The Varginha Incident: Case Closed?

Dateline Zero – The “Varginha Incident” occurred on January 20, 1996, when a “creature” was sighted by three girls ranging from 14 to 21 years old: sisters Liliane and Valquíria Silva, and their friend Kátia Xavier. IstoE magazine says of the case: “The Case of Varginha UFO incident considered the most remarkable of its kind ever in Brazil.”

According to the description of the girls, the creature was a biped about 5 ft high, with a large head with three horns and very thin body, with V-shaped feet, brown skin, and large red eyes. It seemed to be wobbly or unsteady, and the girls assumed it was injured or sick. The creature was said to have a strong, unpleasant odor.

Later, stories emerged that an aircraft that had crashed in the area, and another creature had been recovered by the military and taken to a hospital. The Brazilian Army, Military Police and the Fire Department were all involved, according to the stories that emerged.

Last month, excerpts of the conclusions of the official military investigations on the “Varginha Case” were published by IstoE magazine. As would be expected, they caused quite a furor among enthusiasts because there Lt Col Lúcio Finholdt Pereira raised as “the most probable hypothesis” that a local with disabilities, known as “Luizinho” – or Little Luis:

“being probably dirty, due to the heavy rain, seen crouching against a wall, was mistaken by three terrified girls as a ‘creature from space’”.

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