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Varginha

Also: Varginha incident

retrieval encounter contested 1996–2026 status · contested Brazil, Minas Gerais

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Varginha's Nave do ET landmark
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Varginha's Nave do ET landmark

A UFO-themed water tower and tourism landmark. This is not the object described by witnesses.

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Jesse Michels · 2:51:48

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Jesse Michels · 0:01:13

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A city in Minas Gerais, Brazil, where witnesses in January 1996 described a creature captured by the military. The interviews reach it only second-hand: Michels says a Varginha witness told him he handled material that returned to its shape, and a guest cites the case as one with US Air Force and CIA involvement.

Where the pin is

-21.5510, -45.4300 approximate

City of Varginha from public gazetteer; the reported sighting sites are inside the urban area.

Minas Gerais, Brazil

What is claimed

  • Michels says a Varginha witness he interviewed described holding material that went back into its original form.

    SPECULATION thin Jesse Michels journalist 2026

    • 2:51:48 A Weekend With Bob Lazar: Inside Area51's UFOs · Jesse Michels ▶
      I just interviewed a guy who was a witness actually of the Varginha crash in in the 1990s uh 1996 uh in Brazil and he says the same thing. He says he held the material in his hands and it went he would kind of mess with it and then it would go back into its original form.

  • Michels introduces Varginha as a 1996 case in a Brazilian town with a UFO, beings and many witnesses, and says Fox's film documents the object's flight path.

    FACT contested Jesse Michels journalist 2025

    • 0:01:13 Army Captures Live Alien (Hospital Report Revealed!) · Jesse Michels ▶
      you have a UFO, you have alien beings and you have all of these witnesses in a a town in Brazil in Venia, Brazil as late as 1996.

  • Fox says a Varginha witness picked up a piece of the debris and described it as like aluminium and very light, much as Roswell witnesses did.

    SPECULATION thin James Fox journalist 2025

    • 0:09:41 Army Captures Live Alien (Hospital Report Revealed!) · James Fox ▶
      he picked up one of the pieces and he said it was like aluminum. Really light. Like you couldn't feel it. Very much like the Roswell people.

  • Michels, discussing Fox's film, says the Varginha hospital witness is a well-respected neurosurgeon who is shown in the hospital pointing to the bed he says the being lay on.

    FACT contested Jesse Michels journalist 2025

    • 0:03:26 Army Captures Live Alien (Hospital Report Revealed!) · Jesse Michels ▶
      he's a a really wellrespected neurosurgeon. And um it seems totally beyond reproach. And you see him, he's in the hospital and he's showing the bed that the alien was on.

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  • A Weekend With Bob Lazar: Inside Area51's UFOs 13 April 2026

    • 2:51:48 ▶ Jesse Michels
      I just interviewed a guy who was a witness actually of the Varginha crash in in the 1990s uh 1996 uh in Brazil and he says the same thing. He says he held the material in his hands and it went he would kind of mess with it and then it would go back into its original form.

  • Army Captures Live Alien (Hospital Report Revealed!) 21 December 2025

    • 0:01:13 ▶ Jesse Michels
      you have a UFO, you have alien beings and you have all of these witnesses in a a town in Brazil in Venia, Brazil as late as 1996.
    • 0:03:26 ▶ Jesse Michels Michels, discussing Fox's film, says the Varginha hospital witness is a well-respected…
      he's a a really wellrespected neurosurgeon. And um it seems totally beyond reproach. And you see him, he's in the hospital and he's showing the bed that the alien was on.
    • 0:09:41 ▶ James Fox Fox says a Varginha witness picked up a piece of the debris and described it as like…
      he picked up one of the pieces and he said it was like aluminum. Really light. Like you couldn't feel it. Very much like the Roswell people.

Named in 2 uploads (automatic name matching, 2 mentions)

On the map

Varginha. Open the full map filtered to this record.

Related records

Crafts
Cigar / cylinderVarginha craft (1996)
Beings
Varginha beingTridactyl
Events
Varginha incident
People
James FoxJesse MichelsItalo Venturelli

Sources on this record

  • Varginha — Wikipedia Wikipedia
  • 2:51:48 A Weekend With Bob Lazar: Inside Area51's UFOs · Jesse Michels ▶
    I just interviewed a guy who was a witness actually of the Varginha crash in in the 1990s uh 1996 uh in Brazil and he says the same thing. He says he held the material in his hands and it went he would kind of mess with it and then it would go back into its original form.
  • 0:01:13 Army Captures Live Alien (Hospital Report Revealed!) · Jesse Michels ▶
    you have a UFO, you have alien beings and you have all of these witnesses in a a town in Brazil in Venia, Brazil as late as 1996.