Varginha 1996: Reassessing Brazil’s Best-Known Alien Saga as the 30th Anniversary Approaches

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It chronicles the 1996 Varginha alien scare in Brazil, where Marco Antônio Reis reported a horned red-eyed visitor near his ranch, a string of zoo animal deaths and witness accounts that fed rumors of infection and a military operation, later amplified by Ubirajara Rodrigues’s early tale and ongoing claims by others, and it notes the rise of the ET Museum Varginha and tourism amid divided local views.

‘I’ve seen the devil’: Brazil’s UFO capital marks 30 years since ‘alien encounter’
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‘I’ve seen the devil’: Brazil’s UFO capital marks 30 years since ‘alien encounter’

Sightings in Varginha in 1996 have been dismissed as hoax, but saga continues to draw people from around world