UFO ROUNDUP

Volume 1, Number 16                                       June 2, 1996
Editor: Masinaigan                                            FREE

Whoa!  What is going on in the southern hemisphere!?  First Australia,
then Peru, then Brazil, and now we've got two more big UFO stories
from below the equator.

BRAZILIAN MAGAZINE BLOWS WHISTLE ON ALIEN RETRIEVAL

     The June 1996 issue of ISTOE, a Brazilian magazine, blew the lid
off the hottest UFO story this year.
     According to ISTOE, Brazil's Policia Militar captured two live aliens
on January 20, 1996 in Varginha, a city in the southern part of Minas
Gerais state.  A dead alien was also retrieved.
     The incident began at about 1:30 a.m. on Saturday, January 20,
1996, when an elderly farm couple, Eurico and Oralina Augusta
Rodrigues, were awakened by a commotion in the barnyard.  The
Rodrigueses manage a farm in the coffee-growing country just south
of Varginha.  Looking out the bedroom window, they saw their cows
"totally disoriented and running around the house."
     Eurico Rodrigues said, "We looked at the sky and saw a gray
object, similar to a submarine, the size of a small house flying very
slowly over the ground.  There was something like white smoke
coming out of it.  There was no lights and it wasn't making any
noise."
     Fourteen hours later, at 3:30 p.m., three young women were
walking through the Jardim Andere, a city park 2 kilometers (just
over one mile) from the center of Varginha.  The group included
Liliane Fatima Silva, 16; her sister, Valquiria Fatima Silva, 14;
and a friend, Katia Andrade Xavier, 22, all of Varginha.
     Suddenly, Liliane looked to her left and screamed.  She said she
"saw a strange creature with slippery brownish skin and what looked
like three small rounded horns protruding from its head."
     The alien was 23 feet from the concrete path where the young
women were standing.  "He was squatting, with his long arms stuck
between his legs," Liliane said.  "The first thing to catch my attention
were his eyes, huge and red."
     Terrified, Liliane turned her back on the creature while Valquiria
and Katia gaped at it, unable to move.
     "It was not an animal, and it certainly wasn't human," Katia said.
     "He seemed stupefied," Valquiria said.  "He didn't make any noise."
     Then the alien moved, and all three girls ran screaming from the
park.  Liliane and Valquiria ran home and told their mother, Luiza
Helena Fatima Silva, 38.  At 4:10 p.m., Luiza returned to the Jardim
Andere to see if she could find that creature that had frightened her
daughters.  But she found nothing.
     Early that evening, the Policia Militar sealed off the park.  The next
morning, at 10:30 a.m., four firefighters grabbed one of the aliens.
The creature was put into a wooden cage.  The cage was then covered
with a white cloth and put aboard a flatbed truck.  The alien was then
taken to the nearest Brazilian Army facility, a military school called the
Escola de Sargento das Armas in a nearby town, Tres Coracoes, 25
kilometers (15 miles) southeast of Varginha.
     The second alien was captured at about 4:15 a.m. on Monday,
January 22, 1996.  He was first taken to the Hospital Humanitas in
Varginha.  At 6 p.m. on Monday, the third alien--dead from causes
unknown--was found in the park.  The live alien and its dead companion
were then taken to the Escola de Sargento das Armas.
     At 4 a.m. on Tuesday, January 23, 1996, a three-truck convoy left
Tres Coracoes.  There was one heavy weapons platoon in the first
truck, another platoon in the rear truck, and the three aliens in the
middle truck.  Commanding the transfer operation was Lt. Col. Olimpio
Wanderley Santos.  The orders were: "If anyone--even your own mother--
comes within 15 meters of that (middle) truck, shoot to kill."
     Leaving Varginha, the convoy drove west to Machado and then went
south to Pouse Alegre.  From there they went west into the mountains
first to Ouro Fino, then to Itapira, and finally arrived in Campinas, a city
in the state of Sao Paulo.
     The dead alien was taken to the Universidade (University) of
Campinas medical school, where it was reportedly autopsied by Dr.
Badan Palhares.  However, Dr. Palhares denied the report, adding,
"I don't know where that idea came from."
     While the autopsy was being carried out, Lt. Col. Wanderley took
the two live aliens to Sao Paulo International Airport.  A USAF C-5
transport plane was reportedly waiting on the runway to take the
aliens to the United States.
     The Brazilian Army denies the incident ever happened.  Col. Luis
Cesario de Silvestre Leite, spokesman for Distrito Militar d'Este
(Eastern Military District) said no military personnel of any kind helped
to capture an alien.  "We worry a lot about national and international
beings," he added, "but only if they are terrestrial."
     Gen. Sergio Pedro Coelho Lima, commandant of the Escola de
Sargento das Armas in Tres Coracoes, said, "What the ufologists
say is ridiculous."
     According to ISTOE, Brazilian ufologists are sticking to their
story.  UFO researcher Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues said, "What these
women saw, without doubt, was an alien creature."
     Eight Brazilian UFO groups pieced together the story of the UFO
sighting, the aliens' capture and the military convoy.

THREE-DAY UFO FLAP ROCKS AUSTRALIA

     Wednesday night, May 22, 1996, at about 9 p.m., homeowners in
Gladstone, a town in South Australia, telephoned the police
to report unusual lights in the sky.
     Answering the call were two officers, Senior Constable Andrew
Luhrs and his partner.  At first, Luhrs feared the lights were flares
from a ship in distress out in the Spencer Gulf.  But when the cops
arrived, they saw "a strange star-sized light" on the western horizon.
     "The reports were of a star-shaped light above the horizon which
seemed the change colour to red, to white and then to blue," Luhrs
said.  "The light would throb with an increased intensity prior to each
change of colour and hover in the sky for some time and then dart and

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cover large distances, doing a number of right-angled turns at high
speed.  We observed the same lights as these people saw and
confirmed their suspicions."
     In Brisbane, an Air Services Australia spokeswoman said one of
their ASA helicopters was searching the ocean near Gladstone
between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. that night.  The search began after an
aircraft in that area reported picking up faint noises on their emergency
frequencies just after 6 p.m.  "But there was no aircraft reported
missing," the spokeswoman said, "And the search didn't turn up
anything.  It appears there was some kind of static on the signal.  It's
not something that I've dealt with before--it's unusual."
     Also on Wednesday night, a few friends spotted a UFO with "a
flashing red, white and blue light" near the Royal Australian Air Force
(RAAF) base at Amberley.
     In Ipswich, Queensland, at around 11 p.m., two men captured the
UFO on video.
     On Sunday, May 26, 1996, the Melbourne Sunday Herald-Sun ran
a story on the flap entitled "UFOs Sighted Around Nation."
     According to Ross Dowe of Australia's National UFO Hotline,
"People saw multi-colored lights moving around (the sky) in Horsham
(Victoria) at 10:30 p.m., in Wangaratta (Victoria) at 10:40 p.m. and
in Sydney (New South Wales) at 9 p.m."
     Wangaratta is 235 miles east of Horsham.  Also, Wangaratta had
previous UFO sightings this year during January and February.
     UFOs were also seen Friday night, May 24, 1996, around the city
of Adelaide, 120 miles south of Gladstone.
     According to the Sunday Herald-Sun, an eyewitness, Kathy
Dickman, 47, and her family watched three lights in the sky for 20
minutes, beginning at 9 p.m., in the Adelaide foothills.  "We thought it
was a plane or helicopter at first, but they were moving like you
wouldn't expect anything we know of to move," Mrs. Dickman said.
"Then we pulled over and just watched as the lights just hovered,
flashing on and off about every second or so for about 20 minutes."
     Colin Norris, director of the Australian International UFO
Association in Adelaide, said six UFO sightings had been reported
around Australia during the week.  He said callers described the UFO
as "a white ball the size of a full moon which hovered and then sank to
the horizon over several minutes."
     Note: Australia's ongoing UFO flap began January 1, 1996 with
sightings at Myree, a desert town near Wangaratta.

POLICE CHASE UFO OCCUPANTS AT HUNTSVILLE AIRPORT

     Saturday afternoon, May 25, 1996, saw some real excitement at
Huntsville International Airport in Alabama.  As Delta Flight 1436 from
Dallas-Fort Worth began circling to land, an "unusual-looking aircraft"
swooped onto the runway without tower permission and taxied over
to the privately-owned airplane parking area.  The craft was described
as a "triangle-shaped object."  The tower called on the pilot to identify
himself and his aircraft but received no response.
     Three occupants emerged from the UFO and began walking among
the parked airplanes.  Airport security men arrived and, when cut off from
their vehicle, the trio ran across the runway, right in front of Delta Flight
1436, which had just touched down.
     Kate D., a Delta passenger, said she looked out her window and saw
"what looked like three children" running out onto the tarmac.  Kate
described the occupants as "small and child-like" and "wearing metallic
suits and white helmets."  Kate said the Delta pilot made "a touch-and-go
landing" and took off again before running down the fleeing occupants.
     The trio ducked into the terminal through the baggage area.  An airport
security man spotted them and gave chase.  People in the terminal
thought it was some sort of Memorial Day weekend publicity stunt.
     The tower called the Huntsville, Alabama police, and two cruisers
responded.  Officer Ted Williams of the Huntsville P.D. said, "One of them
I could have sworn we had cornered by the newstand.  We should have
had them then.  I don't know how they got past us down to the TCBY."
     The officers caught up to the occupants at the TCBY yogurt stand,
and then stopped, as if they'd run into an invisible wall.  A waitress on the
main concourse said, "It was like the officers couldn't move."
     After grabbing some packages of Dannon's Yogurt, the three UFO
occupants ran toward the baggage claim area.  Meanwhile, outside the
terminal, a convoy of U.S. Army humvees from the Redstone Arsenal,
three miles east of the airport, pulled off the Joe Wheeler Highway and
surrounded the terminal, blocking all of the exits.
     Just then, the delta-winged UFO began to move.  Witnesses saw
the three occupants in the cockpit window.  The UFO then "rose straight
up and took off at high speed."  It zoomed away over the town of
Madison, north of the airport.

TWO BLACK TRIANGULAR UFOs VISIT GULF BREEZE

     On Tuesday, May 21, 1996, at 9:45 p.m., two people out walking
the beach near Gulf Breeze, Florida, saw two large black triangular
UFOs hovering silently over the bay.  The objects flew away to the
east.
     The following night, Wednesday, May 22, 1996, the same two UFOs
appeared again, further north on the beach, over the fishing pier.  They
were seen by four people, who described them as "black triangular-
shaped craft flying in formation at 5,000 feet.  Each had a small orange
light in each corner."
     The UFOs appeared at 10:10 p.m. Eastern time.  Again they flew
eastward, heading in the general direction of Eglin Air Force Base.

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