Person
Liliane Silva
Also known as Liliane, Liliane Fátima Silva
- Witness in the Varginha case (aged 16 in 1996); pre-school teacher
On 20 January 1996, aged 16, she was walking home with her sister Valquíria and their friend Kátia Xavier when she saw a creature crouching under graffiti on a wall in Jardim Andere, Varginha. She is now a pre-school teacher.
She is a civilian witness, filed outside the archive's criteria; her account is the core of the case, and the Brazilian Army's 1997 inquiry judged that what the three women saw was most likely a local man crouched in the rain.
Sources: Fantástico (Globo, 4 February 1996) · National Press Club press conference (NewsNation, 20 January 2026)
Facts and claims
- claimed In her 2026 statement she said that at about 3:20 p.m. she saw a short creature with red eyes, brown skin that looked oiled and veins from the neck to the arm, and that when it looked at her she felt it was suffering and hiding from someone. Source: Varginha press conference at the National Press Club: James Fox and the Brazilian witnesses (NewsNation live, 20 January 2026) at 1:01:06
Connected files
Claims
Incidents
- Varginha incident (witness)
Videos
- Fantástico on the Varginha creature: the three witnesses, the fire brigade and the hospital (Globo, 4 February 1996) (appears in)
- Fantástico on Globo's series O Mistério de Varginha, 30 years on (g1, January 2026) (appears in)
- Varginha press conference at the National Press Club: James Fox and the Brazilian witnesses (NewsNation live, 20 January 2026) (appears in)
- Moment of Contact: official trailer (appears in)