{"id":392434,"date":"2026-03-24T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=5ee56312cc363059911c5d8b8ad77007"},"modified":"2026-03-24T06:18:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T20:18:05","slug":"moment-of-contact-james-fox-brings-varginha-evidence-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=392434","title":{"rendered":"Moment of Contact: James Fox Brings Varginha Evidence to Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiU1Dl2M1cscLe4Pcp9KwGWykkU8fuA1K7qukwgJLmMshQ-KIdY8S3WJUjcP6CGn0z7kcZaOmUi136PsrvUZyECSGZvdgCC8bWMWfAZ_sRyHWOSk9noSOoxjWsueE0qCmfeJ1riCg9LomZCfgCv3mrAHu84FpMKodQ8rPsTygVKVi5B2T0N50El0fco-DEJ\/s685\/James-Fox.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; \"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\" data-original-height=\"386\" data-original-width=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiU1Dl2M1cscLe4Pcp9KwGWykkU8fuA1K7qukwgJLmMshQ-KIdY8S3WJUjcP6CGn0z7kcZaOmUi136PsrvUZyECSGZvdgCC8bWMWfAZ_sRyHWOSk9noSOoxjWsueE0qCmfeJ1riCg9LomZCfgCv3mrAHu84FpMKodQ8rPsTygVKVi5B2T0N50El0fco-DEJ\/s500\/James-Fox.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><center><big><b><font color=\"bright orange\">Moment of Contact:<br \/> James Fox Brings Varginha Evidence to Congress<\/b><\/font><\/big><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nStreamed live earlier.<\/p>\n<p>James Fox sits down with Matt Ford to discuss his expanded documentary Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters \u2014 now streaming \u2014 and what happened when he brought the witnesses to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The film, released in late 2025, revisits the 1996 Varginha, Brazil UFO incident \u2014 often called &#8220;Brazil&#8217;s Roswell&#8221; \u2014 and features a bombshell first: Dr. Italo Venturelli, the head neurosurgeon at Regional Hospital in Varginha, going on camera to describe a four-minute bedside encounter with a captured non-human being. After keeping his account private for 29 years, Venturelli&#8217;s testimony has become the most discussed revelation in the case&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>On January 20, 2026 \u2014 exactly 30 years after the Varginha encounter \u2014 Fox organized a landmark press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., bringing Brazilian witnesses including Venturelli to present evidence directly to members of Congress. Representatives Tim Burchett, Anna Paulina Luna, and Eric Burlison participated in a closed-door session with the witnesses five days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>In this interview, Fox discusses the film, the Venturelli testimony, his nearly three decades investigating the Varginha case, the congressional response to the evidence, the ongoing effort to exhume the body of military police officer Marco Chereze \u2014 who died from a mysterious infection after capturing one of the beings \u2014 and what comes next for disclosure.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"530\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hxbCk93-wBU?si=cX8hp_gihYtXxcMW\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b><font color=\"bright orange\">YouTube link:<\/font><br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/hxbCk93-wBU?si=O6Sug5TRp9TPz0Pr\" ><u>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/hxbCk93-wBU?si=O6Sug5TRp9TPz0Pr<\/u><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moment of Contact: James Fox Brings Varginha Evidence to Congress<\/p>\n<p>Streamed live earlier.<\/p>\n<p>James Fox sits down with Matt Ford to discuss his expanded documentary Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters \u2014 now streaming \u2014 and what happen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[11289],"class_list":["post-392434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ufo","category-ufo-news","tag-ufo-disclosure"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392435,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392434\/revisions\/392435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}