Reptilian Photographs
Photo of small (height est. 80cm / 2.5ft) amphibian (a.k.a. "reptilian") humanoid alien taken on 20-Aug-1993. From a series of 6 Polaroid photos taken by 23yr old Italian painter Filiberto Caponi (homepage) in Pretare d'Arquata del Tronto (in Marche) Italy in 1993. More: story @ ufologie, all Caponi photos [note: even the few Internet pages which cover this little known CE3 case, often offer arbitrary interpretations of "wounded skin", "melted space suit" etc, but a "pinkish-purple coloration, like burned" is reported in independant sightings of similar beings, e.g. by Mrs Tolentino, Puerto Rico Aug-1995 or the "men of bronze" at the Utinga reservoir, Brazil during the "Chupa-chupa" period of 1977].
Context: Studying the characteristics of sighting reports, it seems possible that such beings have been reported all over the world and at different times, but given different names. Various regional names (Latin America's Chupacabras, Japan's Kappas, Magadascar's Kalanoro etc) hide the fact they all resemble eachother in their humanoid body plan, size (about 1m / 3ft tall), proportionally short arms with three (3) fingers, proportionally long legs, bipedal posture (walk upright, with legs flexed as if slightly crouching), facial characteristics, aquatic habits, feeding habits etc. 
Unbelievably, in total there have been 5 encounters of Filiberto Caponi with the being. In the first one of 9-May-1993 he did not photograph it. On 24-May-1993, he took two photos (photo 1, photo 2). On the 11-Aug one photo (photo 3), where the being is within a dark covering. On 20-Aug he took two photos of the being sitting (photo 4, photo 5 most detail). On 20-Sep he took the last picture in which the being is seen upright with stretched legs and seemingly without its coveralls (photo 6). Apparently, in all but the last one of Caponi's photos, the being is wearing "cover-alls" and a "helmet".
Several factors have led me to believe this being is water dwelling / amphibian (more on the significance of this later). Extracts from Caponi's 1993 testimony which suggest that the being desires water (if indeed amphibian, its coveralls might simply serve to keep its skin moist, rather than be a "space suit"): "The being had always appeared with gauze around the legs, and something similar to leather on its back, but this time it did not wear its covering anymore, but appeared with two tubes on the thorax that seemed to slightly move under its skin, like from air or liquid pressure, or some fluid, I don't know, maybe for its respiration. The small tubes both moved rhythmically. And an other important thing: I was convinced that the body was wet, it drained water, it dripped. But not much. From its head, water passed beside the eyes like some sweat. I want to emphasize that that evening my sister had also heard the noises, on the small terrace of our house, where my father had two drums in which he put water for watering the flowers. The drums were supposed to be full, but instead one was half empty. We have thought that perhaps it had gone to bathe itself. Maybe during the night, it had "undressed", dipped in a drum, washed, and jumped from the terrace, producing the noise of a jump in water that my sister heard." Also, the only time the being was seen without its coveralls, was on 20-Sep-1993, i.e. a night with heavy rain.
Related: Another incident involving similar "reptilian" humanoid beings occured at the city of Varginha, Brazil in Jan-1996. Notice the striking similarities between the being in the Caponi photos and the descriptions of the beings at the Varginha incident witnesses: "oily/shiny (wet?) brown skin", "large head, large eyes, "very small hands with three webbed fingers" (src: student Hildo Lucio Galdino), "huge veins running down its neck, like a giant ox heart". In a squatting position (squatting is also how Caponi's sketch depict it, in his first encounter). It had a bloated belly, the 3 girls were ridiculed about "pregnant ET". Of the two beings chased and shot by soldiers from Tres Coracoes Army Base, one had "no bodily hair", whereas the other was "covered in dark brown hair" (male/female? uniform?). Made a strange buzzing sound (like a swarm of bees).
Investigator Newton Augusto arrived to the idea the Varginha beings were amphibian: the idea of these creatures being water based comes from various aspects put together: [house-servant working for a military officer] witnessed video where the captured beings were seen inside water tanks. Membranes between fingers. Creature kept wrapped in wet sheets. The alien was seen at the zoo on a location just a few meters from the lake. Skin looking wet - amphibious like.
Varginha Diary by Newton Augusto
American medical doctor and UFO investigator Dr. Roger Leir traveled to Brazil in 2003 and interviewed a Varginha doctor who said he examined one of the beings. The Brazilian physician observed brown shiny skin, reticulated with a discernable outline of large cells, much like reptilian skin, which though smooth, showed the outlines of scales. On top of the head there were three bony prominences (what the 3 girls back in 1996 described as "horns", see early drawing based on the girls' story) that went from the front to the back, one on each side and one down the middle. The tongue was quite long and bifurcated. It had an external set of blood vessels -looked like varicose veins- which coursed up the shoulders into the neck area but did not go up the neck. The feet were unusual, with 3 short central fleshy toes on the front of the foot, while on one side was an additional prehensile-like appendage which pointed downwards in a resting position ("a prehistoric or vestigial digit which went out, when the foot was in a relaxed state, to about 90° and then when the being was locked he would pull the digit up so it was parallel with the long axis of the foot"). At the end of this appendage was what looked like a claw, approximatly ¾ to 1-inch in length. No nails and no hair on the toes, or anywhere else on the body. (src: C2C interviews on 29-Aug-2004 and 22-May-2005). [Todo: footprint / track plaster casts?]
According to Brazilian UFOlogist A.J. Gevaerd, Varginha is probably the best documented CE3 incident in the world, as over 80 direct first-hand witnesses have come forward to confirm the capture of at least 2 beings (duration 2.5min):
The Brazilian incident captured aliens
AJG "according to witnesses who came very close, the beings were suffering in our atmosphere - seemed dizzy, esp. after midday when the sun was very hot"
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