Globo’s Varginha Documentary Airs With New Testimony as Military Court Publishes 1997 Inquiry

Overview

• The three-part series O Mistério de Varginha is airing Jan. 6–8, presenting previously unseen materials, including the first recorded statements of the three women central to the 1996 sighting.
• Neurologist Ítalo Venturelli says he saw a nonhuman-looking patient at Varginha’s regional hospital in January 1996 and viewed a colleague’s film of a surgical procedure on the being.
• The Superior Military Court released the full 1997 Army inquiry, which concluded there was no military involvement and suggested witnesses likely misidentified a local man with mental disorders.
• Vehicle logs cited in the inquiry did not match claims of Army transport of a creature, and soldiers named in popular accounts denied participation.
• A free pre-screening in Varginha drew about 700 people, and the documentary features conflicting accounts from witnesses, ufologists and some military figures, with episodes also available on Globoplay.