Varginha is a city of some 120,000 people and is located in Brazil's Minas Gerais
state and the main event took place in the northern part of the city
between January 20-22, 1996. But let's not get ahead. There is an incident
prior to the main event.
"It was a submarine-shaped 'mini-bus' that was trembling like a
curtain and emitting smoke or fog as it descended to at least 5
meters above the ground. A military witness now admits that it
crashed and he was part of the debris retrieval. Material was
twisted and lightweight. (source: A J Gevaerd in my video)"
The Rodrigues' farm is located in a coffee district some 10
kilometers (6 miles) northwest from the town of Varginha, midway between
Varginha and Tres Coracoes. The house sits at the edge of the road. The UFO is believed to have crashed sometime between 1:30 AM and 5:00 AM, that
night. An American civilian was present when the cigar-shaped UFO was
loaded aboard a flatbed truck in the early morning of January 20 - a
Saturday, according to Brazil's UFO Magazine. Between the alleged
crash site and the outskirts of park Jardim Andere, where the EBE was first spotted and captured, lies a forest. One scenario is that a number of EBE's outlived the crash and went by foot through the woods and ended up in the park of Jardim Andere, 6 miles southeast. Local
people immediately associated this spaceship with the EBE's which appeared
hours later. There has also surfaced statements by a military source that
a farmer (not Rodrigues) shot one of the EBE's that crawled out of the
crashed cigar-shaped UFO.
8:00 AM College student Hiido Tucio Gaidino, 20, who lives in the Jardim
Andere section of Varginha, has reportedly told UFO investigators
Ub-'Lralara Franco Rodrigues and Vitorio Pacacc-Lni that he saw one of the
alien survivors shortly after 8 a.m. that morning. Opening his bathroom
window, Hildo looked out and saw "a creature with oily dark brown skin
crouched in the alleyway." The alien, which H-J..'Ldo described as having
very small hands with three extremely long fingers, kind of like a
starfish," ran away when Hildo cried out. The creature had no hair and no
clothing and was 4-5 feet in height.
Several calls came to the f ire department (as early as 7:00 AM) about
some wild animal on the loose in the northern city-park of Jardim Andere,
likened to a jaguar or a peccary. And in a confidential taped interview a
sergeant of the fire station confirms that at 9:00 all members of the Fire Department
of Varginha were required to capture a strange animal in the area. When
four firemen arrived in a fire truck they noticed that it was not a
strange animal at all, and they also found the military already on the
spot. The man in charge who sent the four firemen to Jardim Andere to
check the situation was Major Maciel. These firemen, immediately on arrival, radiod the Major and asked him to attend also
as the situation was more complicated than they first thought. The Major arrived
approx. 10:30 a.m. but by then the capture of the EBE had already been carried out. It
was done with a net for wild animals and they used common gloves, but were
afraid of radiation. According to witnesses on the spot there were some
people, including children who threw some stones at the EBE, who
appeared apathetic to the way he was treated. He only made a noise
similar to bees buzzing. The EBE was captured outside a house at Rua Suecia 3, Jardim Andere and the creature was then
placed in a wooden box with a white plastic canvas-cover stretched taught, and transported away by an
army truck. The military and firemen on the site were:
Truck drivers from the ESA (military school, 25 kilometers from
Varginha in 'the town of Tres Coracoes)
And also the chief of the first operation of capture - MAJOR
MACIEL.
Jardim Andere (2 kilometers
from the town center) Lilliane
Fatima looked over her left
side and screamed. A creature with three protuberances on the head and
dark greasy skin was about 7 metres away next to a wall of an old garage.
The creature was squatting on the ground like it was hurt. This is from
the Brazilian magazine Isto E:
Forty minutes later, the mother of Iiliane and Valquiria, Luiza Helana
Silva (38), went to the spot to search for what had frightened her daughters
(her husband Jose Lopes da Silva was at work as a bus conductor). She
found nothing except a peculiar smell which other witnesses, who heard the
rumour and hurried to the spot where the EBE was seen, described as
ammonia. The same smell was later reported independently by personel at
the General Hospital where the alien was brought on the evening of January
2Oth.
Harvard professor and abduction researcher Dr. John Mack visited the location at the
end of May and recorded a taped interview with the three girls. Mack is treported to have told Carpenter:
"He would stake his career and his license on those three girls
being truthful".
During the afternoon people were
watching a number of army trucks on
patrol in the city when at around
7:00-8:00 PM members of the military from
Escola de Sargentos, accompanied by
officers from the military police
service (called P-2), once again
entered the park (according to John
Carpenter it happened at 11:00 PM)
and proceded to capture an injured EBE (I
haven't found any testimonies from
witnesses to this incident). This
event was much more discrete than
the first (10:30 AM), because the
military arrived in plain clothes, using civilian cars. The creature was
in the area near the woods when the military surrounded it and caught
it.
Another witness, a friend of Ubirajara himself, revealed that she had been
in the hospital entrance at 10:30 PM, together with a friend of hers. She
asked the receptionist if it was true what the rumours said about the
"little monster" received at the hospital. The employee confirmed, but also
said that the creature had been moved to the Humanitas hospital. This is
said to have happened around midnight between January 20, Saturday, and
Sunday 22. So the nurse probably didn't know that the creature was still
in the closed section of the hospital but awaiting transportation. This was carried out by the fire department.
Captain Alvarenga of the fire-brigade denies any participation involving the department in having moved the - now dead - EBE to Humanitas
Hospital. But right before he denied that Ubirajara had been in contact
with the Regional Hospital director Mr Adilson Usier, who confirmed that
the Varginha fire department had participated in the corpse transport.
Captain Alveranga then said it was a mistake of Mr. Usier. Later Mr. Usier
denies the statement himself to the Brazilian UFO Magazine, saying:
As all this going on, two Americans were reported
to have checked into a motel close by to the Regional Hospital with unusual
equipment. They were later observed both at the Humanitas hospital (with the
equipment and a camcorder) and at the restaurant Churrascaria
Gaucha, Avenida Dr. Campos Sales 515 in Campinas late in the evening
of January 21. John Carpenter says:
"Americans were known to have checked into a hotel with fake names
who were apparently doctors. I know nothing about any equipment or
their presence at the hospital."
All other military personel were forbidden
to have their jackets on (!) and to use voice recorders, cameras
and camcorders. Fire department and military police vehicles were seen
outside the entrance with six men, as well as two men from the Army's
secret service and some physicians. The two secret service agents met
earlier a Leutenant from 'S'-2, who arrived in a white brown Volkswagen
(Fusca type) and stopped beside the 'Paes Mendonca' supermarket, in
Varginha. Where from they were sent to the Humaniatas hospital and were
observed entering the hospital.
Sra. Thereza Starace de Magalhaes Texeira of Campinas told researcher
Ubirajara that her husband, Adalberto, who was in the Humanitas hospital
for an operation, saw the dead alien being wheeled out of the morgue on a
gurney.
The dead alien was kept at Humanitas hospital for approx. 30 hours before
it was moved to the Escola de Sarcjentos das Armas (ESA), where the
military personal were stationed during the whole incident. The moving of
the dead alien from Humanitas hospital took place at 6:00 PM on January
22nd and was witnessed by several individuals. The hospital is located adjacent to a little peripheral road, which leads directly to the Fernao
Dias-highway, which links Belo Horizonte to Sao Paulo, and that made the
transportation very discreet. Although, the drivers of the trucks (3 in
all) didn't seem to know what they were carrying and were held outside the
hospital area until the transportation started.
(From AUFORA News Update):
"All this operation was coordinated by lieutenant-colonel
Oiimpio Wanderley Santos, says Mr. Rodrigues. "We have the
testimony of an army officer from the Escola de Sargentos in
Tres Coracoes who was directly involved in the operation. He
describes in detail everything that happened during those days,'
adds Mr. Pacaccini, In the 42-minute recording, this person says
that decomposition had already begun and when the corpse left
Hospital Humanitas the smell was pretty bad.
"Interviews with some of the military who participated -in this
new operation, removing the creature from the Humanitas
Hospital, declared that three Army trucks were used, each one
driven by two different soldiers. It is believed that three
trucks were used to remove only one body in order to [prevent]
the soldiers from knowing in which truck it would be
transported. The drivers and their [escorts] couldn't see the
details of the operations, as they were kept outside the
hospital area. Military personnel from the Army Internal
Intelligence (called 'IS-2' in Brazil and extremely violent and
repressive) were responsible for getting the corpse from the
interior of the hospital, placing it in a box and then in one of
the trucks. "
On Sunday, June 16, the show "Programma de Domingo" identified the men
involved in the three-truck convoy that transferred the aliens to
Campinas, about 200 miles in distance, on January 23 at 4:00 AM. According
to the broadcast, Lt. Col. Olimpio Wanderly Santos commanded the convoy,
accompanied by two officers, Captain Ramirez and Lieutenant Tide, plus
Sergeant Pedrosa from S-2, Brazilian military intelligence. Corporal
Cirilo and Sergeant Pedrosa drove the middle truck with the aliens inside.
The other trucks were driven by Private Vassalo and Private de Mello. Also
a Jeep (Engesa type) was was part of the convoy. And from the Army Cadets
Prep School where the convoy stayed for 9 hours, meanwhile the dead alien
was taken to the University of Campinas, where the famous physician Dr.
Fortunato Badan Palhares (he was the one who autopsied German Nazi
Mengele, about ten years ago). did an autopsy of the dead EBE. Palhares,
as well as any other authority involved, denies any such operation. But
personal from the University has been seen in the Jardim Andere park
collecting soil and vegetation-samples from where one of the EBEs was
reported to have been caught. And researcher Eduardo Mondini came up with
this:
My intention in compiling this article is to try to make a thorough presentation
of the case with all vital information available from researchers in the USA
and Brazil to this date. For help I have two of the researchers that
visited Brazil and Varginha in order to acquire first hand information from local
researchers - Stanton T. Friedman and John Carpenter. And then I have compiled all
the reports from a number of Brazilian investigators, along with articles in UFO magazines and daily news media. I would also like to thank Paulo H
Andrade and Ricardo Varrela Correa for double checking my information. As I
hope you understand - I can't personally speak for the veracity of all
this information as I have only gathered what the local researchers have
presented. But as Bob Marley sang "time will tell".
As the investigation still is ongoing the names of "delicate" witnesses is
withheld to protect their families and most of all themselves. In this
category I place military and hospital staff, and some authority-personel.
I'm sure they will be presented in the near future. I must mark that the
witnesses names are NOT withheld by me, but by the local researchers.
NORAD Warning of a UFO Crashing
Around midnight between January 19-20 NORAD (North American Air Defense
Command) contacts their Brazilian equivalent, CINDACTA (I Centro INtegrado de
Defesa Aerea e Contral.e de Trafego Aereo or Intergrated Center on Air
Defense and Air Traffic Control ) and warns them of a UFO descending over southern parts of Minas Gerais State. This is witnessed
and leaked by both a Brazilian Air Force man and an employee at the
radar facility at Air Force Base VI Comar. who received this information according to John Carpenter and Ricardo Varela Correa.
On January 20, after midninght, at approx. 1:30 AM two farmworkers --
Augusta and Eurico Rodrigues, were wakened by the noises of the farm cows
and sheep. As they looked out the window to see what was the problem they saw the
animals running from one side to the other. As they looked up in the sky they observed a silent UFO without lights. John Carpenter gives us a description of the UFO. First EBE Caught in City Park
According to John Carpenter - this is his description of the park:
"Jardim Andere is a district or suburban neighborhood where some
houses are under construction. There is a grassy slope toward
some woods between this district and the Santana district
nearby." Lieutenant Colonel Olimpio Wanderley (Chief of operations)
All this is backed by a witness on the inside of the fire department with access to
classified information. Also by civilian witnesses like Henrique Jose da
Silva.
Lieutenant Tiberio
Captain Ramirez
Sargeant Pedrosa (Brazilian Army secret service S-2)
Corporal Cirilo
Soldier Vassalo
Soldier De Mello "It was squatting, with the long arms between its legs", recalls
the girl. "At first I saw the eyes, enormous and red."
Frightened, Liliane turned her back to the creature, while her
sister Valquiria and her friend Katia continued to observe. "It
was not animal or human, it was a horrible thing", says Katia.
"It looked dumb, didn't make any noise", adds Valquiria. The
creature, however, appeared to move its head slightly slightly and
the three girls ran away."
EBE Taken to Regional Hospital
The EBE was immediatly taken to the General Hospital in the town center
where the doctor ordered that the creature must be moved on to the bigger
and better equipped Humanitas hospital, where it was easier to maintain
security. The Humanitas hospital is also located
1,5 kilometers from the town center (Varginha has 3 hospitals in all). A
few nurses and personnel from Regional General Hospital had confirmed some
facts and these were all suppressed. Individuals who had contacts with the
second creature were advised to avoid press and UFO researchers and not to
talk about it with anyone, not even their families or relations.
Researcher Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues came in contact with one of the
nurses who was reluctant at first to talk about the commotion at the
Regional Hospital but later revealed that one of the hospital sections was
closed for some hours in order to deny access to employees, patients and
visitors, while physicians also attended from a town other than Varginha.
According to her testimony, the director said that all this movement
should be ignored because, "it was just a training for the doctors and
military personal." According to the witness (a nurse) the meeting
culminated with the following statement from the director: "Here in Varginha there are people who like to deal with 'cool
things', I mean, supernatural, strange ... It is probable that
these people will look for you, specially that lawyer Ubirajara.
Police and army personnel were guarding the closed hospital section during
the hours when the EBE was there. But a number of civilians saw the creature
closely and the runour continued.
TO THESE PEOPLE YOU MUST DENY EVERYTHING. I mean, do deny.""We couldn't keep an extraterrestrial here, we couldn't deal
with it, nothing but humans."
In the hospital the aliens would have been initially treated by doctor Rogeric (an
orthopaedist). He said: "I don't know how you could waste your time with that kind of
stuff, it's nonsense. There's no extraterrestrials". On the
other hand the same doctor Rogerio said to a reporter from the
Varginha news: "I don't know what -it is (the ET), could be a
freak (human), but I have never seen anything like it"
Three Shots
At the same time as the firemen captured the first EBE, more
witnesses observed strange movements. A lawyer in Varginha witnessed two planes that he recognized as F-5’s ,
at very low altitude. As a former military man he noticed the planes
were not in natural formation but in attack formation. He also witnessed
army vehicles near the woods (close to where the firemen captured
the EBE) He was passing there and saw a truck carrying about seven
soldiers in green campaign uniforms (camouflaged) and some in plain clothes.
There are even more witnesses to their activity. A friend of this witness was in
another position and said that he heard three shots and that the soldiers came
back from the woods with two campaign sacks, one motionless and one moving.
Another source has come forward and revealed that one of the soldiers shot
one EBE three times in the chest and the creature died instantaneously.
The gun would be a FAL-type (FAL - Fuzil de Artilharia Leve, or Light
Artillery Rifle). The details around this are still being investigated by
researcher Claudeir Covo. The military and fire department operation
was conducted very quietly and smooth, and both fire brigade and military
did withdraw around 10:30-11:00 AM, along with the second military
operation (which fired three shots) . The net-caught EBE is said to have
been moved directly to the Escola de Sargento das Armas (EAS) - a
military school in the town of Tres Coracoes, 25 Kilometres from
Varginha. The following days a summarized number of six living
EBE's and two dead were locked up at the ESA-base. Some curious
civilians combed the park as the military/S2 personel had left in their
trucks, but found nothing. There is als information of a later S-2
(Brazilian Army Secret Service) operation at approx. 7:00-8:00 PM
on January 20, when a number of EBE's were caught in the park. A total sum of 8 EBE's :
The lawyer who made the observation around 10:30 AM above said that
he noticed another search team arriving at 1:30 PM stopping on the
opposite side of an earthwork shortcut, as he was leaving his office.
Another witness spoke of an S-2 Search Team in civilian clothes
(Haven't been able to find out how they were identified as S-2 men)
around 1:30-2:30 PM in the same area. These two reports are probably
of the same operation. They are believed to have found nothing.
1 dead
2 injured (1 later dead)
5 unhurt and living.
"The same convoy would leave the school in Tres Coracoes at 4:00
o'clock a.m. Tuesday, January 23rd. Destination: Cantpinas (a
much bigger city upstate Sao Paulo) where the 'cargo' would have
been delivered to another military unit, probably the Army
Cadets Prep School.
This was observed by several people as the police had stopped all traffic
to ease the route for the three-truck, and Jeep convoy. "We managed to contact IML (institute Medico Legal - Institute
of Legal medicine) and the Army's headquarters in Campinas, but
both authorities deny the exhumation. However, we found a
military person from Campinas who allegedly saw a document on his
commander's desk, proving the E.T. had been in Campinas. We also got from an emplyee of IML the information that on January 20-26
there had been military movement inside IML, in order for the Army to get a body in or out of there."
