EVEN though we know that Earth is a mysterious world and puzzling discoveries are made every day, it is still nothing when compared to our fascination with the cosmos. The majestic skies above us hold mysteries that we are restless to know what lies in deep space.

If there are Earth-like planets, will we ever really know what’s out there or, more interestingly, who is out there? Are there beings on other planets, walking, thinking and wondering the same way as we do when we look up at the skies? Or, is life out there intelligent enough to pay us a visit?

Many of us feel, and scientists say, there is a huge possibility that there might be not just life, but also intelligent life on planets other than Earth. And according to UFO buffs, many times, a round, cigar-shaped or even triangular flying spacecraft has journeyed our world. Some also state that extraterrestrial living beings have visited us in our ancient past and have our planet on their space travel itinerary. But how solid is the evidence?

Some say it is enough to convince mankind that we are not alone, while there are non-believers who say it’s nothing but a fantasy created by over-imaginative, sci-fi writers. On the other hand, ET has become such an everyday topic now that it no longer raises eyebrows. For now, let’s examine this interesting story that seems right out of a, yes, you guessed it, an intergalactic saga of the fourth kind.

The scene is set in Brazil and the focus is on beings from outer space.

In 1996, in the town of Virginha, Brazil, a sequence of events had many people baffled and also were picked up by the media regarding a UFO crash and alien beings from another world been seen by many. Initially, broadcasted on a Sunday TV show ‘Fantastico’ of the Rede Globo channel, the event got published in the reputed The Wall Street Journal known as The Virginha UFO incident, it involves several sightings by individuals who claimed seeing creatures walking on two feet with large heads and very thin bodies. They were five feet tall, had brown skin and big red eyes.

The EBE or Extraterrestrial Biological Entity, as referred to by the media, was first seen by two sisters with their friend; Liliane and Valquiria Fatima D’Silva and their friend Katia Andrade Xavier, on January 20, 1996, in the afternoon. They saw the creature and were so scared that they ran home believing they had seen the devil. Their mother at first did not believe them but then went to the place the girls had seen it and noticed a strong smell of Ammonia.

Two days after that, a strange creature was said to have been found lying on the road and three people from the military allegedly took away the body. According to the Wall Street Journal, though the Brazilian government denied such an event, many official events were interrupted by locals who demanded answers to what they had seen.

During an official press conference to cool down the UFO incident, an auto mechanic claimed he had seen a cylindrical-shaped flying object. According to the column, more than half a dozen sightings had occurred in which people even reported seeing one alien being wobbling towards the woods, probably injured due to the crash. But the column states, “How all of these beings could have fit into a minivan-sized spacecraft that was spotted here in January.”

There is also the notion that they were not five but probably just one creature that was seen again and again. According to reports, (if they are to be believed), there were eight aliens out of which one was recovered dead, two were hurt out and one died later, and five of them were not captured and disappeared into the woods or elsewhere. Whatever the truth is, could so many people imagine seeing the same kind of creatures at so many separate times?

On a more serious note, on the night of January 19-20, North American Air Defence Command contacted their Brazilian counterpart, warning them of an Unidentified Flying Object crash over the southern parts of Minas Gerais. A Brazilian Air Force employee and a man who worked at a Brazilian radar facility leaked the information. The crash was witnessed by a couple living on a farm, Augusta and Eurico Rodrigues, who woke up at around 1:30am by sounds coming from their animals and saw that the farm animals were running from one end to the other. When they looked up, what they saw was a most unique sight. A spacecraft hovering silently above and its lights were off.

Later, a military official also admitted that he not only saw the crash, but was also one of the workers that helped remove the debris the next morning. Brazil’s UFO magazine reported that the UFO crash took place between 1:30am and 5am in the early morning of January 20th.

Did the ETs that survived the crash and escaped capture really take to the nearby forest? And did they survive on Earth’s flora and fauna? Or maybe their taste buds are of the extraterrestrial kind. That is if ET has really landed…