Person
Armando Fortunato Filho
Also known as Dr. Armando, Fortunato Filho
- Forensic medical examiner, Minas Gerais civil police (more than three decades); former municipal health secretary of Varginha
Armando Fortunato Filho is a physician with a law degree who worked for more than thirty years in forensic medicine for the Minas Gerais civil police, as a forensic pathologist and medical examiner, and served as president of Varginha's medical association and the city's health secretary.
At the January 2026 press conference in Washington he described the autopsy of Marco Eli Chereze, the young military police officer whom ufologists and his family link to the capture of a creature in Varginha. He described the cause of death; he did not say the infection came from a creature.
Sources: National Press Club press conference (NewsNation, 20 January 2026) · Varginha Digital (January 2026)
Facts and claims
- claimed He says he performed the autopsy of the 23-year-old military police officer Marco Eli Chereze, whose unexpected death from what seemed a simple abscess under the arm led the state military police commander to request an investigation for suspected medical error, and that the infection was caused by a highly virulent, multi-drug-resistant bacterium that spread through the body and caused septic shock. Source: Varginha press conference at the National Press Club: James Fox and the Brazilian witnesses (NewsNation live, 20 January 2026) at 1:15:40
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Events
Incidents
- Varginha incident (claims about) — He performed the autopsy of military police officer Marco Eli Chereze