HERE: http://www.ufo.se/ufofiles/english/issue_3/vargh-4.htm
Continuing the Varginha Case article...
Update
(Picture of UFO over Brazil)
So, this was in January and now it’s August/September. What has happened?
Well, details are popping up all the time which has helped me to put together the presentation above for you. According to John Carpenter the researchers involved, on location in Brazil, have been getting direct threats over the telephone and problems with the phonelines have continued since that. And UFO’s have been observed in almost every city in Minas Gerais, and some of them are photographed and videofilmed.
But one of the most significant developments are the four men that arrived at the home of da Silva, the home of two of the girls who stumbled on the EBE 15:30 PM on january 20. The four men was driving a Navy blue 1994 Lincoln Continental with Distrito Federal (Brasilia) license plates. They all wore white and cream Armani suits.
The four men, one Brazilian and three American, offered the mother Luiza Helena Fatima da Silva $20,000 if the girls would go on the TV and say that they made the whole story up. The girls and their mother refused. "They said they would pay cash”, "they also said they would come back but we cannot hide the truth.", says Mrs da Silva in UFO Roundup’s June issue.
And we know that there has been a cover-up at the military school outside Varginha and that all personal has been forbidden to talk to investigators like Rodriguez and Pacaccini. One soldier was arrested as the senior officer thought he was a security-risk. This was confirmed by people inside the base to researchers. And as the incident happened over a weekend and the military school is almost totally empty on weekends, aprox. 98% of the personal is unaware of the details.
Another issue is the continuing sightings of EBE’s in the area.
On April 21st 1996, at 9:00 PM, Mrs. Therezinha Gallo Clepf (67), a housewife, sighted a similar creature (according to her description) that the girls saw in the park in January.
She was a party at the zoo restaurant as she went out to smoke a cigarrette on the porch she saw the creature in the porch’s parapet, only from the neck upwards. Mrs. Therezinha became very frightened and freezed, staying this way about five minutes, looking all the time at the creature on a 4 meter distance, without making any gesture.
The difference between her description and the one made by the two da Silva-sisters and their friend was that now the creature had a helmet-like gear on it’s head. It was in goldcolor. That stopped her from seeing the creatures ears. The rest was the same description: dark brown skin, bright and oily, a rounded face, red eyes, and didn’t have any cheeks, nor beard, mustasch or nose, and on the lips position there were only a cut.
Some days after Mrs Therezinha’s sighting of the creature outside the zoo-restaurant, five animals were found dead in the place. The zoo biologist, Dr Leila Cabral, found traces of some toxic substance in one of the animals. The cause of death to the rest is still unknown and unexplained.
(Piture of a UFO over Brazil in 1976)
Vitrio Pacaccini also says that there is proof of an existing viodeofilm made by the army of one (or more) EBE's.
First of all: many witnesses saw the army personal carrying a camcorder in the Jardim Andere park on January 20th 10:30 AM (first capture). Two reporters were in Varginha were also aproached by a person who identified himself as the-cousin-of-a-son-of-a-military-man-from-ESA. This person said that he could get access to a film recorded at ESA showing the creatures. he had already shown it to his cousin, who then offered it to SBT (Sistema Brasiliero de Televisio=Brazilian Television System), the second major TV Network in Brazil. The boy wanted 70,000 Reais ($68,000).
The visited the station and discussed the deal with the network director but didn't close the deal and later the boy said that he wasn't able any longer to deliver the video.
Also a daughter of a Military Police-man (16 year schoolgirl) says that she has watched a "horrible film" that showed the captured creatures. As the girl's father realized the situation was dangerous, he vanished with the tape. Pacaccini says that he has many evidence that the film is still located in Virginha.
On May 4th, Lelis Silva, 46 years old, trader, filmed a round object at a party at his motherinlaw’s house on the outskirt of Divinopolis, Ipiranga state. The camera was a Panasonic camcorder, model NVA-A1BR. Mr Silva filmed the full moon as a present to his mother-in-law and as he looked at the filmed later he saw, on aprox. 200 meters distance, 25-30 degrees with reference to his own position, a round object which has a lot of rings and a whole in the middle. The object was strongly lit, changed its shape and colour, beyond moving itself. The film is now within UFO-researchers in the area.
The image on Mr Lelis video looks like some ancient paintings which were found at the rocks of the National Park of Sete Cidades, north of the state of Piaui. These paintings are 12,000 years old. UFO researcher Simao Neves says that a good example is a grotoo in Montalvania, norteast of Minas Gerais, where paintings were found that match perfectly with a flying saucer. The painting was found 20 years ago but hasn’t been preserved. Something for Von Daumlniken?
The latest news is about a filmed UFO over Lago Sul (transl: South lake) on August 22. It was filmed by military police Corporal Jose Raimundo Galdino. The object filmed during 8 minutes and 56 seconds is a bright lit point passing over the sky (they’ve been very common since 1991). That isn’t especially interesting. But the fact that when they took the video to the University of Brasilia’s (UnB) and studied it, they (anthropologist Wilson Gearldo de Oliveira and Corporal Galdino) saw the nose part of a Brazilian Air Force (AFB) plane in something that looked like a pursuit as the object turn vertical, uppwards.
Eduardo Dorneles barcelos, director of AEB (Brazilian Space Agency) says that the images is far for proving an extraterristrial apparation and points at routine metereological phenomena.
And the people seem to have straighten their backs against the violent Brazilian army that made thousands of civilians to "disapear" during the 60's and 70's. Recently a TV reporter got into a shouting match with a top Brazilian general during a Victory Day broadcast (commemorating Brazil's contribution to Allied victory in World War II) when the reporter kept asking questions about the Varginha incident instead of listening politely to the patriotic speeches.
As always when people catch the smell of money they go for it. The three girls that encountered the EBE in the Jardim Andere park on January 20, 15:30 PM, now charges $200 for each interview (accordint to Wall Street Journals article), and other witnesses are doing the same. And the leaders of Varginha are thinking of promoting their city by building a proper park to the unknown creature’s honor, but it will not be called "El Roswello" like someone stated... And one thing that has been pounding my brain the whole time is: how could 7-8 EBE’s fit into a mini-van buss, traveling throughout the galaxy???
Anyway, if you happen to be in the neighberhood do attend the big International UFOlogy Congress in Londrina, Parana, Brazil, on November 1-4. Speakers will be A.J. Gevaerd, Pedro Cunha, Jenny Randles, Jerome Clark, Dr. John Mack, Jorge Martin, Kevin Randle, Leah Haley, Marc Davenport, Timothy Good, Vitorio Pacaccini and William Bramley.
Credits must also be given to these researchers, associations and magazines:
Claudeir Corvo
- Instituto Nacional de Investigacao de Fenomenos Aeroespaciais
Edson Boaventura Jr. and Jamil Vilanova
- Grupo Ufologico do Guaruja - Sao Paulo
Oswaldo and Eduardo Mondini
- Centro de Pesquisas Exologicas - Sumare - Sao Paulo
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas de Discos Voadores e revista UFO 0 Campo Grande
- Mato Grosso
Marco Antonio Petit de Castro
- Associacao Fluminense de Estudos Ufologicos - Itaipava - Rio de Janeiro
Rafael Cury
- Associacao Nacional dos Ufologos do Brasil - Curitiba - Parana
Irene Granchi
- Centro de Investigacao sobre a natureza dos Extraterrestres - Rio de Janeiro
Marco Antonio Rodrigues Silva
- Grupo de Estudos de Objetos nao Identificados - Sao Paulo
Sociedade de Estudos Extreterrestres (SEE)
- Florianopolis
Uniao Brasileira para Pesquisa de DiscosVoadores (UBPDV)
- Rio de Janeiro
Centro de Pesquisas Exologicas (CPE)
- Rio de Janeiro
Grupo de Pesquisas Aereo-spaciais Zenite (GPAZ)
- Salvador
Associao de Pesquisas Ufologicas do Campo (APUC)
- Manaus
Grupo Espirita de Pesquisa Ufologica (GEPU)
- Nova Iguacu.
- ISCNI
Eduardo Mondini (Sumare)
- Sao Paulo
Rogério Porto Breier
Brazilian UFO Magazine team
Marco Antonio PetitFor questions or contact with the two headresearchers:
Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues (INFA)
Rua Belo Horizonte 131, Jardim Andere.
37006-370, Varginha, MG
Vitorio Pacaccini (CICOANI)
Rua Tupis 265/804, Centro
30190-060, Belo Horizonte, MG
a LOT more data on the above is available here:
http://www.ufologie.net/htm/varg.htm
Still looking for a pic location I can hotlink to.
Gamecock; do you have a location or suggestion for sites I could place pics to hotlink to?