UFOLOGISTS SEEK BOOTLEG VIDEO OF VARGINHA ALIENS

Mon, 16 Sep 1996
Source: UFO Round Up
In Brazil, the hunt is on for a videotape of the five aliens who survived a UFO crash north of Varginha, Minas Gerais state, last January 20.

According to Brazil's Planeta magazine, published August 23, while the aliens were being held at the Hospital Humanitas in Campinas on January 21 and 22, they were filmed by an officer of the Servico de Intelligencia do Exercito (Army Intelligence Service), better known as S-2.

On May 30, 1996, Minister of the Army Zenildo Zoroastro de Luneta reportedly convened a meeting of 30 senior officers to discuss the Varginha case. According to Rogerio Porto Breir, the Planeta article's author, the generals met at the headquarters of the 2nd Regiment of Combat Vehicles, 11th Armored Infanty Battalion at Pirassununga in Sao Paulo state. Present at the meeting with de Luneta were Army chief of staff Gen. Paulo Neves de Aquino and Gen. Sergio Coelho Lima, who commanded the alien capture/saucer retrieval operation.

Gen. Coelho Lima reportedly briefed the others on the capture and then passed around still color photographs of the aliens. Afterward, Gen. Neves de Aquino reportedly had a VCR brought in so they could all watch the videotape. When it was over, several officers said they wanted to go to Campinas to see the aliens "in the flesh." However, Minister de Luneta allegedly told them that this was not possible because the aliens were "now at a detention camp in the EUA (United States)."

According to Brazilian ufologist Pedro Cunha, someone at S-2 headquarters in Campinas made a copy of the official tape and brought it home with him. Months later, the soldier's 16-year-old daughter Rosalia and her best friend, Capitolina, were rummaging through the family's video collection when they found the unmarked tape. Thinking it contained X-rated entertainment, Rosalia and Capitolina put it in the VCR. Instead of a sex scene, the girls watched open-mouthed as "horrible creatures" ambled around what looked like a hospital room. Horrified by the aliens' appearance, they began screaming. Rosalia's father rushed into the room, saw what they were watching, and began yelling at both girls. He then confiscated the videotape and told them both to forget they ever saw it. Instead, the girls told all their friends at school, and by now the story is all over the state of Sao Paulo.

The Planeta article also offered more precise information about the Varginha incident, which is summarized below: Liliane Fatima da Silva, 16; her sister, Valquiria Fatima da Silva, 14; and their friend, Katia Andrade Xaiver, 22, saw the alien in an empty lot across the street from Rua de Benevenuto Braz Vieira 76, in the Jardim Andere section of Varginha at 3:30 p.m. on January 20, 1996.

Valquiria Fatima da Silva described the alien as "the color of a giant ox heart" (reddish-brown) and 1.6 meters (five feet, four inches) tall. She said the alien had "shiny dark brown oily skin with many bulging veins, two legs with enormous two-toed feet, two arms and small hands with three long, tapered fingers, a big head with three bone formations on top. Its eyes were red in color and protruded like a frog's eyes. It had two nostrils in front with no discernible nose, a small mouth and a thin, black tongue."

Lt. Col. Olimpio Wanderley Santos's convoy, with the five captured aliens aboard, drove from the Escola de Sargentos das Armas in Tres Coracoes to Campinas in Mercedes Benz Type 1418 military trucks.

According to the Planeta article, there is one eyewitness to the capture who desperately wants to remain anonymous. The witness, a man in his 20s who was discharged from the Brazilian army during the past year, was on the Rua de Suecia, Jardim Andere in Varginha at 2 p.m. on January 20. He says he saw a platoon of S-2 soldiers dressed in tropical jungle camoflauge and toting FN-FAL automatic rifles enter a small forested ravine near the street. He heard three gunshots in quick succession. Having used an FN-FAL in the army, he recognized its distinctive sound. From his hiding place at the corner of a house, he watched as the soldiers emerged from the woods carrying two body bags. There was a small body in each bag. One didn't move--the other kicked and thrashed and struggled as if trying to get out.

(Editor's comment: This guy is scared shitless! As you would be, too, if you were the only eyewitness to the S-2 blowing somebody away.)

For readers who'd like a first-hand account of the Varginha case, UFO ROUNDUP has the "snail mail" address of two of the girls. Address your letters to...
Srta. Liliane e Valquiria Fatima da Silva
Rua Tapajos 41
Jardim Andere
Varginha, M.G.
BRASIL

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