Varginha 1996: The Brazilian UFO incident of a mysterious being and contested accounts

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In January 1996 in Varginha, Brazil, a string of UFO reports included a claimed cigar-shaped crash, Eureko and Orina de Freitas spotting a similar object, Liliane, Valquíria Silva, and Katia Xavier witnessing a four-foot-tall, red-eyed, hairless being, a heavy military response with cover-up rumors, the death of Officer Marco Eli Chereze, and renewed attention from James Fox’s 2022 Moment of Contact, leaving a debate over whether it was real, misidentified, or a hoax.