The Varginha Monologue

 

This is one of those strange moments where a subject comes up which blends aspects of both hospital portering and the civilian subjects I cover on the other HPANWO media I produce. In 1996 the town of Varginha in Brazil was the site of some extraordinary reports. Three local girls reported that a brown extraterrestrial being was seen wandering the streets. This led to more stories of aliens and ET spacecraft being seen in the area. The full story is long and complicated and I will not repeat it here, but it is covered very well by the Anglo-American filmmaker James Fox in his recent documentary Moment of Contact. I strongly recommend studying the background links below if this is the first time you've heard of this incident. I seem to be in the mood for "offering my services" when it comes to HPing matters at the moment; in fact I did so the other day to the space programme, see: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2025/04/hp-space-consultant.html. I now offer them again to that other kind of space programme that involves non-human beings from space, not putting humans into space. According to the narrative built by many researchers over almost thirty years of investigation, the local authorities in Varginha were a bit out of their depth. They flailed around in a panic; clearly they did not have any units specifically trained and experienced for this eventuality. In the end they took the being to two hospitals. They started with the Hospital Regional do Sul de Minas, a state general unit in Varginha. They kept it there for a while and then moved it to the smaller local Hospital Humanitas where it was admitted for a couple of days. By then Marco Chereze, the policeman leading the operation to capture the being, had fallen ill; and he died a few days later. Maybe for this reason the staff then transferred the creature to the Escola de Sargentos das Armas, a military academy. All these facilities were totally inadequate to care for such an unusual patient and the situation only came under control when the Americans arrived and took over.

I think I can be of use to this inquiry. Why? Because I am an ex-hospital porter. If any researcher wants to know more about what happened in those three medical centres then it behoves them to interview the porters there. Porters are famous in all hospitals for being the principle source and transmitters of gossip. At the same time, we are the epitome of Shakespeare's "band of brothers". Despite our loose tongues there are certain things a HP will only ever say to another HP. I know I can gain information from those operators that nobody else could. Therefore I offer my services to all UFO and alien researchers investigating the Varginha incident to play the role of "hospital portering liason". Unfortunately I do not speak Portuguese and so will need an interpreter, but that should be easy enough to arrange. I look forward to rejoining this quest in an exciting new role.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2022/11/moment-of-contact-watch-party-review.html.
And: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2016/01/programme-172-podcast-varginha-20.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/01/new-varginha-alien-video.html.

HP Space Consultant

 

This article is one I am addressing directly to the world of space exploration. I would like to offer my hospital portering services free of charge to NASA, Roscosmos, SpaceX and every other space agency and private operator. I have already done this with the movie industry, see: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2013/08/portering-hits-hollywood.html, and the manufacturers of hospital equipment, see: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2023/09/acute-care-vehicles-1-original-fleet.html. A couple of weeks ago Butch and Suni came home. This pair of astronauts have become two of the most famous in history because of their impromptu asylum aboard the International Space Station after their Boeing Starliner vehicle suffered a breakdown while in orbit. Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita Williams had only planned for an eight day mission, but this ended up being over nine months. I watched their return to earth with interest and trepidation. Luckily everything went without a hitch, at least until the Crew Dragon descent capsule had reached the earth. The spacecraft splashed down into the Gulf of Mexico, or Gulf of America as it is also now known, and remained afloat safely while the recovery vessels quickly sailed to the location. The capsule was hoisted onto the stern of the SpaceX Megan recovery ship. It was kept there for a while and then moved forward to the midships area. For some reason this movement is called "translation". See here for details: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2025/03/third-rail-radio-programme-203.html.

Then came the business of extracting the astronauts from the spacecraft, which is harder than you might think. There were four people inside it in total. Along with Butch and Suni were the ISS crewmembers Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov. The hatch was tightly sealed against the vacuum of space, and the personnel were wearing spacesuits and were strapped into their seats with safety harnesses. They could not move very well themselves because they'd spent many months living in microgravity. Returning to a gravitational field after that is a bit like getting out of a swimming pool and suddenly feeling heavy without the water's buoyancy, only much worse. The crewmembers had to be lifted out through the hatch and onto a waiting stretcher. Now, here comes the problem. Any trained and experienced HP can see very clearly that the medical team makes two series mistakes. They carry the astronauts by placing their arms under the astronaut's armpits. This is a method that used to be common and accepted practice in the NHS when I first started HPing, but that was in the late 1980's. It was very quickly stamped out in favour of the "Australian lift" and then later on new inventions like the Patslide, the "horace" hoist and some even more modern pieces of equipment. Patient moving with the armpit method can cause the patient and healthcare provider injury. For the patient it can strain the elbow joint and even cause fracture or dislocation. For the provider it means leaning which is a back care hazard. The second mistake is that the civilians fail to apply the brakes to the stretcher. This can cause it to shift unexpectedly when the patient is being loaded on or off it which can result in serious injury or damage to facilities. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYcO1ELvulQ. Therefore my offer is to join your teams as an official adviser on manual handling and other hospital portering skills. I will train your medical teams properly for no fee at all. Please respond by emailing me: bennyjay74@gmx.co.uk. I look forward to hearing from you.