‘The E.T. of Varginha’: 30-year mystery of ‘alien’ spotted by three girls, a military ‘cover-up’ and a doctor only now coming forward to describe ‘creature brought into his hospital’

Thirty years ago in a quiet municipality of southern Brazil, three girls came face to face with an alien-like creature that would haunt them for decades. They described it as having a heart-shaped face, big red eyes, three horns on its forehead and a shiny brown body, crouched beside a wall in a vacant lot in the city of Varginha. Terrified, the girls fled and told their mother they had seen the devil.