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.
