****************************************************************************************Dear Friends --- I just received this.  Does anyone know of any confirmation? 

                       Geoffrey Nimmo / nextwave@one.net
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                       Date: Sunday, 23-Jun-96 12:30 PM

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                   EXTRATERRESTRIALS CAPTURED BY BRAZILIAN ARMY

        (Unidentified Flying Objects Investigation Agency. International)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ola,

I apologize for any mistakes. The fax below was received today, tagged as
urgent press release, and transcribed for this alert. 

Salutations,

Pedro Cunha
sit number 6600

                 EXTRATERRESTRIALS CAPTURED BY BRAZILIAN ARMY


   On January 20, military forces captured two extra-terrestrial creatures
still alive in Brazil. The capture occured in neighboring areas of city of
Varginha, State of Minas Gerais, in central Brazil.  The event is to be
considered one of the most significant ever in this country and in the
entire world. 

    Military authorities are keeping secret of all details, but some info
has already leaked to the UFO community due to the investigative jobof Dr.
Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues and Vitorio Pacaccini who live nearby and are
recognized as serious and dedicated researchers. 

    On the afternoon of January 20, about 15:30 hours local time, 3 young
girls named Liliane, Valquiria and Katia observed a strange creature in a
field of small bushes a few blocks from where they live. It was a
Saturday, and they were coming back from their jobs, when, crossing an
empty area, their attention was attracted by a strange being a few meters
away. The ET was kneeing and looked like it was hurt, suffering sort of
pain. No UFO was ever seen. The girls observed it for a few minutes and
then ran away, afraid that they had just encountered the devil... 
   
   The 3 girls were extensively interrogated by the above mentioned
researchers, leaving no doubt whatsoeve about what happened.  Very simple
kids, they described the ET being as a dark brown creature, with small
body of 4 to 5 feet, no hair at all, big brown head, small neck, It also
seemed to have some greasy dark oil on it's skin. A strange odor was
noticed the mother.... 

   Following the leads, researchers Rodrigues and Pacaccini started making
inquiries everywhere in the town of Varginha, in order to know if anybody
else had seen the same creature.  They found several other people, who
also observed the ET in the same location and maybe other ETs in different
locations.  While conducting an investigative job, both discovered that
different witnesses had seen army trucks and other military vehicle and
personnel in the very morning of that day, a few blocks from the place
where the girls saw the ET. 

   ln trying to find out what the military was doing, Rodrigues and
Pacaccini came to meet a few soldiers and sergeants. One of them decided
to talk secretly about their mission, in a confidential taped interview,
this sergeant confirmed that on about 09:00hours, a.m., January 20, the
Fire Department of Varginha was required to capture a strange animal in
that area. When 4 fireman arrived in a truck in the place, they noticed
that it was not any strange animal at all, and reported the fact to the
Army Sergeant School commander. ln neighboring city of Tres Coracoes
(about 10 miles east of Varginha). 

   An Army truck was sent to the place and both forces captured the
creature using nets and equipment regularly used to capture wild animals. 
The ET was placed still alive in a box that was then covered by resistant
fabric.  The box was placed on top of the truck; the vehicle headed to the
Army Sergeant School, and all of the personnel involved were ordered not
to talk about it... 

[.. not clear in the fax image...] speak about, as long as their
identities were totally kept secret. They all confirmed, on taped
interviews that that a second creature (possibly the same one seen by the
girls at that afternoon) was captured on the night of January 20, by
personnel from the Army and the fire Department. Details of such operation
is fully known. This creature, identical to the first one, was taken to
the Regional General Hospital at Varginha at that same night, stayed there
for a few hours and then was transferred to a better-equipped facility,
the Humanitas Hospital. 

   A few nurses and personnel from Regional General Hospital had confirmed
some facts and they were all suppressed.  Individuals who had contact with
the second creature were advised to avoid the press and UFO researchers
and were told not to talk about it with anyone, including their relations
and family. At the Humanitas Hospital, the second creature was kept for at
least for 2 days and, on the night on January 22, a huge military
operation was taken to remove the creature, who had already died. 

   Interviews with some of the military who participated in this new
operation, who had removed the creature from The Humanitas Hospital,
declared that 3 Army trucks were used, each one driven by 2 different
soldiers. 

   It is believed that 3 trucks were used to remove only one body, in
order to avoid the soldiers to know in which truck would it be
transported. The drivers and their fellows could not see the details of
the operations, as they were kept outside the area.  Military personnel
from the Army Internal Intelligence (called "S-2" in Brazil;  they are
extremely violent and repressive) were responsible for getting the corpse
from the interior of the hospital, placing it in a box and then in one of
the trucks. 

   All 3 trucks were then taken to a military facility in Campinas, State
of Sao Paulo about 200 miles from Varginha, in the middle of the night.
There, the corpse was removed to the University of Campinas, one of the
best institutions in the country.  It is believed - and we already have
detailed info to be soon released - that' the ET body was autopsied by Dr.
Badan Palhares, worldwide acclaimed as one of the best professionals in
that area alive (he was the medical examiner who autopsied the infamous
German Nazi, Dr. Josef Mengele, about 10 years ago). Palhares, as well as
any other authority involved, denied any part in such operations. 

   UFO researchers from all over the country have been closely helping
Rodrigues and Pacaccini, in order to discover each and every detail of the
capture of the 2 ETs.  Media in Brazil has never been been so active and
great majority of population believes that the case is real and that the
military and civil authorities involved are keeping the facts secret. Many
strange facts are happening simultaneously, such as prison of soldiers,
sergeants being transferred at last time etc. The phones of the main UFO
researchers involved in the case are confirmed to be tapped, and a few
threats had been made anonymously. 

Up to now, almost all of the details of the whole operation are known to
the UFO researchers and a few can already be released.  ln a matter of
weeks, all of the information will be fully disclosed by the UFO
researchers involved, via the UFO Magazine, to the entire world. Everyday,
new pieces of this fantastic puzzle are being received by researchers in
many cities and more and more military people have agreed to talk. 

   Meanwhile, the region where Varginha is located (in the south of State
of Minas Gerais) is subject to one of the biggest UFO waves ever
registered, with huge UFOs in close range observations, landings and
contacts. 
          A, J. Gevaerd
          Editor and director
          Brazilian UFO Magazine and Brazilian Center for Flying Saucer Research
          Phone: 001-55-67-981-6020
          Fax: 001-55-6'7-384-3921

According to "Programa de Domingo," aired tonight on the Manchete
Television Network the following statements were issued: 

>From Pacaccini and other ufologists researching the Varginha case:

- Names of people involved in the capture and transportation of creatures:
    . Lieutenant Colonel Olimpio Wanderley (Chief of operations)
    . Lieutenant Tibe (I am not sure about how to spell his name)
    . Captain Ramirez
    . Sergeant Pedrosa (Brazilian Army secret service)

Truck drivers (all in the army)
    . Corporal Cirilo
    . Soldier Vassalo
    . Soldier De Mello (also not sure about the spelling, driver of one of
the trucks)

And also the chief of the first capture operation,  Major Maciel.

Pathologist in Campinas, Sao Paulo State, (UNICAMP) where autopsy was done:
Dr. Badan Palhares.
For sure, more people were involved in an operation of this nature.

   There is now some evidence that a spaceship crash occurred in Minas
Gerais, near Varginha. There is now talk of 7 creatures that have been
captured. (according to Pacaccini and Marco Antonio Petit, Brazilian
Ufologists). 

   There is also word of the American Government (through the Air Force)
warning the Brazilian Government of spacecraft coming over to the
brazilian territory, confirmed by the brazilian radar system ( an Air
Force source, according to the ufologists). There is also an Air Force
witness who doesn't want to come to public, that allegedly said that he
saw the spaceship debris on the top of a truck. 

All this came to the public's attention by the Congress recently held in
Curitiba, Parana, south of Brazil. 

Greetings,

[...]s
Pedro Cunha
Sit number 6600

                             ... More to come...
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