Varginha Case: Brazil's Unexplained UFO Mystery
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A series of events that locals claimed were extraterrestrial encounters turned a Brazilian town into a hot spot
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The 1996, people living in Varginha reported seeing strange creatures and a UFO crash
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Wall Street Journal, Vice and several outlets quoted the locals as saying that the beings were 4 feet tall
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The girls in the town said the creatures had brown oily skin, a large head and huge red eyes
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Vice said two creatures were captured and military policeman Marco Cherese died in the operation
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The locals, meanwhile, claimed that the flying object was cigar-shaped, as per an old report in WSJ
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The Brazilian Army and local authorities denied any such incident happened in Varginha, but rumours kept flying
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An armed forces press conference degenerated into shouting match between a general and a television reporter
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Officially, the army said that new inductees went on a parade in the forest and an ambulance dropped off a corpse - a human body
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What really happened on January 20, 1996, is yet to be proved or unproved by either side of the debate
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