This incident is Case 70 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 40 of the books covered by that article.
This incident featured in the results of a survey in 1965 by Jacques Vallee of the opinion of various UFO groups as to the most significant UFO sightings.
On 20 January 1996, a UFO allegedly crashed north of Varginha, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. There were reports of a small humanoid creature.