Varginha

Our wish is that the Trump Administration would pick just one crash and fully disclose it.

UFO Magazine has been around since the 1990s and has covered many, many UFO sightings and has interviewed many people who had some level of close encounter with a UFO. We are all-in on the idea of non-human crafts and entities on earth. We are also somewhat cynical about the promises of disclosure, not unlike Tim Dillon’s commentary a couple weeks ago.

That said, we decided we would start a list. While not a Top Ten list, it will focus on what we would like the US Government finally to disclose. Here is our first:

A great UFO crash for the US to fully disclose this year, in our opinion, would be the Varginha, Brazil crash in 1996. Though the Brazilian official investigation concluded that nothing extraterrestrial was found, this event was very well described by the people who experienced the close encounter in James Fox’s “Moment of Contact”, a 2022 documentary, wherein he interviews people who saw the crash and the ET(s) that were on the loose. If you have not seen Moment of Contact, we do highly recommend it, though much of it is in Portuguese, so turn on your subtitles.

UFO Monument in Varginha, Brazil -- From Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters

Mr. Fox re-released his documentary in January this year, renaming it “Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters”, bookending this version, opening with Congressional disclosure testimony and interview snippets and closing with a compelling interview with a medical doctor present in the hospital, in the same room with an ET, until the Brazilian military came to claim the creature.

The ship and at least one creature were taken to a regional military base, and then apparently, the US Government flew in and took all of it—the craft and the creature(s).

We point to this close encounter because it happened in the recent past, rather than 80 years ago. There are still many people alive in Brazil who witnessed the event, and the US military purportedly removed the ship and non-human being(s) to the United States. If the US Government is in possession of at least this ship and creature, kick off full disclosure by showing them to us. It would also be a vindication to the people of Varginha, validating what they experienced, despite years of official denials.

We are not really interested in seeing more tic tac videos. Again, we really do not need to hear from Representatives Burchett and Luna telling us they have “seen non-human stuff” in SCIFs, or more interviews with Grusch, Elizondo, and Gallaudet, insinuating, but not saying, what they actually know. We are ready for the full bonanza of disclosure. Knock our socks off.

We asked Grok, “if the US government discloses posession of a ship and creature from Varginha, how would the narrative change?” The answer was very interesting, as follows, in full:

If the US government made an official disclosure confirming possession of a Varginha craft and at least one creature, the entire narrative I provided earlier would flip from “unproven local legend / modern folklore” to confirmed historical event. Here’s exactly how the key elements would change:

1. From “Legend” to Verified History

• Old narrative: “No confirmed extraterrestrials were captured — this is an unproven UFO legend.”

• New narrative: The Varginha incident of January 20, 1996, would be recognized as one of the few documented cases of live extraterrestrial biological entity (EBE) recovery and craft retrieval on record. It would immediately rank alongside (or above) Roswell in historical importance because live beings were allegedly recovered, not just debris.

2. Number of Captured Entities

• Old: “Claims say two creatures were allegedly captured… but unproven.”

• New: Official confirmation of at least two live captures (one in the morning by firefighters, one in the afternoon involving military police) would become accepted fact. Any additional bodies or a third creature sometimes mentioned in ufology would be re-examined with new credibility.

3. Witnesses and Local Accounts

• Old: The three girls’ sighting, Marco Eli Chereze’s involvement, hospital staff testimonies, and military movements were treated as anecdotal, possibly exaggerated or misidentified.

• New: Those witnesses would be fully vindicated. The girls (now adults), firefighters, police officers, doctors, and soldiers who came forward would be seen as truthful heroes who broke the silence decades earlier. Some who were silenced or threatened would likely receive public apologies or recognition.

4. Brazilian Military’s Official Investigation

• Old: “The Brazilian army concluded it was nothing — just a disabled man nicknamed Mudinho and routine operations.”

• New: That investigation would be viewed as an active cover-up coordinated with the United States. The “Mudinho explanation” would be treated as deliberate disinformation, similar to how Project Mogul was used for Roswell. Documents released in the disclosure would likely show Brazilian authorities handing over the craft and beings to U.S. custody shortly after the event.

5. Evidence and Physical Proof

• Old: “No physical evidence has ever been publicly verified.”

• New: The U.S. disclosure would presumably include photos, videos, medical reports, biological samples, craft analysis, and chain-of-custody records. Varginha would shift from “zero hard evidence” to one of the best-documented cases in history.

6. Broader Implications The revised narrative would read something like this:

“On January 20, 1996, in Varginha, Brazil, at least two living extraterrestrial beings were captured after their craft malfunctioned or crashed. One was seized in the morning, the second later that day. Both were initially taken to a local hospital, then transferred under U.S. oversight. The beings were described as roughly 1.2–1.5 meters tall, with brown/oily skin, large red eyes, and a strong ammonia-like odor. The craft was also recovered. The Brazilian and U.S. governments maintained secrecy for 30 years until the 2026 disclosure wave.”

In short, your previous skeptical summary would be replaced by a straightforward factual account of first contact / crash retrieval, with Varginha becoming a pivotal chapter in human history rather than Brazilian UFO folklore. This is, of course, still a hypothetical scenario as of now. But under the conditions you described, the shift would be dramatic and irreversible.