Liliane Silva, Valquíria Silva and Kátia Andrade Xavier report seeing an unusual crouched figure

Record

Date / period

1996-01-20

Reported event / document

Liliane Silva, Valquíria Silva and Kátia Andrade Xavier report seeing an unusual crouched figure

Evidence type

Named eyewitness testimony

Original data accessible?

Contemporary press partially accessible

Verification status

Witness accounts documented; identity of figure unresolved

Competing explanations / missing data

1997 inquiry proposed mistaken identification; accounts vary by source

Next step

Collect 1996 original articles and separate original interviews. Chunk M search (2026-11-12): No hosted file mentions Varginha. The earliest independent records are press: TV Alterosa/SBT Varginha aired a witness interview on 1 Feb 1996 and Estado de Minas first reported the case on 2 Feb 1996 (per Estado de Minas's January 2026 retrospective). Neither original was retrieved, and press counts as secondary on the map. The Army police inquiry is chunk G's line (CE-012). Flag stays. Browser pass (2026-11-12): Read vol. 1 of the Army inquiry (208 pp., Migalhas scan, OCR). It opens with the EsSA sindicância of May 1996 (PDF pp. 15-75), which took about 19 statements, all from soldiers, officers and civilians at the school; none from Liliane, Valquíria or Kátia. Their account appears in it only in press clippings (including IstoÉ, pp. 49-56) and ufologists' texts (pp. 76-115) filed as exhibits. The STM catalogue record still rejects a real browser ('The requested URL was rejected'). Flag stays.

Source ID

SRC-016