA, there is a shed where the S-2 works, surrounded by enormous security. Even the quarter’s officers have no access to that place. (…)

We’ve had a good support from the media, (…) which is trying to show the facts as they are. If the media, or I should better say, part of it, like Luiz Petry (director of “FANTÁSTICO” [“Fantastic” – brazilian popular TV show, aired by Globo Network] , didn’t run for it, seeking information, everything would have finished with no explanation. (…)

NAMES OF THE PEOPLE INVOLVED – After we placed together all the information on the case, we obtained the names of military personnel directly involved with the case : Lieutenant-Colonel Olímpio Vanderlei, Captain Ramires, Lieutenant Tibério (from the Army Police) and Sargeant Pedrosa. We also know the names of the three drivers : Corporal Vassalo, Soldier Cirilo and Soldier De Mello.

They met a Lieutenant from S-2, who arrived in a white brown Volkswagen (Fusca-type) and stopped beside the “Paes Mendonça” supermarket, in Varginha. This lieutenant sent all of them, by Fusca, to the Humanitas Hospital, where they did some kind of secret operation. (…)

(…) Arriving at the hospital, there was a wooden box tied on two trestles, and ONE OF THE S-2 AGENTS WAS CARRYING A CAMCORDER. The other military men received orders to take their jackets off and were forbidden of using voice recorders, cameras or camcorders. At that time, Military Police and Fire Department vehicles have been seen at the hospital’s entry yard with six men, as well as two men from the Army’s secret service and some physicians.

The dead creature was put inside the box, which was closed by a plastic canvas and placed into the truck. The truck body covering have been strenghtened in order to really hide the being. AT THAT TIME, SPECIALLY ON JANUARY 22nd, THE WHOLE CITY WAS COMMENTING ON THE STRANGE ESA TRUCKS MOVEMENTS. IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO NOTICE THAT … Everyone commented and the rumours increased.

The convoy’s route to Três Corações was easy. Reaching the city, THERE WERE ALREADY POLICEMEN WAITING AND HOLDING THE TRAFFIC. It seems that the convoy’s drivers didn’t know what they were transporting. One of them, in his testimony, said he thought it was a burnt man, a suicide, or something. He also said the creature had a terrible bad smell. Because there were three trucks involved, we suppose that, maybe, there were three creatures. But this can’t be said for sure. (…)

BY 4 A.M., THE SAME CONVOY FOLLOWED TO CAMPINAS, WHERE – ACCORDING TO OUR SOURCES – THE CREATURE HAVE BEEN NECROPSIED. At this time, there have been a meeting with some officers, when it was emphasized that all this operation was secret, classified (…) and all must be kept in silence.

The soldiers arrived at Campinas by morning. (…) Even an Engesa-type Jeep, war model, was used in the convoy, among other military trucks. We don’t know yet exactly to what military unit in Campinas the convoy was destinated. Reaching the destiny, the box took another direction, which is still unknown.

(…) We have concluded that they transported the creature to Campinas in order to put it on the hands of a professional from Unicamp [University of Campinas, a well-recognized brazilian university]. According to our investigation , this professional is one of the most respected legists in Brazil and internationally known. WE HAVE GOT ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION TROUGH A SCIENTIST OF UNICAMP, whose name must remain anonymous. THIS SCIENTIST EVEN SAID HE WENT TO VARGINHA, WHERE HE PICKED SOIL SAMPLES AND LOCAL VEGETATION FROM THE PLACE THE BEING WAS SIGHTED. Thus, it became obvious that the creature had been taken to this university. (…) There are no doubts that Unicamp is involved in the case.

Our scientist talked to some teachers, close people who often visit his house, and knew that THERRE ARE ORDERS FROM THE [BRAZILIAN] GOVERNMENT, NOT TO SPEAK A WORD ABOUT THE SUBJECT. As they told him, the head of the university is also oriented to keep this operation secret. THE SOURCES, THAT ARE RELIABLE, SAY THAT THE LEGIST PHYSICIAN BADAN PALHARES (who is responsible for important necropsies, like the Nazi Joseph Mengele one) DID THE FIRST NECROPSY IN THE CREATURE. (…)

Regarding to the number of beings captured, it’s still obscure. Analyzing the probabilities, we can say that there are AT LEAST TWO BEINGS : the first was captured at 10 a.m. by the military men, and the second was sighted by the girls at about 3 p.m.. (…)

We already know how the first creature was captured, at 10 :30 a.m., involving the Police, the Army and the Fire-Fighters. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE SECOND ? HOW DID IT HAPPEN ? AS THE WITNESSES REVEALED, IT OCCURRED AT ABOUT 8 P.M. THAT SATURDAY, AND IT INVOLVED, THIS TIME, THE MILITARY POLICE SECRET SERVICE [Note from T. : also known as “P-2”] AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. This capture was much more discreet than the first, because the military arrived in plain clothes and using civilian cars. The creature was in an area near the woods, where the military surrounded and caught it.

This information came from a well-known lady who lives in the city, member of the Varginha’s “high society”, that heard that a police soldier had caught the creature. THIS BEING WOULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO THE CLOSEST LOCAL MEDICAL STATION, WHERE THE DOCTOR THAT WAS ON DUTY ADVISED THEM TO TAKE HIM TO THE HOSPITAL.

AN ALIEN IN VARGINHA? – There isn’t in ufology’s alien classification a being with such characteristics like that of the one saw in Varginha. That’s something important to the world’ s Ufology. This emphasizes the possibility of a genetically adapted creature, whose aim was to do some operation among us, terrestrials. (…)

(…) It is very likely that the Varginha ET was some kind of animal created only to conclude a mission, which is still unknown to us. Or perhaps it would be some kind of probe, patrol, or monitoring of the human race. Ufology’s classification is something relative. (…)

(…) The classification has a wide variety, but much of it is due to the different interpretations made by the people who describe and draw the beings.
Two reporters here from Varginha were searched by a person who identified himself as the-cousin-of-a-son-of-a-military-man-from-ESA. THIS MILITARY’S SON WOULD HAVE GOT ACCESS TO A FILM MADE AT ESA SHOWING THE CREATURE (OR THE CREATURES) AND SHOWED IT TO HIS COUSIN, WHO OFFERED TO SBT [Note from T.: SBT = Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão – Brazilian Television System, the second major TV Network in Brazil] FOR 70.000 REAIS

[or 68.000 U.S. dollars]

. Since then, the price have been reduced. THERE HAD BEEN A NEGOTIATION PROCESS WITH S.B.T., INVOLVING THE SBT BOARD OB DIRECTORS IN SÃO PAULO, IN ORDER TO GET THE MOVIE. THE YOUNG BOY VISITED THE LOCAL SBT STATION, BUT THEY DIDN’T REACH ANY DEAL. SOME TIME LATER, HE SAID IT WOULDN’T BE POSSIBLE TO DO IT, BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE WERE SUSPECTING OF HIM AND HE WAS IN LIFE DANGER.

THIS COINCIDED WITH THE FACT THAT, IN THE SAME WEEK, A VARGINHA CITIZEN, WITH A GOOD REPUTATION IN THE CITY, CAME TO US. HE SAID THAT HIS 16-YEAR OLD DAUGHTER AND HER SCHOOL FRIEND – DAUGHTER OF A POLICEMAN FROM THE M.P. – WOULD HAVE WATCHED A “HORRIBLE” FILM THAT HER FATHER BROUGHT HOME. IT WAS ABOUT THE CAPTURED CREATURE. AS THE GIRL’S FATHER REALIZED THE SITUATION WAS DANGEROUS, HE VANISHED WITH THE TAPE …

We know this tape exists, and for obvious reasons : witnesses had already informed us that in the capture day one of the military men was using a camcorder. (…) WE HAVE HAD MANY EVIDENCES THAT THIS FILM IS HERE IN VARGINHA. (…)

 

 

The statements from Vitorio Pacaccini and Ubirajara Rodrigues, saying that the Fire Department captured ETs in Varginha (MG) [State of Minas Gerais], contradict the word of Pedro Alvarenga, commandant of Fire Department’s 13 th Company, who said the corporation wasn’t called to attend local ocurrences on January 20th 1996. The commandant afirmed that, because they work in public areas, they wouldn’t manage to hide the case from the press or the ufologists. He also said that the researchers are trying to involve the Fire Department, the Military Police and the Army with the fact. He claimed that “it would be impossible to hide the case. The emotional aspect of the men involved would change, because it’s not a usual capture, and there have not been any change.”

However, UBIRAJARA AND PACACCINI ASSURE THEY HAVE MILITARY WITNESSES WHO CONFIRM THE FIRE FIGHTERS’ INVOLVEMENT ATTENDING AN OCCURRENCE AT ABOUT 10:30 A.M. THAT DAY IN JARDIM ANDERE. According to the witnesses, the firemen arrived at the place with four soldiers in a fire-engine. They found a weird creature in the place and the Army observed closely the whole operation.

The commandant stated that “that Saturday, I wasn’t in the quarter. The name of the Fire Dept. has been involved in a casual way, I don’t know, but I think there was no truth regarding this.” Captain Alvarenga said the witnesses are not military at all, because “if they would, they’d talk something to the press. Even the population would ask for more facts and evidences that everything really happened”. But, according to the ufologists, if the witnesses reveal their names, they would be risking their jobs and harming their lives. Besides, UBIRAJARA AND PACACCINI RECOGNIZED THE WITNESSES’CREDENTIALS.

The press tried to take photos and to obtain interviews, but the firemen resisted. The commandant tried to justify it, blaming Rede Globo [Globo TV Network], because they did a story on the subject. According to Captain Alvarenga, the Fire Department didn’t want to expose itself, in order to avoid complications with the media. “The things complicated because the day people were talking about this creature, it had been a corpse exhumation in the city, and the victim’s family thinks the own police killed the boy”.

However, according to a fax received on May 24th, from the Institute of Legal Medicine, which is subordinated to the Minas Gerais State’s Secretary of Public Security, the body indicated as belonging to José Maria Misael Filho, 23, was exhumated in the Institute, which in fact is located on the Regional Hospital premises. It is written in the official report that the necropsy has been made on January 30th, in other words, MORE THAN A WEEK AFTER the witnesses afirm they saw the movements in the hospital.

Alvarenga denied the Fire Department participation in the transport of this corpse and said that “the fire fighters unit of Tres Coracoes is closer to the Army, therefore it may has been called to some operation with ESA or to transport the victim”.

 

Many people who didn’t believe in anything about UFOs started – at least – to suspect of something wrong after the case blew wide open. Everything is becoming very controversial. We know, for instance, that AFTER WE’VE MADE THAT PRESS CONFERENCE MENTIONING THE NAMES OF THE MILITARY INVOLVED WITH THE CASE, MILITARY OFFICERS HAVE ALREADY CAME FROM BRASÍLIA TO VARGINHA. NOBODY EVER IMAGINED THE THINGS WOULD REACH THIS POINT. EVEN WITHIN THE ARMED FORCES EVERYTHING WAS HOT-LIKE-FIRE. THE OFFICERS WERE CRAZY TO KNOW WHO HAD SPREADED INFORMATION THAT WAS NOT TO BE SPREADED. ONE OF OUR WITNESSES ASKED NOT TO TALK TO US AGAIN, BECAUSE WAS AFRAID OF BEING “ELIMINATED” .

(…) OUR PHONE LINES AND THE LINES OF OTHER BRAZILIAN UFOLOGISTS ARE ELECTRONICALLY BUGGED. We ‘ve received a recent confirmation of it, from secure sources. We are afraid that something happen to us. (…)

IT IS MUCH LIKELY THAT THE PHONE LINE OF C.B.P.D.V. [ Centro Brasileiro para Pesquisa de Discos Voadores – Brazilian Center for Flying Saucer Research, which edits brazilian “Revista UFO” – UFO Magazine, Editor A.J.Gevaerd ] IS ALSO BUGGED, because everyone knows that the ufological information always converge to this magazine. (…) The ufologists only now are realizing the seriousness of everything. We have always condemned the worldwide UFO cover-up plan and the Roswell case manipulators, but we had never faced before constituted powers, national and close to us.

SECRET OPERATION – (…) I know I’m not lying about this case, I am absolute sure of what I am saying and the truth must be revealed. There isn’t in the Brazilian Constitution one single article that prohibits the ufological research and that’s enough reason for us to continue. (…)

If there is the possibility for us of being sat over an atom bomb, what about the future of ufological research, that had been fighting against this secrecy for over 50 years ? (…) Everything have always been done in absolute secrecy. However, to our luck, this time the information have leaked out. We know the situation here is very delicated, but this is NOT gonna stop or hinder our investigation.

 

Lawyer in Varginha and a former military, Mr. J.C. (initials are fictitious, his real name cannot be revealed) witnessed the military movements in the city the same week the girls sighted the creature. “After the girls had seen the creature, almost nobody noticed, but there were VASP planes [Note from T. : VASP : a brazilian airline company] over Varginha, in a very low altitude. I also saw the Army combing the area, there were a lot of military people in the place. Nobody noticed anything”.

J.C. described the planes that flew over the city as being two F-5. (…) He said they were NOT in the natural formation, they were in some attack formation … (…)

However, the most important fact witnessed by him was the presence of Army vehicles near a wood (close to where the researchers afirm the ET has been captured). He was passing there and saw a truck carrying about seven soldiers. He didn’t know what would be the intention of these men there : “THEY WERE WALKING AROUND THE AREA, COMBING THE WAY. THEY WORE GREEN CAMPAIGN UNIFORMS (CAMOUFLAGED). (…) SOME OF THEM WERE IN PLAIN CLOTHES AND THEY WALKED IN GROUPS OF TWO. MORE PEOPLE ALSO SAW IT, I WASN’T THE ONLY ONE TO SEE. THEY DISAPPEARED MYSTERIOUSLY, I THINK THEY REALIZED THAT THEY WERE BEEN WATCHED”.

Some days later, J.C. heard in a bus stop near to his house [in Jardim Amélia II neighborhood, Varginha] some people commenting on the story. THESE PEOPLE SAID THAT IN THE SAME DAY HE HEARD THE PLANES, THEY HEARD THE SOUND OF THREE SHOTS THAT SEEMED TO BE RIFLE SHOTS. A person who J.C. knows have more details : “AT THE TIME I WAS GOING DOWN THE STREET, I HEARD THE SHOTS, I DON’T REMEMBER WHICH TIME IT WAS. THEY WENT OUT OF THE WOODS WITH TWO SACKS, BUT THIS I DIDN’T SEE. AS THEY TOLD ME, IT WERE CAMPAIGN SACKS. ACCORDING TO THE LAWYER, ONE OF THEM WAS MOTIONLESS, BUT THE OTHER WAS MOVING, IT SEEMED THAT IT HAD SOMETHING ALIVE INSIDE IT. Soon after this operation, the trucks vanished. Some curious people tried to comb the place, but they didn’t find anything. It all happened at about 10 : 30 a.m..

TAKING A SHORT-CUT – But J.C. reveals that THIS WAS ONLY THE FIRST CATCH OPERATION. ACCORDING TO HIS TESTIMONY, THERE WAS A SECOND ONE, WHICH TOOK PLACE BETWEEN 1:30 A.M. AND 2:30 A.M. THAT SAME DAY. When he was leaving his office, early that afternoon, he saw a truck leaving the city and stopping at the opposite side of an earthwork short-cut.

 

On April 21st 1996, at 9 p.m., Mrs. Therezinha Gallo Clepf, 67, a housewife, sighted a strange creature at Paiquerê Restaurant, which lies in the Zoo-Botanical Woods of Varginha (MG), where she lives. We’ve been in her house so as to interview her : “I was in a party in the zoo restaurant and I went out to smoke a cigarette in the porch, (…) and saw the creature in the porch’s parapet, only from the neck upwards”. She affirmed for sure that it wasn’t any zoo animal.

Mrs. Therezinha became very frightened, and freezed, staying this way for about five minutes, looking all the time to the creature, without making any gesture. (…)

GOLDEN HELMET – According to her story, the difference between the creature she saw and the one observed by the girls was the helmet she saw covering the creature’s head, which stopped her (from) seeing the ears and horns that probably it should have (based on the girls’ description). The rest was similar : the being had also dark brown skin, bright and oily, a rounded face, red eyes, and didn’t have cheeks, nor beard, mustache or nose, and, on the lips position, it had only a cut.

(…) Mrs. Therezinha was close to the creature, about four meters long, according to her. Still today, almost two months after the incident, she is afraid of sighting the alien again. (…)

SOME DAYS AFTER MRS. THEREZINHA HAD SEEN THE E.T. IN THE ZOO, FIVE ANIMALS WERE FOUND DEAD IN THE PLACE, AND THE ZOO BIOLOGIST, DR. LEILA CABRAL, DON’T HAVE AN EXPLANATION FOR SUCH DEATHS. An examination was made in the animals and, in the result, it is reported that ” … in the stag, the reason of death suggests the presence of caustic toxic substance (…), the other animals have completely unknown causes” . The medical official report just suggests (doesn’t confirms) the presence of this kind of toxic. THERE IS NO REAL REASON FOR THE DEATHS OF THE OTHER FOUR ANIMALS.(…).

VARGINHA : CITY VISITED BY UFOs – Varginha is located 300 km

[or 186 miles]

long from Belo Horizonte, in the southern Minas Gerais region [Brazil]. (…) It has about 110.000 inhabitants. The city (…) is situated in an strategic point of ufological activities, where there are constant sightings and close encounters of many kinds.

The Southern Minas is internationally known as a region inclined to extraterrestrial activities. Cities close to Varginha, such as São Tomé das Letras, Três Corações, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Pouso Alegre and others, also present countless records (…). In the last months, the number of cases increased frightfully. In practically all the cities of this region people are seeing flying saucers. The objects appear publicly, being seen by many witnesses at the same time. In some cases, they let themselves to be filmed or photographed.

WHO BELIEVES IN THE VARGINHA E.T. ? – João Ubirajara Nogueira, engineer, owner of “La Neve” ice-cream shop, located in the center of Varginha, organized a poll between February and April 1996, with the following question : “Do you believe in the Varginha ET ? “. In this period, there have been interviewed 1910 people; 1530 people answered “yes”, they believe in the ET, 330 said “no”, and 50 didn’t answer. In other words, more than 80 % of the city’s population believe that something happened in Varginha and it wasn’t from this world. (…).