Varginha, Brazil incident (Jan 1996): the 'Roswell of Brazil'

Around 20 Jan 1996 in Varginha, Minas Gerais, three young women (Liliane, Valquíria and Kátia Xavier) saw a creature with a large head, big eyes and spindly limbs; Kátia says it communicated distress telepathically. Local accounts describe a cigar-shaped craft seen days earlier, military and fire-brigade captures, cordons, and transport to regional hospitals, then Campinas. Filmmaker James Fox (*Moment of Contact*, 2022) says a leading local neurosurgeon, after a heart attack, told him on the record he examined 'a being not of this planet' (small mouth, lilac teardrop eyes, childlike size), and that witnesses say an unauthorized USAF aircraft flew material out of Campinas. Rep. Burlison wrote to CIA and FBI (7 Jul 2026) for flight logs and records. An earlier CIA FOIA response (10 Jan 2025) was a **Glomar**: neither confirm nor deny, citing (b)(1) and (b)(3). Fox says (Fox News, 22 Sep 2026) the CIA told Burlison it would only answer in a SCIF. Brazilian military inquiries attributed the creature to a local man.