Bigfoot and Extraterrestrials:
Exploring the Mysterious Connection

The legend of Bigfoot, a towering, elusive creature said to roam remote forests, has fascinated researchers and cryptid enthusiasts for centuries. Meanwhile, reports of extraterrestrial encounters—alien visitations, UFO sightings, and government secrecy—continue to intrigue those searching for answers beyond our world. But could these two phenomena be linked? Some researchers and believers suggest that Bigfoot and extraterrestrials share a mysterious connection, one that points to a reality far more complex than conventional science acknowledges.

Theories Linking Bigfoot to Extraterrestrials

Several theories propose that Bigfoot is either directly connected to extraterrestrial beings or influenced by their presence. These ideas range from speculative folklore to interpretations based on witness reports and unexplained events. While there is no definitive scientific proof, several intriguing pieces of evidence have fueled speculation about this mysterious relationship:

 

Eyewitness Accounts and Cryptid Research

Over the years, various eyewitness accounts have suggested eerie connections between Bigfoot and UFO phenomena. In Pennsylvania during the 1970s, reports surfaced of Bigfoot appearing alongside glowing orbs. Similarly, in the Pacific Northwest, multiple witnesses have described strange lights in the sky coinciding with Bigfoot encounters. While these accounts remain anecdotal, they contribute to the intrigue surrounding these mysterious entities.

Cryptid researchers often attempt to find tangible evidence linking Bigfoot to extraterrestrial presence. Field investigators have recorded unexplained energy fluctuations, anomalous footprints, and unusual animal reactions—potential indicators of an external force at play.

Conclusion: A Mystery Waiting to Be Solved

Despite the theories, the connection between Bigfoot and extraterrestrials remains speculative. Some dismiss these ideas as folklore, while others argue that hidden truths about our world have yet to be uncovered. Until definitive evidence emerges, the link between these enigmatic entities will continue to fuel debate, curiosity, and an enduring fascination with the unknown.

 

The US Government Told Us About ETs

On November 13, 2024, retired US government officials told the US House of Representatives  Subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs that UFOs – also called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAP – are extraterrestrial spacecraft. They said that we are under surveillance by intelligent beings from elsewhere in the universe, and that evidence confirming the existence of UAPs has been known to the government for decades (1).

Some of us already knew that. UFO study groups have reported that machines with performance exceeding human aircraft are seen, recorded, and reported in the air, on the ground and in the oceans (2,3).    UFO study groups also know something that was not mentioned during the subcommittee hearing: extraterrestrials (ETs) abduct people into their extraterrestrial spacecraft, study us and then return us to earth with no memory of what happened.

Some people still think that ETs are a conspiracy theory created by the self-deluded. Some people who know better cannot talk or write about it. I am a professional student of human vision and memory. I know that human vision and memory, supported by photo, video, radar and sonar evidence, establish the  reality of extraterrestrials. I summarize here what we know about extraterrestrials and suggest what we should do about them.

The Evidence

A commercial airline pilot told me that he had flown wingtip-to-wingtip with an ETV while flying across the American Southwest.

Evelyn and Paul Trent saw a flying saucer hovering over their farm in McMinnville, Oregon on May 11,     1950. Evelyn went outside to feed the rabbits and saw it first. Then Paul came outside and saw a “brightly metallic, silver or aluminum covered” disc “with a touch of bronze” which made no noise and had no exhaust. He thought it might have been a US secret weapon. He got his camera and took two photos before the ETV flew off. He showed the photos to some friends. The local newspaper heard about it and published the photos on June 8, 1950 (Figure 2).  Paul Trent’s McMinnville photos were studied by a US government committee established to investigate UFO reports. The committee wrote that:

“This is one of the few UFO reports in which all of the factors investigated, geometric, psychological, and physical, appear to be consistent with the assertion that an extraordinary flying object, silvery, metallic, disc-shaped, tens of meters on diameter, and evidently artifactual, flew within sight of two witnesses (5)”.

Figure 2. UFO photographed by Paul Trent near McMinnville, Oregon on May 11, 1950.

Humanity experienced a loud and disastrous war that began when Japan invaded China in 1932, and ended when atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in l945. ETs were listening and came to watch.

Figure 3. Luminous discs (‘Foo-Fighters’) observed during aerial combat in World War 2.                         

Allied pilots saw lights that followed their aircraft when they flew over Germany and the Balkans.  The lights were round and they moved fast. They were described as fiery or glowing red, white, or orange. Some pilots said they looked like Christmas-tree lights. Pilots reported that the lights seemed to toy with their aircraft, making wide turns before simply vanishing. The lights flew in formation with their aircraft, behaving as if they were under intelligent control, but they never displayed hostile behavior. They could not be outmaneuvered or shot down. They were called “foo fighters” (Figure 3). The allied command in Europe  issued a press release on December 13, 1944, describing the phenomenon as a “new German weapon”. Stories appeared in the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune and the British Daily Telegraph. On January 15,1945, Time magazine reported that the “balls of fire” had been following USAAF night fighters for more than a month. Descriptions of the phenomena varied but pilots agreed that the mysterious lights followed their aircraft closely and at high speed.

“Balls of fire” were also reported from the Pacific Theater of Operations. The Pacific “ball of fire” resembled a large burning sphere that “just hung in the sky” and sometimes followed aircraft. As in Europe, aircraft were never attacked by a Pacific “ball of fire”.

Figure 4. ETVs were seen over Washington D.C. in 1952, but dismissed by the CIA 

 

ETs Interfere with Us

Our interactions with other animals are usually friendly and well-intentioned. We walk our dogs to the dog park and we feed our cats when they are hungry. We take care of animals who are useful to us. Cows give us milk; horses give us mobility. We co-exist with other animals: squirrels nest in our trees; birds live in our birdhouses. But we also kill and eat animals and some of us kill animals for pleasure.

ETs do not treat us as equals: they control us and then study us. Here are two examples.

Linda Cortile

Linda Cortile (a pseudonym) was abducted by ETs from her New York City apartment in the middle of the night on November 30, 1989. An ETV hovered over her apartment building, ETs levitated from the ETV  through her bedroom window and then levitated Linda out through the closed window and into the ETV while her husband slept through the abduction.

Figure 7. ETs abducting Linda Cortile from her Manhattan apartment as seen by a witness in a car immobilized on the nearby Brooklyn Bridge  

Cars on the nearby Brooklyn Bridge were immobilized while the ETV hovered near Linda’s apartment.  One of the immobilized drivers sketched what she saw (Figure 7) and sent her drawing to Budd Hopkins (1931 – 2011) who was an abstract expressionist painter known for his art and for his interest in ETs.  The abduction was also seen by two US Secret Service agents and the prominent political figure who they were driving along Manhattan’s FDR drive at the time of the abduction. The FDR drive passes under the Brooklyn Bridge and their Secret Service car was immobilized during the abduction. The full story was told by Budd Hopkins in Witnessed (10).

Can we Protect Ourselves against ETs?

ETs are technologically more advanced than humans: they have mastered space travel and telepathy.  We are beginners who have taken small steps towards mastery of space and telepathy. We have modest competence at skills ETs have fully mastered.

We may be able to control our interactions with ETs. Animal behavior can be modified by transmitting microwaves directly to the brain (US Patent 4,858,612). Based on the assumption that ET telepathy is produced by microwave transmission to the brain, inventor Michael Menkin filled hats with microwave-blocking polyester insulation. Menkin reported that his insulating hats prevented people who had experienced multiple abductions from being re-abducted so long as they kept on wearing the hats (19).

President John F. Kennedy stood before Congress on May 25^th, 1961, and proposed that the US “should commit itself to the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.”  He assigned this task to the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).  Werner von Braun, a Nazi German scientist captured by the United States at the end of WWII and brought to the United States as part of project Paperclip, was the chief architect of the Saturn V American super heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by NASA under the Apollo program for human exploration of the Moon.

Von Braun was so successful that he became the director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, on July 1, 1960.  On the JFK library website in a transcript of an interview of von Braun by Walter D. Sohier and Eugene M. Emme on March 31, 1964, von Braun states that in 1964 the United States did not have a rocket capable of landing a manned craft on the moon and returning successfully.  He said that the US would need to increase their rocket performance by a factor of 10.  Later in 1964, von Braun changed his mind and, thereafter, led NASA’s moon mission resulting in a moon landing in 1969.  What caused von Braun to change his mind so quickly?  To explore what might have caused von Braun to change his mind, Bob says we need to visit events in the mid- and late-nineties.

In 1994, Bob attended an International UFO Congress conference in Mesquite, Nevada.  At the conference, he heard about an engineer named Bill Uhouse.  William “Bill” George Uhouse was born in Carteret, NJ, on April 25, 1925, retired in 2000 and died on May 29, 2009.  Bill spent 10 years with the Marines, serving as a fighter pilot, mainly in the late stages of World War II and in Korea, before spending 4 years as a civilian at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio working for the Air Force.

At Wright-Patterson he tested experimental aircraft.  After his work at Wright-Patterson, he was hired by Air Force contractors developing experimental aircraft and worked another 30 years.  Early in his career as a contractor in 1954, Bill was given a top secret program to work on.  Remember that the government security has always been very compartmentalized and did, and still does, operate on a strict need-to-know basis.  Within Bill’s assigned program, each department was given a specific task and was not told what the overall objective or final product was.

Atwater Incident Explained?

I was at the attempted recovery operation on Tadd Lake Saturday 1/23/99 when the divers searched for evidence of something breaking through the ice. Since then a theory came to me as a possible cause.

The reported appearance of the hole being melted instead of broken gave me the impression of a high energy plasma burst. This might sound odd but It was almost like it was hit by lightning. I didn’t know if that would be possible so I looked through some books and they said that lightning does strike in winter occasionally.

I then looked at last Sundays paper for the weather forcast on that day of the event 1/17/99. The prediction was for a band of heavy wet snow across the middle section of Minnesota with blustery winds and a high temp. of 30 degrees. The Saint Paul paper also predicted a few thunderstorms as far north as Des Moines, Iowa.

A nearby lightning strike (especially within 100 yards) does produce the effect of a sonic boom as the lady described and is more than enough to rattle some windows. I don’t know what it would do if lightning hits some ice on a shallow lake but it might be enough to whack a hole through it. Lighning can do funny things.

One book said that a lighning bolt can produce 3 billion joules of energy and reach temperatures of 25,000 degrees C. That might explain the ice being melted or vaporized in the 2 foot by 3 foot hole that was found. It would be interesting to see if there has been any other known reports of lightning hitting a frozen lake a what were the results.

I noticed the aeration system about 100 yards from the unusual hole. I wonder if bubbles in the water could have built up a static charge on the ice to help attract lightning to that area. There was a large tree on the shore close to the hole that might have helped too although I did not pay attention to see if it was damaged.

I am not saying this is what happened for sure but just that it might be possible. It would still be quite odd and possibly rare. Maybe you could run the idea past your weather people and see what they think.

I wonder if more people would have thought of this explanation were it not for the distraction of the possible meteor theory and the impression of something falling from the sky to make that unusual hole. Its shape could have tricked us.

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.

 

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. (…).