Italo Venturelli
Brazilian physician and alleged first-hand witness to the varginha-incident. Says he was called on January 20, 1996 to medically assess one of the non-human entities allegedly captured by the Brazilian government near Varginha, Minas Gerais.
Public account
Venturelli described the patient as conscious, calm, breathing well, with no pain or bleeding; physically resembling a 7-year-old, white, with a large teardrop-shaped head, small mouth, and “a beautiful gaze, one without judgment.” He said the entity’s manner of looking suggested “an intelligence greater than ours, than human” and that despite its defenseless position it appeared unafraid and aware of the situation. (src-burlison-marching-orders-2026-01)
In the fuller account by leslie-kean and Ralph Blumenthal, Venturelli — a neurosurgeon “for forty-six years” — said he spent 3–4 minutes examining the being after a colleague (Dr. Marcos Vinico Neves, d. 2018) sutured its cranial wound, with no medical records kept. He described lilac, teardrop-shaped eyes and cranium, four fingers, white skin, a slim torso with no nipples, a small mouth, and a sliver of ears, and said it “communicated empathetically … through its eyes,” likening the impression to looking at an angel. He broke roughly 30 years of silence after a near-fatal heart attack. (src-varginha-capitol-hill-2026)
He answered direct questions from Reps. anna-paulina-luna and tim-burchett at the closed Jan 15 2026 congressional meeting and spoke again at the Jan 20 National Press Club conference, both hosted by james-fox, where Rep. eric-burlison also appeared.