In 1996, the quiet Brazilian town of Varzina became the centre of one of the strangest UFO cases in modern history.

Nestled amongst the hills of Minas Gerais, its residents reported encounters with a bizarre, non-human creature,

an event that would draw global attention, military involvement and decades of speculation.

Was it all an elaborate hoax to put this small town on the map, or did something truly extraordinary

unfold in a case that would come to be known as the alien of Virginia?

Music to be known as the Alien of Virginia. The Alien of Virginia. I'm The The Brazil has long been regarded as one of the most active regions on earth for reports of UFOs and unexplained aerial phenomena,

second only to the United States in the sheer volume of strange encounters

recorded over the decades.

From the Amazon to the Atlantic coast, accounts of glowing craft, mysterious lights and otherworldly

visitors have become woven into the country's cultural fabric.

Its people, often described as both deeply spiritual and quietly

superstitious, tend to take such matters far more seriously than their American or European

counterparts. In a land where folklore and faith frequently coexist, the notion of little green

men descending from the heavens is not

dismissed as easily as it might be elsewhere. In Brazil, the extraordinary is often treated with

a kind of wary respect. Reports of extraterrestrial contact are not the sole preserve of

eccentrics or storytellers. They come from farmers,

police officers, pilots, and entire communities. And while skeptics have always argued that

these claims can be explained by misidentifications, hysteria or hoaxes, the sheer consistency

of the accounts has kept the phenomenon alive in the

national consciousness. Events of this nature seem to occur here with almost unsettling regularity,

and they are rarely subtle. Some are fleeting glimpses of light across the night sky.

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