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==Inquiry== An official inquiry led by the Brazilian military concluded in 2010 that the young women had encountered a homeless, mentally unstable man nicknamed "Mudinho." The Commander of 24th Police Battalion Military "presented photographs (...) a citizen known as Mudinho, who probably has some mental disability and whose physical characteristics matched the description (...) make it likely that the hypothesis that this citizen, probably being dirty, due to the heavy rains and seen crouching by a wall, was mistaken by the three terrified girls as a space creature." The head of the official inquiry also reported that the military trucks and personnel were performing routine duties on the night they were observed, stating, "the presence of the Firefighters in Jardim Andere, the parking of Army trucks in the vicinity of the concessionaire where their periodic maintenance would be carried out ... and the departure of EsSA vehicles ... were real facts ... incorrectly interpreted as Firefighters and the Military participating in the capture and later the transport of the alleged creature to [[Campinas]]."<ref name="istoe.com.br">{{cite web|last1=Cardoso|first1=Rodrigo|title=A história oficial do ET de Varginha (in Portuguese)|url=https://istoe.com.br/105958_A+HISTORIA+OFICIAL+DO+ET+DE+VARGINHA/|access-date=9 November 2017|website=[[ISTOÉ]]}} [https://istoe-com-br.translate.goog/105958_A+HISTORIA+OFICIAL+DO+ET+DE+VARGINHA/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp English translation]</ref> Skeptic [[Brian Dunning (author)|Brian Dunning]] criticized sensational media accounts and ufologists' claims. According to Dunning, "It is the most compelling example of a case where literally nothing at all happened that was remotely unusual, and was magnified into a case considered unassailable proof of alien visitation by many. To those believers, I would suggest recalibrating where you set the bar for quality of evidence."<ref name="Dunning">{{cite web |last1=Dunning |first1=Brian|authorlink=Brian Dunning (author) |title=Brazil's Roswell: The Varginha UFO |url=https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4853 |website=Skeptoid |publisher=Skeptoid |access-date=3 February 2023}}</ref>
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