Varginha, 1996

Brazilian girls met something in a vacant lot; the army arrived in hours. Brazil never quite closed the case.

January 20, 1996, Varginha, Brazil: three young women reported a brown, oily-skinned creature with red eyes crouched by a wall; the story grew to include military captures and a hospital transfer, with soldiers and hospital staff later speaking under condition of anonymity. The Brazilian Army's official explanation — a mentally ill local man, and separately an escaped circus dwarf couple's foal — satisfied few; a 2022 documentary ('Moment of Contact') collected the surviving testimony. Brazil's Senate held UFO hearings in 2022. Filed with crash retrievals and Men in Black-style witness management, South American chapter.