Case File

VARGINHA-017

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Surveillance still: figure in NBC suit exiting Hospital ████

02:14 in the morning. Service door. Full NBC suit. The hospital identifier in the frame has been blacked out by the source — not by us.
Type
PHOTOGRAPH
Date of Record
1996-01-22
Source
Hospital CCTV archive, leaked to civic transparency group

Abstract

Single closed circuit frame timestamped 02:14, depicting a figure in full nuclear-biological-chemical protective gear exiting a service door. Hospital identifier in the frame has been blacked out by the source prior to release. Source claims the frame is one of seventeen depicting similar figures across the night.

Artifact Inventory

Frame timestamp
02:14:07
Subject
Single figure, full NBC protective gear
Frames in source set
17 (claimed)
Released to
Civic transparency group, sealed conditions

Source conditions

A civic transparency group received seventeen still frames from a single source in 2009 along with written conditions limiting how the frames could be reproduced. The hospital identifier visible in the original feed was blacked out by the source before delivery; the group has honored that redaction in every reproduction.

What the frame shows

A single figure in full nuclear-biological-chemical protective gear, exiting through a service door labeled with a numbered identifier. The figure carries no visible cargo and no visible identification on the suit. The timestamp matches the night that other witnesses have independently identified as the night of one of the transfers.

The remaining sixteen frames in the set, which we have not seen, are described by the source as showing similar figures entering and exiting the same door across the same night. The source has not released the rest of the set.

What we cannot tell you

We cannot tell you which hospital. The group that holds the frames will not tell us, and the source will not tell them. We can tell you that the door identifier visible in the frame is consistent with a hospital service entry, that the suit is consistent with civilian biocontainment equipment available in 1996, and that the frame is internally consistent with the timestamp it carries.

Cross-Referenced Files

Fictional file created for Terminal Varginha. Not a real government record.