https://nypost.com/2026/10/03/world-news/ex-brazil-official-urges-us-to-release-varginha-ufo-crash-files-on-captured-alien/“The 1996 Varginha Incident in Brazil underwent a serious military investigation. There are statements from military personnel, and from doctors who participated. In part, these are public records and others are maintained classified,” said Rebelo, who was a federal deputy at the time of the alleged crash.
The alleged incident has become one of Brazil’s most famous UFO cases.
On Jan. 20, 1996, Liliane Silva, Valquiria Silva and Katia Andrade reported seeing a strange bipedal creature in Varginha, a city in southeastern Brazil.
The women described the creature as having brown, oily skin, three horn-like bumps on its head, an ammonia-like smell and glowing red eyes.
They later recounted their experience to UFO investigator James Fox for his documentary “Moment of Contact.”
“What we saw wasn’t human and wasn’t an animal either. Nowadays I do think it was a being from another planet,” Liliane Silva said in the film.
Two beings, one alive and one dead, were allegedly held by Brazilian authorities, who then transferred custody to the US government, according to military personnel who appeared in the film and television news reports at the time.