VARGINHA CASE:
New revelations about the capture and medical treatment of alien creatures in Brazil, January 1996
Considering
that an uncommon occurrence make people offer their own interpretation
influenced by personal beliefs and trends from their own social environment,
only the research carried out directly in the places and situations in question
allows us to have some confirmation. Among the reliable statements - even though
depending on analysis grounded on a wider set of data or rare evidence - we
should point those from individuals from the environment where the facts
supposedly occurred.
Military
Witnesses
In the beginning of 2003 Varginha was visited by
Roger Leir, US ufologist and acknowledged physician, whose experience of more
than 50 years as a UFO researcher lead him to different kinds of occurrences,
such as the cases of implants supposedly made by alien surgical intervention.
This visit was an opportunity to verify the effective existence of some secret
witnesses of the Varginha Case, which since 1996 was always affirmed by
researchers. This was already shown in 1997 when representatives of local and
national press were selected to watch – upon ethical commitment of absolute
secrecy – two video-recorded interviews with military witnesses who took part in
the event.
At
the same time we may not consider as evidence statements given in secrecy –
therefore of restricted or none value –, it is crucial to prove to the
population and scholars in general that these statements really exist. With this
objective Roger Leir was taken to the office of a colleague – an acknowledged
doctor in Varginha with more than 30 years of work who belongs to one of the
most traditional families of that region. Called by the
Injured
Creature
According to the “Doctor” - who refuses to reveal
his real name – the body presented injuries of different kinds and grades. He
said he was urgently called by the military staff responsible for keeping the
creature and described his astonishment in front of something never seen or
reported before. His statement regarding the appearance of the creature is not
different from many other descriptions of other witnesses, but he said the
creature was surely alive when he saw it.
This
declaration is part of an ever increasing pile of witnesses including military,
police officers, doctors, hospital officers, civil witnesses etc. We should not
forget, however, the necessity to select the gathered information, which
sometimes may receive the direct influence of the investigator. Here is one
example especially chosen to emphasize the neutrality of arguments, so important
for the discussion of UFO or similar occurrences. One of the procedures
preferred by ufologists of the so-called objective line – not mystical – is to
focus their attention to statements free of personal impressions, especially
those where witnesses talk about their own emotional alteration at the moment of
their experience.
The
“Doctor” – initially insisting that it was a colleague who was called by the
military to the referred hospital – eventually admitted that he was the doctor
in question and decided to trust his US colleague telling everything. The
“Doctor” was touched and giving us a new detail about the case with a serious
expression on his face he said that when he was trying to examine the injuries
of the being he felt suddenly “as if my hands were automatically driven” and “it
was as if the lights suddenly became yellowish”, and “my perception was somewhat
enhanced”. These are transcriptions of what he said.
The
“Doctor” also said that he could not understand the physiological constitution
of the body we was examining even though it was an anthropomorphic being, with
head, trunk and members. The “Doctor”
did not hear any sound made by the creature neither mentioned the famous "thin,
bifurcated tongue", reported by other medic and military witnesses. He said he
had seen its slow movements, proving it was still alive, but refused to say if
it was breathing.
Here
is the example of the difficulties found in statements like this. We don’t know
to which extent the psychological impact and emotional alterations of a
professional before the unknown would influence him to the point of causing
uncommon sensations. For obvious reasons such alterations may occur much more in
persons with technical knowledge and refined culture. The contact with a
situation not explicable by academic assumptions means increased sensitivity to
such shocks. Therefore, the reported impressions could be a simple result of
this. It would be absurd to take the detail of a supposedly psychic interaction
between the creature and the doctor as an effective signal of intelligence of
the being or – even more absurd – that the “Doctor” was in contact with
something with telepathic or similar powers. These kinds of assertions, however,
are not uncommon.
Complications in the
Research
With time, hopes of new information and other
confirmations about the Varginha Case are partially satisfied. But there is the
risk that they come each time more characterized by complications. For now, the
most significant of these complications is the denial of the institutions
involved from the beginning, such as the Army, hospitals and others. Even if we
had access to a detailed report composed by examinations, analyses and full data
about the material resulting from the episode, the effective existence of the
said creatures of Varginha could only be confirmed if officially admitted. While
this does not happen, ufologists, researchers, skeptics, and curious and
interested people can only keep on the further discussion about the case.
More
revelations to come very soon.
Written by Ubirajara
Rodrigues
Translated by Eduardo
Rado
Released
by A. J.
Gevaerd
Published
in Brazilian UFO
Magazine
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