Coinciding with a ufology congress that took place today in Brazil, a suspicious video has gone viral that showed the Alien creature from the UFO incident that occurred in Varginha in 1996… or not?
The filming supposedly took place in 1996 in the city of Eloi Mendes, in Minas Gerais. It was shown to me on 01/19/2024 by a person seeking to obtain financial benefits,” said Rony Vernet, researcher and founder of UAP Brazil. «On 01/20/2024 I received a copy that I am sharing publicly due to the high probability of being false, according to my analysis and that of other experts from Brazil and abroad. “The investigation is ongoing.”
In the released video you can see a person walking through the jungle until he finds himself on the ground with a creature that corresponds to the description given by witnesses about being from Varginha.
However, the video has many red flags that, as Vernet mentions, would indicate that it is a modern fake with some VHS filters applied.
«This video artifact is observed in two different places in the video. This is impossible unless the pattern is a loop, overlaid on the recording. At the very least, this footage has a fake VHS overlay effect added to it, which raises serious doubts about its authenticity,” commented one user who reviewed the video on X.
“It can’t be real, since no man would hesitate to film a motionless object for so long without poking it with a stick. “Not chopping it is against nature!” joked another Internet user who saw the video.
Obviously, I would love for this to be true; but I have a lot of doubts, not only about the image shown here, but also about the 8-minute video,” Fox responded cautiously. Furthermore, he highlighted that, according to his own investigations, one of the signs that question the authenticity of the shared material is that, in the case of the extraterrestrial being involved in this famous Brazilian incident, “he had red eyes only when he was alive, turning black or dark at death. However, in the video released, the entity in the grassland shows its eyes still red despite appearing to be lifeless.
It must be remembered that, according to the documentary filmmaker cited here, there would be a real video of being recovered by the military in the Varginha case. Of course, this is not what they have uploaded today—which could be considered gross contamination or misinformation.
The 1996 Varginha Incident: Brazil’s Most Famous UFO Case
The Varginha incident of January 20, 1996, stands as one of the most thoroughly documented and widely witnessed UFO events in Brazilian history. In the city of Varginha, Minas Gerais, three young women — Liliane Fátima Silva, Valquíria Fátima Silva, and Kátia Andrade Xavier — encountered a strange creature in an alleyway during the afternoon. The being was described as approximately 1.6 meters tall, with brown oily skin, large red eyes, a large head with three small protrusions or “horns,” and a frail, humanoid body with long arms. All three witnesses were in a state of extreme fear during and after the encounter.
What made this case extraordinary was the breadth of corroboration. Local residents reported seeing military vehicles and personnel in the area both before and after the creature sightings. A local zookeeper named Sargento Pereira claimed to have helped capture at least one of the beings and transport it to a regional hospital, where it allegedly died despite attempts to treat it. Military nurses at the Humanitas Hospital later confirmed that unusual procedures took place that day involving bodies that were kept strictly off limits from regular staff. Brazilian UFO researcher A.J. Gevaerd spent years investigating the case and concluded the incident involved genuine non-human entities recovered by the Brazilian military.
The Viral Video: Authentic Evidence or Elaborate Hoax?
The video that circulated alongside ufology conferences purportedly showing the Varginha creature generated intense debate among researchers. Analysis of the footage revealed a thin, brown-skinned bipedal entity with proportions broadly consistent with the witness descriptions from 1996. However, video forensics experts were divided — some noting inconsistencies in lighting and movement that suggested a costume or puppet, while others pointed to details in the footage that would have been extraordinarily difficult to fabricate without access to the original witness testimonies that were not widely published until years after the incident.
Brazil has a long tradition of serious institutional UFO research. In 2009, the Brazilian government officially released thousands of pages of classified UFO documents under a freedom of information initiative, acknowledging that the military had monitored and investigated unexplained aerial phenomena for decades. This official acknowledgment lent renewed credibility to the Varginha case, which Brazilian ufologists had been pushing to have officially recognized for years. Whether the viral video represents genuine evidence of the captured creature or a sophisticated recreation, the underlying 1996 incident remains one of the most compelling and multiply-witnessed UAP-related events in South American history.
The Lasting Impact of Varginha on Brazilian UFO Research
Nearly three decades after the incident, Varginha remains a pilgrimage site for UFO researchers and enthusiasts worldwide. The city itself has embraced its unusual fame, with monuments and tourist attractions dedicated to the 1996 event. The three original witnesses have maintained consistent accounts of what they saw despite decades of public scrutiny and skeptical pressure. Efforts to obtain full military disclosure about what was recovered and where it went continue through Brazilian civil society and freedom of information campaigns. The Varginha incident represents a rare case where physical evidence, multiple credible witnesses, institutional corroboration, and partial official acknowledgment converge — making it, regardless of the viral video’s authenticity, one of the strongest documented cases for genuine extraterrestrial presence in modern times.
The Varginha Creatures: Physical Descriptions in Detail
The physical descriptions provided by the three witnesses in Varginha remain remarkably consistent across multiple separate interviews conducted over nearly three decades. The creature was approximately 1.6 meters (5.2 feet) tall with an unusually large, elongated head featuring three small bony protrusions on the crown — described as horn-like but not sharp. The eyes were enormous, red, and vertically oriented, with no visible whites. The skin was dark brown, smooth, and appeared wet or oily, with a strong ammonia-like odor that caused one of the witnesses to feel physically ill. The limbs were disproportionately long relative to the torso, and the creature appeared to be crouching or injured when encountered — it did not attempt to flee or communicate.
These physical details align with descriptions given independently by the military personnel who later reportedly handled the creature. A Brazilian army sergeant identified as “Marco” gave a deathbed testimony in 2017 stating he had physically handled one of the beings during transport and developed a serious, unexplained illness shortly afterward — an illness he attributed to contact with the creature. He died within weeks of giving his testimony. His account, combined with those of the hospital workers who reported unusual procedures that day, forms a chain of corroborating testimony that makes the Varginha case one of the most multiply-witnessed and institutionally corroborated UAP-related events in history.
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