To mark the 30th anniversary of what happened, Varginha will host the ‘International Ufological Congress – Varginha ET Case’, on the 24th and 25th of January
O January 20, 1996 marked the beginning of an episode in the history of Brazil: the famous case of . This year marks the 30th anniversary of what happened and, even after so much time, .
With the repercussion of the case, Varginha It stopped being known as the “coffee city” and became the “ET city”, which attracted many curious tourists to the place.
On November 9, 2022, the “ET Memorial” was inaugurated in the city south of Minas Gerais. According to the city hall, “Colored lights, playful ETs and other curiosities that refer to ufology please people who come to the place, from children from the municipal education network to adults, including ufologists”.
To mark the 30th anniversary of what happened, Varginha will host the “International Ufological Congress – Varginha ET Case”on January 24th and 25th.
The meeting is an initiative of the city council, through the Municipal Secretariat of Tourism and Commerce (SETEC), e It has the participation of specialists, researchers who are members of ufology – an area that studies the existence of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and the possible existence of extraterrestrials -, in addition to the presence of scholars to mediate different lectures on the topic, remembering and explaining what happened and its repercussion around the world.
One of the participants will be Vitório Pacaccini, a ufologist who directly participated in the investigation in 1996. He will be present on Sunday (25).
Since the beginning of research into the case, Pacaccini, who defends the appearance of the creature in the city and the existence of extraterrestrial beings, defended, in testimony present in the inquiry investigating what was called the “Incident in Varginha” published in 1997, that: “If we give ourselves even a moment for a reflection free from prejudice and taboos, we will have to ask ourselves very credulous that space travelers also have the same similarity with us: head, torso and limbs”, referencing the creature described having been seen in Varginha.
The congress that takes place in Varginha at the end of the month is free and the places are already completely filled. This is an event that encourages tourism and commerce in the city which, regardless of the appearance or not of UFOs and extraterrestrials in the area, has become a landmark in ufology.
Another ufologist who also experienced the case up close at the time, Ubirajara Rodrigues, said in a documentary about the case, shown at the beginning of January this year on TV Globo, that he committed “the big mistake that ufologists make”, about having believed and encouraged alien theories without much basis or concrete evidence, and that today he no longer believes in the narrative of ET’s appearance in Varginha.
Remember the story
The story of ‘ET de Varginha’ gained repercussion on the national scene with the testimony of Liliane Fátima Silva, Valquíria Aparecida Silva and Kátia Andrade Xavierat the time, the young women saw on a plot of land in the Jardim Andere neighborhood, in Varginha, the creature that they described as having reddish eyes, dark skin and a distinct appearance, with the presence of “three bumps on its head”, according to Liliane, which was also described in 1996 as “three horns”. Since then, Varginha’s ET became a recurring part of the region’s popular imagination.
