More Brazilian UFO's
UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 1, Number 20 June 30, 1996
Editor:Masinaigan FREE
NEW UFO SIGHTING IN VARGINHA
On Friday, June 28, 1996, the Varginha case exploded onto Page One
of the Wall Street Journal. The story by WSJ staff reporter Matt Moffett
(Aliens Land in Brazil in Desperate Need of a Good Shower) provided the
latest news on the continuing controversy over the alleged saucer crash
and live alien retrieval in Varginha on January 20 - 22.
According to Moffatt, "An official briefing to debunk UFO conspiracies
was overshadowed by an auto mechanic's claim to have seen yet
another cylindrical aircraft, a cosmic encounter re-enacted with the aid of
an aluminum coffee thermos."
Also, the Brazilian city's "local psychic predicts that Varginha will
suffer some kind of cataclysm this September as retribution for the
blitzkrieg on the interplanetary visitors."
The threat hasn't stopped crowds from staking out the Jardim Andere,
the site of the three girls' encounter with an alien injured in the crash,
hoping for a glimpse of another UFO. A woman named Nilda told the
reporter, "For extraterrestrials, they may not be much, but they are the
biggest thing we have ever had in Varginha."
For residents in this city of 120,000 people, located in the coffee-
growing country in southern Minas Gerais state, the saucer crash is the
number one topic of conversation. City councilmen are thinking of
renaming the park "Seite Extreterrestes" (Seven Aliens) in honor of the
visitors. Paulo Vitor Freire, mayor of Varginha, said, "We would never
have imagined that so many international organizations take interest in
cases like ours."
Meanwhile, the Brazilian Army continues to deny that troops were
involved in a saucer/alien retrieval operation. All media questions are now
being routed to Capt. Eduardo Calza, public information officer at the
Escola de Sargentos das Armas in Tres Coracoes, where the six live
aliens were confined on January 20.
"You know, I used to get calls about the base talent show," Capt.
Calza told the Wall Street Journal.
According to Moffett, "Capt. Calza says he can't vouch for what the
three women saw in January. But the activity on the base that fateful
weekend, he insists, was anything but otherworldly. New inductees to a
sergeant's training school went on parade and a truck convoy was driven
to a repair shop."
Capt. Calza did not explain why the trucks were driven nearly two
hundred kilometers to Campinas when the even-larger city of Juiz da Fora
is only 90 kilometers east of Varginha.
Also, Capt. Calza's assertion contradicts the April 22 statement by
the Brazilian Army that its troops were "on maneuvers."
Vitorio Pacaccini, 31, of Belo Horizonte, an engineer and ufologist
says he has videotaped interviews with two men in civilian dress--soldiers
from the heavy-weapons platoon commanded by Capt. Ramirez and
Lt. Tibe (not "Tide"). Fearing reprisals from S-2, Brazilian military
intelligence, Pacaccini refuses to release the soldiers' names.
On Tuesday, June 25, Brazilian ufologist A.J. Gevaerd said his
group had collected UFO crash stories from 60 witnesses in Varginha.
A few witnesses claimed to have seen two American men in civilian
clothes at the site north of the city where the cigar-shaped UFO crashed.
Most startling are the claims that Brazilian soldiers failed to erase
all physical evidence in the Jardim Andere that weekend last January.
Witnesses told of finding unusual "paw prints" in the red earth made by
the aliens. The prints reportedly show three "fingers," including two
tapering appendages "the length of church candles," with an opposing
"thumb" either half or two-thirds the length of the "fingers." All of the
appendages protruded from a small "palm."
On Saturday, June 29, Sergio Silva of Campinas announced the
formation of a research group to study the Varginha UFO claims. The
Grupo Ufologico do Sao Paulo (GUSP) will hold its first meeting on
July 6.
UFOs RETURN TO GUARABIRA
While the controversy raged in Varginha and Campinas, a UFO flap
began on Thursday night, June 20, in the Sertao, the northeast corner
of Brazil. A triangular UFO was seen that night over Guarabira, where
a classic daylight disc appeared on April 5, 1996.
According to eyewitness Oriel Parais, "at least 90 percent" of the
people in Guarabira have seen "discs and triangles" between June 20 and
June 28. UFO sightings were also reported in nearby Algoa Grande and
at Rio Tinto on the Atlantic coast.
Parais said his neighbors "have filmed 30 hours of video of OVNIs
(Portuguese acronym for UFOs), and I have heard that someone has even
more footage." Some of the UFOs were filmed during the daytime.
Parais said he came "within 10 meters (60 feet) of a large disc" or
saucer, a dull silvery gray in color, with a big bright yellow light on the
bottom. His sighting took place at 2:30 p.m. on Monday, June 24.
HOSPITAL STAFF IN CAMPINAS BREAKS SILENCE
Although warned to keep silent, staffers at the Hospital Humanitas
in Campinas are talking about the dead alien reportedly brought there
on January 20, 1996.
Brazilian ufologist Victor Lourenco has provided us with a summary
of the article that appeared in Revista UFO (UFO Magazine) in April.
The article offers new insights into the UFO crash and subsequent
capture of live aliens at Varginha, Minas Gerais state, Brazil on
Saturday, January 20, 1996.
Ufologist Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues was the first to investigate
the case. He was contacted by Luiza Helena Fatima de Silva, mother
of two of the girls who encountered an injured alien at the Jardim
Andere at 3:30 p.m. on January 20.
According to Franco and Lourenco, neighbors in the northern
section of Varginha confirmed the presence of the Fire Department in
the public park at 9:30 a.m. that day. Eyewitness Henrique Jose da
Silva saw a fire truck parked beside the Jardim's entrance and a
large crowd milling about. "I didn't realize what was happening,"
he said, "There was a strange pungent odor in the air. I asked the
people what was happening, and they said, 'The fire department has
captured a strange creature.'"
Captain Alvarenga of the Varginha Fire Department denied the
reports of a captured alien. "We are supposed to deal only with the
real thing--from Earth. An extraterrestrial would be very uncommon.
The Fire Department couldn't deal with something like that."
Other neighborhood witnesses claim two Army trucks showed up
at the park at 10:30 a.m. from the Escola Sargento das Armas in
Tres Coracoes, south of Varginha.
One alien was reportedly taken to Varginha's city hospital. The
report was denied by hospital director Dr. Adilion Husier, who said,
"We couldn't keep an extraterrestrial here. We couldn't deal with
it. Nothing but humans."
On January 22, the captured aliens were reportedly transferred
to the Hospital Humanitas in Campinas in Sao Paulo state. According
to Lourenco, hospital staffers were ordered to remain silent, but now
they're talking freely to ufologists.
The hospital's catering staff claims they overheard an orthopedist
named Dr. Rogerio telling a nurse, "I don't know what it is. It could be
an alien. I have never seen anything like it."
However, Dr. Rogerio denies making that statement and told
Revista UFO, "I don't know how you could waste your time with that
kind of stuff. It's nonsense."
The caterers also saw two cars with Universidade de Sao Paulo
license plates at the hospital on January 21, possibly scientists to
assist with an autopsy of the dead alien.
Most intriguing of all, the caterers saw two Americans arrive at
the hospital late that morning. Both men "were carrying strange
devices," the witnesses said, "The Americans stayed at a big hotel
near the hospital."
The best hotels nearest the hospital are the Royal Palm Plaza at
Praca Rotatoria 88 and the Hotel Opala Avenida at Avenida Campos
Sales 161. A group of Americans was seen at the restaurant
Churrascaria Gaucha at Avenida Campos Sales 555 the evening of
January 21.
Finally, Revista UFO collected several reports of UFO sightings
in southern Brazil at that time. UFOs were seen at Sao Tome de
Letras, Tres Coracoes, Conselheiro Lafaiete and Pouso Alegre.
Obrigado
Oriel Farias (083)981-6148
Jao Pessoa Paraiba Brasil
E-mail oriel@brufpb.bitnet
Okay, here it goes,
It's fantastic, here in Guarabira the UFO's are returning in larger
numbers, they're now showing up in the afternoon, and coming closer.
Its fantastic, whoever hasn't had a chance to see this has to come over
here. The ufologists from Sao Paulo who did all the research in Varginha
must come here and check this.
I've been preparing a big list, relating everything that has happened so
far, it's fantastic.
Saturday was one of the best days. People went to a deserted part of the
city where they would have a better chance to see everything when suddenly
a large metallic object in the shape of a saucer came down from the sky
with no lights but one underneath the craft which was rotating. After that,
the lights in the perimeter of the craft started to blink and the craft
was very bright. Later, three other triangular objects showed up in much
the same way as the first one did with respect to the lights, and they (the
crafts) started to move around. It's fantastic and it's for real.
A group of ufologists from the area believe that Guarabira is their
entrance to Earth thru the magnetic field since it has been noticed that
they are choosing always the same time of the day and the same location
over Guarabira for their reentrances into Earth in an every day basis. The
group of ufologists were got the whole thing on tape last Saturday.
I would like to ask you to let the specialists who did the research in
Varginha know about all this.
I hope to hear from you.
Saudacoes/Cheers,
Carlos Motta
e-mail: t81562@stress13.dehavilland.ca
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