Captured! The Betty And Barney Hill UFO Experience -time to cut the string?

 

• Before I write what I am about to and have every UFO nut in the world scream at me here is the review of the book by Friedman and Marden about the case.
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Paperback: 320 pages

Publisher: New Page Books,US (30 Sept. 2007)

ISBN-10: 1564149714

ISBN-13: 978-1564149718

Product Dimensions: 22.7 x 15.5 x 2 cm


The book blurb reads:

" Today, 46 years after the UFO abduction of Betty and Henry Hill, more and more people are convinced that UFO's are real and that governments are covering up their existence. If you have doubts or questions about the Hill case or alien experiences ingeneral, CAPTURED! will give you the answers you're searching for.

The 1961 abduction of the Hills stirred worldwide interest, primarily because of the book The Interrupted Journey, the subsequent media coverage and a 1975 TV movie, The UFO Incident. The case is mentioned in almost all UFO abduction books. It, also, became a target for debunkers, who still attack it today. But the complete story of what really happened that day, its effect on the participants and the findings of investigators has never been told…until now.

In CAPTURED!...you'll get an insider's look at the alien abduction, previously unpublished information about the lives of the Hills before and after Barney's death in 1969, their status as celebrities, Betty's experiences as a UFO investigator and other activities before her death in 2004.

Kathleen Marden, Betty Hill's niece, shares details from her discussions with Betty and from the evidence of the UFO abduction. She, also, looks at the Hill's riveting hypnosis sessions about their time onboard the spacecraft. The transcripts of these sessions provide insight into the character of the aliens, including their curiosity, their democratic discussions and their desire to avoid inflicting pain.

In addition, co-author, physicist and ufologist Stanton T. Friedman, the original civilian investigator of the Roswell Incident, reviews and refutes the arguments of those who have attacked the Hill case, including the star map Betty Hill saw inside the craft and later recreated."

I became interested in what accounts of "Occupants" (as we called them)  of so-called flying saucers might be able to tell, since reports of lights-in-the-sky (LITS) told us literally nothing and those of seemingly constructed craft did not give us the "nuts and bolts" we needed.  For me, finding out more about Occupant physiology might offer explanations in one form or another.  Yes, our rockets took men into space and to the Moon and the rockets and capsules work like this or that -but how did the journey affect the men flying in them?  How did they get chosen or trained to sit on multiple tons of explosive fuel and ride those flying bombs into space?

I very early on dismissed Adamski and other Contactees.  The stories were so full of holes and how people were believing the crap they were dishing out dumbfounded me -but, yes, I was fascinated by how they accepted it -their thinking.

Then, in the early 1970s, I came across a book by John G. Fuller -The Interrupted Journey. People I spoke to kept referring to a "mixed race" couple which is pure nonsense.  There is only one race on Earth -humans and who gives a flying fig what skin colour was involved?  In fact, I had to take this into account later to understand the reasoning of some critics and Ufologists (pro or con) even though it was still irrelevant.

I was left in two minds. I had heard of "space-nappings" before such as Antonio Villas Boas, but this was the first that seemed to have any effort made to substantiate what happened, even if I was unsure how hypnosis was going to help.

When I finished the book I was stumped.  What did other Ufologists think?  Well, two that I recall responded with "Well, it was a white woman married to a black man -no idea what they might be up to!" Two less Ufologists to talk to, I thought.  Others told me that believing this junk would mean no one taking me seriously -"at least Adamski had the foot-prints in the desert and photographs!" and they were being seriously.  In fact, no one I talked to really wanted to commit themselves on the case -Norman Oliver, then of BUFORA, was one of the very rare ones who told me he believed the Hills.

But over the years there was "this" allegation and "that" explanation.  I heard that Betty Hill thought she could telepathically communicate with aliens and would spend hours alone claiming to do so. There were the claims that Betty was a huge sci fi fan.  Barney was the very impressionable husband who was brow-beaten by Betty into believing things. Betty claimed to have been abducted several times.  It went on and on and yet, when you listened to the recordings of the hypnosis sessions that have been used you realise something must have happened.

Then the explanation.  Betty and Barney being a "mixed race" couple were caught at a makshift roadblock by racist youths and attacked.  it was so horrifying that the torch-light used to flag them down before the attack became a flying saucer and the attackers aliens. At least two magazines and then a lot of Ufologists accepted the idea.  I mean, kidnappers from space?  We all know how racist, violent and out-of-control youths are, right?

Utter pig-swill.

Then I recall Dr Carl Sagan, not one of my favourite people as I've explained before, dealt very briefly with the Hill's and the Fish "star map".  He was a big science media star and in a few minutes destroyed the case and star-map...with complete and utter inaccuracies.

While building up the AE - CE IIIK data base and preparing work for a previously unpublished AOP Bureau report on these cases in the UK, I have been reading a lot of books. Karla Turner, Jacobs and others.  So when I saw this book I thought "Why not?"  I mean, Stanton T. Friedman has a solid reputation and Kathleen Marden was Betty Hill's niece and has all her notes and correspondence. To be truthful I was not expecting to find out a great deal -perhaps a little one-sided in the Hills' favour.

In fact, this book is far better than The Interrupted Journey and includes data never revealed in that book.  Those 21 growths on Barney's groin that could not be identified but were medically removed -if only they had been preserved!  We learn that there was a USAF radar-visual incident involving a UFO and a possible air-intercept attempt along with a UFO sighting on the same evening as the couple claimed they were abducted.

The whole Marjorie Fish star-map story is gone into and, honestly, I came away feeling that this was a strong piece of evidence and, no, Betty would not have been able to fake the chart based on looking at astronomy books at the time.

Page 199-200 refers to what may be one of the first recorded  trance "experiencers" and that I found fascinating because at that time this had never been encountered before.

I think, reading the book, that the sighting of a craft with possible occupant after Barney's death may well have been an hallucination -if you read the book you'll see why.  However that in no way denigrates the original case because there was no extreme stress or ill health involved.  A photo taken by Betty and reproduced on p. 214 is said to show a shadowy figure in a craft window and " possibly stereotypical gray alien emerging from the right side of the disk."  Sadly, due to reproduction of the image on a text page all I can see is two white dots and certainly no shadowy alien or gray let alone a disc-shaped craft. For that reason  I have to throw that out and was one of the weaker elements of the book -but essential to give an overall picture of events.

When it comes to "Betty's fall from grace" in Ufological circles I can say only that it seems that age and Betty wanting to prove UFO reality combined, and yet she so succinctly summed up modern abduction investigators and abductees (pp. 271-272).  And she refers to Dr Simon (who conducted their treatment in the early 1960s) concern that hypnosis would be incorrectly used and exploited by individuals not properly trained -40 years on he is proven correct.

The explanation for claims that Betty thought she could telepathically communicate with aliens is interesting.  In fact most of those claims were bogus.  Betty was taking part in experiments under supervision of no less than Dr J. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallee amongst others.  These were scientifically minded people who had to become radical thinkers to try to solve the UFO mystery in one way or another.

Oh, and Betty was not  a sci fi fan.

If there is a reason for why Betty came "off track" other than her ill health in later years it was because she wanted to help others who had seen UFOs or claimed to have been abducted and wanted to prove the reality of UFOs.  And this is where Ufology let her down.  Rather than look at the possibility that repeater sightings were possible -or prove they were not (I recall arguing with Ufologists in the 1970s over this: one case from a witness was accepted but a week later the man reported a similar object moving in another direction -both reports were marked as "unreliable" because the witness had two sightings!).  And while working on the AOP Bureau's Grey Book report I realised that there was nothing "weird" or "unbelievable" or even other worldly about someone saying "I sensed something was going to happen and looked over the field and suddenly a UFO appeared" -the explanation lay in science and this might be why Betty realised something was "off" and saw later objects.

Was this book slanted with a Hill bias?  Yes.  But only because Marden and Friedman possessed the information that Ufologists had not seen or known of before.

I am accused of being a Skeptic.  I have defined what that means before but it does not mean dismiss all material/evidence because you can without looking at it. 

I read this book over Saturday and Sunday (with a break for the Rugby World Cup) and had expected to come up with a list of reasons why the Hill case might be "just another explainable abduction" after all these years.

I actually put the book down realising that Betty and Barney Hill were not the people portrayed by debunkers.  They were plain ordinary human beings who fought for civil rights and social justice and were held in high esteem in their local and wider communities.  They did not become rich from re-telling their story.  They never claimed repeated abductions. They just told their story and stuck to it.  In fact, it is quite clear that the couple probably would have been much happier had they not encountered that UFO. Had they not needed to see Dr Simon to try to find out why Barney was suffering ill health and stress.

In a way, Antonio Villas Boas was lucky.  He reported his account and carried on with his life as normal.  The Hills, due to betrayal of confidence from a number of sources, never had that option.  There is the case of Lydia whose abduction Betty helped investigate.  When word got out Lydia and her family moved to another state and, I assume, settled down to carry on their lives.  The Hills never had that option.

It does not make me feel uneasy to write this (after 40+ years of looking at these cases that would be odd!) but, unlike the Abduction Epidemic since the mid 1980s and all the claims, I have to write that I believe the Hills.  Betty stated that she believed these beings came down, took someone onto their craft, did their tests and made them forget (even if not permanently) and released them.  That's it.  Not many millions of abductees as some claim.

But two days ago I never expected to sit down and write that, after 40 years, I am even more certain that Betty and Barney Hill were abducted by aliens.  Pure and simple.

The book is far superior to Fuller's and I recommend this one highly.

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This case is now over 60 years old. Despite what is said and written, mainly by hucksters in the U.S. ufological community and thpose outside the U. S. who really have donre no research other than watch You Tube videos or read trash and badly researche popular UFO books, it was not the first ever reported UFO 'abduction'. The case was exposed to the press and media via a betrayal of confidence (one thing you are guaranteed with when dealing with Ufologists).  Even so, the Hills were far from "media hungry" and despite another claim by debunkers this was not "the greatest UFO hoax in history" -they like to keep labelling every case that way, bless 'em.

If you ignore all the facts and background then, yes, you can call it a hoax. At that time such a claim could not just have destroyed the career of Betty Hill but would have had an even bigger impact on Barney Hill considering all the civil rights work he was involved in. Also, claiming that you met aliens was not a money-spinner. The idea that this was a planned out hoax makes no logical sense but saying that it was helps the debunker feel less scared about the possibility of there being aliens (I swear some of these people would be hiding under the blankets if they saw anything odd in the night sky).

I am not saying that the Hills were abducted by aliens. I cannot because I was not there but having spent over 40 years looking at all the claims and counter-claims it is clear that something very strange took place that defies an earthly explanation. 

Betty and Barney Hill

The same applies to the Travis Walton and the Parker and Hickson cases. So much extra information and no one knows what happened other than those involved. 

Hickson and Parker involved in the Pascagoula incident

The Erica Lukes podcast featured (three parts in total) a never-before-heard-of "documentary maker" who was going to make a film on the Walton case but states (much later when it seems that nothing is to come of this) that he was driving along the same road that Walton and his crew took over forty years before and then decided that was the explanation and the line his film was going to take -after adopting a seeming very two-faced stance with Walton and others. It was all a fire tower. After three gas-lighting episodes (a psychologist I know stated he could not believe how the podcast was taken over and the presenters fell for the "classic gas-lighting line" ) we learnt...nothing. Nothing new was presented and I have already gone into this so let's move on. https://terryhooper.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-travis-walton-abduction-with-mike.html

Antonio Villas Boas whose encounter was publicised before the Hills and long before that of Travis Walton (below)

Coming back to the Hill case it is pointless to still go digging for dirt when the two percipients are dead and, well, who really cares any more -it was 60 years ago.

There are other cases out there. Some older and far more detailed and interesting than the Hills (I may be a little unfair in writing that).  And here is the thing; most were never investigated by Ufologists.  Let's say go back to a totally uninvestigated multi-witnesses incident that took place at the height of regional UFO activity. Witnesses in one vehicle approacxhing two objects (one which landed on the Interstate Road) and seeing an entity emerge while, approahing from the other direction, a car was seen to brake, do a U-turn and speed away. Pascagouls had Ufologists crawling out of the woodwork to get involved. Local Ufologists based in the area of the Interstate landing, in Mississippi, were over every UFO sighting report they came across. Not this one despite being asked by Ted Bloecher -the top man on such cases- to follow it up. Why? All of the witnesses were "black". 2019/2020 I tried to get MUFON involved but guess what ?  Not in the least interested. That is the Euporia case that should haunt U.S. Ufology because it totally and utterly ignored it (deliberately) because of seeming racist attitudes. I (thousands of miles away in the UK) had to compile a report on what we know based on files held at the Centre for UFO Studies. With increasing age it is possible we will never hear the first hand description of those involved -just the radio interview notes that Bloecher and Co made.

The ladies involved in the "Liberty, Kentucky" UFO case Louise Smith, Elaine Thomas and Mona Stafford -Stafford  (far right) still stressed and suffering anxiety 40 plus years later and the sole survivor of the trio.

Hopkins, Jacobs and others who promoted the False Abduction Scenario derailed serious investigation and research and any reports where the witnesses were not willing to be told they were abductees were ignored. 

We even have to question the whole use of the term "abduction". In a good few cases those involved were asked whether they wanted to board an alleged craft. A good few declined the offer and so the brief contact ended -no lost time. There are even reports labelled as abductions by Ufologists that were not -percipients willingly entered (allegedly) craft and things (proceeded from there).  I believe we might even question the spo called "alien induced memory block" and the fictitious "screen image" so popularised by Hopkins and Jacobs et al

Putting aside physiologial effects of encounters with UFOs and alleged crews there is the greater effect in many cases that I have written and talked about for almost 40 years yet which is only being accepted in the last ten years or so. The psychological effects. These are far reaching and continue throughout life - the shock of what happened, the shattering of a world view about "silly flying saucer" reports because they (allegedly) have encountered an alien craft and crew and that in itself may have created a mental block in the percipient -we have studies looking at this is war veterans as well as others so there is data to look at. We could argue back and forth all month on whetherthis amnesia (or partial amnesia) is self induced or induced by an outside force and the reason for this. In many cases partial recall may lead a percipent to state something happened that didn't because "it fits" in their minds.

I tend to not put too much faith in single percipient/witness reports unless there is evidence that an unusual object was sighted at the time by others nearby, there may have been some physical effect on the local environment etc. The reason is that the person may have entered an "altered state" or even be someone classed as suffering with "Ruth Syndrome" (see UFO Contact).  Altered state or Ruth Syndrome may well explain the sincerity and claims of certain contactees -because, quite literally- they are not lying.

Ufologists and their ramshackle idea of investigation and all of massive drawbacks to Ufology as it exists may well be driving real percipients away. Who can they report encounters to?  With MUFON you might get promised confidentiality but are immediately labelled an "experiencer" (thus an abductee) and MUFON has sold all information on such peopleto Robert Bigelow before now -as have other researchers. 

Since 1974, although it could have made me money (which I need), I have never once betrayed a witness confidentiality -in my wildlife work, UFO work and other areas and some reports will never see the light of day because a promise was made.  

Unfortunately, although I do have a legally obligated person check anything I use to I can provethe report is genuine, in 100% of cases with Ufologists it is a case of "No. No info -you have to tame my word on it!" which means that I do not and neither should anyone else. A solicitor/lawyer is obliged by oath to reveal no information a clint oes not want revealed but can look over documents signed and submitted and state that he/she has seen them and they are authentic  and from a witness. One Ufologist tells me he gets a hundred or more alien abduction reports from the UK every month but does not quote the percipient accounts but rather "re-writes them" in his own words to protect the reportee.  So, anyone can state quite rightly that he is writing fiction. He is providing no evidence just stories and yet he gets angry at sceptics stating this because "the evidence I have gathered is irrefutable and 100%  genuine" just no one but him has seen this evidence which makes it non-evidence.

If precipients/witnesses to old cases, however far back, are still alive they need to be contacted and spoken to and first hand (not old press snippets) accounts written down. And we then need to continue doing this while applying careful  witness appraisals (again see UFO Contact).  Data gathered has to be as accurate as we can get it. 

We need to move on from talking about the same old 45, 50 or 60 year old reports. I doubt Euporia or any of the other cases in the U.S. or outside of it will ever be looked into seriously.  But I will continue to tilt my lance at windmills.

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Other UFO researchers who have read the book are of similar opinions. So are you going to just carry on reading the same old same old half truths and lies or try to find out what is REALLY going on?

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Since 1947 it has been claimed that UFOs/flying saucers are evidence of aliens visiting the Earth.  Since the 1950s claims of encounters with landed craft and alien beings were talked about but not taken seriously.

In the 1960s the subject of UFO abduction was a "slow-burner" until the whole "Grey" abduction phenomenon and claims made by researchers such as Budd Hopkins, Prof. John Mack and Dr David Jacobs and Whitley Streiber.

But is there evidence to back up any of the claims -and what about those encountering Alien Entities but who were not abducted?

Are these people all hoaxers, psychotic or suffering from some other mental illness as some claim?

Are those people who were exposed by Ufologists against their wishes, people who wanted to report what happened and then just get back to their everyday lives -thrust into the media glare against their will?

And if US authorities were so interested that in one case at least they broke into the home of two abductees and this was later proven -why?

Why did a hard core of these people never want publicity or to make money from what happened to them?

Above all, why did a major UFO landing incident take place on a US Inbterstate road in front of a large number of observers (all willing to talk to investigators) never get investigated? If it were not for a radio presenter interviewing and taking notes we would know nothing of the case -it would be labelled "insubstantial".

James and Coral Lorensen -the Scopolamine Kids; using a very notorious "truth drug" on alleged UFO witnesses and selling stories to newspapers.  An investigator (a veteran) showing a witness images of "aliens" encountered in other cases before any memories were retrieved.  Worst of all, the constant "pissing competition" and breaches of trust between UFO investigators.

2017 is the time to assess the past evidence and look at the faults within Ufology.

Not everyone is going to be happy -debunkers or ufologists.

 

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Varginha ET Case - The Whole Story

 I do not make any claims for the Varghina incident, in fact it changed in detail so much after it hit the UFO press that it became a whole different case!

I found all of this on disc so include it as "a bit of a read"

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Varginha ET Case - The Whole Story Updated,

by the Ufologists

This article was originally published in the brazilian “Revista UFO” (UFO Magazine), Special Issue #13, July 1996, edited by CBPDV (Centro Brasileiro para Pesquisa de Discos Voadores - Brazilian Center for Flying Saucer Research), Editor A.J.Gevaerd.

This is a short version , kindly summarized and translated from portuguese by P.H.Andrade, with the help of his brother, Carlos.

This article is updated until July 1996. First submitted on August 9 th, 1996.           City of Varginha, Minas Gerais, Brazil

The researchers’ Secret Investigative Diary on the Case - by Vitorio Pacaccini and Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues.

Part 1 - by Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues.

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 spreaded 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.

Above: the three sisters

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.

FIRST WEEK OF INVESTIGATIONS - I began to investigate and was helped by a friend, Sérgio, director of TV Princesa, a local TV station. We’ve got access to a boy that said he was present at the capture. But his words didn’t make any sense, he was too childish, and very confused. We also have got access to a woman, which runned away the moment we approached her. Her husband tried to convince her to give us some info, but she refused.

 

Finally, we found the girls and took their testimony. They were two sisters whose mother, Mrs.Luisa, received me a little suspicious. I identified myself as an UFO researcher and lawyer, and explained my interest in the situation. I’ve got extremely impressed with what they told me, specially the older girl, Liliane, 16. When she was telling me what happened, she burst into tears.Then, I asked them to introduce me to the third witness : her friend, Katia, 22, that also cried when we met.

I asked them to take me to the place where all had happened. They told that when they were in the middle of that pathway, they saw a strange being squatted in the ground. To Valquíria, the younger, “that appeared to be a giant ox heart”. They realized that it was something out-of-this-world, when they returned to the street and went away, running.

After hearing all the story from her daughters, Luísa returned to the place to see if she could find any evidence, but she didn’t. Luísa felt a strange smell, very strong and impossible to be compared to anything else. The following days, I kept on talking to them, and asked them to repeat several times what they had seen.

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 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. 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 [the police number] . 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”.

SEEKING THE FIRE DEPARTMENT - Me and Sérgio looked for the local Fire Brigade and we were received by Captain Alvarenga. The moment we identify ourselves, he got the bulletin of ocurrences for Jan. 20th, in order to ‘prove’ there were no requests for the capture of a strange animal, or something. He simply had a deffensive attitude regarding us.

During the interview, I excused myself and made a brief pause to drink some water, at the end of the corridor. I saw there two firemen talking, speaking loudly and fluently, as if they were making fun of me : “Yeah, it should be a giant frog”, one said. “No, it should be a demon, ha ha ha”, completed the other.

We followed to the Forest Police, where we were received in a very different manner. Their captain was friendly and said he likes Ufology. He stated that the Forest Police weren’t called at that occasion, but put himself on the line to share any further information.

We came back again to the nurse. She spoke with her colleagues in the hospital and, although they hadn’t seen anything, they were all unanimous in state that there were a strange movement that day.

Meanwhile, the information that a strange being appeared in Varginha had already taken the local media. All the local press, newspapers, radio and TV stations had already covered the case, although I had my doubts about spreading the case in the [brazilian] national media. Nevertheless, due to the difficulties of the investigation and the big cover-up, there was no other choice than calling the national media. Only this way we could pressure the authorities.

The same occasion, I was interviewed live at the request of Globo TV Network (local branch) . Everything was going normal. In the middle of the program, however, something we weren’t expecting happened. The reporter took two faxes from over the table and talked : “We just received right now a communication from the Fire Department and another one from the Regional Hospital, denying everything. These two institutions say they weren’t called and had no involvement with it”. Part of the Fire Brigade fax did the following statement : “This corporation communicate the people of Varginha that was NOT called to capture an extraterrestrial”. This was said in the middle of the news.

I said, firstly, that I never affirmed the captured being was alien. I ' ve said only that it was an unknown and strange being. I’m very careful with the words.I made use of that chance and said that the UFO cover-up is such a thing that exists all over the world and started a long time ago.

After this interview, I decided to call the national media. I called the ufologist Irene Granchi, in Rio de Janeiro, who contacted the journalism production of Globo TV Network [Note from translator : Globo TV is the major brazilian TV network]. Since then, the case blew wide open in the [brazilian] media.

At the end of the second week of investigations, I called “Revista UFO” [UFO Magazine] and let them know the facts. In the third week, a researcher from Belo Horizonte (up to then member of CICOANI - Centro de Investigação Civil sobre Objetos Aéreos Não Identificados - Unidentified Aerial Objects Civilian Investigation Center) made contact with me. It was Vitorio Pacaccini. Since then we established a partnership in the researches, that now lasts over four months.

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Part 2 - 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.

FIRE FIGHTERS ARE REALLY INVOLVED - Everyone in Brazil knows that when there is a problem with animals, like a wild beast escaping from the Zoo, for instance, the Fire Department is called. However, the first phone number that comes to one’s mind in a danger situation is 190 (the police number). So, we’ve concluded that firstly the police were called and then, they forwarded it to the Fire Brigade.

According to our source, in the morning of January 20th, the Fire Dept. phone was ringing over and over. It was people informing the appearance of a weird animal in a certain region in Varginha, and requesting some attitude, to catch it. It is important to emphasize that these phone calls started very early that morning, between 7 and 8 a.m., consequently before 3 p.m., when the girls sighted the creature.

In the occasion, the man in charge was Major Maciel, who would have sent four men to check the situation. These firemen, at the moment they arrived there, called the major thru the radio and asked him to go there too, once the case was much more complicated than it seemed before. “Major, you’d better come here, Sir . Even the Army is already here”. So, the Major followed to the place, approximately at 10,30 a.m. .

When they reached there, the capture had already been done. There were some people, including children that throwed some stones towards the creature The four firemen caught the being with a net (similar to that used to catch dogs). They were using common gloves, but were afraid of radiation. The creature didn’t show any reaction, staying totally apathetic and letting himself to be caught. It made a noise similar to the bees buzzing. It was put in a canvas-covered box and transported by an Army truck.

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.

UFOs FLYING OVER SOUTHERN MINAS GERAIS - While the Varginha case blew wide open in national press, it began a big UFO wave over the region. Cities such as Varginha, Alfenas, Boa Esperança, Três Corações, Bandeira do Sul, São Gonçalo do Sapucaí, Campanha and many others were taken by unidentified objects sightings. The population noticed that something serious was happening and several people came to us reporting sightings, contacts or recent news about the capture.

At that time, end of February, I met an old friend that I hadn't seen for a long time. He knew a military that was involved with the capture operation. We managed to meet him and heard his report. The more he revealed, the more everything became incredible. This military man gave the names of people directly involved with the case : Colonel Olímpio Vanderlei and Sergeant Pedrosa. The interview with this eye witness of the facts was made by me and ufologist Marco A. Petit , AND RECORDED IN VIDEO as a guarantee of proof. In this tape, we ask the witness if there is the possibility of somebody attempting against his life, and he said so .

More witnesses are discovered. Later, we managed to contact another military witness. He was very reluctant in speaking with us, but when he realized the subject was already spreaded, he got courage to tell what he knew. For his surprise, nobody at ESA knew anything, because there was a disinformation operation inside the Sergeant's School itself. Talking with us, he described the fact exactly the same way that the other did before.

 

Only few people inside ESA know details of the operation. Everything there is top secret. The school's military contingent is over 3.000 men and, for sure, about 98 % of them don't know anything.(...) There are also other military witnesses which confirm the information we have. We know two people that have been directly involved with the catch and transport of the being. Obviously, they cannot be identified, because their lives would be in danger.

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 there 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 forces, 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 EXTRATERRESTRIAL IN TWO VARGINHA HOSPITALS - There are evidences that the captured creature, for some reason, have been taken to the Regional Hospital. But the men in charge of the operation must have concluded that that place was too central and not safe, deciding to take the being to a better place : the Humanitas Hospital, which is more well equipped and is located in a region far from the center of the town. This hospital lies beside a little peripherical road, which leads directly to the "Fernão Dias" Highway [Note from T. : which links Belo Horizonte to São Paulo]. It made the transportation very easy and discreet.

ARE THEY RIGHT ? - A source we have in Campinas said that Brazil is under strong pressure, warning that we may be sat over an atom bomb. According to his testimony, the whole capture and cover-up process goes deeper and deeper, beyond we can imagine So, we ask : (...) are they right ? Will it be true that some kind of battle between alien and military forces had already happened ? Shouldn't be the Army the right channel to deal with this matter ? And shouldn't be this whole operation classified ?

From our point-of-view, they could share with us the information they have. We'd love to help them, but it seems to be impossible.

What if an UFO crashed in my yard, who am I supposed to call ? Obviously, the first thing I would do was to call the military authorities, because that's their job. As a matter of fact, we are concerned because we're reaching the conclusion that the Varginha Case is only the tip of an iceberg.

On the other side, the right to know must be respected.

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 SBT, involving the SBT board of directors in São Paulo, in order to get the movie. The young boy visited himself 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, on 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.

What the other (brazilian) UFO researchers think about the case -

Editor A.J. Gevaerd : UFO Magazine went to the 14 th Brazilian Congress on Scientific Ufology, which took place in Curitiba, PR [State of Paraná], last June 6-9 1996, in order to gather some impressions from the researchers about Varginha case. See what these researchers think about this subject.

Irene Granchi - The case presents a new angle in UFO research. I believe in its authenticity, because I interviewed the three girls who saw the being and they're NOT lying. I' ve been known ufologist Ubirajara Rodrigues for many years and I trust his work and seriousness.

What we have here are many circumstantial evidences. Thus, we realize that the case is very well documented with these evidences. Regarding UFO cover-up, I think the military authorities don't have the right to do this, because we live in a democracy.

Varginha Case is bigger than Roswell - by Reginaldo de Athayde

The Varginha Case is one of the most important UFO cases ever happened in the entire world. I see we have something superior to what happened in Roswell. I hope our friends, researchers from Minas Gerais state, join the other ufologists in order to get what we always desired : to prove the reality of UFOs, the existence of these mysterious objects that come here to visit us.

Case increases Ufology's credibility - by Claudeir Covo

Without any doubt, Varginha Case is the case number one in Brazil. The seriousness that the researchers are showing when conducting the information and the work itself increases the credibility of Ufology. If we consider only the quantity of information already compiled, the richness of details and the several witnesses that have already appeared, we see that this case let Roswell very little."

The Roswell Case took about 30 years to become known to the public, while Varginha's leaked out at the first days. The researches are very well conducted, with several military testimonies in our hands, besides many contradictory authorities statements given to the press. This proves there is a cover-up process. These military witnesses had the courage to trust in the researchers, revealing what they knew and secretly recording it in video, giving important details ".

Varginha Case : There is still a lot to be said - by Edson Boaventura Jr.

It's the most important case of Brazilian Ufology and also worldwide, due to its implications. I'd say that even Roswell cannot be compared to Varginha Case which is bigger than it. I say this because I know that what have been shown by the media is only a short part of what exists. There is still a lot to be said, but this haven't been done yet because some details, if revealed, could identify the military witnesses. Because of this ethical reason, the researchers involved in this investigation are NOT revealing all the information they have. " .

Once I'm very close to the investigation, I see that the research is well documented, with testimonies of civilian and military witnesses that prove what happened on January 20 th and on the following days. Even now, several months after the case, there are many details still coming up to the surface, as many other witnesses gain courage and start to reveal what they know to the researchers "

 

The strangest aspect is the alien physiology - by Ricardo Varella Corrêa

The most important in this case are the little details connecting information from different sources, which are checking to each other. For instance, the ammonia-like smell felt either in the place the girls sighted the being, either in the city's Hospital. We also have to consider the great movement of military vehicles which is not common."

 

However, the strangest aspect is the creature's physiology, different of anything else ever seen. It is strange, because what we know about ETs is that they are very independent and, sometimes, even aggressive, whereas the Varginha creature had no reaction, seemed motionless. This had never been reported in the entire world. An hypothesis that is being considered by the ufologists suggests that the creature is some sort of 'animal-probe' , put in Earth to gather some information."

The military involvement in Varginha Case - by Marco Antônio Petit

I had knowledge of this case thru the media. Since then, I made many contacts with researcher Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues, who informed me it was really serious, involving a very strong cover-up operation. I' ve been in Varginha twice. There, I confirmed that this was the most important case of the Brazilian Ufology. I had the chance, one of the times, of being face to face to one of the military witnesses, who was directly involved with the operation. His testimony was extremely striking, showing the richness of details that involved the being capture. We have to support Pacaccini and Ubirajara's work, in a definitive way, because this case is unique. "

To our happiness, there are military people who are NOT liking and disagree with this cover-up process. They're looking for us spontaneously, in order to say what they know.We know for sure that many things are gonna happen as the case unfolds."

There are also EVIDENCES OF A RECOVERED SHIP in Varginha - by Rogério Porto Breier

In the beginning, I heard about the case thru the news gathered by GUG [GUG - Grupo Ufológico do Guarujá - Guarujá (in State of São Paulo) Ufological Group]. On May 1996, I had the opportunity to go to Varginha. I thought it was too early to call theses creatures as aliens, because there were no evidences they had came from a ship."

Now, there are also evidences that a ship have been recovered in the place. I think it's very likely, because only two or three days after the girls have sighted the being, Bandeirantes TV AIRED A REPORT on this subject : some people would have observed the RECOVERY OF A CREATURE FROM THE WRECKAGE OF AN OBJECT CRASHED in Varginha. This report fell into forgetfulness. It would be interesting if the ufologists checked it out, because nobody spoke a word about this anymore.

Alien have been autopsied by a Unicamp team - by Eduardo Mondini

I'm close to the investigations, helping Ubirajara and Pacaccini with information from Campinas. We're verifying the involvement of Unicamp (University of Campinas) and of IML (Instituto Médico Legal - Institute of Legal Medicine), and we suspect specially that the legist Badan Palhares have been heading the necropsy studies on the creature. We have no doubts that the ET have been brought to Unicamp and then autopsied. "

We managed to contact the IML and the Army's quarter in Campinas, but both authorities deny the exhumation. However, we found a military from Campinas who allegedly saw a document over his commander's desk, proving the ET had been in Campinas. We got with an employee of IML the information that on February 20-26 1996 there had been military movement inside IML, in the Army's private drawers, in order to get a body in or out there. "

Varginha Case : the beginning of a new era in Brazilian Ufology - by A.J.Gevaerd , Editor

The Varginha Case is a breaktrough in Brazilian Ufology. To our happiness, it happened right there, in Varginha, Minas Gerais, involving two researchers that, besides serious, honest and very dedicated to Ufology, live and know deeply the southern Minas region and its people. What if it hadn't occurred in Varginha ?

The Varginha episode is a clock bomb whose wick was lit by these brilliant researchers. A bomb that put on alert all the brazilian UFO community. Never, in all Brazilian Ufology history, the researchers have been so united, from South to North, seeking together the same truth. This truth, when totally known, will change the face of Ufology itself and the way we look to the UFO Phenomena."

On the other side, this will be also the first step towards a global change of consciousness regarding this subject, perhaps starting here in Brazil, the birthplace of so much richness - among them Ufology.

Firemen deny involvement in the Varginha ET Capture - by UFO Magazine team

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 affirmed 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 affirm 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".

 

CONTRADICTIONS - We said to the commandant that what he was telling us was strange and contradictory, because before that interview we had made contact with Mr. Adilson Usier, director of Regional Hospital, who affirmed that the Varginha Fire Department had participated in the corpse transport. Captain Alvarenga, then, said it was a mistake of Mr. Usier.

 

According to the commandant, "the ufologists involved with the research of this case, Ubirajara and Pacaccini, are imagining everything and making use of the situation, trying to put their names in the media". Pacaccini defends himself : "I'm a very respected person, either in my profession either in my private life. I've never needed the ufological research to promote myself ". The same we can say of Ubirajara.

Risking life to investigate the Varginha Case - by Vitorio Pacaccini

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 CBPDV [ 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.

 

Military-vehicles-and-planes movements described by witness - by UFO Magazine team

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 affirm 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 them, 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 the woods with two sacks, but this I didn't see. As they told me, it was 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.

UFO and alien sightings continue in Varginha - by UFO Magazine team

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 ET 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.

Witnesses receive offer of money to deny the story - by UFO Magazine team

Editor A.J.Gevaerd : Mrs. Luisa Helena da Silva is mother of Liliane and Valquiria. On April 29 th 1996, at about 10 p.m., 4 well-dressed men went to her house with the purpose of bribing her, with money and goods, if their daughters deny the whole story, belying their previous account.

Luisa Helena da Silva : " I cannot say who are these people who tried to bribe me, because I 've never seen them and I don't know them either. But I know that, on a Monday, about two weeks ago, they came here at 10 p.m. . I don't know why they came in the evening, I think it was in order to nobody recognize them in the street. I don't use to receive visits this time of the day. They were four men, all using dark sneakers and suits. Two of them apparently had 40 years old and the others were youngers. Two of them were white and two were brown. One of the whites was too white, it seemed to be a russian. They didn't seem to be military. I thought, at that moment, that it could be police people, but I don't think so. What I know is that these men, for sure, are not from Varginha. But two of them had the accent of the Southern Minas region."

BRIBERY ATTEMPT FAILS -Only me and three of my daughters were at home : Liliane, Valquíria and Fernanda, the younger, who was already sleeping. They clapped hands in front of the gate. Valquíria went to attend and said that there were four men outside. (...) While I was in my bedroom changing my clothes, they went into my house, didn't wait to see if they could or not, they came and entered, invading my house. They spoke my name, as if they already knew me, saying that they want to "chat" with me and with the girls about the ET they have seen. They said that that time was the only time they could be here and asked me to lock the gate because it was a private conversation and I couldn't receive any visit. I've got afraid but, anyway, Valquíria went outside to lock the gate."

I asked if Ubirajara have sent them here. One of them said that they had nothing to do with Ubirajara and that I should forget him. After they have heard the girls, I asked them who they were, they told me that it wasn't of my business. They asked my daughters what were their dreams, which was my job, how much was my salary, where my husband worked and if the house was mine. They wanted to know which was my major concern and if the girls were working.

If I gave my word that I wouldn't speak anything about their visit - specially to Ubirajara and to Pacaccini - they would make an excellent proposal to me. They said they were "the gold mine that we have never thought to have". They said they knew I was poor. They made an offer to me, saying it was irresistible, that they didn't wanna buy me, but that this help was millionaire.

I have no quietness anymore, because after the interview I gave to "Fantástico", I don't know what can happens. As I was afraid, I gave them my word. They said they wanted me to come with my daughters, and nobody else, to talk in a TV station, not at that little local station, but in a bigger station outside of Varginha. I should belie everything, say the girls had never seen anything, and some more things I would have to rehearse with them. They said they would pay cash.

I became so puzzled that I didn't ask how much was it. They only said that I could buy a house, pay my debts and stop working as a maid. I became so nervous and worried ... I asked if there wasn't a phone number I could call another day to give the answer. I said I had to think. They didn't accept and said they would come back.

After we appeared in "Fantástico", talking about the bribery attempt, I'm sure that they will come back. Pacaccini knows about my [situation of] life and if somebody appears with some help, of course I'm gonna thank. But I wouldn't let my daughters lie, specially regarding this very serious matter. Even being so humble, they are NOT gonna lie. They speak the truth from the heart, there are a lot of people involved ... ".

For now, I'm still working in the same job, but I heard a conversation that it will last only for this month, because there are a lot of people calling to my work. I don't know how they found out the number, it seems there is a person who watches us, it's too much nuisance. I'm working and then people start calling to my work, asking to talk to me. To be honest, my life turned into a hell after everything happened.".

Media has an important role in the case - by UFO Magazine team.

Nowadays, the means of communication have a regulating role in our society. They control the flow, quantity and quality of information to be spreaded. Several episodes of History were directly influenced by the media. In Ufology, it's not different : the means of communication, specially at this end of century, are essential to a reeducation on this subject.

Nobody can indulge oneself in keeping an information only for one's own. The world have changed. So as Ufology.

Ufology is becoming more and more accessible. There are news coming from everywhere, and it is impossible to ignore it. One great example of this is the Varginha Case which, once spreaded through the mass media, have created great controversy and aroused the public interest for criticism, information and even jokes. However, the most important in this Varginha Case's exposure was the reaction of the institutions that, according to Ubirajara and Pacaccini, are involved in the capture operation of two biologically non-classified beings.

As they realized that their secret activities could be detected at any moment, certain members of the Army, Fire Department, Military Police, health service and universities had a defensive attitude. In other words, they showed much more concern than they should ... To Ubirajara Rodrigues, this was the result of a pressure that only the press could make against the authorities : " We have to admit that the media is the major ufologists' weapon. If we didn't pass everything on to the media, the case would be stagnant ... At the moment we realized that the things were getting dangerous to us, we soon gathered the [major brazilian] ufologists and decided to divulge everything through the media".

Pacaccini, without any fear, affirmed I am not afraid of saying that the worldwide Ufology owes a lot to people like Luiz Petry, producer of "Fantástico", who is producing the program's reports with an incredible seriousness".

However, the researchers haven't revealed yet all the information they have. There are a lot of details about the case that need to be cleared up and publicly said, but this haven't been done yet due to security reasons, specially the witnesses' security. They assure that, when the right time comes, everybody will have access to all the information on the creature secretly captured in Varginha.

Last News on the Varginha Case - published in the brazilian "UFO Magazine", Issue # 45, August 1996 - (some passages).

Ufologist Claudeir Covo : Although the military and civilian authorities deny everything, several sources have decided to talk. One of these sources affirms that a local farmer killed one of the beings with a gun.".

Another source said he saw a lot of military people on plain clothes, tracking the little Jardim Andere woods, in Varginha. One of these men would have shot, for three times, an alien creature in the chest, killing it almost instantaneously. The gun would be a FAL-type [FAL - Fuzil de Artilharia Leve, or Light Artillery Rifle] . These situations are still under investigation; we do not have yet recorded testimonies of military sources about these firings, but the investigation is ongoing ".

Which right the human beings (civilian or military) would have to murder alien beings ? What is foreseen in the Brazilian Constitution ? What about the other countries' legislation ? Looking thru the religious side, what says God's Laws, or the Ten Commandments ?

Ufologist Marco Antonio Petit : Recently, new information [on Varginha Case] started to arise, including the one who says there are metallic fragments of a crashed space ship, which documents this mysterious aspect of the case. This material may be connected to the UFO sighted at daybreak of January 20th 1996, because it was releasing something that seemed to be smoke, and it moved slowly. ".

We live the last moments of a process that will put our Humanity face to face with a reality that we may not be prepared to face. Fifty years of lies may lead a considerable part of the population into an abyss (...). Something very important will happen in the next years and the Governments must assume their responsabilities, while they still can do something, because time is running.

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Do YOU believe a UFO crashed at Varghina?

I do not

July 1965 Milnthorpe Cumbria

   In July 1965, late at night couple and their baby son were making an overnight journey when they pulled over for a cigarette break at a rest area near Milnthorpe, Cumbria.

   It was during this break in their journey that the couple noticed behind a nearby dry-stone wall, an intense red light which appeared lens or domed shaped. Within this light were seen three small creatures which seemed to be giving off a slight green luminescence. The entities were described as having large, round staring eyes and a long nose that looked like a "small elephant trunk" with a mouth that appeared as just a slit. Their heads were large and almost a turnip shape and their bodies were round with hands with digits that were not seen clearly. No definite muscle tone or bone structure was seen, and they did not appear to be wearing any clothing.  Two of the three entities had their arms held out in front of them as though gesturing.

   The entities appeared to be some 15 feet from the car and in front of the wall when the object's brilliance was noticed.  It was reported that the couple became frightened and drove off without seeing the entities depart. They later felt silly for reacting in a frightened manner as they had gotten the impression that the entities had meant no harm.

   That, sadly, is it. There was no accompanying illustration of the entities that had been shown to the witnesses and approved and none of the object seen. We do not even know where they stopped; Milnthorpe is a village in hilly country and there is the B5282 road and A5 running around it. If this had happened in France during 1965 it would probably have led to a lengthy report.

The following are the facts as presented by  Cumbria John Hanson  Haunted Skies vol. 2  p  262

David Sankey, BUFORA

“The Sunday News and Star newspaper, Carlisle, ‘The Close Encounter kept secret for 31 years’, related an account investigated by BUFORA representative David Sankey, on behalf of a couple who were driving along the A6, between Beetham and Milnthorpe, Cumbria.  They were forced to pull in, due to bad weather, at 10.00 am, one winter’s morning in 1965.  after a few seconds they noticed what appeared to be a luminous red dome, its lower half obscured by a dry stone wall, about 25yds away from their car, next to which were stood: ‘three slightly luminous small figures standing in the front of the wall, slowly making their way towards us. Two appeared to have their arms outstretched, while the third had its arms at the side.  They had turnip-shaped heads, with round staring eyes.  As the creatures approached us, we panicked and drove on’”

I did message Sankey but there was no response -something that is quite common in Ufology. Thefollowing illo was by myself to help visualise the event.

c 2021 T Hooper-Scharf