Armando Fortunato
Dr. Armando Fortunato is a Brazilian forensic pathologist and criminal medical examiner who has worked for the Civil Police for over three decades.
Varginha testimony (Jan 2026)
At the January 2026 Capitol Hill events on the varginha-incident, Fortunato said he had performed an autopsy on Marco Chereze, a young military police officer who had grabbed one of the captured beings and then died a few weeks later from a severe infection after being inadvertently scratched. Fortunato said a legal request had been filed to exhume Chereze’s body to collect bacteria — or even DNA — for further analysis.
He presented a signed statement from pathologist Dr. João Janini (89, whose biography claims more than 50,000 autopsies), who attested that he found a rare bacterium “of extremely high aggressiveness and lethality” in Chereze’s tissue samples — characteristics so far beyond the conventional that, in his opinion, “it raises the hypothesis of its alien origin.” (src-varginha-capitol-hill-2026)