Caso Varginha — IPM (Inquérito Policial Militar) Volume 07 (1996)

Brief

Opened March 10, 1997, at the Escola de Sargentos das Armas in Três Corações, Minas Gerais, this volume initiates the second phase of an IPM directed not at a field operation but at the civilian book 'Incidente em Varginha' by ufologist Vitório Pacaccini and co-author Maxs Portes — the publication itself is the formally indicted subject under Portaria Nr 009-Aj G.2 of January 29, 1997. The sole legible witness testimony is that of Lt. Col. Olimpio Vanderlei Santos, who flatly denied any creature-capture role, stated he had seen but never read the book, and learned his name appeared in it only after an MGTV reporter called him. Santos speculated that a professional at EsSA fabricated the story as an act of personal revenge for decisions he made in the course of duty, and he confirmed that Maj. Ramires and Lt. Tibério were also named in the book as co-participants. Pages 3 through 12 of the provided excerpt are so heavily degraded by OCR as to be functionally illegible.

Metadata

Agency

Força Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacional

Release

1996-12-31

Type

PDF • .pdf

Length

81 pages

Classification

UNCLASSIFIED (declassified via Arquivo Nacional)

Programs

IPM Nr 009-Aj G.2, INCIDENTE EM VARGINHA (publication under inquiry)

Tags

Varginha incident, creature capture, extraterrestrial, Brazil, 1996, IPM, publication indictment, military witness denial

Key points

• The IPM formally indicts the civilian publication 'INCIDENTE EM VARGINHA' by Vitório Pacaccini and Maxs Portes, authorized by Portaria Nr 009-Aj G.2 dated January 29, 1997, issued by the EsSA Commandant.p.2
• This second volume of the inquiry was opened March 10, 1997, at the Escola de Sargentos das Armas, Três Corações, Minas Gerais; the clerk is 3rd Sgt. Vinicius Proba dos Santos.p.2
• Lt. Col. Olimpio Vanderlei Santos, Infantry, Chefe da 1ª Circunscrição do Serviço, is the witness formally interrogated; he resided at Avenida Getúlio Vargas, 421, Centro, Três Corações.p.13
• Santos stated he had seen the book at a newsstand in Varginha but had not read it, and was unaware his name appeared in it until an MGTV reporter contacted him about a ufologists' meeting.p.13
• Santos denied all allegations of commanding a creature-capture team, characterizing the claims as totally false and reflecting total irresponsibility and lack of character on the part of those responsible.p.13
• Santos speculated the story was fabricated by a professional at EsSA seeking personal revenge for actions he had taken in the course of duty.p.13
• The book also names Maj. Ramires, commander of the Maintenance and Transport Company, and Lt. Tibério, commander of the Military Police Platoon, as co-participants in the alleged operation.p.13
• Pages 3 through 12 in the provided excerpt are heavily garbled OCR output, rendering the bulk of this volume's body content unrecoverable in text form from the supplied scan.p.3

Verbatim

• perguntado se sabia que seu nome estava sendo citado no livro mencionado, respondeu que nao

  p.13

Most interesting

• The IPM investigates a book rather than a military operation — treating the civilian publication itself as the formally indicted subject, a structural inversion that shapes every witness examination in the volume.
• Santos learned his name was in the book not through military channels but through a television reporter's call about a UFO researchers' meeting in Varginha.
• The witness's theory of the case is internal institutional sabotage: a fellow EsSA professional planted the story to settle a personal score, not UFO researchers working from fabricated sources.
• The file listing attributes this document to the Força Aérea Brasileira (Air Force), but the document itself is an Army (Exército) inquiry conducted by the Escola de Sargentos das Armas; the discrepancy likely reflects Arquivo Nacional's processing attribution rather than actual FAB production.
• 78 of 81 pages reportedly have extractable text per the file metadata, but pages 3 through 12 in the supplied excerpt are so degraded by OCR as to be functionally illegible, leaving the inquiry's substantive body content inaccessible in this rendering.