Claims extracted
18
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
6%
1 of 18 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
66/100
New York Post's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
1
Science
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
A former Brazilian minister is calling on the US to declassify its records on one of his country’s most notorious UFO incidents — when two red-eyed aliens purportedly crash-landed and were confiscated by Uncle Sam.
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aliens → call → Sam
Aldo Rebelo, ex-minister of science, technology and innovation and former president of the Chamber of Deputies, told The Post there is more to be learned from the 1996 Varginha UFO crash — known as Brazil’s Roswell.
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Rebelo → tell → Roswell
“It is of public and national interest that these episodes be revealed and known,” said Rebelo.
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Rebelo → reveal → interest
“The 1996 Varginha Incident in Brazil underwent a serious military investigation.
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Incident → undergo → investigation
There are statements from military personnel, and from doctors who participated.
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who → be → doctors
In part, these are public records and others are maintained classified,” said Rebelo, who was a federal deputy at the time of the alleged crash.
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who → maintain → crash
The alleged incident has become one of Brazil’s most famous UFO cases.
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incident → allege → cases
On Jan. 20, 1996, Liliane Silva, Valquiria Silva and Katia Andrade reported seeing a strange bipedal creature in Varginha, a city in southeastern Brazil.
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Silva → report → Brazil
The women described the creature as having brown, oily skin, three horn-like bumps on its head, an ammonia-like smell and glowing red eyes.
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women → describe → head
They later recounted their experience to UFO investigator James Fox for his documentary “Moment of Contact.”
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They → recount → Contact
“What we saw wasn’t human and wasn’t an animal either.
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saw → see → What
Nowadays I do think it was a being from another planet,” Liliane Silva said in the film.
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Silva → think → film
The United States Air Force supposedly shot down the craft, witnesses told Fox in “Moment of Contact.”
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witnesses → shoot → Contact
The most extraordinary claims involve what happened next.
Two beings, one alive and one dead, were allegedly held by Brazilian authorities, who then transferred custody to the US government, according to military personnel who appeared in the film and television news reports at the time.
“Now, if the United States decided to declassify more files, it is natural that Brazil would also offer its classified documents about the Varginha episode and others,” said Rebelo, who was a longshot candidate for president for the Christian Democracy party in Brazil, where elections begin on Sunday.
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elections → involve → Sunday
“These are events related to a cooperation in matters of intelligence and defense matters, specifically in investigating these phenomena between Brazil and the United States,” he added.
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he → relate → Brazil
“This cooperation has been revealed in part.”
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cooperation → reveal → part
The Trump administration has declassified hundreds of federal documents as part of the president’s transparency agenda, but no publicly released documents have established a US role in the alleged Varginha incident.
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documents → declassify → incident
The US Air Force did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
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Force → respond → comment
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