Continuing the Varginha Case article...
Three shots
At the same time as the firemen capture the first seen EBE, more witnesses observed strange movements. A lawyer in Varginha and former miltary witnessed two planes that he recognized as F-5’s (see picture), 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 of them in plain clothes.
There is even more witnesses to their activity. A friend of this witness was in another position and says 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 is still being investigated by researcher Claudeir Covo. The military and fire department operation was held very quiet and smooth and both firebrigade 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 kilometers from Varginha. The next following days a summerized number of 6 living EBE’s and two dead was locked up at the ESA-base. Some curious civilians combed the park as the military/S-2 personal had left in their trucks, but found nothing. There is also information of a later S-2 (Brazilian Army secret service) operation at aprox. 7:00-8:00 PM on January 20, where an unnumbered of EBE’s was caught in the park.
A total sum of 8 EBE’s :
1 dead
2 injured (1 later dead)
5 unhurt and living.
The lawyer who made the observation around 10:30 AM above says that he noticed another searchteam arriving at 1:30 PM stopping at the opposite side of an earthwork shortcut, as he was leaving his office. Another witness speak of a S-2 search-team in civilian clothes (haven’t been able to find out how they was 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 belived to have found nothing.
Three girls stumbles on another EBE
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Around 15:30 PM on the same sunny Saturday afternoon three girls, two sisters - Lilliane Fatima Silva (16) , Valquiria fatime Silva (14) and their friend Katia Andrade Xavier (22 which has three kids), was on their way home (lives at Rua Tapajos-Tapajos street) from their jobs as housemaids. As they are walking in the middle of the pathway in 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 meters 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:
"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 slightly with the head and the three girls run away.”
Forty minutes later, the mother of Lilliane and Valquiria, Luiza Helana Silva (38), went to the spot to look 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 ammoniak. The same smell was later reported indipendently by personal at the General Hospital where the alien was brought on the eavning of January 20th.
Harvard professor and abduction researcher Dr. John Mack went down at the end May and made a recorded interview with the three girls. To Carpenter, Mack has said:
”He would stake his carrer and his license on those three girls being truthful” (see picture).
During the afternoon people are watching a number of armytrucks on patrol in the city and around 7:00-8:00 PM the military from the Escola de Sargentos, along with 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 captured an injured EBE (I haven’t found any testimonys from witnesses to this capture). This capture was much more discreet that the first (10:30 AM), because the military arrived in plain clothes, using civilian cars. The creature was in the area, near the woods, where the military surrounded it and caught it.
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 and hide from curious civilians. 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 they 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 avoid access of emplyees, patients and visitors and that physicians came in from another town than Varginha. 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 personal.” According to the witness (a nurse) the meeting culminated with the following statement from the director:
”Here in Varginha there is people who likes to deal with ”cool things”, I mean, supernatural, strange... It is probable that these people will look for you, specially that lawyer Ubirajara. TO THESE PEOPLE YOU MUST DENY EVERYTHING. I mean, do deny.”
Police and armypersonal was guarding the closed hospital-section during the hours where the EBE was. But a number of civilians saw the creature closely and the rumour continued.
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 her. She asked the receptionist if it was true what the rumours said about the ”little monster” recieved at the hospital. The emplyee confirmed, but also said that the creature had been moved to the Humanitas hospital. This is said to have happend around midnight between January 20, Saturday, and Sunday 22. So the nurse probably didn’t know that the creature was still in the hospital waiting to be transported, but in the closed section. The transport was operated by the firebrigade.
Captain Alvarenga of the fire-brigade denies any participation from the firebrigades part to have 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 Firedepartment 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:
”We couldn’t keep an extraterristrial here, we couldn’t deal with it, nothing but humans.”
In the hospital the aliens would be treated by doctor Rogerio (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".
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