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. a TWILIGHT Ze | & : tie. © bok - BRAZILIAN MILITARY IN ALLEGED ALIEN COVER-UP The day after, Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues, a ufologist and a lawyer who teaches at one of the four colleges in Varginha, started investigating the incident. Mr Rodrigues has been studying UFOs for over 20 years and he says that only one per cent of the so-called UFO sightings are authentic. For him, the Varginha episode is the exception which confirms the rule. “What these women saw was, without any doubt, an alien creature," said Rodrigues. After his investigation he also concludes that at least two EBEs (extraterrestrial bio- logical entities), not just one, were seen in town on 20th January. Since then, a great number of ufologists have visited Varginha. To be more precise, 66 specialists have been to the city to investigate the event. "It is certainly the most extraordinary thing we have ever heard about, and we have lots of registers of UFO apparitions,” said Claudeir Covo, an engineer who is the President of the Instituto Nacional de Investigagdo de Fenémenos Aeroespaciais (INFA). Dr John Mack, a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, is a specialist in research with human beings who have been in close contact with ETs. He trav- elled all the way from the US to Varginha to do a series of interviews with the three women who said they had seen the alien. BRAZILIAN MILITARY IN said Katia, who works as a maid and has ALLEGED ALIEN COVER-UP three children. Varginha, a small town in the state of "He seemed stupefied. He didn't make Minas Gerais, Brazil, has become famous any noise," said Valquiria. But then the overnight because of something other than creature made a small movement and the its excellent coffee. Local people are now _ three girls ran for dear life. celebrating the four-month anniversary of Forty minutes later, Liliane and the most extraordinary close encounter Valquiria's mother, Luiza Helena, 38 years with extraterrestrials ever to be registered old, arrived at the place to find out what in the country. had scared her daughters so much. She On Saturday 20th January at 3.30 pm, a found nothing. sunny and bright afternoon, three girls were The story has been widely publicised coming down a narrow path in the area _ because, apparently without knowing about known as Jardim Andere, two kilometres the incident involving the three girls, an away from the city centre, when one of elderly couple, Oralina Augtista and Eurico them, Liliane Fatima Silva, 16 years old, Rodrigues, who work as farmhands, insist looked left and screamed. She saw a _ on having seen a UFO very early in the strange creature with slippery brownish morning on 20th January. They were skin and what looked like three small, sleeping in their house which is located rounded homs protruding from its head. It near the road which goes from Varginha to was about seven metres from the point Trés Coragées when they woken by the where they were standing, and near the noise made by the cows. They looked out back wall of an old garage. of the window to see the animals totally “He was squatting, with his long arms __ disoriented and running around the house. between his legs,” the girl said. "The first “We looked at the sky and saw a grey thing to call my attention were his eyes, object, similar to a submarine, the size of a huge and red." Terrified, Liliane tumed her small bus, flying very slowly over the back while her sister Valquiria, 14 years ground," Oralina Augdsta described. old, and their friend Katia Andrade Xavier, "There was something like white smoke 22 years old, stayed looking at the creature, coming out of it. There were no lights and unable to move. it wasn't making any noise." Local people “It was not an animal and it certainly immediately associated this spaceship with wasn't human. It was a horrible thing!" the ET who appeared 14 hours later. 56 ¢ NEXUS AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1996