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ufos and creatures reported in virginia

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brazil by charles lear

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brazil has a unique place in ufo history

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not only for the abundance of high

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strangeness ufo reports that come from

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that region but also for the fact that

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people have been reportedly injured and

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have even died as a result of their

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alleged encounters one such case comes

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from the brazilian city of virginia not

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only is there a report of a witness

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dying there are also reports that one

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and maybe more extraterrestrials ended

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their days here on earth bob pratt a ufo

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researcher who manned the national

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enquirer's ufo desk for a period and

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covered south american ufo reports

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extensively presented a narrative

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summary of the case in his 1996 book ufo

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danger zone terror and death in brazil

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where next he was in brazil shortly

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after the events and his summary

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summaries based on witness accounts and

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reports from the primary investigators

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pratt's summary begins with the

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pronouncement by two of the primary

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investigators ubirajara rodriguez and

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vittorio pacochini that two

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extraterrestrial creatures were captured

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by the brazilian military and sent to

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the united states for study according to

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pratt the case began with three young

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women lillian de silva proud of mitzvah

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in the name 16 her sister valkyrie de

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silva 14 and katya xavier 22 on january

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20th 1996 they were walking home at

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around 3 p.m other sources say 3 30 p.m

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after helping a woman pack who is

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getting ready to move to a new home

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xavier worked as a maid for the woman

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the three decided to take a shortcut

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through a vacant lot about the size of a

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city block it was filled with weeds and

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there was an empty cinder block building

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on one side when they were about 50 feet

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in lillian saw something and alerted the

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others with the scream according to all

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three of them in the course of several

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interviews they saw a creature squatting

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against the wall of the empty building

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with its left side towards them it was

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about three feet tall with oily brown

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skin at a bulbous head with three

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horn-like protrusions and large red eyes

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that were vertically oblong all three

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women screamed and the creature turned

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towards them it crouched down lower as

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if it was frightened and the women ran

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the entire way to the da silva home 20

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blocks 1.3 miles away after the women

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had calmed down lillian and valkyrie's

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mother louisa de silva found someone to

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drive her and katya to the site when

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they got there the creature was gone but

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they saw a mark where the women had said

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they'd seen it and there was a strong

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smell of sulfur ammonia and other

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reports in the area lawyer and ufo

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researcher ubirajara rodriguez heard

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about the case one or two days later he

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was able to question women and did so

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repeatedly and according to pratt they

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cried the first few times rodriguez had

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them retraced their steps at the site

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and interviewed family members and

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friends he had an artist illustrate the

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creature based on the women's

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descriptions and the image upset them

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when they looked at it rodriguez

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believed they were telling the truth

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about what they saw rodriguez started

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hearing rumors two weeks later that

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there were actually two creatures in the

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area and that they had both been

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captured by the military because of the

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demands of his law practice he wasn't

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able to spend as much time investigating

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as he would have liked he was then

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joined by paccochini the two found

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witnesses claiming to have seen one of

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the creatures in the hospital and to

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have talked with military personnel who

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knew about the operations involving the

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creatures after interviewing these

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witnesses they came up with the story

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that pacuchini told to pratt during

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pratt's six-day visit in march and april

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according to paccochini's version of

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events the creature seen by the women

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was the second one seen in virginia that

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day the first one had been seen in the

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morning and was captured by firemen at

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around 10 am in brazil fire departments

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are part of the military police under

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the control of state governors and

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catching wild animals as part of their

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duties when the firemen arrived at the

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area where the creature was reportedly

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seen there were already three men from

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the army there with the truck the men

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from the army had seen three children

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throwing rocks at the creature and three

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adults watching and they told them to

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leave it was decided that the firemen

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would be the ones to deal with the

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creature they found it in the woods just

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past some railroad tracks and were able

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to capture it with a net with very

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little resistance from the creature it

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was put into a box that was then put

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into the back of the army truck the

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second creature was reportedly captured

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near the vacant lot between 5 and 6 pm

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by firemen who'd responded to a call

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from louisa de silva this creature was

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supposedly sick and was taken to the

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regional hospital the wing where it was

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being examined was closed off but two

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nurses got a peek at it lying in a bed

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and wearing an oxygen mask there were

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until late at night at around one or two

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a.m the creature was taken to an army

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base at trey coracales according to

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information claimed to be from

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disgruntled army personnel the creatures

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were flown by a french-built puma

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helicopter possibly to rio de janeiro

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and then the united states

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the alleged informants were reportedly

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upset that something of such importance

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was being given over to the u.s

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rodriguez wrote an article titled

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virginia case ufologist's diary part one

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it was published in revista ufo special

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issue number 13 july 1996 and details

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his investigation bakuchini wrote part

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two other than the women who said they

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saw the creature none of those who

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reportedly provided information

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regarding the activities of the firemen

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military and the creature being taken to

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the hospital are named beccacini

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explains i don't want to put anybody in

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jail or harm people's lives rodriguez

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wrote that he contacted commander

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mauricio of the military police and

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asked if he was aware of rumors that the

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military police were involved in the

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capture case he said he wasn't but

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offered to check it out he then said

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there were no records of the case he

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told rodriguez to call back later in

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case he found something rodriguez did

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and wasn't able to get through to

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mauricio so he became convinced that

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there was a cover-up the case made the

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local news and rodriguez was interviewed

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live on globo tv during the interview

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the reporter picked up two faxes one

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from the fire department and one from

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the regional hospital the reporter

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announced that both organizations denied

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having any involvement with the reported

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creatures after this rodriguez felt

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compelled to contact the national media

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outlets he wrote that he had been

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hesitant to do so but decided that this

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was the only way we could pressure the

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authorities rodriguez pacuchini and

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pratt stick to calling the entities

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creatures for the most part but

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occasionally referred to them as ets

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rodriguez doesn't mention any ufos

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paccochini mentions a ufo wave starting

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after the creature report and pratt

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states no ufo was seen in connection

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with the ets pratt does mention a

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sighting six miles away from virginia by

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a farmer and his wife they reported that

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at 1 30 a.m on january 19th they saw an

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object like a gray submarine the size of

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a small bus moved silently a few feet

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off the ground this report and one by

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carlos de souza of witnessing the crash

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on january 13th of a cigar-shaped silver

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object with a gash in its side that had

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white smoke pouring out became

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associated with the creature case an

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article by louisa villamia titled the

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virginia extraterrestrial case published

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in the may 1996 edition of estoy

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magazine describes the excitement

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created by the case according to

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villamia 66 specialists came to vargina

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to investigate included among them was

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john mack a harvard professor of

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psychiatry who became known among

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ufologists for his work with abduction

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reports all this attention prompted the

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mayor of virginia to consider organizing

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a ufo congress roger lear who

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specialized in abductee implant research

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also visited virginia to investigate he

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wrote a book about the case ufo crash in

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brazil a genuine ufo crash with

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surviving ets published in 2005. in his

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book lyr details the death of marco

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charese who was with the military police

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an unnamed witness reported that charess

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had physical contact with one of the

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creatures during its capture charese

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died of a mysterious infection on

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february 15 1996 and lear wrote that

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touching the creature was believed by

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charessa's colleagues to have caused his

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infection it has never been conclusively

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proved that he actually captured a

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creature but lear wrote that charessa's

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family confirmed that he was on duty at

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the time it was said to have occurred a

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water tank in the shape of a flying

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saucer was built in the center of the

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city and the case is celebrated in

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virginia to this day many people are

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still fascinated by the possibility that

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alien bodies and physical evidence of an

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extraterrestrial craft might have been

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recovered and a tourist industry in

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virginia has developed around the case

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researcher and documentarian james fox

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was interested enough to go down to

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virginia recently and investigate for

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himself he managed to talk on camera

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with the de silva sisters their mother

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and xavier he also managed to locate

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other witnesses who hadn't spoken since

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1996 and interviewed them on camera as

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well fox used the footage for a

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documentary on the case that will soon

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be released this writer was given the

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opportunity to preview the film early on

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in the production fox states that he

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will be presenting the facts of the case

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and leave it up to the viewers to come

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to their own conclusions then he keeps

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his word while this case has had its

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detractors and remains controversial fox

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calls it infamous the emotions displayed

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and small repeated details during the