Explore published stories from Ceilândia, Distrito Federal, Brasil and nearby.
In June 2021, four members of the Vidal family were killed in rural Ceilândia. Investigators named Lázaro Barbosa de Souza the principal suspect; police pursued him for 20 days and killed him in Goiás. The dossier follows the early evidence, the search, misinformation, and legal developments through 2026 without treating allegations as a conviction.
696 km · Varginha
Three young women reported a disturbing encounter in 1996. Rumours of captures, hospitals, and soldiers followed, along with a 357-page military inquiry and a cultural identity built around the case. What does each record actually establish?
854 km · São José dos Campos
On 19 and 20 May 1986, lights reported by pilots and controllers led Brazil’s Air Force to launch five fighters. The original report confirms the operation and describes differing contacts; its striking conclusion sits alongside technical limits often omitted from retellings.
871 km · São Paulo
On 12 May 1937, Maria Cândida Guimarães dos Reis and her sons Álvaro and Armando were found dead in São Paulo's Little Castle. Police closed the case, but conflicting forensic interpretations kept questions alive for decades.