FLYING SAUCER OCCUPANTS

by Coral and Jim Lorenzen (1967)

UFO Landings
August 1914:
Late one August evening in 1914, a man and woman, their three small children, and three young
American men crouched behind rocks and brush along the banks of Lake Ontario at Georgia Bay,
Canada, and watched a weird scene:
A strange globular craft, which appeared to be about 15 feet in diameter, rested on the surface of
the water about 450 feet from shore. On the square-shaped substructure at the water line were two small
men-like creatures who were busying themselves with a green hose. The little men worked quickly, and
seemed to be having some problem with kinks in the hose, by the way they manipulated it.

This incident was related in a letter received at APRO headquarters in late spring, 1966.
The writer, after reading several articles by Mrs. Lorenzen in Fate magazine, had decided to
confide his experience to someone who apparently would listen to such revelations with a
sympathetic ear.
Shortly after receiving the letter from the informant about the 1914 affair, we decided that a
close scrutiny of the writer would be in order and a qualified member of APRO in the San
Francisco area was asked to interview the man who had reported the incident.

At about 5 p.m. one of the children spotted a deer at the water line staring out over the lake,
apparently unaware of the humans nearby. When the girl glanced in the direction the deer was looking,
she saw an unusual craft resting on the water. She called her mother, who, when she saw it, called her
husband and the three young Americans.
William J. Kiehl (writer of the letter) says the air was very still, the water was unruffled and the
craft sat motionless in the water about 450 feet from shore. Its shape was that of a globe except that it
was slightly flattened on top and had some sort of a square substructure around the bottom.
Two little fellows were on this deck-like substructure, and appeared to be busy with a hose
which looked to be about two and a half inches in diameter. The hose was green and on the end of it was
a round object.
When Kiehl first noticed the little men, they were working vigorously with the lower part of the
hose, the other end of which came out of the globular structure above their heads. Their motion indicated
that they were taking the kinks out of the lower part or untangling it in some way.

Questions later put to Mr. Kiehl about the small men he observed yielded the following
information:
They appeared to be four feet tall or under, were dressed in tight-fitting suits which revealed their
human shapes, and which appeared iridescent, for they were green or purple as they moved about in the
late afternoon sunlight. Each of the men wore a box-shaped or square yellow headpiece.
While the little men were concerning themselves with the hose, which appeared to be controlled

by something in the upper part of the globular structure, three pipes or straight objects came out of the
top of the craft, along with the heads and shoulders of three other small creatures. These three began
doing something to the pipe-like protuberances. Kiehl could not discern what the three were doing, but
noted that while they, like the other three, were wearing square yellow headgear, their clothing what
could be seen was khaki-colored. He also noted that the size of the heads was large in comparison to
the diminutive bodies. Kiehl described the bodies as skinny.
When the trio of little men on top of the craft finished their task with the pipes, they turned and
seemed to look very piercingly at the deer which was watching them from the beach. The deer turned
and ran back into the woods. They seemed not to notice their human audience, as far as Kiehl was able
to tell.
The three topside men then disappeared into the craft and the pipes went down in the same
manner.
At this point, the creatures on the substructure had gotten the hose in through a square hatch
above them and about midpoint of the craft itself, and one started to get into the hatch. Kiehl could see
into the hatch and noted what seemed to him to be tiles set in the opposite wall which were bright green
in color.
Just as the first little man got into the hatch, the craft began to lift off the water. Water streamed
from the bottom of the craft and the remaining little man clung desperately to a chrome-like ring which
encircled the globular superstructure. The craft lifted straight up to an altitude of about fifteen feet and
Kiehl could see the underside which looked like a latticework of square metal, dull gray in color like the
rest of the craft, and which shed water.
Then the whole globe tipped back at a sharp angle and shot off into the sky at an angle of about
thirty to forty-five degrees. It left a short trail of vapor or steam which was only a few feet long, and the
object was quickly out of sight. It made no sound at any time which Kiehl could distinguish.
The last that William Kiehl saw of the craft, the little man who had been left clinging to the rail
around the middle of the globe was still holding on. Kiehl says he often wonders what happened to him.

APROs investigator asked Mr. Kiehl what was said about the incident by his companions
and Kiehl replied that they were all startled at the incident, but talked little about it afterward. For
one thing, there was a language problem. The Canadian family spoke only French and the young
college student was the only interpreter and his French apparently was not the best.
The machine was watched by the group of eight people for about ten minutes, affording
everyone a good look. The most startling thing about this particular incident is its resemblance to
another sighting which also took place in Canada, on July 2, 1950.

July 2, 1950:
A senior executive of the Steep Rock Iron Mines and his wife were on an outing at Sawtooth Bay
on Steep Rock Lake in Ontario. They had beached their boat on a sandy shore where there was plenty
of shade, had some tea and sandwiches, and sat back to relax.
Suddenly, a shock wave was felt the air seemed to vibrate. The man thought it might have
been a dynamite blast but there had been no sound. The executive decided to investigate and climbed
up on a rock outcropping which protruded above the undergrowth.
Looking through a cleft in the rock, the observer saw a large shiny apparently metallic object
resting on the water about a quarter of a mile down the shoreline. He quickly scrambled back to his wife

and brought her back to the niche so that she could see the object too.
It looked like two huge saucers stuck together, lip to lip. What appeared to be round black-edged
portholes were arranged around the circumference, where the saucers joined.
On the top of the bizarre craft what appeared to be hatch covers were open and the observers
saw about ten small figures moving about. Protruding from the top to about eight feet above the deck
was a hoop-shaped object which rotated slowly. When it appeared to be pointed at a location directly
opposite the two observers, it would stop and so would the little men. The man and his wife got the
distinct impression that the concentration was on their location and ducked behind the rock.
The hoop-like contraption seemed to be operated by one of the figures on a prominence directly
below it. This being had a bright red apparatus on its head while the rest of the figures on the
superstructure were wearing blue headpieces of some type.
The executive estimated that the size of the object was approximately 48 feet in diameter, using
the size of two trees on the opposite shore as points of reference, and that the little men, who had shiny
metal of some kind on their chests and dark clothing, were between three and a half and four feet tall. No
features were noticed, of course, because of the distance about 1200 feet.
The two observers agreed that the tiny figures moved like automatons, did not turn as normal
beings do, but changed direction laboriously as though it was a difficult task, and turned their feet before
turning their bodies.
Two bright green hoses extended into the water, and during the sighting, a distinct humming
sound could be heard. The witnesses thought that water was being taken into the ship with one hose and
that it was being discharged back into the lake through the other.
Each time the rotating hoop pointed in their direction, the man and wife would duck behind their
rock shelter. The last time they ducked, when they stuck their heads out again, about twenty seconds
later, the figures and the hoop were missing, and the object began to rise from the surface of the water.
Where it had rested, the water was tinted red with a slight gold cast.
The object was estimated to be about 15 feet thick at its highest point and about 12 feet thick at
the edge. There was a rush of wind as it took off at about a 45-degree angle, whereupon it vanished
quickly into the sky.

In the Kiehl sighting, as in the Steep Rock case, a vivid green hose is involved, the craft is
resting on water, and the occupants of the craft seem sensitive to the presence of people or
animals. Deer are involved in both cases, also.
Kiehl was questioned closely by APROs investigator and by letters from APROs office,
but was firm in his assertion that the entities were not mechanical men, but rather were living
beings because of the way they moved about.
There can be no doubt that the craft in Kiehls story differs greatly from that in the Steep
Rock case. This is not surprising, however, for even if they did have the same origin, is it not
possible for the aircraft design to change radically in thirty-six years?
There is an explanation for the movements of the Steep Rock creatures which is logical
and even sensible. If the figures on that craft were living beings equipped with, for instance,
magnetic shoes, they would give the appearance of moving about clumsily and with great effort.
And if we extend our theorizing just a bit further, we come up with the possibility that,
having lost one of the crew in a similar area during a water operation, better means of navigating

on the possibly slippery surface of the craft might be adopted. Magnetic shoes?
Kiehl was also questioned about the color of the water after the craft he had observed had
left. He said he saw no difference from the rest of the water in the lake.

September 1954:
In September, 1954, a twelve-year-old boy, John Swain of Coldwater, Kansas, had observed a
peculiar little man in a plowed field on his fathers farm. At about 8 p.m., John was returning to the farm
on his fathers tractor when he spotted a tiny man no more than 20 feet away behind a field terrace. The
little creature appeared to have a very long nose and large ears and when he moved, he appeared to
fly. Young Swain watched spellbound as the little man flew over a small hill to a saucer-shaped object
hovering about five feet above the ground. It opened up, John stated, and the little creature popped
inside, the object lit up and took off at a fast rate of speed.
The sheriff was notified immediately after John got home and told his parents. The sheriff
suggested that they stay away from the area and the next day when he came to talk to John, he and the
boy and the Swains went to the scene of the landing where they found wedge-shaped tracks in the soft
dirt which did not appear to be made by a human. The boy was definite in his statement that the object
involved was hovering and not landed (though it might have landed before he arrived), but it is assumed
that the tracks were made by the little man. Public records of the sighting do not mention the size of the
tracks, however. John Swains estimate of the creatures size would put it at about three and a half to
four feet in height as he said, about the size of a five-year-old child.

Several important observations can be made at this time on the basis of the incidents we
have examined (see ENCOUNTERS WITH UFO OCCUPANTS UFO Landing Traces):
In the Zamora, La Madera, Canyon Ferry, Nellis Air Force Base, and Gwinner, North Dakota
incidents, gear impressions were made. In three sightings, four wedge-shaped impressions
were present. In two of them, Nellis and Gwinner, three rounded impressions were made. This is
quite revealing when the terrain is considered:
At La Madera, Canyon Ferry and Socorro, the objects landed on rather hard, uneven
ground. The craft involved were egg- or torpedo-shaped. The position of the impressions
indicated self-leveling landing gear. In these three, also, the type of gear seems to be a sort which
would anchor the craft firmly into the earth thus the rectangular, wedge-shaped impressions.
In the Nellis and Gwinner cases, we have testimony about legs as such in only one case
that at Gwinner. However, besides the description of the craft itself, we note the similarity in
the shape and number of landing feet. Also, the terrain in both cases is quite soft sand in the
Nellis incident, and a plowed field in the Gwinner landing. The rounded gear feet indicated by the
description of the impressions in the Nellis case, and the observational information from the
Rotenberger boy as well as the impressions observed by Goebel and others, point to a type of
gear which would give substantial support without digging into the soft earth and miring in.
In the Socorro incident, the depth of the impressions left indicated an object of several
tons which, if landing in sand or soft dirt, would have sunk deep into the ground. Therefore, it
seems this type of gear is not employed by craft landing on soft earth or sand. Thus it would
seem that the two craft have separate purposes, or at least the landing gear does.
These two instances are representative of many and it is interesting to note that the eggshaped craft employs four legs and gears whereas the disc-shaped craft uses only three.
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FLYING SAUCER OCCUPANTS

by Coral and Jim Lorenzen (1967)

The Occupants in the United States

The next is the most spectacular report we have examined, and although APRO has not
completed its investigation, sufficient work has been done so that we feel it is an authentic
incident and important to any documentation of occupant incidents.

September 4, 1964:
On the Labor Day weekend of 1964, three men from the Sacramento area of California drove into
the mountains near Cisco Grove (not far from Truckee) to do some bow-hunting. The bow-hunting
season, which precedes the usual deer season, had just commenced. On the afternoon of September 4,
the three men were hunting a ridge some distance from their camp. As dusk approached, they were
separated from each other. Our principal, Mr. S., was to proceed along the ridge and approach camp
from a certain area. When he reached the end of the ridge, he found that it ended in a sheer drop to the
canyon below and he realized he would have to retrace his path and find another way to get to camp. He
started back, in the dusk, and came into a canyon with a granite outcropping, few trees, and sparse
brush. At this point, he heard what he thought was a bear by the crashing sounds it made, and took
refuge in a tree. Shortly, confident that the bear had gone, he got down and built three small signal fires
hoping to attract the attention of rangers, not knowing they had left the area already.
Then S. saw a light below the horizon and thought it was a lantern and that his friends were
looking for him. But when the light darted up and over a tree, he realized it wasnt a lantern and thought
perhaps a search and rescue helicopter was coming. When the light came in his direction, then stopped,
and hovered motionless without any sound, he realized this was something out of the ordinary and went
back up into the tree.
This tree is important to the story. It is 25 to 30 feet high, big enough at the base so that it cannot
be circled by a mans arms, completely branchless up to 12 feet, with sparse but sturdy limbs above it. S.
climbed to the 12-foot mark and stayed there for a time.
The light S. had seen appeared to be 8 to 10 inches in diameter, and white. It appeared to be
accompanied by two or three other objects which stayed at a regulated distance from it. Remember at
this point that it was dark with a moon rising, but nevertheless this canyon is partly shaded from the
moons light. Shapes and things were therefore indistinct. The light then circled around S.s tree, a flash
was seen, and a dark object fell to the ground. Then he noticed a dome-shaped affair 400 to 500 yards
away, apparently on or near the ground.
Noises like someone moving in the brush attracted S.s attention, and he saw a figure emerge
from a patch of manzanita brush. The creature seemed to be examining the manzanita. Then, from a
slightly different direction, another figure approached and the two came toward the tree in which S.
perched, stood at the base, and looked at him. He occasionally heard a cooing or hooting noise to
which the two always reacted, but doesnt know if the sound came from them or an owl in the area. The
reaction from the entities might have simply been curiosity about the noise. The only other noise he
heard during the night was the sound of movement in the brush, and once he heard the sound of a
generator.
At this point, a third figure came from the direction of the dome it seemed to move in a different
manner than the first two, making more noise, seemed to run into bushes, going over or through them
rather than around, as the others did. The descriptions of these three figures are:

Numbers one and two were about 5 feet 5 inches, S.s best estimate. They were clothed in a
silvery-grey material with a covering that went up over the head straight from the shoulders. No facial
features were visible at any time. The third entity was grey, dark grey, or black. It, too, had no
discernible neck, but two reddish-orange eyes glowed and flickered where the head would be. It had a
mouth which, when it opened, seemed to drop open, making a rectangular hole in the face. The
mouth extended completely across the face area.
S. saw figures number one and two more clearly than the other, for they came in from an area
bathed in moonlight. Figure number three came in on the shadowed side of the canyon. Its eyes
appeared to be about 3 inches in diameter.
The first two figures attempted to get to S. by boosting one another up the tree, but apparently did
not know how to climb a tree. The third entity (which S. calls a robot) seemed to be just watching and
waiting, near the base of the tree. Then the nightmare began.
S. readily admits he was badly frightened. He realized the object on the hill must have been a
flying saucer although he knew little about them except from newspaper accounts. Throughout the
night, the robot tried to gas him with smoke which issued from its mouth while the other two looked on, or
tried to climb the tree. S. climbed higher, belted himself to the trunk (the section where he finally settled
was 4 inches in diameter) and began lighting pieces of his clothing and throwing it at them. First, he lit his
cap, which flared up brightly (probably due to hair dressing which is quite oily), and threw it down. The
two figures backed up and away from the tree. Then the robot opened its mouth, S. saw a puff of white
smoke or gas, and seconds later, he became light-headed, then lost consciousness. Each time this
happened, he would awaken, probably only seconds later, sick and retching. He would then light another
piece of his clothing or throw something at them to try to discourage them. He succeeded in starting
several small fires on the ground, hoping to attract attention from someone, or to discourage his
tormentors. Altogether, he tore apart his camouflaged oversuit, his jacket, and his cap.
Before he began setting fires, S. shot three arrows at what he thought was the chest section of
the robot. When the arrows hit, they struck a spark as they made contact with the robot, suggesting that
it was made of metal, and succeeded in knocking the robot away two or three feet. Occasionally, the
robot would get downwind before releasing the gas, which S. said he never saw after it left the robots
mouth.
S. threw his canteen down, which one of the silver-suited entities picked up and both of them
examined. All in all, he threw his bow, his canteen, and a pocketful of silver coins, besides bits of burning
clothing and paper.
Finally, at about dawn when the east was just starting to get pinkish with the first light of the sun,
the two men figures stood back from the tree, another robot joined the first and they stood facing each
other at the base of the tree. Suddenly, sparks and a glow filled the area between their chests, and a
cloud of the gas issued from them. This time, S. did not know for certain where the gas came from. He
blacked out and when he came to, they were gone. He was extremely nauseated, and was hanging, limp
and exhausted, his head and legs and arms dangling. He feels they left him for dead. He was bitterly
cold from exposure, having only his T-shirt, levis, underclothing, socks, and boots left. He waited a while,
got down, and looked around.
S. said he got another scare when he spotted smoke issuing from near a rock, but found it was
only the smoke residue from one of the fires he had started during the night. He tried to orient himself,
then started for camp. Finally, sick and frightened and exhausted from his ordeal and the cold, he lay
down. He then heard one of his friends whistling, got up and the two located each other, then went back
to camp.
When S. arrived at camp, he found that one of the other men had nearly gotten lost, but had been
close enough to camp to see the lantern and get there safely. The other man had apparently seen the

craft, for he told about the bright, glowing large light which slowly came down, the evening before. S. told
his friends about his experience, and they believed him, not only because they knew him, but because of
the light seen by one of them.

We learned about this particular incident quite by chance through rumors in the
Sacramento area, and notified Dr. James Harder, one of APROs advisers. Dr. Harder contacted
S., taped an interview, and after hearing the tape, we felt it was worth further investigation.
During the course of the investigation and S.s questioning, we found some interesting
facts: S. reported his experience to Air Force personnel who suggested that he may have been
the unhappy subject of a prank by teenagers or local Japanese people (?). They did not seem to
take his account seriously.

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Dr. George Wald, professor of biology at Harvard University, was quoted in the New York Times,
November 13, 1960, concerning the elements of life. He stated that life existing elsewhere in the
universe is likely to be the same as life on earth. Living organisms everywhere would be constructed
primarily of the same four elements: carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen, not because of their
abundance but because of their appropriate qualities. Wald said that it was doubtful that life could arise
apart from water or go very far without oxygen, nor could it thrive without access to radiation, and
specifically in the wavelength range of 300 - 1100 microns which excites molecules electronically and so
activates photochemical reactions.
There are certain advantages in the specific physical attributes of man. It is most advantageous
for man to walk upright, have three-dimensional vision, his mouth, nose, eyes, and ears a considerable
distance from the ground. An opposing thumb for grasping is important as is the arrangement of certain
organs such as the anus which is located in a very convenient position considering where its contents
ultimately are deposited.
The brain mass and posture of man set him apart from other animals who generally have the
same number and type of organs.
In other words, man, considered only from the standpoint of the success of his evolutionary trend,
is quite a successful experiment.
Does it follow, then, that life elsewhere would be likely to follow the same general trend? The
observable physical universe certainly demonstrates some order stars are made up of the same
general combination of elements and many have planets which in turn have satellites, indicating that the
structure of our solar system is not necessarily unique.

The Humanoids in South America

November 11, 1965:
For several nights during late October and early November 1965, strange objects were seen in
the sky and seemed to be reconnoitering the huge farm complex of industrialist-chemist Dario Anhaua
Filho near Mogi-Guacu, Brazil. During the course of one incident, on November 11, Mrs. Filho and her
grandson watched a lighted object land in an adjacent field and saw small men alight from the craft and
walk around the field. The small figures picked up twigs and branches, and appeared to examine a mare

which was standing by the fence. They seemed unaware of their observers. Mr. Filho was in town on
business and when he returned, his wife told him of the event. The next day, he went back into town
where he contacted and invited friends, including the bank manager, to come and watch for the return of
the object and its occupants.
The vigil was rewarded on the night of the 13th. As darkness settled over the countryside, the
object came in and landed about 400 feet from the fence separating the yard and the field. At about this
time, the local sheriff and a police clerk who had been driving to Catagua, drove by on a highway near the
farm and saw the object hovering prior to landing.
The bank manager became so excited when the craft came down that he stumbled and dropped
his camera and could not find it in the dark.
The beings observed by the Filhos and the bank executive were small, about the size of sevenyear-olds. One was wearing overalls, the other chocolate-colored pants and a gray collarless shirt. The
third being had a squarish, flat head and was wearing what appeared to be a surgeons apron. All three,
including the ship, glowed brightly. They set about the tasks of the preceding night uprooting plants
and plucking leaves and twigs from bushes.
When the object first landed, Filho called a neighboring farm and before the little men had
departed, some guards and the local parish priest, Longino Vartbinden, arrived at the farm and witnessed
the tableau in the field. When the little creatures were finished with whatever they were doing, they got
into the object which took off at high speed. The area apparently was not visited again.

This particular incident correlates with others in which the entities showed interest in
plants and bushes, and the size of the creatures fits that of the ones reported in the Masse
incident in France.
The call for re-examination of all occupant sightings brought immediate response from
APROs Dr. Fontes of Brazil, who has been one of the few researchers to face the problem of the
little men squarely from the very beginning of their injection into the UFO puzzle. He submitted
several cases which had not received widespread attention, among which is the following.
The location of this incident is Ceres, State of Goias, which is 300 miles in a straight line
from So Francisco de Salles, the home of Antonio Villas-Boas. The date is October 10, 1954.
The entities involved in this report, it will be noted, closely resemble those of the Villas-Boas case,
but as Dr. Fontes points out, there is no possibility that one case was the cause for the other. The
Ceres case was first reported in the Brazilian press on November 30 and the first letter from VillasBoas concerning his experience to reporter Joao Martins had been received on November 15. At
the time that Villas-Boas contacted Martins, no mention of his experience had been published.

October 10, 1954:

On the night in question, Miguel Navarrete Fernandez, thirty-five, and a friend identified only as
Guido arrived in Ceres. Both men were obviously very frightened and shortly related their weird
experience with a huge flying machine. They were initially questioned by the proprietor of the local hotel,
who noticed their extreme agitation. They told their story.
Fernandez, an agent for the coffee company Exportacao e Importacao Planalto Ltda., with his
friend Guido, had come to Ceres to pick up some merchandise. They went to a farm in the vicinity where
they carried out the business, loading merchandise into the truck. They then headed back to Ceres at 6
p.m. The trip was uneventful until about 8 p.m. when they were in an area called Quebra Coco. Guido
called the attention of Fernandez to a brilliant light ahead. Fernandez thought it was the light of another
truck and said so.

It was shortly obvious that the light was not that of a truck, for the light took shape resembling
the body of a helicopter and was very large. It was not on the road as they thought, but was moving
above the ground. Their truck moved under it, then the object, now behind them, made a turn, came
back and hovered about 150 feet in the air ahead of them. About two minutes later, it began to move
toward them. Guido, very upset, lost control of the truck and it ran off the road. The motor stalled and the
trucks lights went out.
Both men were terrified. Guido shouted, My God, that ball is going to hit the truck! The object
appeared to be at least 420 feet wide and 120 feet high. It seemed to have stopped about 120 feet in
front of the truck and hung about 18 feet off the ground.
The dazzling violet-colored light went off suddenly and only a bright red antenna could still be
seen. Then a door opened from top to bottom, forming a sort of bridge (like the door of a Convair plane,
Fernandez said). Six slim and apparently normal people appeared in the doorway and looked silently at
the two men. Then a seventh appeared and stood with them. All were of small stature, had long hair but
otherwise appeared to be human. All of them had a phosphorescent or glowing red badge on their chests
which made it difficult to discern their features.
For about three minutes, the group of creatures watched the two men in the truck, then the door
was pulled up, the machine climbed until it was at about 1500 feet altitude and a small disc-shaped object
appeared through another opening and moved away in the direction from which the big object had
approached. At this point, the trucks lights came back on and the engine began to function normally.
The two terrified men drove as fast as they dared toward Ceres.
Fernandez said that all the while the men were looking at him and Guido, he felt as though he
was in a trance, and had a strange feeling that they were talking to him and saying that they had come on
a peaceful mission, although he heard no sounds.

A few weeks later, Mr. Gabriel Barbosa de Andrade, the Judge of Ceres, forwarded a report
to the Secretary of Interior and Justice for the State of Goias giving the foregoing details.
The small stature of the creatures, the red glowing area on their chests and the way the
door opened all resemble those three features in the Villas-Boas case, yet there is no indication
that Villas-Boas knew of this incident, nor that Fernandez and his friend could have heard about
the Villas-Boas case later and concocted the story. They were questioned by the hotel manager
on the night of the experience and shortly thereafter, by Judge de Andrade. In February, 1958,
Fernandez was questioned in Rio by Dr. Fontes. All of the interrogators noted the agitation with
which Fernandez told his story. His friend Guido confirmed the details.
Another early occupant story to come to light recently was reported to Colonel Adil de
Oliveira in January, 1955. At that time, de Oliveira was Chief of the Brazilian Air Force Intelligence
Service. The witness, who was vacationing at his farm in the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil, near
the town of Campo Grande, refuses to let his name be made public, although it is known to
Colonel de Oliveira and to Dr. Fontes. The date: December 15, 1954. The details:

The observer was fishing a river about 400 yards from his home when he saw an unusual craft
land a few hundred feet away. His dog became very nervous and began to howl. Having his gun, which
was equipped with a telescopic sight, along with him, the observer employed it and was able to notice two
spheres of different sizes, the smaller one rotating around the other. The main object was not on the
ground but was hovering about six feet above it, and three balls appeared affixed to the underside of it.
Shortly, movement was detected and a few moments later, three creatures came down to the
ground. They appeared human but quite small, agile, and their movements were very rapid. One had a

kind of phosphorescent basket in his hand and another man had a metallic tube which was coneshaped on one end. A large amount of the calcareous material on the edge of the river was collected in
the basket and taken inside the craft. Then the two men came back to the same spot and, again
apparently using the tube, extracted the calcareous material from the ground. The tube was pointed at
the ground and the material was sucked up into it.
When they were seemingly finished with the latter task, the three little men got into the object,
which then took off at high speed.
After the object left, the observer went to the spot where the three little creatures had busied
themselves and found square holes had apparently been made in the ground by the cone-shaped
instrument. A few days later, he learned of the existence of similar holes in the same general area.
These holes were so large that they could have accommodated the entire body of a man.

The gathering of the calcareous material aroused the interest of many and some of it was
tested at the Institute for Technological Research. The analysis showed that it was made up of 61
per cent silica, 19 per cent aluminum oxide, 11 per cent magnesium and iron and other
components in smaller proportions. Laboratory specialists concluded that this material might be
the basis for a very efficient refractory material able to resist high temperatures.
The foregoing report seems to follow the pattern of the 1954 visitations in that it took place
in a rural area and involved small entities gathering soil samples. The chemical makeup of the
calcareous material is interesting if considered in the context of the theory that these little men
come here from somewhere in outer space.
One of the first occupant cases to come out of Brazil involved Pedro Serrate and
Francisco de Assis Teixeira, residents of the village of Pedras Negras on the Guapore River.

November 28, 1953:

On November 28, 1953, the two men allegedly went duck hunting in an area about two hours
walking distance from the town. Arriving at their destination, they separated as was their custom.
Teixeira took up his station near the water of the bay and Serrate climbed a tree to watch for ducks.
Shortly, Francisco sighted an unusual aircraft passing over his head. It passed on and landed on
the surface of the water about 150 feet from his location. It made no sound.

Serrate was within 12 feet of the object when it stopped and his view was excellent. We
quote his translated report verbatim:

The craft didnt make a sound. On the rear, there was a tube at each side, curved, about 2
inches in diameter. The craft itself was about 4 meters in length (approximately 13 feet), about 2 meters
and 50 centimeters wide (about 8 feet) and two meters (6 feet) in height. The bottom was in the shape
of a basin and made of blue metal. The vertical structure, about 1 meter (40 inches) high, was made of
glass or similar material. The covering was rounded, supported on the glass and held by metallic bars
existing on the inside with no rivets on the outside. On the rear, there was also a kind of rudder, a system
like a dolphin tail about 1 meter (40 inches) in length and about 50 centimeters in width (20 inches). The
whole craft was dark blue in color.
On the inside, there were six people seated three on each side, four being men and two women,
all apparently no more than twenty years old. They appeared to be of medium height and had red hair,
white skin, and reddish color on their faces. The women had long hair to the shoulders, parted on the

side. All were wearing thick clothes of the same color as the craft.
As soon as the strangers noticed they were being observed, the craft took off. They made no
sign toward me. I was less than 9 feet from them when they discovered that I was watching them. As the
object took off, it made no sound and I saw no smoke. It disappeared in a second at incredible speed.

A reporter for the newspaper O Imparcial edited in Guaruja-Mirim, Territory of Guapore,

noted that the two hunters spent a very nervous week after the sighting, completely upset by what
they had seen.
Another 1954 sighting which took place about a month after the start of the first Brazilian
UFO wave of reports was a landing at Santo Amaro, a suburb of So Paulo. Dr. Fontes described
it as an incredible and disturbing story which he would have hesitated to forward to APRO
headquarters had it not been for the fact that it had been released by Colonel de Oliveira (now a
brigadier) who was chief of the Brazilian Air Forces UFO project at the time.
Our witness in this case is taxi driver Maurilio Braga Godoi and the following is a
condensed version of his account:

November 2, 1954:
On November 2, 1954, at 10:30 a.m., Godoi left the Santo Amaro streetcar terminal and started
to walk home. The area was deserted at that hour, and when he arrived at the corner of Andaguara
Street, he was startled to see a large object landed in an empty lot between two houses. It was glowing,
a circular object about 90 to 120 feet in diameter and surrounded by a strange reddish-blue or violet glow.
Curious about it, Godoi decided to investigate and approached it. He soon realized that it was much
larger than he had initially thought it to be and hesitated for a moment, a little frightened. The object was
like nothing he had ever seen before and he thought he should go to the police or some authority and
report it. He felt like running but seemed to be rooted to the ground. Godoi tried to call for help but no
sound would come from his mouth. It seemed he was in the grip of some strange feeling that persisted
for a time but which finally left him. When the feeling left, it was replaced by great curiosity and from his
position about 60 feet from the object he approached it.
Godoi noticed an open door (sliding) at one side and entered the ship. He didnt recall afterward
if he used a staircase or not but he was in a large, circular room illuminated by a soft light. He saw no
lamps. There was no one in sight and the craft seemed to be deserted. At the center was an oddshaped table and on it were charts and maps. One of these especially attracted Godoi, for it was a map
of the South American continent and it had a glowing or phosphorescent quality. He noticed certain
symbols and took a closer look. The marks were mushroom-shaped and were seemingly scattered about
the map in a random manner.
Godoi had just finished scrutinizing the map when he looked up and froze where he stood.
Facing him were three persons. They seemed quite normal except that they were small less than
five feet in height. They had dark brown skin, black, very short hair, and were dressed in a one-piece
garment like an overall which was light gray in color. He saw no buttons, zippers, or the like. Each wore
a belt around his waist which appeared to support an object which Godoi thought might be a gun.
The three creatures made no move toward Godoi, but stood in silent appraisal, occasionally
conversing among themselves in a completely (to him) strange language. He noticed that the K sound
was repeated quite often at the beginning of words more often than any other sound.
By now, Godois fear had returned and he started back at the trio, paralyzed with fright. He tried
to talk to them, to tell them he meant no harm, but they were expressionless and just seemed to look him
over intently.

Godoi suddenly became aware that, completely against his will, he was backing out of the craft,
literally dragging his feet, one after the other, his attention riveted to the men. They made no attempt to
stop him. When he reached the door, he jumped to the ground and started to run away. When about 30
feet from the ship, he turned his head. The object was by then hovering about 30 feet above the ground,
having at the center bottom a screw without end (Godois exact words).
The craft started to move and climbed up silently at high speed with an eerie bluish-red or violet
glow at the periphery.

Shortly after the report was made, Godoi was examined by several psychiatrists in So
Paulo who concluded that he showed no signs of neurosis or psychosis. The case is still listed
as unknown in Brazilian Air Force UFO files.
Toward the latter part of November, 1961, Cavalheiro Mendes arrived at the beach of
Pinhal, about one hundred miles from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on business. A
retired member of the Porto Alegre police force, Mendes was a dealer in real estate and an agent
for people desiring vacation housing.

Late November, 1961:

On the night of his arrival, Mendes was alone in his small beach house. The night was very hot,
he couldnt sleep and he was nudged by an unexplainable urge to go out and walk on the beach. He
continued his efforts to sleep but to no avail and he finally gave in to the urge and at 9:30, he left the
house and went toward the beach. Almost immediately after going outside, he saw a huge light which he
estimated to be about 900 feet away. He first thought the light was one used by fishermen, then became
aware of a strong desire to approach it and found himself walking in its direction.
As Mendes approached the light, he became aware that there was some kind of object resting on
the sand, and as he came closer, he realized it was a glowing disc-shaped thing. The strange feeling that
he had to keep going toward it increased as he drew nearer and then, he saw two figures which came out
from behind the craft.
Mendes could not see facial features too clearly because of the brilliance of the light coming from
the object behind the forms, but did note that they wore helmets similar to those worn by football players.
At this juncture, Mr. Mendes felt he should retreat. He was not panicked, not even afraid, he said
later, but the strangeness of the situation was unnerving. Then he began to get the impression that the
creatures were communicating with him: Dont resist because you cant. Its hopeless if you doubt us
try to move your body. Mendes tried to move and found that he was like a statue, completely unable
to move.
The men came closer, and that was the last that Mendes recalled. His only memory is a
fragmentary one that something was scratching the skin of his forearm with some kind of instrument.
When Mendes recovered his senses, he was almost at his beach house again. It seemed that he
had walked all the way back from the beach area where the craft had been without being aware of it. He
looked back to where the object had been, and it was dark. He then looked at the illuminated dial of his
watch. It was 11:30 p.m. Two hours had elapsed since he had walked out on the beach in response to
an unconquerable urge.

Cavalheiro Mendes kept his adventure and his doubts to himself for quite some time, but
after a few weeks, he began to realize that he was ill. Formerly a cool, calm individual, he now

showed signs of nervous instability. He felt depressed and anxious for no apparent reason and
had an increasing desire to be alone. After several months had gone by, he decided to confide in
someone, and because of the part the strange object had played in his remembered experience,
he contacted Captain F. V. Cardoso, a Brazilian Air Force officer (retired) and Lieutenant Colonel
W. C. Schneider of the Army. Both had had considerable experience investigating UFO reports.
After exhaustive interrogation, the two officers proposed that Mr. Mendes should be
interrogated under hypnosis, but he refused.
At this point, Fontes closed his files on the case.
In the fall of 1966, after the disclosure of the Hill case in the United States, Fontes decided
to reopen the case and rallied his forces. Police Chief Maiolino of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do
Sul, has undertaken to convince Mendes that he should undergo hypnotic questioning in order to
solve the puzzle. It will be interesting to learn the results.
The man-shaped silver-suited beings were seen in June 1959, in Boinai, New Guinea, by a
Church of England priest, Reverend William Gill. The entities were on the top portion of an object
which hovered several hundred feet away from Father Gill and thirty-seven other witnesses. This
incident was thoroughly documented and presented in Mrs. Lorenzens book, Flying Saucers. It is
one report which bolsters the opinion of many that the UFO occupants are friendly, because the
men on the UFO responded to waves from the crowd on the ground. It is an argument but by no
means conclusive, for the occupants of that particular craft waved only in response they did
not initiate the exchange of gestures and shortly lost interest and went back to what they had
been doing previously.
The cases discussed in this book seem to indicate that encounters with, or observations
of UFO occupants are confined to Europe and the Americas, but this is not necessarily so. The
Gill case at Boinai, New Guinea, is the only recorded observation of occupants in that area. It
happened to have been observed by Reverend Gill, an educated white man, and therefore
received attention. It seemed likely that other similar observations may have been made by
natives in other locations who attached little if any importance to their experiences and therefore
did not report them, or if they did report, little attention was paid to them because of their lack of
qualification as observers. The same situation could be quite true in Africa and other areas where
communication networks are not as advanced as those in Europe and the Americas.
As we have mentioned before, the landing and appearances of UFO occupants seem to
concentrate in isolated or rural areas. It is possible then that the landings in some countries
could take place and never be observed at all. Australia, for example, which has a good deal of
land space which is sparsely populated or populated almost entirely by aborigines, might have
experienced many landings which were never observed, or if observed, not reported. The landing
of one disc-shaped object near one already on the ground was supposedly witnessed by
aborigines in central Australia in 1951. According to the report, a small being in silvery suit and
helmet got out of the second disc and entered the first one, whereupon both craft took off. This
case is similar to the one in France in which two of the pilots were observed trading aircraft.
The Australian report was not widely publicized and it is doubtful that the Frenchman who
observed the two little men in 1954 could have known about the Australian landing.
Another consideration is the availability and location of investigators and reporters.
Landings could take place and receive local publicity but never come to the attention of UFO
chroniclers. Although APRO has managed to recruit a substantial international membership,
there are still many areas which are not adequately covered.
Some of the areas from which few if any reports emanate are those countries under
Communist rule. Occasionally, a report of a UFO may reach international press wires but it is
almost always followed by an official pronouncement that the saucers are merely psychological

tools of the imperialistic Americans or some such rot. One gets the definite impression that
Communist countries are having their problems with the elusive discs, and like their democratic
counterparts in the West, try to explain away the unexplainable.

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ENCOUNTERS WITH UFO OCCUPANTS

by Coral and Jim Lorenzen (1976)

UFO-Car Encounters
Through the years, beginning with the early 1950's, reports of strange lights diving on or
chasing cars have increased in number, and in 1967, there was a proliferation of such sightings.
Whether the UFOs are interested in the vehicles or merely the reaction of the passengers to their
antics, we cannot know at this time, but the weight of evidence indicates that it is a growing
problem. In the words of one witness: You wont catch me driving a lonely road at night
anymore, and that is the general reaction of most people who have had such an experience.
In 1967, which was a year of very heavy UFO activity, there was a record number of UFOcar encounters, some of the most outstanding of which we will examine.

Early January 1967:

In early January of that year (no exact date because the event was not immediately reported),
Robert Blaine of Villard, Minnesota, was on his way to Kensington to attend the Villard-Kensington
basketball game. Riding with him were Mrs. James Galvin, wife of the Villard basketball coach, Billy
Smith, and three of Blaine's children, all youngsters ranging from seven to thirteen years. At about 7:30
p.m. at about two miles east of Farwell, Minnesota, on Highway 55, the engine of Blaine's 1964 car died
and the lights went out. To his left, Blaine spotted an orange flash at about the level of the hood, then tiny
beads of light crossed in front of the windshield. Mrs. Galvin also said she saw an orange and red flash
go by the driver's side of the car at about the level of the window.
The car coasted for some distance, then the engine and lights came on again without warning or
aid. Blaine first thought a short had started the trouble, was startled when the engine started again by
itself, and inspected the car under a streetlight when he arrived at Farwell. There had been no trouble
with the car that night and there was none thereafter. Blaine admitted he was startled and that because
of his fear he did not attempt to investigate the light.

March 12, 1967:

On the 12th of March, Larry Burke, Dick Makens, Junior Edinger, and Charles Warren of
McIntosh, South Dakota, encountered four unusual lights over the road near McIntosh. Burke initially saw
a strange object with red, white, and green flashing lights southwest of McIntosh at 7:15 p.m., then picked
up his friends to go with him to investigate. On a country road a mile west of the town they saw four lights
low over the road ahead of them. As they proceeded up a hill, their car engine stopped and, frightened,
they coasted backward down the hill. The car started again, and they drove into McIntosh and brought
back the sheriff.
Nothing was found, however. The boys disagreed on the altitude, size, and shapes of the lights
but all were in agreement on the color, which they described as fluorescent green. One of them said he
got the feeling that the lights were attached to something huge which was towering over them. Sheriff
Kittleson said that Makens was definitely shaken up when he came into the office to report the incident.
The report was printed in a local paper, and Reverend Terry Nelson came forward and reported that he
and others had seen an object with red, white, and green flashing lights flying parallel to the highway
between Morristown and McIntosh while on the way to conduct a class in Morristown on the same night.

March 17, 1967:

Reports of this nature were almost commonplace in the early months of 1967. One out of
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania, was the claim that Wilbur Daniels, thirty-seven, and his wife Janet had watched
a light which appeared to be following their car for the distance of a mile at an altitude of 100 feet on the
17th of March. Several neighbors claimed they also saw the object as it perched over the Daniels' home
for about five minutes shortly before 8 p.m. It was round and orange as if it was on fire, they said.

March 21, 1967:

On the evening of the 21st of March at about one mile west of Hillboro, Kansas, near U.S. 56,
Miss Mary Beth Neufeld of Lehigh and several friends were attracted by a brilliant light. They were
interested as it was a very cloudy night and there were no stars visible. For a lark, they started toward it,
whereupon it flashed and began moving toward them. They described it as flat like a pancake with an
upside-down cup on the top of it. The object caught up with the car which "started rocking real bad,"
causing considerable consternation among the girls. The engine stalled and after several seconds of the
rocking motion, the object left as suddenly as it had arrived on the scene. The car started up again by
itself and the girls went into Hillsboro to report the incident.

March 24, 1967:

An incident involving an actual chase took place on March 24th when Air Force Staff Sergeant
Johnny Ferguson, who was stationed at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, was on route to
Memphis, Tennessee, to visit his parents. He and his wife and three children were travelling by car on an
FM Highway in the vicinity of Loco, Texas, at 5:30 a.m. when he pulled his car to the side of the road in
order to consult a road map and noticed a red light which he first thought was on another vehicle.
As it approached, however, he noted that it made no noise. It first appeared to be "about 8
inches in diameter" but as the distance closed between itself and the car, it grew in size until it was as
wide as the road. At that point, Ferguson decided to depart, and as he drove, the object followed him, so
he increased his speed until he was attaining speeds as high as 100 miles per hour in his attempt to
escape the thing. He noted that the object followed the terrain of the country, going down with the dips
and up over the knolls. It was gaining on his car when he approached a farm house, then it split into two
separate lights and disappeared into the sky at a high rate of speed. Ferguson then drove into
Wellington, Texas, where they notified officers of their experience. On the following Monday, Air Force
investigators Colonel Hallmark and Lt. Nicholson of Altus Air Force Base arrived in Wellington, and with
Sergeant and Mrs. Ferguson, proceeded to the area of the chase. Sheriff's Deputy Hooten told the press
that no report was disclosed by the Air Force concerning the investigation, but that the Altus team
seemed to be "open-minded" about it.

April 28, 1967:

A press report out of Mangum, Oklahoma, carried the story related by E. A. Griffith, who claimed
that on the 28th of April, his auto had been chased by a silent object with flashing lights. He said that he
first thought the object was a helicopter but decided that couldn't be the explanation as it made absolutely
no noise. The craft either beamed a light down on his car or its lights illuminated it, he said. One state
trooper reported that he interviewed a farm family who said they saw the object above the car but could
not make out the shape because of the darkness. The chase lasted only a few minutes and the object
disappeared into the night sky at about 8:30 p.m.
Young Dennis Whitley of Monroe, North Carolina, made the mistake of trying to signal a large,
white light which he spotted above the road ahead of him as he was returning home from a church
meeting on April 28th. When he reported it, he said it was shaped like an umbrella on top "with crystals

on top of it" and that he tried to get its attention by blinking his lights. The thing then "seemed to lock in
on the road or my car" for it began to follow his car at 45 to 50 miles per hour, making the same curves
that the car did. Shortly after the chase began, the thing turned from white to orange, coming closer to
the road as if it were going to land. He said he stopped his car once but was too frightened to get out.
When he reached home, his mother also saw the object which she said was orange and that it hovered
near the house for about thirty minutes. After the Whitley sighting was published, a neighbor, Mr. George
W. Hilton, claimed he and his wife saw the object as they left the Celanese plant in Rock Hill. Hilton said
that he didn't report it to the police until he learned of Whitley's experience because he was afraid of
ridicule.

May 7, 1967:
The same pattern was found in an incident at Arnett, Oklahoma, on May 7th when Jerry Luck, a
junior at the High School, was driving home at night. Passing in front of a school located in open farming
country about a mile from his home, he glanced to the west and spotted a large white light which was
later determined to be the size of a dime at arm's length. As he continued on his way, the object moved
toward his car. It had been at approximately 40 elevation when he first saw it, but as it approached, it
became parallel with his car. When Jerry arrived at home, he rushed inside and his parents came out
and observed the object as it hovered for a few minutes, then moved into the west at high speed and
disappeared from sight. The light was white, they said, and they got the distinct impression that it was
solid.

May 13, 1967:

One of the few instances of a firearm being used against a UFO allegedly took place on May 13th
about seventeen miles west of St. George, Utah. Michael Cameadore, twenty-four, a resident of National
City, California, was en route to Salt Lake City to attend the funeral of his grandmother and told officials at
St. George that he heard a strange, loud humming sound. At first, he thought it was a truck trying to pass
so he moved over but could not see any lights in his rear-view mirror. He then put on his brakes and
jumped off the truck. An object was hovering over his truck at an estimated altitude of 25 to 35 feet. It
was an amber-coloured circular object which he estimated to be 40 - 50 feet in diameter. Thoroughly
frightened, Cameadore reached into the truck, got his .25 calibre handgun, inserted a clip of ammunition,
and began firing. He said he heard the bullets strike and ricochet and the sound convinced him that they
were striking metal. At this point, the object simply put on a burst of speed and was out of sight in just a
few seconds.

May 26, 1967:

Another trio of young men experienced a typical car-buzzing incident on May 26th at 10:15 p.m.
The three boys were driving on Atrisco Avenue north of Central Avenue in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
when they spotted a white light approaching from behind. The light darted back and forth across the road
and at first, they thought it was the lights from a car being driven by a drunk. When the object got above
the car, it kept their speed and movement along with them and then, the engine and lights died. They
said they jumped out of the car and as they looked up, the object flew away into the southwest at high
speed. They all said there was no sound connected with the incident.

There is a thread of continuity running through all of these cases. They all took place at
night; in all cases the object was seen at a distance; and then it zeroed in on the car and either
hovered over it if it stopped, or followed it if it continued on its way. In some instances when the
car and its occupants reached a home or destination, the object stayed around just a short time,
then demonstrated its amazing speed by darting off into the night. In others, engines and lights
were apparently neutralized, so that the driver couldn't proceed. Yet, if the driver got out of the

car, the object would leave immediately. We might speculate here that the object and its
occupants were experimenting to learn the speed of ground vehicles and/or to determine how
human beings react under stress.
Different people react differently to UFO encounters as we shall see in the next two cases.

June 29, 1970:

On the night of June 29, 1970, at approximately 9:32, Mr. and Mrs. R. and their two sons of
Apopka, Florida, were returning home from Orlando when Mrs. R. spotted a glowing green oval object
with a smaller blue ring about 1,000 feet to the right of their car and approximately 100 feet off the
ground. She called it to the attention of her husband who was driving, and when Mr. R. spotted it, it was
descending at about a 45 angle toward their car. They estimated the blue ring to be about 20 feet in
diameter and Mrs. R. got the impression the ring was depressed into the object. Both witnesses noted
that the object had a hazy edge and that the bottom was convex.
The R. car was travelling at about 45 miles per hour when the object was first sighted but after it
moved in and over the car, Mr. R. accelerated to about 90 miles per hour. He felt the object was higher
than the nearby service power lines but his wife felt it was lower. It paced the car for about a mile but as
the car passed under a street light, it was temporarily lost from sight.
Mr. R. slowed the car to turn into the driveway of his home, which is located in the orange groves
surrounding Apopka, and the UFO moved slightly ahead. As the Rs ran from their car to their house, the
object made a level close (100 feet in diameter) sweep of the area and moved off, leaving a trail of mist
about 20 feet wide which gave off an apple-green light. It hung in the air a few minutes before
dissipating. Mrs. R.'s father, who lived next door, also observed the mist which spread out evenly and
lost its glow but did not fall to the ground. The path of the mist left by the UFO was thick on the outside of
the turn and thin on the inside. At first, the R.'s could see the stars through the thick part of the mist.
The R.s' dog, which was in the car during the incident, did not react to the object's presence
whereas a second dog, belonging to Mrs. R.'s mother, ran off howling just before the Rs and the UFO
arrived at the house.

Oklahoma is the site of our next car-UFO encounter, only in this instance, one of the
witnesses not only felt fear, but also a sort of strange desire to stay and watch.

October 16, 1973:

On the 16th of October, 1973, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hatchett and their daughter Valerie, nine, and
their four-year-old son were driving to their rural residence near Cushing, Oklahoma, after having visited
with relatives who live between Sand Springs and Tulsa. It was about 12:20 a.m. when Mr. Hatchett
noticed a very bright light south and east of his pickup truck as it travelled west on the country road
between State Highways 97 and 33. He at first thought it must have been an REA pole light at a nearby
farmhouse, but the light seemed to be moving with the truck and getting closer. By this time, Mrs.
Hatchett was also watching intently and said it appeared to be getting closer to the ground and turning to
an intercept course with the pickup. She began begging her husband to stop the truck and he finally
complied with her wishes.
The object, which was emitting the light, moved closer and hovered at a point about even with the
front of the pickup and just south of the fence row on the south side of the road at an apparent altitude of
150 to 200 feet above the ground.
The Hatchetts heard or felt, or both, an intense and penetrating low-pitched humming sound and

a stillness fell roundabout just as one might experience before a storm. The very air seemed charged
and oppressive as the gigantic thing hovered there. Mr. Hatchett estimated the size of the object to be
equal to the dimension of a Boeing 707 jetliner and he had to shield his eyes with his hand from the
blinding white lights which were emitted by the forward part of it. His wife, during this time, had gotten out
of the pickup and had walked to the side nearest to where the object was hovering. She walked there by
walking around the back of the pickup rather than around the front, because of her fear of the craft. Mr.
Hatchett, very frightened, ordered her back into the pickup. She complied but got out of the pickup two
more times and repeated her short journey each time and each time was ordered back into the truck by
her husband.
The Hatchetts observed that the object appeared to change shape as it hovered, and neither
could determine what, in fact, it really was. The whole object emitted a white light, and the forward
section had an intense emission of white light that seemed to revolve from the top to the bottom of the
front end. Behind this front area were three belts of lights that appeared to encircle the craft and blinked
all the time.
The first belt of these lights from the front were white in color. The other belts probably were also
white, but neither could be certain of this because of the intense white light being emitted from the
forward section. Behind the object were two red lights toward the top, one white light near the centre and
two red lights near the bottom.
Although Mr. Hatchett was constantly expressing his desire to drive on and put some distance
between them and the object, his wife kept imploring him to remain there. The last time that he ordered
his wife back into the pickup he did, however, drive away. As the pickup moved west down the country
road, the object crossed the road and proceeded off in a northeasterly direction toward the distant lights
of Tulsa, increasing altitude as it did so, never getting up very much speed. As it was going away from
them, they observed that there were three red lights visible on the back end of the object which were in
the form of a triangle and in the centre of this triangle was one white light. The way in which the lights on
the craft had blinked while it hovered reminded Mrs. Hatchett of the lights on a computer.
During the time that the object was near the pickup, both of the Hatchetts had an intense feeling
that the object or its occupants "knew everything," and that the power that they or the object possessed
was limitless. Mrs. Hatchett stated that she felt chilled when she was out of the pickup, even though the
night was not sufficiently cold to chill her. She further stated that the feeling of being chilled may have
been caused by her excitement and other emotions stimulated by beholding such an awesome sight.
Valerie, their nine-year-old daughter, was extremely frightened during the encounter. The
humming sound the object made and its tremendous size completely overwhelmed her. She expressed
the feeling that her four-year-old brother had been fortunate in that he had remained asleep during the
entire episode.
When the Hatchetts arrived at the next town, Drumright, Oklahoma, they stopped and reported
the incident to a police officer but he did not take the report seriously, which was still fairly typical of the
attitude of law enforcement agencies at that time.

UFO reports, which involved objects pacing, chasing, or hovering over motor vehicles,
continued to come into APRO Headquarters, but a large number of such incidents during a
relatively short space of time did not occur again until 1974.

March 27, 1974:

On May 3, 1974, Mr. Lorenzen had appeared on a half-hour special on UFOs on KPHQ-TV in
Phoenix, Arizona, under the aegis of the Junior Achievement Program of the Phoenix, Arizona school
system. Shortly thereafter APRO received a letter detailing the experience of four adults and a low-flying

UFO near Kingman, Arizona, in early 1974.

It contained the following information: "We and two friends from Lansing, Michigan, were
returning to Phoenix from a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada, on the night of March 27, 1974. Bob (our friend)
stated that he had read that UFOs had been seen in the area of Kingman and asked me if I believed in
UFOs, to which I responded that I didn't, and the subject was dropped."
(Mrs. A. interjected at this point that none of them had been drinking because of the long drive
back to Phoenix.)
"I asked Bob to pull over at a look-out point outside of Kingman as I wanted to drive. I was in the
back seat and when Bob got out, he looked back and said, 'God, what is that?" We all got out and were
scared speechless. There was no sound whatsoever and a huge form, platter-shaped, silver, and as big
as a football field with three huge spotlights beaming down approached, stopped, and hovered over our
car. My husband and I started praying. It hovered over us for five minutes and then took off (thank God)
and left behind a steel-blue haze all around where it had hovered."

Our second 1974 case does not precisely represent a car chase, but the object seen by Mr.
and Mrs. Y. of Brock, Nebraska, has yet to be identified.

November 30, 1974:

Again, the lady in the case narrates the experience: "We had just returned from a Thanksgiving
trip to Roswell, New Mexico, and had our first unexplainable UFO experience coming home. We started
at 2 a.m. for home since we wanted to make the trip in one day. It was a bright, moonlit, early morning
(Saturday, November 30, 1974) and we had just left the city lights behind us when my husband spotted
what he thought was a large plane just on the horizon to our right. Then we thought it might be a huge oil
rig but before we could make up our minds, it had moved, in darkness, parallel to us, and again lit up with
a white brightness that one could hardly focus on for long. You may know this countryside. It is rough,
wild, and almost uninhabited but for the few and far between ranches hardly a road anywhere with
canyons, arroyos, and rough range everywhere.
"We watched this thing for sixty miles or more and I am curious as to whether anyone else has
described anything similar. It seemed to be a mile or so to our right, but moving for the most part parallel
to the highway, now and then going away from us, up canyons or down arroyos as though exploring. In
this position, it seemed to be a solid column of very white, bright lights, with only twice a flicker of red at
the base. The odd part was the way it moved. You remember the sing-along bouncing ball we used to
follow on movie screens? That is the way it moved.
The column would light up with what seemed to be revolving lights then for two to three
seconds, all was dark but in the meantime, it had moved farther on and again lit up! It simply hopped
or bounced seeming to be hovering on the ground. Once it started coming closer and since we
were the only car on that lonely road, we were really relieved when our road veered left at Elida and we
lost it behind hills.
We did notice several well-lit big installations farther on and wondered if there could have been
some connection. We know this part of New Mexico well, and there just isnt anything that could move
over that terrain in the way that this object did. I have always been interested in the UFO thing, since
many of our friends had had such experiences but this, though our first, really has us wondering.

Our next case involved a husband, wife, and father-in-law from Lordsburg, New Mexico,
who, on January 6, 1975, observed a strange phenomenon in an area outside that town.

January 6, 1975:
Mrs. M. tells her story: I am not really a UFO buff and have never seen any such craft. However,
about three months ago, a very odd experience occurred some few miles south of Lordsburg, New
Mexico. Whether you believe me or not is not important. What happened, happened, and thats it
whatever it was. Ive just been reluctant to say anything to anyone. The reason I am writing now is
probably because the experience still haunts me and Id finally like to mention it and mainly inquire from
you if you have received any similar reports, at anytime in the past, from this area. Nothing like this has
ever happened to any of us before.
It was January 6, 1975, on a Monday night. My dad, husband, and I were out for a short drive to
get some fresh air after a tiring day. We drove about three or four miles south on Animas Road south of
Lordsburg, found an area just perfect for viewing the night sky and stars, and to talk and relax. It was
about 10:30 p.m. or perhaps a few minutes later. The sky was perfectly clear with no clouds, a slight
wind, and a little chilly. After driving a few miles, we came to the old Lady Mary Mine Road (the mine is
abandoned now). We drove off onto the road and shone our headlights around the area to make sure we
were safe from anyone out ready to hijack cars. There was no one around on the dirt road, we were out
in the open, there were no fences, high lines, etc. We turned the car around so that we faced Animas
Road, turned out the headlights, rolled a window down and turned on the Citizens Band radio. The
channels were fairly clear that night, and we enjoyed listening to other CBers.
We had not been there for more than fifteen minutes or possibly less when Dad noticed lights
coming up from behind the small hill behind us, directly on the Lady Mary Mine Road. It looked like
another vehicle coming. Dad had his keys in the ignition just in case something like this should happen.
He assumed it was a car and was preparing to move aside. My husband was up in front with Dad and I
was in the back seat, on the drivers side. Neither my husband nor I looked back.
Then Dad panicked the car would not start. It was still quite warm, in good condition (brand
new battery and tune-up, etc., only a month before). No matter what he did, it still wouldnt start. He
looked back again and said, Hey, whats going on here?
Before my husband or I could react, a very strange blue-white (more bluish) light shone near the
car, on the drivers side. It lit up only a section near my door and the drivers side. My husbands side
was pitch dark. The light was strong enough to light up and show in detail the foliage on the side of the
road and part of our car. It lasted for only a brief few seconds prolonged, yet brief and kind of
maneuvering like a person directing a light back and forth. It moved it was not merely a quick flash. At
the same time, we had problems with the CB radio lots of static. The car wouldnt start, but the radio
worked until the flash of light.
After the flash of light, the car started. We were stunned when we turned around, expecting to
see someone in a car or something, but nothing was there. All during this time, there was no sound,
except one similar to electricity humming through the wires. Yet, there were no high lines at all nearby.
We pulled our car onto Animas Road and looked back toward the old mine road. There, just
over the hill, was a fabulous, blue, glowing light similar to a halo effect and yet not arched, solid from its
highest point to the ground. It was just beneath the hill. The glow, as I said, was blue with a more
turquoise hue and beautiful. We checked the directions and it was definitely not the lights of Lordsburg or
any town, or mining operation. Besides, the color of the horizon of city lights definitely do not match that
beautiful color.
The incident unnerved us as it was late, sudden, and the area deserted. What we thought had
been a car never appeared, yet something was there. We checked on possible aircraft in the area that
night, but there were none. Also, the light was very bright, a most definite, concentrated beam, and
directed specifically at us. I dont think the whole thing lasted any more than five or six minutes, from the
time we moved the car, then saw the flash, to the time we moved to Animas Road.

My face felt hot, maybe because it shook me up when we checked several hundred yards. Dad
wanted to investigate it, but I had a very strong feeling that we shouldnt and insisted upon leaving the
area and getting closer to town.
Several days after the incident, my brother let slip about our experience to a fellow at work. This
young man said that he and five other workers were near that same area, some two weeks before, at
about 11:00 p.m. on a Saturday night. They were trying out a new Bronco (car). Well, they were going
down an arroyo and nearing a hill when a brilliant blue-white light came around the hill, shone its light on
them, and then zoomed southwest at terrific and incredible speed. They said it lit up their jeep and was
out of sight afterwards, in a matter of seconds. They were all petrified.
We drove out to the area the morning after our experience, but could find no traces or proof that
anything had been there, but Dad had to get a new battery as one cell was dead.
Thus ends Mrs. Ms account. She did add that the area is rich in copper.

In the first 1974 case we have offered, the UFO seemed to have been examining the car
and the people; in the second case, the UFO appeared to have been pacing the car, but in the third
case, it seemed obvious that the people had intruded upon something and the spotlight was
calculated to get rid of them, which it did.
Another, more recent report comes from Mr. Willie Campbell of Spartanburg, South
Carolina, and took place between 9:30 to 9:40 p.m. on February 15, 1975. Until his experience, Mr.
Campbell had always linked UFOs with pink elephants and the like, and he had always thought
that people who saw them were drunks or crazy.

February 25, 1975:

Mr. and Mrs. Campbell and their four children had just left a movie theatre in Spartanburg and
were heading up Byrnes Boulevard to go home (in Inman) when they spotted the object in the west. They
said it was much too large for a star and the light was too massive to be an airplane. It appeared to be
nearing town and getting larger. Mr. Campbell described the mysterious thing as a glowing ball of
fluorescent blue, red, and silver light.
The Campbells were not too concerned with the object until it swung right and followed them up
the Asheville Highway, hovering over the trees along the way and keeping pace with the car.
Campbell stopped the car at a shop just before the entrance to the Riverdale subdivision where
they lived, bought some ice cream for the children, and was surprised to see the object stop over a field
across the road. When he came out of the store with the ice cream, it was still there.
It was just hovering less than fifty feet off the ground and just sort of rocking back and forth
gently, he said.
At this point, Mrs. Campbell was frightened, and when Willie decided to go up the highway past I26, she protested, but he was curious, and they drove on. When they stopped to turn around, the object
stopped, and when he headed for home, it followed. When he pulled the car into the driveway, the object
stopped about 200 to 300 yards away, hovering between two houses, just below the rooftops.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Campbell ran into the house. Mr. Campbell stayed outside watching it. Then, his four
children, wife, and mother-in-law came out and watched for another fifteen minutes. The object did
nothing; just hung in place while they watched it. Next, Mr. Campbell and his son, Scottie, age twelve,
got into the car and played tag with the globe. It followed them almost to Campton Heights, where Willie
stopped and turned off the headlights. At that point, the sphere swung in front of their car and went up

much higher and further away. The two watched it for about fifteen minutes more, then returned to
Inman. The object followed them part of the way back home, but by the time they arrived at home, it was
gone. They stood in the yard ten or fifteen minutes more to see if it would come back, and all of a
sudden, it showed up. It came over the house at about 500 feet altitude, let off a blue and silver streamer
(like a jet) which was 15 or 20 feet long, in their estimation. After that, Campbell said, it just
disappeared and we never did see anything.
When interviewed by Field Investigator William Steiner, Mr. Campbell said, I really dont believe
that I could sketch what I saw that night. It was spherical in shape and had a glow to it. Toward the
inside, I could make out the colors red, blue, and silverish, but they blended into each other, so it would
be hard for me to say one area was one colour and another area another colour. The lights appeared to
me to be sort of pulsating. From where I was, it appeared to be maybe 20 to 25 inches in diameter. I
guess that the distance was probably about 150 to 200 yards at the closest point from me. The last time
my son and I saw it was after we got back home the second time. There was no noise from it at all. As
low as it was, I know I would have heard something if it had been an airplane.

Mr. Campbells experience is typical in two ways: it demonstrates how quickly an

individual can change his attitude about UFOs once hes had a personal experience, and it is one
of those incidents where curiosity on the part of the UFO is apparently the motivating factor. But
it is also one of the few times that a UFO has been viewed below rooftop level.
The only UFO-car collision incident to come to our attention begins with a telegram
received at APRO Headquarters on July 15, 1967. The telegram was from Robert Richardson of
Toledo, Ohio. He informed us that he had struck a UFO with his auto, and that police would verify
the incident. He had supplied his telephone number and so, a call was immediately put through.
During our conversation with him, he told us that he had retrieved two bits of physical evidence
a small lump of metal from the road and a fiber-like substance from the front of his car. At the
close of the conversation, we gave him the name and address of our investigator in Toledo. We
then called member Nils Paquette who immediately went to work.

July 13, 1967:

Richardsons story follows. He and a friend, Jerry Quay, twenty-one, were on their way to
Whitehouse, Ohio, to see if the Whitehouse Quarry, a well-known picnicking and swimming spot, would
be open for the coming weekend. It was Thursday night, the 13th, and the time was 11:30. At a point
about midway between Maumee and Whitehouse, Richardson, who was driving at about forty miles per
hour, turned around a bend in the road and saw before him a very brilliant blue-white source of light which
completely blocked the road. Instinctively, he slammed on the brakes and closed his eyes, knowing that
he would probably smash into the object. Quay also closed his eyes. A distinct bump was felt and heard
by both at the moment of impact, but when they opened their eyes, the road ahead was clear the
object was gone. Quay was shaken up, but neither of the young men was injured.
Following the incident, the two drove to Waterville to phone the police, but they were not taken
seriously. They then went to Maumee, Ohio, where they contacted the state police. They were instructed
to proceed to the Maumee police station and await the arrival of the highway patrol officers, which they
did. Present at the station during the questioning were Richardson, Quay, two Maumee policemen, and
two state highway patrolmen. After their testimony was taken, Quay and Richardson revisited the scene
of the accident along with the two state patrolmen. Nothing was found except the skid marks where
Richardson had applied his brakes.
On the next day, however, Richardson went back to the spot and found a small lump of metal.
Examination of his car revealed that there were dents and scratches on the hood of the automobile and
that some of the chrome plating on the bumper seemed to have been stripped off in some unknown
manner. The area surrounding the dent on the bumper was not scratched, cracked, or lifted away from

the plating base metal of the steel bumper. Mr. Paquette, who investigated the scene of the alleged
collision and also examined Richardsons car, later observed that the sound and sensation of the impact
indicated that the object was probably lifting off just as the car struck it. This was also indicated by the
small amount of damage done to the automobile.
To us, one of the most interesting aspects of this case was the series of visitors received by Mr.
Richardson in the days following the incident. On the 16th of July at 11:00 p.m., two men in their twenties
presented themselves at Richardsons home and asked to talk to him about the incident. They stayed
about ten minutes, mainly asking questions about the incident and its location. They seemed somewhat
friendly. They did not identify themselves, however, and Richardson neglected to ask them for their
names. When they left, he noted that they were driving a 1953 black Cadillac sedan with the license
number 8577-D. He later checked with the Toledo police department to see if he could get a lead on their
identities and found that that license plate had not yet been issued.
One week after the first two visitors arrival, two other men came to Richardsons home when he
was alone. They were dressed in black suits and were of dark complexion. They impressed Richardson
as being foreigners; one had an accent, but the other spoke fluent English. From the conversation of
the two men, Richardson gathered that they were trying to make him think he had not hit anything on the
road that night; they then contradicted themselves by demanding the two pieces of physical evidence that
he had retrieved. Mr. Richardson told them that the material had been turned over to APRO for analysis.
They asked if there was any way he could get it back. Richardson said no.
Just before the two men left, one of them said, If you want your wife to stay as pretty as she is,
then youd better get the metal back.
Richardson was very upset about this, particularly since his wife was pregnant; he had been very
concerned for her safety. He confided in us that he hated to leave her alone to go to work because of
what the man said. When those two men left, he noticed that they were driving a 1967 tan two-door
Dodge sedan. He couldnt make out the license number because of the way the car was parked.
In view of the fact that the piece of metal was discussed only on the phone between Mrs.
Lorenzen and Mr. Richardson, and later in private between Richardson and Paquette, those concerned
are wondering how the information got out. Richardson swears he did not discuss it with anyone but
Paquette, his wife, and Mrs. Lorenzen. So it would seem that the telephone call from Mrs. Lorenzen to
Richardson was somehow monitored.
Dr. Allen Utke of the Wisconsin State University at Oshkosh, then consultant to APRO in
chemistry, examined the lump of which was found on the road. He found it to be iron and chromium with
traces of nickel and manganese.
On March 13, 1968, a test conducted at the request of Dr. Roy Craig of the University of Colorado
UFO Project, showed the following distributions:
Iron 75 per cent
Nickel 1 per cent
Chromium 20 per cent
Silicon 1 per cent
Manganese 3 per cent
In conjunction with the above, a test was run on the fibrous metal taken from the front bumper of
Richardsons car. The distribution was reported as follows:
Magnesium 92 per cent
Aluminum 5 per cent
Zinc 2 per cent
Manganese 1 per cent

The test results furnished to APRO by the University of Colorado do not specify the types of
testing utilized or the accuracies of the tests.
While there is nothing unique or mysterious about the alloys involved, an alloy containing 92 per
cent magnesium is not what one would expect to find on ones front bumper.

The Richardson-UFO collision obviously was an accident and not by design. But the
following two cases had to have been engineered by the UFOs and, to our knowledge, represent
the only two of their kind in the annals of UFO history.
Referred to as car levitations, these cases involve the physical lifting of automobiles off
the road by an unknown source. It has come to our attention that in order to make the specific
phenomenon more scientific-sounding in upcoming tomes relating to the UFO mystery, these
events will be referred to as mass displacements. However, not wanting to attach any more
mystery to the subject than is already present, we will simply state what happened and let the
reader make up his own mind concerning which is the better designation.

May 14, 1971:

On May 14, 1971, Mr. and Mrs. Wilton Raw Eater, Blackfoot Indians of the Blackfoot Indian
Reservation near Gleichen, Alberta, Canada, were on their way home at the end of the work week. They
had stopped at a bar for a few beers, as was their custom. At a certain point in the road, after having
passed some houses on a hill, they became aware of a very bright light. Both Mr. and Mrs. Raw Eater
had difficulty in describing what happened, but said the light persisted for a few seconds, whereupon Mrs.
Raw Eater informed her husband that the car was off the ground. He said he kept steering the car, but it
kept to the centre of the road and apparently, his efforts to steer it had no effect.
According to Raw eater, the car seemed to float from the crest of the hill to the bottom at a speed
of about forty to forty-five miles per hour, with no feeling of the characteristic bumps in the road. Mrs.
Raw Eater looked outside and saw that the wheels were about two feet above the level of the road. She
said that the car felt like a new car, which theirs wasnt, and that she was very frightened. When finally
the light went out, the car descended to the surface of the gravel road with a decided bump. Then, the
couple drove to Mr. Raw Eaters house where they discussed it with his brother and his wife.

Most might consider the foregoing to be the result of hallucinations of inebriated Indians.
However, considering that it was Mr. Raw Eaters custom to have a few beers (he was the
reservations school bus driver) on the last work day of the week, there is no reason that he
should have had this particular type of hallucination on that particular night. Also, there is the
problem of simultaneous hallucination in both husband and wife. And in view of what had
happened two years before, which had not been published and which only came to our attention
in 1973, it seems that both couples might have had an experience with a similar craft.

January 25, 1969:

Mrs. L. B. (Anonymity requested) was bringing her husband home from the hospital after
treatment for an injury suffered in an industrial accident. At 12:30 a.m. on Saturday, January 25, 1969,
they were within a quarter mile of their home at Yorkville, Illinois, when a bright light to the right of the car
at 30 elevation became evident. It resembled a brightly illuminated ice cream cone (sans ice cream; no
rounded portion) flying broad end first, with the pointed end slightly elevated above the front portion. It
came out of the northeast and when at an estimated quarter mile from the car at treetop level, it righted
itself, giving the appearance of a triangle with the point up and flat portion pointed toward the ground. It

appeared to Mrs. B. to be two or three stories in height as it hovered, showing horizontal strips on the
body which resembled siding on a house. On the bottom, there appeared to be a lattice-like affair which
impressed Mrs. B. as looking like diamonds and rubies, indicating the presence of red and white lights.
The object lit up the ground below, spun on its axis two or three times, flashing an exceptionally
bright light. Then a strip peeled back (down toward the witness) and the object tilted back, revealing the
bottom portion. In this position, Mrs. B. could see a dim, luminous light like an I-beam and was afforded a
view of the inside of the object which she compared to the spongy appearance of iron ore.
At this point, the car engine and lights died. The car, a Chrysler Imperial, stopped completely.
The front end of the car rose up until it was off the ground. Mrs. B. screamed, waking her husband who
had been dozing in the seat beside her. He said, Ill start this car and reached over and turned the key,
but with no results. It apparently hadnt dawned on him what had happened. The car wouldnt start and
both were aware that the car was definitely elevated in front.
Then the lighted object moved off in a smooth motion to the northwest. As it left the area, the car
came down slowly, but with a noticeable bump when it again rested on the roadway. Mrs. B. was then
able to start the car and all was normal.
Arriving at home, they found no marks on the car, but the next day, when visiting their landlord
who lived a short distance up the lane from them, they found that his wife had been up at approximately
12:30 a.m. to use the bathroom and had become aware of a very bright light, which shone through the
picture window of the living room. She thought at the time that it was most unusual to have lightning that
morning, as the sky was clear and cloudless. The testimony of the landlords wife, given to Field
Investigator Fred Merritt, is corroboration of a kind, in that an unusual and unidentified light was in the
area at the time of the Bs experience.

Admittedly, the cases offered in this chapter are not a listing of all the UFO-car encounter
cases on file at APRO. However, it has been our intent to include the most interesting cases,
which demonstrate the different types of UFO shapes and lighting patterns as well as those cases
involving multiple witnesses, so that the reactions of more than one human observer can be
noted. The presentation only proves one thing: that intelligent, thoughtful people are seeing
incredible things which have impressed them sufficiently to risk ridicule and report them.

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ENCOUNTERS WITH UFO OCCUPANTS

by Coral and Jim Lorenzen (1976)

UFO Landing Traces

UFOs have been reported flying around the skies of this planet for hundreds and possibly,
thousands of years, and many books have been written about that aspect of the UFO puzzle.
But they have, in many instances, landed and left evidence of their presence behind. It is
this phase of UFO activity which we will deal with in this chapter.
In our 1967 book Flying Saucer Occupants, we documented several landing cases which
involved landing traces and also demonstrated a correlation between certain types of UFOs and
specific types of terrain.
Briefly, we will describe the more important incidents.

Summer 1956:
A pilot driving through the desert and bound for Nellis Air Force Base experienced a sudden and
inexplicable engine failure. He tried to start the car with no success, then started walking. He saw a
strange shape at the side of the highway and, being curious, approached it. To his surprise it took off.
Before it left, however, he got a good look it was circular and disc-shaped with a dome on top. When it
took off, he clearly saw three circular appendages underneath. The pilot went back to his car which
started with no trouble. When he reached Nellis, he reported the incident to intelligence and he and one
of their officers immediately drove back to the scene. On the ground at the location of the sighting, they
found three clearly defined concave impressions in the sand.

September 13, 1966:

About ten years later, on the Emmanuel Rotenberger farm near Gwinner, North Dakota, landing
impressions which closely resembled those seen by the pilot, were found in a plowed field. At 7:30 a.m.,
eleven-year-old Randy Rotenberger ran excitedly into the house and told his mother that a strange object
had landed in the field. Mrs. Rotenberger told him to lock the door and stay inside, which he did, but he
watched through the window and made these observations: the object appeared to be metallic and
shaped like two bowls fastened together, lip to lip. Two red lights and a green one were arranged along
the joining. It sat on three legs which ended in "feet" or gear which were circular and looked like bowls
with the rounded part down.
The legs jutted downward and slightly outward, giving the boy the impression of the legs of a
camera tripod. There was what appeared to be a transparent "bubble" on the top of the object. No forms
or movement could be observed inside. Randy thought the object was perhaps 8 to 10 feet high at its
thickest portion and "about one and a half times as wide as a Cadillac is long" or about thirty feet in
diameter.
After sitting on the ground for about one minute, the object took off. There was a blue glow on
the bottom, and it made a roar followed by a "buzzing" sound. Randy called his mother again just before
the object left, and she heard the noise which accompanied its departure.
This incident was investigated by General Homer Goebel, State Air National Guard Commander
at Fargo and Assistant State Adjutant General for Air. Goebel inspected the site of the landing and found

three impressions in the soft earth. Each was a foot in diameter, round in shape, tapering down to a
rounded base. They formed a triangular pattern with sides 26, 23 and 22 feet apart, and they gave the
impression of indentations made by pressing three bowls into the ground. Goebel told the St. Paul
Dispatch: They look pressed, not dug and Id hate to call it a hoax because the boy sounded as if he
was quite sincere.
When interviewed by telephone from APROs office, Randy Rotenberger was cooperative, but not
overly talkative, and positive of what he saw; he readily admitted he had been frightened.

Another type of landing impression was documented in 1957, when three different
landings took place within days of each other. One was at La Madera, New Mexico; another at
Canyon Ferry, Montana, and the most famous and well-investigated one occurred at Socorro, New
Mexico.

April 24, 1964:

On April 24, 1964, Patrolman Lonnie Zamora of the Socorro Police Department, was chasing a
speeder on the southern edge of town when he saw a blue flame in the sky and heard a loud roar in the
direction of a dynamite shack in the desert. Fearful that youngsters had been "messing around" the
dynamite shack, he gave up the chase and headed his patrol car toward the shack over a desert trail
leading up over one mesa, down through a wash, and up onto a second mesa at the far end of which the
dynamite shack stood. At first, it seemed that his patrol car could not make it up the incline, but on the
third try, he succeeded. At the point of entering the wash he looked "upstream" and spotted what
appeared to be a light-coloured car standing on end and two humanoid figures beside it (he said they
looked about the size of young boys) about 600 feet away. One of the figures seemed to look toward
Zamora as if startled by his presence. Zamora could not make out any details, because of the dust
(apparently kicked up by the object's landing) as well as the distance. At this point, he radioed police
headquarters and asked State Patrolman Sam Chavez for assistance. Chavez immediately set out and
might have viewed the object himself had he not taken the wrong street.
Meanwhile, Zamora continued. As he topped the second mesa, he heard two metallic bangs.
Pulling his car up to where he thought the object was, he got out and took three steps toward the wash.
The figures were gone but the object, white and egg-shaped, was still there. Then a roar filled the air and
the object lifted off the ground. Zamora turned and ran in the other direction to the other side of the mesa
and threw himself into the wash northwest of the patrol car. With a blue jet of flame about 3 feet long
issuing from underneath, the object elevated toward the dynamite shack and when approximately 20 feet
above it, the roar was replaced by a high-pitched whining sound and the flame vanished. It headed into
the southwest at low altitude and high speed and was out of sight in seconds.
Only seconds later, Chavez arrived upon the scene to find a thoroughly frightened, dirty, and
dishevelled Patrolman Zamora.
Afterwards, Zamora reported that the strange vehicle had rested on four girder-like legs which
retracted when it elevated from the ground. In the gully were found four depressions which appeared to
have been made by four wedge-like members pressing outward at an angle from a central area.
Imaginary lines connecting opposing depressions intersected at right angles. Those downhill from this
imaginary intersection were at greater distances from it than were those uphill from it. Desert growth in
the area of this intersection a clump of range grass, a shrub, and a small barrel cactus showed
signs of short-term high heating. The grass and the shrub were charred and smouldering in upper
portions toward this imaginary intersection and the cactus had been scorched and burned in the same
manner. The desert soil was of the general character of beach sand underscored with coarse gravel. It
was not possible for a human being to walk in it without leaving obvious tracks. When Chavez and
Zamora descended to the landing site, the absence of tracks made it obvious that no one had preceded
them. Deputy Luckie, who arrived as Chavez and Zamora began their examination, verified this point.

When we examined the scene less than forty hours later, we were able to patrol the perimeter of
the landing area and determine that no one had entered it except by the trail that Zamora took. Because
it had rained heavily in the three days previous to the incident, Zamora, Chavez and Luckie were able to
testify to the fact that no ground vehicle or pedestrian had preceded them to the area since the rain.
Because of the residual moisture found two days after the incident, the range grass in question could not
sustain burning when we attempted to ignite it with matches and a cigarette lighter.
Chavez, following the methodical instincts of an experienced law officer, had "checked out" his
friend despite the absence of tracks. Zamora had no implements with him with which to dig.

May 20, 1967:

Steve Michalak is a Polish-born industrial mechanic living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A chance
meeting with a UFO on the ground while prospecting in a wild area in the vicinity of Falcon Lake,
Manitoba, which is about 75 miles east of Winnipeg, resulted in strange second- and third-degree burns
on his chest and a minor burn on his face. After several years, the burn scars are still evident, and he
claims that they occasionally become reddened as though the burns were recurring.
The incident took place at 12:13 p.m., when Michalak's attention was arrested by the noise of a
number of geese which had been aroused when he first arrived in the area, but they quieted down shortly
after becoming used to his presence. Michalak looked up to see what was disturbing the birds and saw
two red objects approaching at about 14 to 15 degrees from the horizontal and on a heading of 240
degrees. The first was about 15 feet above the ground and the second slightly higher and they
approached at very high speed. The first object came to rest on the ground, blowing leaves and rock
lichen from the landing spot. Michalak was crouching in the brush, examining a rock sample and out of
sight of the object. The second object hovered for a few seconds, then took off at high speed.
The machine just sat on the ground for the next half hour and radiated heat in "rainbow-like"
colours. While airborne, it had been a dull red colour, but when on the ground, it had the appearance of
stainless steel. During the period that it sat on the ground, Michalak took out pencil and paper and
sketched the object. After about 25 minutes, a square door with rounded edges opened and a "fantastic"
purple light emanated from the opening. He pulled his welding glasses down over his eyes and was then
able to see flashing red, green, and blue lights inside the object, but could not discern whether or not they
were on a control panel. At this time, Michalak said he heard a high-pitched whining sound like that of a
motor running at high speed and smelled an odour resembling that of a burned-out electrical motor, and
heard a "whooshing" sound as if air was being taken in and expelled. Michalak then approached the
machine, noting the heat that radiated from it. He claims he heard the sound of voices, so he spoke to it
but got no answer. He tried English, Russian, German, Italian, and Polish. While he was talking, the
sound of the motor stopped; he heard voices again, and then the door closed and moved out to become
flush with the outside of the object. Although he saw the door and knew it was there, he said, when it was
closed there was no evidence of an opening or seam nor were there any seams or rivets of any kind
visible over the rest of the vehicle.
Michalak then reached out and touched the side of the object with his canvas-base, rubbercoated glove, which melted and slipped off the surface. As he looked down at the glove, the machine
began to move in a counter-clockwise direction and he was blown to the left by a blast of hot air or
exhaust which set his clothes on fire. The machine then took off in the direction from which it came.

May 31, 1967:

11 days later, another landing took place near a farm outside Beausejour, Manitoba, about 45
miles from Winnipeg. A farm woman, who requests anonymity, was sitting on her front porch at 11:30
p.m. waiting for her husband to come home. She said she saw a brilliant red light with a smaller blue light

beside it come toward her from the south. It illuminated the ground and appeared to land, whereupon she
became frightened and went into the house. The next morning, she and her husband investigated the
area where the object had apparently landed and found a semi-circular area 30 yards by 50 yards in
flames. The strange aspect of this case is that on the 15th of June, the area was still smouldering despite
the fact that there had been considerable rain in the interim. Soil samples taken at the site yielded
nothing.

As we proceed in this examination of the ground markings associated with the landing of
unidentified flying objects, it will become extremely clear that there are many ways in which the
UFOs manifest themselves on the ground, such as in the following case:

July 5, 1967:
On Route 31 near the Depot Road area in Coventry, Connecticut, a motorist sighted an orange
ball of light which appeared to be hanging from a tree. The driver immediately drove into Coventry and
notified the police, but by the time officers arrived on the scene, the area was deserted. After receiving
the full report from the police, APRO Field Investigator Larry Fawcett examined the area and found a
grassy spot which had been swirled flat as if compressed be some rotating force just a few yards off the
road from the point where the ball of light had been seen.

This particular type of ground marking, which had been found quite frequently in Australia
several months before the Coventry case, had been dubbed "saucer nests" by the press, alluding
to the original designation for a UFO which had been popularly used in the 1940's and 1950's.

January 9, 1967:
Another such "nest" was found by Ronald E. Januzzi, a mineralogist of Danbury, Connecticut,
near his museum on the Danbury-Brewster highway. It was found on the morning of the 9th of January
1967 and was considered to be too large to have been caused by an animal; however, no UFO was seen
in the vicinity which could be linked to the spot.

July 20, 1967:

Another case with a different marking involved young (18-year-old) Barbara Fawcett of Pompano
Beach, Florida, who was driving to Islamorada where her mother was staying, at 11:30 p.m. on July 20,
1967. Her small Ford was the only vehicle on the highway at the time, so when a large yellow light
showed up in her rear-view mirror, she became frightened. It made a constant high-pitched roaring
sound, and when she tried to speed up to get away from it, it overtook her car, swayed up a few feet as if
to land on top of it. But at that moment, a car approached from the opposite direction and the bright
yellow glow coming from the object covered the road for a second, and then completely disappeared.
Arriving at her mother's home at Islamorada, Barbara told her mother of her experience, rested
for a couple of hours and, convinced that it had been an illusion, decided to return to Pompano in order to
elude early morning rush hour traffic. She and her sister and a toy poodle began the journey back on
U.S. Highway 1 and reached the Jewish Creek area at 2:30 a.m. on July 21st. The only other car on the
road had turned off at Ocean Reef, and the girls were alone when the dog suddenly began to shake
violently, not making a sound. Then the girls saw the yellow light again as it rose out of the swamp west
of the highway. This time, it did not look perfectly round as before, but somewhat jagged. "It wobbled
and floated up, down, and from side to side," Miss Fawcett reported.
When the object appeared in front of the car about 15 feet off the ground, Barbara thought she

was going to collide with it. But as the car nearly reached the object, it veered to the right under the
power lines and landed on one of the large sand dunes to the right of the road. At this juncture, the light
became smaller and smaller until it reached the size of a pinpoint and finally disappeared. Less than a
minute later, the large light again appeared in the rear-view mirror of the car, and Barbara kept going as
fast as her car would go and reached Pompano Beach. She later reported the incident to officers at
Substation Four in Homestead, the Air Force and Homestead police. Investigation showed an immense
scorched area on top of a particular sand dune near the edge of the road where Miss Fawcett estimated
the object had landed.

October 9, 1967:
Our next ground marking report came from a 14-year-old Tucson, Arizona, boy who observed a
"maverick" as far as UFO prototypes are concerned, at 5:40 p.m. on the 9th of October in 1967. Richard
(he and his parents ask that he remain anonymous) had ridden his bicycle part-way home with a friend
and was returning alone, following the track of a mini-bike. He decided to ride along the floor of a wash (a
wash is a deep ditch-like affair in the desert floor which carries run-off water in the rainy season) and was
nearly home when he had to ride up the side of the wash to avoid a tree which was growing across the
wash in his path. There had been some rain and the floor of the wash was hard-packed. As Richard
detoured, he spotted a cylindrical object sitting on two legs about 44 feet away from him. He rode a little
further until he was about 35 feet from the object, whereupon it left the ground, ascended straight up with
a discernible side-to-side motion, and disappeared from sight within 12 seconds.
Later questioning indicated that the object was approximately 8 feet tall, 2 feet wide, and it was
shaped much like a water heater except that the top was rounded. It appeared to be metallic, reflecting
sunlight, but not reflecting the images of trees, brush, etc., in the vicinity. The object was supported by
two legs which angled out from the bottom, ending in two "feet" in the shape of round "pads". A curved
bar ran between the "legs" just above the "feet", indicating that it was a strengthening or bracing member.
Richard proceeded immediately to his home and told his mother what he had seen, and the two
of them went back to the wash where she took several colour photos of the impressions left by the object
and of the general area. The imprints indicated that the "legs and pads" made a twisting motion as they
left the ground. The tracks measured 13 inches across and the area of the impressions from edge to
edge measured about 42 inches.
In checking Richard's claim, the area was observed and the terrain clearly showed Richard's
bicycle tracks and his footprints indicating, as he stated, that after the object left, he approached to within
about 2 feet of the place where the object had rested. It would not have been possible for the boy to have
made the impressions without aid and there were no other tracks indicating the presence of others.
Probably one of the most interesting aspects of this case is the fact that the magnetometer at the
Tucson Magnetic and Seismological Observatory, which is located within a few miles of the sighting
location, registered a perturbation, and inasmuch as UFO movements in other cases have produced the
same reaction, we can at least speculate that the UFO and the magnetometer action were linked.

As the reader will note, the year 1967 was a year of very heavy UFO activity and in
particular, involved a considerable number of landings and close encounters. Subsequent
chapters will document the occupant cases which were most outstanding, but before getting into
that phase, we go to Fordingbridge, England, for the adventure of one Karl Barlow of Dawley,
th
Shropshire, at 2:30 a.m. on the 6 of November.

November 6, 1967:
Barlow was driving his truck on Highway A 338 near Fordingbridge, and as he rounded a bend in

the road, he became aware of a strange object above some trees on the right hand side of the road. It
was approaching and when about a quarter of a mile away, the lights and radio of the truck went dead
although the truck's diesel engine continued to function. Without lights, Barlow decided it would be best
to stop and brought the truck to a halt as he observed the object descend toward the surface of the road
about 15 yards ahead of him. He sat transfixed and watched as an opening or porthole in the bottom of
the thing began to put out a tube-like attachment which resembled the flexible hose of a vacuum cleaner.
At the end of this tube was a box-like affair from which four short tubes protruded. During this
manoeuvre, the main object seemed to emit a high-pitched whine. The box was then directed to the side
of the road and the four short lengths of hose sucked up grass, gravel, and dead leaves from the
roadside. The box was then transferred to the other side of the road where it did the same thing; then the
box and the hose were withdrawn into the porthole and the porthole closed.
The craft hovered for another half a minute, still making the whining sound, then ascended into
the air, taking off in the same direction from which it had come to the right of the truck. Barlow
described the main object as about 15 feet in width, egg-shaped, with an "out of this world green color". A
small, white, saucer-shaped form was visible on its underside during its departure.
During the time that the object hovered over the road and sucked up material from each side,
another vehicle, a white Jaguar with one passenger, which was coming from the opposite direction from
that of the truck, pulled up when its engine and lights failed. When it stopped, the UFO was between the
truck and the Jaguar and both drivers got a good look at the object.
Upon the departure of the UFO, Barlow went to a phone and called the police who came upon the
scene shortly thereafter. The Jaguar driver was still there as he could not start his car since the battery
was dead, as was the truck's battery. Barlow, described by police as being in a terrified condition when
he reported the incident, duly made his report which was carried in the English press. The Jaguar driver,
however, had had a couple of drinks and did not want to submit to a "breathalyser" test and therefore did
not make a report. Both vehicles were tested by the Royal Automobile Club official testers and were
found to be in good mechanical condition. The truck's battery had been charged shortly before the
incident took place and there was no reason found for the condition of either of the batteries. Other
interesting points of information about this case include the fact that the truck's lights and radio came
back on (he had not turned them off) when the UFO was about a quarter of a mile away on its exit flight.
Constable Roy Nineham who was in the patrol car and who had investigated this report said, "the
most startling part of his report is that his lights failed and came on again when the object he saw
disappeared". Another police spokesman made this statement: "There is no explanation for this. We
have no reason to suspect the informant's story". The ground clearly showed that two areas, one on each
side of the road, were absent of leaves, gravel and grass.

Eighteen days after Mr. Barlows experience in England, two technicians in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, witnessed an astonishing sight from the window of an apartment building where they were
repairing a record player. In the Barlow case, it seemed obvious that the object in question was
taking samples for some unknown reason, but the motivations of the Rio UFO leaves much about
which to speculate.

November 24, 1967:

It was 2:30 p.m. on the 24th of November on the eighth floor of a building on the Rua Gomes
Carneiro, the front of which faces the hills which run parallel to the coastline. From this apartment, a
large area between Praca G. Osorio and the spot where the tunnel comes out onto Rus R. Pomepia is
visible.
Carlos Alberto do Nascimento, 14, the helper to Ugo Battaglia, 39, a radio technician, was
standing by the window when he heard a high-pitched sound which made the glass vibrate, and looking

out the window, he saw a brilliant, metallic, disc-shaped object which appeared to be landing just below
the skyline among the trees opposite the building. One tree stood well above the others, and as the
object passed over, it struck the tree and the leaves scattered about and the tree itself appeared to "blow
up". Settling close to the ground, the craft hovered and out of the bottom of the object came three whiteclad men who proceeded to walk around it. Carlos excitedly called Mr. Battaglia to the window and the
two watched the spectacle. Both were struck with two strange characteristics of the three forms: they
walked around the object side by side, in a row. Their arms hung down from their side as though made of
lead they did not swing as do the arms of a normal man.
The only disagreement between the two about the scene was that Carlos thought the clothing
worn by the three figures was white like the type worn by service station attendants (coveralls), but
Battaglia said he thought they were yellow.

Mrs. Irene Granchi, our field investigator for Rio de Janeiro who conducted the
investigation, suggested that Battaglia, who had been further inside the room, had been focusing
his attention on his work and that the sudden bright sunshine, when he went to the window, may
have affected his color perception. Carlos had been at the window for some time before calling
Battaglia.

After about five minutes of the "walking", the three figures went under the disc, which continued to
hover. Carlos noticed a spinning cupola with "slat windows" on top and a red light at both ends of the
saucer-shaped object underneath. The day was clear with perfect visibility. Their business at the
apartment concluded, Battaglia and Carlos left the building at 2:55 p.m., and on their way to their shop at
the corner of the street, they both looked up to the hill and saw that the UFO was still there. When they
reached the last corner near a square, they looked again and the object was gone. Upon arriving at their
shop, Carlos and Mr. Battaglia told about their observation to another man in the shop and they all
decided to visit the spot the next day. Their friend took a new camera along with him. At the scene of the
landing, the three found the wild grass trampled or pushed down and the tree which Carlos had seen
appeared to have been wrenched apart, had no leaves on it, and the bare trunk looked burned and
charred. The other trees in the area were perfectly normal. Samples of the bark and tree trunk were
obtained and turned over to APRO, but as usual, beyond the fact that they were burned, nothing was
learned.
The men noted that the grass, which was very high, would have covered them completely had
they tried to walk through it. However, Carlos and Ugo testified that the three figures they had seen were
walking only knee-deep in the grass, indicating that they were not, in fact, walking on the ground, but that
by some means of locomotion, were moving about above the ground. Carlos, who had never put much
stock in UFOs, was badly shaken by what he had seen and suffered from a severe headache, no doubt
due to shock, for the rest of that day. Battaglia, on the other hand, had convinced himself that he had
seen a helicopter until he talked with his colleague at the shop.
Another apparent witness had called the police station after having fainted at the sight of the
object and its crew. This information was picked up from a local radio station and attempts were made to
locate the witness, but to no avail.

This case is included here because of the ground traces, but from what was described, it
seems possible that it could have been discussed in the chapter dealing with the infallibility of
UFOs, or in the chapter dealing with the floating, flying UFOnauts.
If Battaglias and Carlos observations were accurate, it can be theorized that the object
came in too close to the ground, struck the tree, and then stopped while the occupants got out
and searched for exterior damage to the craft. Whether or not the close approach was intentional
for some unknown reason or there was some malfunction of the controls cannot even be

guessed.

July 13, 1969:

Our next ground trace case has received wide attention, probably because of the photographs
taken from an airplane showing the marks allegedly left by an unidentified flying object. The only
testimony that an object was there at all comes from two young girls who, on the night of July 13, 1969,
were preparing to retire in the upstairs bedroom of the Warren Barr home 7 miles south of Garrison,
Iowa. Pat Barr's attention was caught by what sounded like a low flying jet and she went to the north
window and looked out in the direction of a neighbouring farm. She called to her cousin Kathy Mahr, 17,
and the two girls watched what they described as a strange object which appeared to be hovering over a
large bean field on the Barr farm. Kathy described the object as follows. It had a dull metallic finish which
was easily discerned because of the two rows of lights which were arranged across the face of it at its
mid-line. It had the appearance of "two coffee saucers" placed rim to rim, and it rotated as it hovered.
The sighting lasted only a few seconds, after which the object left at such high speed that the girls did not
know precisely which direction it went, except that it went past their window. But they claimed that the
area where it had hovered was glowing red after the object disappeared from sight. Neither of the girls
was frightened but they were curious about the strange craft.
At breakfast the next day, the girls told the Barrs about what they had seen, and Mr. Barr tended
to be skeptical and attributed the whole thing to "a figment of their imagination". However, later that
morning he discovered, at the spot indicated by the girls, a nearly circular patch of ground in his bean
field which was almost bare. The bean vines appeared to have been burned although there was no
evidence of flame.
The area in the field which was "burned" was approximately 40 feet in diameter and was easily
seen from the air. The local news media showed interest in the incident and a taped interview with the
Barr girl was made, which was played on a local radio station. Most of the area's residents were inclined
to think that the scarred field resulted from a "fireball" or lightning, and Mr. Barr did not rule out lightning
entirely. When interviewed, he said that he hadn't informed authorities at first because he was skeptical.
Pat Barr, on the other hand, was convinced that the object she had seen had caused the damage to the
bean crop and that it was an "air-flying object from outer space". Mr. Barr told interviewers that he "would
hesitate to guess" at the object's identity and the cause of the scar on the field but did say that he felt it
was "something unusual I'll put it that way".
APRO Field Investigator Glenn McWane and member Leroy Latham conducted APROs
investigation and Mr. McWane furnished the photo of the field. Samples of the beans were submitted to
APRO Headquarters, but nothing could be learned from them, other than the fact that they had been
burned in some manner.

As the reader will no doubt notice, the concentration of landings was in 1967, gradually
becoming more and more infrequent in the ensuing years. This may be due to the fact that there
were simply more landings in 1967 or it may be that landings took place in later years and were
not reported. There are, of course, other cases of claimed landings, cases in which strange marks
were found on the ground, but they are not included here because no UFO was observed before
or after the marks were discovered.
Stewart, Minnesota, is the location of our next ground trace report. Field Investigator
Michael Stone did not learn of the case until five weeks after it allegedly occurred, so when he
examined the field, he could find only one stalk of damaged corn.

June 25, 1971:

At 12:30 a.m. (C.D.T.) on the morning of June 25, 1971, members of the Arnold Windschitl family
were awakened by the sound of a sudden, strong gust of wind. Mrs. Windschitl noticed that a small
electric night light in the house went out at the same time but came back on a couple of seconds later.
Mr. Windschitl, thinking a heavy storm was beginning, rushed outside to check the weather but found that
the sky was cloudless and there was no wind or lightning. Their ducks, however, were "wild", and the
electric yard light had gone out.
The yard light is actuated by a photo-sensor; it extinguishes when the ambient light exceeds a
certain value and turns on, after a few minutes' delay, when it becomes dark. Mr. Windschitl theorized
that a bright flash had accompanied the wind and extinguished the light. After a couple of minutes, the
yard light came back on and the ducks quieted down. They could find nothing else wrong so the family
retired again for the night. An older son was returning home from Stewart on his motorcycle at the time of
the incident and saw what appeared to be the flash of a meteor in the direction of the farm.
The next morning, Mr. Windschitl was cultivating corn in a field a few hundred yards east of their
farmhouse when he noticed that a portion of his field was flattened and scorched. The area affected was
circular and about 25 feet in diameter. The corn was bent over about one inch from the ground with the
stalks all pointing radially out from the centre. In the centre of the circle was a circular dish-shaped
depression approximately 2 feet in diameter and 6 to 8 inches deep in the centre. Inside the depression,
near the edge, were five or six small holes, approximately three-fourths of an inch in diameter and 2
inches deep.
A day or two later, according to the family, they were weeding a bean field about a quarter of a
mile south of the corn field when they discovered a similar burned and flattened area. They estimated the
diameter of the circle to be 25 feet, as in the corn field, but there was no evidence of the disc-shaped
depression in the centre. Mr. Windschitl offered his opinion that the two areas could have been damaged
at the same time.
During his investigation, Mr. Stone examined the fields. Heavy rains had occurred in the
meantime and the corn was over 6 feet tall by then, so it was difficult to find the damaged area in the corn
field. The dish-shaped depression had been almost completely obliterated, but was still noticeable and
over half of the corn in the damaged area had recovered and appeared to be as big and healthy as the
corn in the rest of the field. Two of the Windschitl boys, Tony and Paul, and Mr. and Mrs. Stone
examined the bean field, but found nothing to indicate damage; apparently, the beans had managed to
recover completely.
After the interview, Mr. Stone showed Mr. Windschitl an article in the July-August 1969 APRO
Bulletin describing a similar occurrence in the Barr case. Mr. Windschitl said that if an aerial photograph
of his bean field had been taken at the time the damage was discovered, it would have appeared the
same as in the photograph accompanying the article. He estimated the diameter of the circle in the
photograph to be about 25 feet, assuming a 44-inch spacing between rows, making it about the same
size as the burned areas in his field.

The explanation which comes most readily to mind in the Windschitl case is, of course,
lightning, but the atmospheric conditions do not support this, and fulgurites, a fused soil
condition which almost always accompanies lightning strikes, were not found. A meteor strike
seems to be ruled out, too, in view of the circular shape of the damaged area in both the corn and
bean fields.
In 1972, the National Enquirer, a weekly magazine published at Lantana, Florida,
sponsored an ongoing contest to award various sums of money for the best UFO cases, the
ultimate prize being $50,000 for a report that would prove that UFOs are from outer space. A
$5,000 prize was awarded to Ronald Johnson, a 16-year-old farm boy who lives near Delphos,
Kansas, for his report of a landed object on the family farm on November 2, 1971. A whitish ring
of soil which glowed and would not absorb water was the physical evidence that something quite

strange had happened in the small clearing on the Johnson farm.

November 2, 1971:
On that date, at 7 p.m., Mr. Johnson and Ronald were in the farm yard. Mrs. Johnson called them
to dinner and Mr. Johnson went in while Ronald stayed in the yard. The Johnsons ate a leisurely meal
which took about 30 minutes, then Mrs. Johnson called to Ronald again. The Johnsons do not remember
whether or not Ronald answered. However, he shortly came to call them out to see a bright light
disappearing from view in the southeast sky.
Then Ronald related what had happened during the time that his parents were eating.
Unfortunately, Ronald is not completely clear concerning the time involved and cannot account for all of
the 30 minutes between the time his mother first called him and when he called his parents out at 7:30.
However, Ronald claimed that he heard a rumbling sound, took a couple of steps to the north and around
the corner of the barn about 90 to 95 feet from him was a strange craft hovering above the ground. It
stayed there for about five minutes, then it ascended over a low shed and headed south.
At this point, he called his parents who came out and saw the object leaving. They walked over
to the spot where the object was first seen and saw a glowing, phosphorescent, ring-shaped area on the
ground and also noted that portions of trees adjacent to the area were also glowing. Mrs. Johnson took a
photo of the ground immediately. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson claimed that upon touching the soil in the ring,
their fingers became numb. This condition persisted with Mrs. Johnson, she said, for about a week. She
was employed at a local rest home and said that she could not feel the pulses of her patients during that
period of time.

After receiving the preliminary report on this case, APRO asked Mr. Clancy Tull, a lawyer
and field investigator from Kansas City, Missouri, to visit the Johnsons and attempt to get
answers which had not been covered in the original report.

According to Tull, Ronald saw an object but could not describe the surface. The bottom of the
craft was about one foot above ground level, but Ronald could not recall seeing the actual ground level.
The base seemed stationary but the upper portion was moving or vibrating from side to side or perhaps
wavering up and down. The illumination of the object apparently began some minutes after Ronald first
saw it. He described the illumination as appearing like an arc, such as the electric light between electric
welding rod and metal being welded. This arc flash began at the base of the object and almost
instantaneously involved the entire object. The arc flash allegedly caused an apparent flash burn in both
of Ronald's eyes. He described blue, red, and orange. There was a partial loss of vision, but not "total
black" or absence of light. Mr. Tull assumed that something akin to a flash burn caused total constriction
of the pupils and perhaps even temporary damage to the rods and cones in the eyes.
The evidence gathered by Mr. Tull indicated that the sheep were not disturbed until after the
observation began and that Ronald was perhaps 90 feet, 235 degrees S.S.E. from the assumed center of
the ring when he first observed the object after taking one or two steps to the north. Ronald's eyes
watered, burned, and were bloodshot for a least two days. The object in question was estimated to be
about 9 feet in diameter, the ring was a foot wide, and the outer diameter of the entire ring was about 8
feet.
The preliminary investigation by Ted Philips of Sedalia, Missouri, had been carried out 32 days
after Ronald Johnson allegedly had the experience and there had been considerable precipitation. The
inside of the ring was very muddy as was the terrain outside of it. However, the ring itself was dry down
to 1 foot, whereas the soil outside the ring was wet down to 8 inches. A truly interesting set of
circumstances and evidence.

When Philips first saw the ring, it was distinguished by the fact that it was still covered with snow,
while in all the surrounding area, the snow had melted. His report states: "Although the surrounding area
was extremely moist, we found that if the snow was removed from any part of the ring, the soil directly
beneath the snow was dry and light brown in colour this was in contrast with the black moist soil in the
ring centre and around the ring".
Ted Philips returned to the site on August 8, 1972, in the company of APRO Research Director
Dr. James Harder. They found that the ring seemed to be "widening" and that differences between ring
soil and the surrounding soil were becoming less pronounced compared with samples taken by Philips
during his earlier visit.
Writing of the August 8, 1972, visit, Harder says: In trying to clarify some of the earlier witness
testimony, I asked many questions of Mrs. Johnson and Ronny. The following points I thought to be
pertinent. During the initial period of the sighting, when Ronny felt himself to be paralyzed, the sheep
seemed not to move. I questioned Ronny about his paralysis, asking if he could move his eyeballs (this
being inferred if the larger muscles are paralyzed). He seemed not too sure, but said that he could not.
Mrs. Johnson still suffers a numbness in her leg, just above the knee in front of the right leg, where she
rubbed her fingers after first reacting to the numbness induced when she put her right hand into the
glowing soil. She was wearing slacks which may have caught the dirt; she did not change clothes for
some time. This may have given a longer or more intense exposure to that spot. Mr. Johnson
experienced the numbness in his fingers, too, from handling the dirt.
I talked to some other non-family witnesses and got some additional provocative information, but
nothing that adds to the probative evidence. Besides the family (two sons and the parents), there were at
least three others who saw the ring at night within four days Judy Stout (friend of the older son) and
the reporter Thaddia Smith and her husband. All the witnesses agreed it was very bright. 'About as
bright as the floor of a lighted room if you came in from the dark. You could almost read a newspaper by
it'. The older son saw it four or five days later and he described it as 'about like a fluorescent light bulb'.
He said that a week or two later, you could still see it at night, that it had a greenish tint like a tinted
fluorescent bulb. Judy Stout told me that it was almost like walking into a room with the light on. She saw
it within an hour and said that three days later, it was about the same. On another occasion, however,
she said that it was about half as bright on the third night. The first night she said, 'You could have read
by it'. It could be photographed by its own light with a camera using colour daylight film. The Polaroid
camera aperture was 'set in the middle'. The camera was a Polaroid model 104, with 108 film. This
model does not take time exposures. All of this indicates that the light source was pretty intense far
greater than anything that could be produced by luminescent organisms especially at very cool
evening temperature. So those that want to invoke luminescent fungus, etc., just don't know what they
are talking about. The light output must have been on the order of 50 foot lamberts (50 foot candles at
100 per cent reflectance) in order to have exposed the film the way it did.
The whitish filaments collected on Dec. 4th were fungal in origin, and there is no evidence that
this whitish substance was the same as the material that covered the ground earlier and gave rise to the
light. However, the fungal mycelium can also give a hydrophobic water-rejecting reaction, so there has
been some confusion. However, even the parts of the soil that were not obviously connected with the
fungal growth were hydrophobic. Thus, it would appear that the hydrophobicity and the fungus were not
necessarily connected. A series of soil cultures that I made in Berkeley showed a great deal of scatter in
the amounts of bacteria and fungus, but generally there were, by my colleagues estimates, about ten
times the usual ratio of fungus to bacteria in the samples taken in August 1972. One inference is that the
UFO produced some differential sterilization that favored fungus over bacteria, or that there was some
substrate laid down that favored fungus.
Stanton T. Friedman has claimed that the glow could have resulted from elemental (white)
phosphorus that was produced by micro-wave heating of manure and organic matter deep in the soil, and
which then condensed at the soil surface. This is nonsense, particularly because one cannot sublime or
vaporize phosphorus in the presence of air without its burning. It burns spontaneously in air at
temperatures over 37F. Besides, there was no evidence of steam or other production of heat at the time

immediately after the landing when Mrs. Johnson went out and touched the surface. She said it was cool.
However, she said that several days later, there was something that looked like steam in the photographs
she took, but that one could not see this with the eye. This may be significant, but Im not sure what to
make of it. Maybe there was a strong UV emanation? She said it looked like a volcano (on film); I did not
see the film, as she did not tell me this until later by telephone.
There had been quite a bit of rain the previous day (Nov. 1), 1.82 inches at Concordia, nearby.
The dryness of the ring was apparent on Nov. 3, the next day, and continued in spite of rains between
then and Dec. 4. We can conclude that not only was there an initial drying-out, but an induced
hydrophobicity. These two data have been confused. Furthermore, there seemed to be no way for the
water to have been driven out by heat at the time and what happened to it? Did it get incorporated into
the whitish substance which subsequently decomposed in the process of giving off light? There is not
enough chemical energy available to have accounted for the total quantity of light emitted over several
weeks from any normally-occurring reactions. This suggests that there is a form of matter involved that
does not have the chemical nature of normal matter and takes part in different reactions which are much
more energetic.

November 11, 1972:

An incident which took place at Rosmead, South Africa, on the evening of November 11, 1972,
was indeed baffling to all who investigated it thoroughly. At about 9:30 p.m. policemen at Middleburg
watched a strange glowing object through binoculars. It appeared to change color, and its shape went
from circular to elliptical. They said the light hovered over a hill at Rosmead, then disappeared and
reappeared. A while later, the principal of Rosmead School, Mr. Harold Truter, was just arriving home
when he saw "a beam like a searchlight" in the sky and he and his wife and children watched it for some
time. He then discovered that chunks of tar had been gouged from the school tennis court near his
home. The next morning, he made a closer inspection and found that there was no damage to the
fencing around the court and that the gate was still firmly secured with wire as it had been before the
object was seen. He thought it significant that lumps of tar were found caught high up in the tennis court
fence. On the 13th, police who were searching the area found lumps of tar on a hill some distance away.
Lt. Col. B.J. van Heerden, district commandant of police at Middleburg, stated that the reports on
the object from his men tallied with those of the UFO seen at Fort Beaufort earlier in the year.
As the investigation continued, it was found that a tree next to the tennis court at Rosmead High
School had started to die. It was a large blue gum tree which showed signs of scorching, according to
van Heerden. Theories were advanced that the 10 to 12 foot chunks of tar which had been ripped up
from the court's surface were caused by a gas explosion or a whirlwind, but were discounted because not
a piece of tar had been overturned and the other trees in the vicinity had not sustained any damage. After
the news about the mysterious damage was reported, four men who had been guarding the petrol dumps
400 meters away on Sunday night made independent statements to the police that they had observed red
lights on the court.
"It looked as if someone in a car without headlight, but with tail lights burning were riding around
in circles on the tennis court", they told police. The lights disappeared, they said, and then the whole
petrol dump was illuminated with a "strange incandescent light". Riflemen P.K. Nel and S.J. Rosseau
said that the lights were on the court and not next door.
Mr. E. van Zyl, who held a B.Sc. in astronomy and lectured at the University of Witwatersrand,
investigated the case and concluded that the damage was caused by a whirlwind. Can a whirlwind pick
up material as heavy as the material which was torn out of the tennis court? Why was asphalt found on a
hill some distance away, but there was no evidence of the ravages of a whirlwind between the tennis
court and the hill? Why were the green shoots at the base of the gum tree dying the next day? The tree
was partially denuded and the remainder of the foliage withered it is doubtful that a whirlwind could do
that.

A case which was carefully investigated and later documented in Aime Michels excellent
book Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery (New York, Criterion Books, 1958) bears
considerable resemblance, at least where the physical traces are concerned, to the Rosmead
incident.

October 4, 1954:
On October 4, 1954, Madame Yvette Fourneret of Poncey, France, walked toward a window to
close it. The time was approximately 8 p.m. and, she saw, about 20 yards from the house in the Cazet's
meadow, a luminous body which appeared to be balancing lightly in the air to the right of a plum tree, as if
preparing to land. She estimated that the object was about 3 yards in diameter, elongated, horizontal,
and orange-coloured. The glow from the object threw a pale light on the branches and leaves of the plum
tree. Frightened, she seized her son and ran next door to a friend's house where they tightly closed the
door. At that point, two neighbours arrived, and seeing how frightened the women were, asked and were
told what had happened. Armed with shotguns, the men ran toward the meadow, but when they arrived
there, they found no object, but rather a very strange hole.
Mr. Fourneret had been at a meeting at the Mayor of Ponceys house and was sent for. The
men then went about examining the hole in Mayor Cazet's meadow. What they found was strange
indeed. An area measuring 27 inches wide at one end and 20 inches at the other appeared to have been
"sucked up". White worms wriggled on the fresh soil of the hole, and the earth that had been torn up was
scattered all around the hole in clumps 10 to 12 inches across over a radius of approximately 4 yards.
On the inner edge of the hole, similar clods hung down, and the soil had been pulled out in such a
manner that about halfway down, the aperture was wider than at ground level. There was no trace of any
instrument which could account for the extraction of the earth and also the tiny roots and rootlets in the
soil were intact everywhere on the surface of the hole. None had been cut, as would have been the case
had an excavation taken place.
Another detail was outstanding: in the centre of the holes lay a plant with a long root which was
still attached by the end of the root to the soil at the bottom of the hole with all its rootlets exposed to the
air and completely undamaged. It appeared that the mass of earth spread over the surrounding grass
had been sucked out by a gigantic vacuum. The same was true of the earth which was strewn about on
the grass. There were no cut roots, no trace of an implement, no evidence of burning, and no
impressions in the ground. Many attempts were made to duplicate the hole but were met with no
success.
During the next few days, it was learned that many of the citizens in the area had seen a
luminous object rise on one side of Poncay and shoot off into the southeast at 8 p.m., indicating that they
had likely seen the same object that Mrs. Fourneret had seen hovering above the ground in Mayor
Cazet's meadow.

Many have theorized that the phenomenon at Poncey and the incident at Rosmead, South
Africa were the result of a craft utilizing an anti-gravity method of propulsion, i.e., when the craft
comes in contact or close to the ground, some of the earth is attracted to the object, and when it
elevates and ascends into the air, the suspended earth material drops off. Of course, no exacting
theory can be proposed until the mystery of the actual propulsion is solved. Until then,
speculation is about the best that we can do.

Mid-1960s:
During the excitement of the 1967 UFO activity, we received a letter from Mr. Buzz Montague of

Twin Falls, Idaho, who claimed that he and a companion had observed a strange set of circumstances
involving what he called "mining UFOs". It was some time before we could investigate that particular
case because at that time, APRO was not well represented in Idaho. However, in 1971, Field Investigator
(now Staff Librarian) Allen Benz moved to Twin Falls and was able to contact and interview Mr. Montague
concerning his experience, and he obtained the details of one of the most interesting cases in the annals
of UFO research.
Mr. Montague often hunted in the area of the Spring Creek Mines which is near Spring Creek
Ridge in the Sellway wilderness. He claimed he had often sighted unidentified flying objects, but two
outstanding experiences occurred during the 1960's. The first was during the early sixties and he could
not pinpoint a date. The last sighting was in the middle 1960's (no date for this one either) in the
company of his friend, William Andrews. Both sightings were approximately the same, so we will describe
the latter, during which he had a corroborating witness.
The two men were camped on a bluff overlooking a valley. When they awoke in the early
morning at about 6 a.m., they noticed a shiny spot on the ore dump of a Spring Creek Mine across the
valley. Neither took particular notice of the exact time as they were engrossed in looking at the objects.
Using the 10-power scopes affixed to their rifles, they observed the "shiny object" which actually was one
of four which were hovering over the ore dump. Protruding from the top of each of the objects were four
hose-like devices which were inserted into the slag piles and moving around. After a period of time, one
by one, the objects elevated and ascended into the air. At this time the large object, hovering at about
1,000 feet above the terrain, was spotted. An elongated cigar-shaped object, it had four depressions on
its underside. When the small objects reached the larger one, they fitted themselves into the
depressions, after which there was no indication that there had been a depression there to begin with.
After another short period of time, the objects detached themselves from the cigar-shaped craft and
returned to the slag heap.
The two men were so engrossed in what they were watching that they made no attempt to note
the time but later estimated that they had watched the objects for approximately forty-five minutes to an
hour and a half while they made four trips from the slag heap to the craft hovering overhead. After the
last trip, they remained watching a part of the large object as it moved slowly into the northwest and out of
sight, ascending all the while. All of the craft were silvery in colour, windows or ports were visible in the
large one. The smaller craft, which Mr. Montague referred to as "miners", had transparent domes on the
top but nothing visible inside.

Two theories are offered to explain the purpose of the crafts in this incident. One is that
mining operations were being carried out. On the other hand, the earth which was being probed
had already been mined by men, so that if the occupants of the craft were engaged in research,
they might have been obtaining samples to analyze later to determine the nature of mans mining
in that area. One theory appears to be as valid as the other.

November 16, 1973:

Our next trace case took place on the 16th of November, 1973, at about 7:00 p.m. when Richard
T. and David F. (both they and their parents requested anonymity), eleven years of age, were playing
outside near their homes in Lemon Grove, California. They went down into a vacant area next to the
group of four houses where they live. The area measures approximately 80 by 100 feet and contains a
couple of small trees. The ground consists of hard clay covered by dead field grass and the entire area is
surrounded by a chain link fence. Several neighbouring houses surround the field, about 150 feet distant.
The boys passed through a neighbour's yard on the way to the field, passed a clump of bamboo,
and then came out into the open where they saw a dark object apparently sitting in the darkened field.
They slowly approached the object and after about five minutes, Richard, who had a plastic-cased
flashlight in his hand, walked up to the object and rapped on it three or four times with the flashlight. The

rapping made a metallic sound. Immediately a dome on top of the object, which was about as high as its
diameter, became illuminated with intense red light, a very brilliant spectral or Chinese red which
illuminated the entire area. At the same time the object, which had been about 18 inches off the ground,
rose up to about 3 or 4 feet from the ground, whereupon a row of green lights around the peripheral rim of
the craft started to blink in sequence and the object began to rotate, making a sound which resembled
"woooo-shooooo-woooo-shooooo." The rate of rotation became very high with the red light blinking on
and off, then the red light went out momentarily, came back on, and the object rose into the air, still
making the sound.
The boys, by then frightened, started to run, feeling chills and a tingly feeling, weak "like we were
going to black out or die," and "like we were running in slow motion." They said the object took off toward
the southwest, and after they had left the field and got to the street, they saw it disappear into the clouds.
Both of the boys' mothers told the Field Investigator (Donald R. Carr) that the boys were not in
the habit of telling tall tales and stated that the boys were very excited when they came to the house after
their experience.
During the questioning, it was learned that the object was approximately the size of the living
room, kitchen, and bathroom area of the houses in which the boys live, or 20 feet in diameter. The
interview was conducted in the field where the object was seen, and the height of the craft was set at 10
or 11 feet, based on the size of an adjacent tree. Further investigation revealed two holes in the ground
which measured 6 inches by 6 inches square by 6 inches deep, about 6 feet 8 inches on centres. A third
partial depression, forming an equilateral triangle with the two holes, was apparent on a slight rise of the
ground level. The holes were located 400 feet from the back fence and the hole nearest the side fence
was about 23 feet 3 inches from it. Dead grass in the field seemed to be lying in a counter-clockwise
circular pattern. The ground was extremely hard dry clay and the holes appeared to have been sheared
by something extremely heavy.
Residual magnetism was checked but nothing out of the ordinary was detected. Mr. Carr also
found that several residents in the area had experienced television interference at about 7:20, the time
that he estimated the object took off. Another strange coincidence, if it is that, is that the X-Axis and the
Z-Axis of the magnetometer at La Posta registered a perturbation at exactly 7:20 p.m. that evening.

The latter information compares favorably with the Tucson sighting by the boy mentioned
earlier, in which a perturbation on a magnetometer was also registered.

February 8, 1974:
A report of an incident involving young girls at a boarding school at Valenii de Munte, Rumania,
was forwarded to APRO by Field Investigator Moraru Augustin in March 1974 and detailed a strange
case. The girls were roommates, and at dawn on February 8, 1974, they observed two bright orange
spheres side by side which were separated by a gap much less than the width of either one. They were
fairly sharply outlined and both were surrounded by a whitish halo which was much more intense in the
area between them. Their apparent size was that of a circle 2 inches in diameter held at arm's length.
After about 15 seconds, the two spheres slowly approached one another (this operation took
about 15 to 17 seconds) and fused, forming a long object which was oval in shape and exhibited the
same colour and halo as the single objects. This object then moved very slowly into the southwest
(approximately 6 to 7 seconds), then accelerated and disappeared into the distance within a time span of
about 3 to 4 seconds. After the object had left, a whitish mist remained in the area where they had
hovered.
Later that day an examination of the fields in the direction where the object(s) was (were) seen
revealed two concave ditches similar to those made by a skidding automobile tire. The earth was not

pressed but the soil was gouged out. There was no indication that these marks were made by ordinary
means.
So we have another case of soil missing from the ground after a UFO sighting. Unlike the
Poncey and Rosmead cases, however, the missing material was not found in the field, and so it can be
hypothesized that this was a sample-collecting operation rather than tracks left by UFOs which had
landed on the ground. Had the two spheres been merely appendages of a larger, darker object
overhead, the object would have been difficult to observe because of the brilliance of the light from the
spheres. Similarly, had the "gouging" been done by appendages from the spheres themselves, the
brilliance of the spheres would have cloaked the operation.

Three incidents widely separated (in distance and in time) yielded a similar "residue," the
last of which came to our attention in a report forwarded by our South American members in 1962.
The first incident took place in Meral, in the department of Mayenne, France. It was first reported
by Aim Michel in his excellent book Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery (New York,
Criterion Books, 1958).

October 14, 1954:

On October 14, 1954, a farmer was getting ready to leave his home when he saw an orangecoloured ball arrive and land on the ground not far from him. He approached the object and saw that it
was a dome-shaped disc with a flat bottom, and it emitted a blinding light which illuminated the field for
about 200 yards around. The craft appeared to be translucent, and a dark shape could be seen
silhouetted inside it. For approximately ten minutes, the witness watched the thing. Suddenly the colour
of the object changed from white to red and it took off and disappeared into the north at great speed.
After the thing had left, the witness went to the spot where the craft had been and found a sort of
"luminescent stream" that was falling to the ground. He watched for a while and then went home. When
he arrived there and took off his jacket, he found that his clothes were covered with a layer of white,
somewhat sticky residue, not unlike paraffin, which soon disappeared without leaving any trace.
This particular phenomenon is very similar to the substance called "angel hair" which has been
seen streaming from the objects in flight. It usually melts when it comes into contact with heat, and this
may be the reason for the fact that the witness in the Meral sighting did not discover any of the stuff on
his face or hands. His body heat would have dissipated it as it came into contact with his skin.

The next incident in which a residue was observed took place on December 21, 1957, on
the road leading from Ponta Poran to the farm of Mrs. Ivonne Torres de Mendonca. (See our book
Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, #T3058, New York,
Signet, for the complete details.)

December 21, 1957:

Before this sighting was over, the object, which ultimately chased a jeep-load of people for
approximately a half hour, had made a couple of landings. On the last of these landings, before leaving
the area, the object left an odd, luminous haze floating in the air where the object had hovered. The
observers stayed and watched the material slowly dissolve in the faint, warm wind blowing from the north.

October 21, 1963:

On October 21, 1963, a family was held under siege by two discs giving off light beams which

heated up their house near Tranca, Argentina. Activity was taking place at the railroad tracks about a half
mile away, where a lighted object could be seen. At the conclusion of the incident, in the area where the
two closest discs had hovered, there remained a misty, smoke-like deposit for several minutes.

So here we have three separate incidents in which peculiar residue was left after the
departure of an unconventional disc-shaped object. In all three cases, the residue disappeared
shortly after appearing. It is another correlation which may be very important to our overall study
of the UFOs.
Our next two ground marking cases come from Canada and the two incidents happened
within two weeks of one another in two different provinces.

August 16, 1974:

On August 16th, at approximately 7:30 p.m., David Bates, seven; Steven Stillie, nine; and Henry
Stillie, seven, were playing along the banks of the Coquitlam River at Port Coquitlam, British Columbia,
when they saw a craft shaped like an inverted dish which landed in a gravelled area some 200 feet north
of the Canadian Pacific Rail Bridge over the river. They reported the incident to their parents and to a
neighbour, Mrs. Lola Rogers, who investigated the area the following morning and found two strange
black circles on the gravel.
The boys said that the object first flew over the river at 7:30, then stopped, reversed course and
began descending into the clearing beside the river. The boys watched from a vantage point
approximately 150 feet from the site. They said the craft had markings, made a buzzing sound as it
descended, and gave off a blast of hot air as it touched down. All three described the object as dishshaped with a squarish protuberance on top with what looked like a door in it, and lights which seemed to
change from red to green to white. Mrs. Rogers stated that she had walked through the area several
times prior to the sighting and the black spots were not present then.
The boys did not observe the object's departure as they were frightened and ran into the house.
They guessed that the viewing time, from the time that they first sighted the object coming across the river
until they left the scene, was about ten minutes.
After questioning the boys, Field Investigator R.J. Halishoff noted that the only area of
disagreement between the boys was in reference to a flashing light on top of the object. The Stillie boys
thought that the light was a red flashing light, whereas the Bates boy thought the light changed colours.
David Bates also stated that there was a row of lights around the aperture which they took to be an
exhaust hole on the bottom, whereas the Stillie boys said it looked like a "bright chain."
Mr. and Mrs. Stillie said that when the boys came running home they were very frightened,
exhibiting glazed eyes and pale skin as they related their experience.
Mrs. Rogers, who accompanied the boys to the site the next morning, said that there was a
nauseating odour of burned material much like the smell of ashes from a fireplace. She said she picked
up a rock in this black spot and it stained her hand and took a week of daily scrubbing before it came off.
She admitted that she had not believed the boys' story until she visited the site, but was willing to admit
that the boys had never pulled any pranks before.
Mr. Halishoff did not learn about this incident until a month after it had allegedly occurred and,
upon digging down into the large 5-foot 6-inch spot, found that the black residue lay about 4 inches below
the surface, and felt that the surface residue had been washed below the surface by rain. This was
unfortunate, for it is felt that earlier examination of the material might have revealed something. However,
examination of the material merely indicated that the rock and gravel had been subjected to great heat.

September 1, 1974:
About two weeks later, on September 1 at 11:30 a.m., Edwin Fuhr, who operates a farm about six
and a half miles out of Langenburg, Saskatchewan, was harvesting his rape (a seed oil plant) crop. As he
approached a slough on his land, he saw what he thought was a "spun aluminum duck blind." (He said
later that he had seen such a blind advertised in Field and Stream magazine and assumed it had been
placed there by a neighbour.) He also described it as looking like stainless steel. He dismounted from
his swather (a mowing machine) and approached the object on foot. As he drew near, he noted that the
object was a symmetrical bun shape and that it was hovering about a foot off the ground. He noted also
that the grass underneath was being imparted in a clockwise swirling motion.
While watching for about two minutes from a distance of 15 feet, he noticed that "the whole thing
was turning." Returning to the swather, he noted four additional identical objects to his left. He sat
motionless for about 15 minutes and watched. He said he wanted to leave but couldn't (the inference
here is that he was too terrified to operate the controls of his swather properly). After about 15 minutes,
the objects all left simultaneously, moving straight up into the air, exhibiting a grey mist underneath and a
"strong downwind."
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police heard about the case by word of mouth, and after launching
an investigation, offered the opinion that Mr. Fuhr's account was reliable. In his investigation, the
R.C.M.P. constable found a circular swirl of grass for each UFO position reported by Mr. Fuhr. In the
centre of each swirl, the grass remained erect. This case was investigated by Mr. Don Coulthard, who
also forwarded a photo of Mr. Fuhr standing in the field pointing to one of the swirled areas.

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Saga's UFO Report.

Winter 1974. Vol. 2, No. 2

July 30, 1957:

A great deal of excitement was generated in the community of Galt, Ontario, when a group of
frightened teenagers came within inches of a "spaceship".
Jack Stephens, a very trustworthy young man according to his parents and teachers, said the
party of five had accidentally stumbled upon the object, complete with portholes, as it rested on two ballshaped "landing gears" in a field outside town.
Additional proof of the incident came after an analysis was made of the scorched earth
discovered on the spot. Paul Hartman, a writer for the Galt Reporter, says the change in soil composition
at the site was incredible. Topsoil dug up from the landing area glowed in the dark. Also, when grain
samples from the burned patch were studied under a microscope, it was found that they were healthier
and sturdier than the samples taken from elsewhere in the field. Finally, the insects there had undergone
a certain instability and peculiarity in character. Ants, where the saucer had touched down, were larger
and stronger-looking than their counterparts in untouched areas. The ant hills themselves, according to
Hartman, were much higher than usual and a spider which had accidentally found its way into a jar
containing soil from the Galt UFO landing site, had grown to about 10 times the normal size for this
particular species.

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ENCOUNTERS WITH UFO OCCUPANTS

by Coral and Jim Lorenzen (1976)

The Entities in Europe

The earliest report in Europe of an unconventional aircraft on the ground accompanied by
extraordinary beings took place on August 14, 1947, nearly two months after a sighting by one
Kenneth Arnold of nine UFOs over Mount Rainier.

August 14, 1947:

On that August day at 9 a.m., Signor R.L. Johannis, an artist, was out painting near Chiarso
Creek at Villa Santina, close to Carnia, Italy. He was startled to see a disc-shaped object, later estimated
to be about 30 feet in diameter, land some distance from him. Next, he was confronted with the presence
of two child-sized beings (about 3 feet tall) standing by the object. They were wearing dark blue coveralls
with bright red collars and belts, and a spherical, transparent helmet on their oversized heads. Their
faces appeared to have a greenish color, their eyes were large and plum-colored with a vertical line in the
center and no lashes or brows. Their hands were claw-like with eight fingers, four opposed to four, on
each hand.
Johannis hailed the creatures. The gesture may have been interpreted as hostile, for one of the
beings touched its belt and projected a thin vapor, which dazed the artist and he fell onto his back. The
little beings then approached to within 6 feet of the artist and stood looking at his easel. Though weak,
Johannis managed to roll over and saw the creatures pick up the easel which had been knocked down.
He noted that it was taller than both of them, and that they were panting hard. Shortly they returned to
the disc and entered it, whereupon it rose from the ground, hovered, and disappeared.

No other entity accounts are recorded in Europe until 1954, the same year that South
America was overrun with little folk.

August 23, 1954:

In Lugrin, near Thonon, France, a man approached a landed object which looked like an
aluminum trailer. Standing nearby were two small beings in silvery clothing who grunted like pigs. The
object glowed red and flew away after the little fellows entered it.

September 10, 1954:

Another type of ship was seen at Mourieras, France, on September 10. A farmer returning to the
town at nightfall saw a man of average height, wearing a helmet, who made friendly gestures and entered
the brush, after which a cigar-shaped object, estimated to be 16 feet in length, took off.

One of the best-known sightings of UFO occupants took place near Valenciennes, France,
on the night of September 10. It was such a strange incident that it received some international
press notice.

September 10, 1954:

On the night in question, Maruis Dewilde was reading after his wife and children had retired. It
was 10:30 p.m. when he heard his dog Kiki barking, and thinking there was a prowler in the vicinity of his
property, he took a flashlight and went outside.
Dewilde walked to his garden, found nothing en route, then spotted a dark mass on the railroad
tracks less than 6 yards from his door. He thought at first that someone had left a farm cart there. At that
point his dog approached, crawling on her belly and whining, and simultaneously he heard hurried
footsteps to the right of him. The dog began barking again and Dewilde directed his flashlight toward the
sound of the footsteps.
What Dewilde saw startled him greatly. Less than 3 or 4 yards away, beyond the fence, were two
creatures, walking in single file toward the dark mass at the tracks. Both creatures were dressed in suits
similar to those of divers, and light was reflected off glass or metal in the area of their heads. Both
entities were small, less than 3 feet tall, but had very wide shoulders and the helmets covering their
heads looked enormous. The legs looked very short in proportion to the height of the little "men," and
Dewilde could not make out any arms.
After the first fright passed, Dewilde rushed to the gate, intending to cut them off from the path or
to grapple with one of them. When he was about 6 feet from them, he was blinded by a very powerful
light somewhat like a magnesium flare which came from a square opening in the dark mass on the tracks.
He closed his eyes and tried to scream but couldn't, and he felt paralyzed. He tried to move but his legs
would not function.
Shortly, Dewilde heard the sound of steps at his garden gate, and the two creatures seemed to
be going toward the railroad. The beam of light finally went out and he recovered the use of his legs and
headed for the track. But the dark object had begun to rise, hovering lightly, and Dewilde saw a kind of
door closing. A low whistling sound accompanied a thick dark steam which issued from the bottom of the
object. The object ascended vertically to about 100 feet altitude, turning east, and when it was some
distance away it took on a reddish glow. A minute later it was completely out of sight.
After he regained his senses, Dewilde woke his wife and a neighbor, told them of his experience,
then ran to the police station in the village of Onnaing, a mile distant. He was so upset and his speech so
confused that the police thought he was a lunatic and dismissed him. From there he went to the office of
the police commissioner where he told his story to Commissioner Gouchet.
Dewilde's fear was so evident that Gouchet realized something extraordinary must have taken
place, and the next morning his report brought investigators from the Air Police, and the Department of
Territorial Security. These teams, along with police investigators, questioned Dewilde and then examined
the area where the dark object had rested. They found no footprints in the area, but the ground was very
hard. However, they did find five places on three of the wooden ties which had identical impressions,
each about 1 inches square. The marks were fresh and sharply cut, indicating that the wooden ties had
been subjected to very great pressure at those five points.
The impressions were never satisfactorily explained, but railroad engineers who were consulted
by the investigators, calculated that the amount of pressure required to make the marks was
approximately thirty tons.
An examination of the gravel of the roadbed showed that at the site of the alleged landing the
stones were brittle as if calcined at very high temperature.
And lastly, several residents in the area reported that they had seen a reddish object or glow
moving in the sky at about the time Dewilde indicated that the object had left.

The next landing incident took place on September 17, 1954, between Vouneuiel-surVienne and Cenon on Route D-1.

September 17, 1954:

Monsieur Yves David was bicycling along the road at about 10:30 p.m. The night was dark and
the moon had not risen. David's headlight gave only a dim light and he could not see very well.
As David drew near Le Pontereau, near Cenon, he felt a sensation of prickling and/or itching all
over his body, somewhat like an electric shock. Unable to continue, he stopped and got off the bicycle.
Since his light worked from a generator fed by pedal power, it went out, and he was in total darkness.
The prickling sensation had not left, and he felt paralyzed. However, his eyes were getting used to the
darkness and he noticed, not far ahead on the road, a strange machine which appeared to be about 9
feet long and 3 feet high.
By this time, David was terror-stricken. He was unable to move, and he saw a silhouette move
away from the dark mass and approach him. It was a small "creature," much smaller than a man, and it
came to him and touched him on the shoulder, uttering an incomprehensible and completely inhuman
sound at the same time. It then moved back to the machine where it disappeared and seconds later the
dark object gave off a greenish light and flew off at great speed and vanished in the sky.

September 26, 1954:

Quite a famous landing took place on September 26, 1954, and it is quite familiar to UFO
students the world over. On that date, Madame Leboeuf, of Valence, France, had gone to gather
mushrooms in the woods not far from the cemetery at Chabeuil about 4:00 o'clock. There were a few
people visiting the cemetery at the time. The dog began to bark and then began howling as if in misery.
Madame Leboeuf looked around and saw that the animal was standing at the edge of a wheat field in
front of something which she thought at first was a scarecrow.
Upon approaching the dog, she saw that the "scarecrow" was some kind of a small diving suit
which appeared to be made of translucent material. The whole affair was about 3 feet or a little larger,
and the helmet was translucent also. But suddenly she realized that something was inside of that suit
and that "it" was looking at her. She later said she got the impression of eyes, but that they seemed to be
larger than human eyes. At this moment the thing began to move toward her with a sort of quick,
waddling walk.
Until the creature, or whatever it was, began to approach her, Madame Leboeuf had only
experienced slight surprise and mild curiosity, but when it started toward her she became frightened,
screamed, and fled into a nearby thicket to hide. When she turned to look again she saw nothing
unusual, but the dog had begun to howl again, accompanied by the howls of the other dogs in the village.
Next, to her surprise, a large, circular, and somewhat flattened metallic-appearing object rose
from behind nearby trees and moved away at low altitude, making a whistling sound as it flew. It gained
elevation as it crossed about the wheat, then veered and took off toward the northeast at high speed,
gaining altitude all the time.
Meanwhile, Monsieur Leboeuf heard his wife's scream, as well as the whistling sound, and ran to
her as did some of the people at the cemetery. Soon practically the whole village was on the spot.
At the place from which the "aircraft" had risen a circular area was found about 10 or 11 feet in
diameter, in which the shrubs and bushes were crushed. A 3-inch branch on an acacia tree at the edge
of the circular area was broken as if from pressure from above. The branch on another acacia tree, which
hung over the circular area at about 8 feet from the ground, was stripped of leaves. For a few yards at

the beginning of the wheatfield across which the object had flown, the wheat was flattened out in radiating
lines.
Police and reporters were struck by the nervous shock suffered by Madame, the physical traces
left by the object, the number of people who had heard the whistling sound. Madame Leboeuf suffered a
state of nervous collapse and spent two days in bed with high fever. The dog was still visibly frightened
and tremulous after three days had passed.
A half an hour after Madame Leboeuf's ordeal, witnesses at Col du Chat, which is 65 miles
northeast of Chabeuil, saw an object arrive at that location.

September 30, 1954:

On September 30, eight construction workers near Marcilly-sur-Vienne, France, saw a discshaped object on the ground, and a small man-shaped being wearing a helmet standing nearby.
On the same day, Bernard Devoisin and Rene Coudette, both eighteen years old, of Vron
(Somme), France, were riding their bicycles on route D-27 at about 6:45 p.m. At a point about two and a
half miles from Ligescourt, they both suddenly spotted a luminous object in the middle of the road. It
emitted an orange light, was circular, estimated to be 6 feet high and reminded the boys of a haystack. It
seemed to be about 150 yards ahead of them.
Near the object, something moved, which they first thought was an animal, but as they
approached it, they saw that it was a creature "the height of a child" and dressed like a diver. It got into
the glowing object which took off when they were about 70 yards from it.
Investigators of this incident found the boys to be sincere and of good reputation in their home
community. Subsequent events in the area (investigated and studied after days, weeks, and months later
in some cases) indicated that an object or objects of the same description were reported by hundreds of
other witnesses in the hours that followed the sighting on D-27. Two and a half hours later, a car was
pursued by a UFO near Rue and Quend. The driver, butcher M. Galant, said an orange-colored glowing
object flew low along the road and followed his car for about 800 feet. He had no knowledge of the
incident on D-27.

October 5, 1954:
The hairy ones come onto the scene on October 5 at Loctudy (Finistere). A baker, drawing water
from a well at night, was surprised to see an object about 10 feet in diameter on the ground nearby. From
the object emerged a small being with a face covered with hair and large eyes "as large as the eggs of a
raven." The strange little creature approached the man, touched him on the shoulder, and made
unintelligible noises. The baker called his boss, whereupon the dwarfish creature got back into the craft,
and it flew away.
On that same day, near Mertrud (Haute-Marne), a road mender named Narcy saw a strange
object on the road. A small, hairy creature approached it, got in, and it took off. Investigation showed
traces on the road where the object had sat.

October 9, 1954:
The little men put in an appearance at Rinkerode, near Munster, Germany, on October 9. Herr
Hoge, a projectionist, reported to authorities that he had seen four occupants of a cigar-shaped craft
which landed about 250 feet or more off the road. According to his story, he was returning home that
evening when he saw a blue light on the side of the road which, at first, appeared to be an aircraft making

an emergency landing. Hoge watched four small men, about 4 feet tall, who appeared to be wearing
rubber overalls at work near the underside of the craft. Further description in the poor light yielded only
the fact that they seemed to have large chests and heads and very small, thin legs.
On the same date as the Hoge incident, Jean Bertrand was driving on a road near Carcassonne
(Aude), France, when he came upon a metallic sphere sitting on the road ahead of him. The top half, he
reported, seemed to be transparent material of some kind, and he saw two human-shaped figures
standing inside. As he approached, the object took off at high speed.
A round machine was seen at about 6:30 p.m. in Pournoy-la-Chetive (Moselle), France,
according to four children. They told authorities that they had been roller-skating when they saw
something bright near the cemetery. They approached and found that it was a round machine, about 8
feet in diameter, standing on three legs. A little man, about 4 feet tall came out of it. In his hand, he held
a light of some kind which blinded the children. They said they managed to see that the creature had
large eyes, a hairy face, and was dressed in a "sort of black sack." The creature, the children reported,
spoke to them but they could not understand what it said. Then it turned off the light it held. The children
became frightened and ran away. When they overcame their fright sufficiently to look behind them, they
saw something which was very bright flying through the sky at great speed.
A "little man" wearing boots "without heels" and a diving suit was seen that same night by a
farmer in Lavoux (Vienne). He was riding his bicycle when he saw the creature which shone a "doublebeamed" light at him. The witness reported that he was paralyzed throughout the incident. The creature,
which had "very bright eyes," a very hairy chest, and two "headlights" walked along the road for a minute,
then entered the forest and did not reappear. No object or craft was seen in conjunction with this
appearance of a strange entity, but it is included in this listing because of the similarity of the "little man"
to the descriptions of others in incidents involving UFOs.

October 12, 1954:

A considerable distance away, at Teheran, Iran, three days later on October 12, Chasim Faili
observed a disc-shaped object which hovered close to the ground. Inside the disc, a small entity,
dressed in black, was clearly seen. Faili, thinking he was about to be kidnapped, screamed, whereupon a
crowd gathered. The object departed as the people began to arrive on the scene.
This particular incident is unique in that it took place in a densely populated area as opposed to
little-traveled highways, dark byways, and other isolated spots.
Another object which left some familiar evidence was seen taking off from a field at La Croix
Durade, France, at 4 a.m. on the same day. It was luminous, and it left the grass flattened in a 50-foot
area.
Morocco was visited by a small being on October 12th also, when a French engineer was driving
to Port Lyautey through the Mamora forest and saw a small being in silver clothing about 4 feet in height
entering an object which soon took off. This incident took place in the afternoon, one of the few sightings
of entities during the daylight hours.

October 13, 1954:

M. Olivier, an ex-pilot, and two others saw a reddish disc about 12 feet in diameter with a small
being close by. This incident took place in Bourasole, near Toulouse, France. The three men were not
together but all saw the same thing. They reported that a small being, about 4 feet in height, wearing a
bright suit "like glass," with a large head and two enormous eyes, was near the craft, which was
surrounded by a glow. One of the men approached the object, but was paralyzed. The object then took
off, throwing the man to the ground.

October 16, 1954:

The rather indistinct figure of a human-shaped entity was observed by Dr. Henri Robert on
October 16, 1954, in the village of Baillolet. Robert saw four objects flying at about 1,000 feet altitude,
one above the other. Suddenly, one of the craft dropped to the ground much like a dead leaf floating to
earth, about 350 feet in front of Robert's car. Then Robert felt a kind of "electric shock," his engine
stalled, and the headlights went out. The car stopped just as the object touched the ground.
The doctor, incapable of movement as though paralyzed, watched a figure which appeared to be
about 4 feet tall moving in the light of the object, then everything went dark. Some time later the lights of
the car went back on, and the witness saw the object taking off toward the north, above the road. The
doctor called the authorities when he arrived in Londinieres and reported the incident.

The dead leaf movement of a landing or slow-moving disc has been described in many
reliable and well-documented UFO reports throughout the world and was first noted as one of the
outstanding characteristics of saucer-shaped craft over the United States, in the early years of the
mystery.

October 17, 1954:

Two helmeted beings emerged from a grey, disc-shaped object approximately 40 inches high and
15 feet in diameter on October 17 at Cabasson near Corbieres, France. A sixty-five-year-old man, out
hunting with his dog near the junction of a canal and a river, suddenly came on the object sitting on the
ground less than 150 feet in front of him. The witness, frightened then by the helmeted occupants, turned
and ran, but the dog approached the object. It soon retreated, however, and its master noted that it
walked in a peculiar way for some time, as if partially paralyzed.

October 18, 1954:

A mass sighting of an object took place at about 8:40 p.m. on the night of October 18 in
Fontenay-Forcy, France. A man and his wife saw a glowing cigar-shaped object of a reddish color in
flight. It suddenly dived toward them and landed not far from the road but hidden from sight by the
surrounding brush. The couple walked to the top of a hill where they found themselves face-to-face with
a human-shaped being about 3 feet tall who wore a helmet. The eyes appeared to glow an orange
color. One of the witnesses lost consciousness. Four other witnesses reported observing the machine in
flight at the same time as the couple from another location. A third group of independent witnesses in
Sanson-la-Poterie observed the craft as it flew away at high speed and low altitude, illuminating the
countryside.
An incident involving two of the little folk and one of normal size took place at Route N-437, on
the shore of Lake St. Point in Doube, France, also on the 18th. Mademoiselle Marie-Louise Bourriot was
returning to her home in Montperreux by motorcycle at 10:45 p.m. She had reached a spot near an
orphanage when she spotted a bright red light ahead of her which illuminated the whole road. She
thought little of it, taking it for granted that it was a car, and shortly the light went out. She continued
along her way. Not much further along the road, near a mill, she saw to her left a creature of human form
who appeared a little under average human height and dressed in some kind of light-colored one-piece
garment. As Miss Bourriot came abreast of the man, two small creatures, like dwarfs, walking on two
legs but with shapes difficult to describe, crossed the road from the right and joined the creature.
Until this time, Miss Bourriot had not been too concerned, but she now became frightened and
speeded up. A little further on, she turned around and looked behind and saw a luminous object rising

vertically above the lake at great speed. She reported her experience and a search of the area the next
day, disclosed small footprints in the field from which the little creatures had come, as well as lightly
marked furrows.
One of the most puzzling incidents involving occupants took place at about 9 p.m. on the evening
of the 18th. Mr. and Mrs. Labassiere of Royan, France, were driving on Route N-50 when they saw an
object shaped like a balance at low altitude in the sky. One of the pans of the balance was orange, the
other was red, and they appeared to be linked by a trail of luminous green. The whole apparition was
swaying or bouncing. Shortly the two pans stopped and hovered above a field not far from the
witnesses. The two sat spellbound as the luminous beam uniting the two objects faded and disappeared,
and the objects landed separately, but just a short distance apart. In the dim light emanating from the
objects, the Labassieres saw two very small creatures which approached each other, passed without
stopping, and changed vehicles. Then the two ball-like objects vaulted into the sky at a dizzying speed
and disappeared over the horizon within seconds.

October 21, 1954:

On October 21 of that year, Mrs. Jennie Roestenberg reported that at 4:45 p.m. on that day, she
and her two children watched an aluminum-colored disc as it hovered over their home at Rampton, near
Shrewsbury, England. Through transparent panels Mrs. Roestenberg claimed she saw two "men" with
white skin, long hair, and very high foreheads, giving the impression that all features were located in the
lower half of their faces. They were wearing transparent helmets and turquoise-blue suits like ski outfits.
The object hovered at a tilted angle as the occupants apparently observed the area below.

October 27, 1954:

Another landing in a farm area took place on the night of October 27, during the 1954 flap. A
farmer saw an elongated object with a light on each end which landed in a pasture. He was too
frightened to investigate. Two hours later, a motorcycle stalled and its rider fell from the machine. The
farmer had notified residents of the village who went to investigate and found the object had moved
somewhat according to the farmers estimate of where it had first landed. Upon approaching the thing,
the witnesses saw two beings about 40 inches tall who walked stiffly about in silvery clothing. The craft
eventually took off without noise. This was at Les-Jonquerets-de-Livet (Eure) in France.

November 8, 1954:
Three figures in light-colored clothing and transparent helmets were seen at Monza, Italy, on
November 8, 1954, by a crowd of about a hundred fifty people who went to investigate a light in a
stadium. The three were near a disc-shaped ship sitting on three legs. The beings made guttural
sounds among themselves. One of them had a dark face and a trunk or hose coming up to his face. As
with the others, this craft left upward without any sound.

November 14, 1954:

Rabbit-stealing dwarfs figure in the last occupant case for 1954. At Isola, in northern Italy on
November 14, a farmer watched a cigar-shaped craft land near him and hid to watch. Out of the machine
came three small dwarfish beings dressed in metallic diving suits, who centered their attention on the
rabbits in their cages. The beings made strange noises among themselves.
Convinced the things were going to steal the animals, the farmer slipped away, got his rifle, and
returned and aimed it at the dwarfs. The rifle would not fire and it became so heavy in the mans hands
that he had to drop it. He also found that he could not move or speak. The dwarfs took the rabbits, got

into their craft, which like most of its type, left soundlessly with a bright trail behind it. After the dwarfs had
left, the farmer found he could move again and he picked up his gun and fired it, but the object was too
far away to hit. He told the story to his family; it soon spread and was investigated. The witness is
considered to be reliable.

May 10, 1957:

Michel Fekete, a twenty-nine-year-old Hungarian World War refugee, was a railroad worker in
1957 and was riding his bicycle home on the Miraumont-Beaucourt road at 10:45 p.m. As he rounded a
bend in the road, he was blinded by a big, powerful light on the road, around which he saw four
silhouettes of human-shaped beings less than 5 feet tall, who seemed to be barring the road. Fekete,
thinking he was being ambushed, dismounted from his bicycle and ran off the road where he hid behind
an electrical transformer installation. From there, he found the footpath to the home of friends, Mr and
Mrs. Rene Lepot. The Lepots and some friends, Mr. and Mrs. Rene Iklef, were in the kitchen when
Fekete arrived at the Lepot home. When they let him in, he was almost incoherent with fright but
managed to gasp out the word attacked! He pointed out the window to the road, a scant 50 yards away.
The Lepots turned out the lights and the five of them went to the window and looked out. They all
saw quite clearly a luminous object, pulsating in color between red and white. Also viewed in the light of
the object were three silhouettes of men between 4 and 5 feet in height who were visible from the thighs
up. The lower extremities were hidden by the road bank. The color of their clothing appeared to be a
grayish-beige except for their huge heads which were darker in color, nearly black. No features could be
distinguished, however. The three were moving about the road and the adjacent field with a tottering
gait.
The five witnesses watched the scene for about twenty minutes, when another railroad worker,
Mr. Demanchaux, joined them. After a while, a car approached and the objects light went out. In the
light of the cars headlights, however, the figures were still visible. The six witnesses thought the driver
must have seen them also. When the car had gone, the white light reappeared, less brilliant than before,
just above the road. It rose rapidly and silently into the sky at a 45 angle toward the northeast and by
11:15, it was completely out of sight.
Investigation of the spot where the object had sat revealed a 15-foot circle of apparently freshly
deposited matter which was identified as asphalt. It was also found that the iron fence posts along the
road were strongly magnetic, but all were equally so and no specific significance was attributed to it. No
one was able to furnish an explanation as to why the object had dropped the asphalt, if indeed it had.

November 1958:
No exact day is recorded, but in November 1958, two "part-time" soldiers reportedly observed two
huge figures who made "gurgling noises", from their slit trench at Deeside, England, not far from
Balmoral, Scotland. The men were on maneuvers in the area and had been left to guard a small hilltop.
The incident took place in the early hours of the morning just as daylight began to break. The light was
insufficient to see clearly, but the soldiers estimated the intruders to be at least 7 feet tall and dressed in
strange clothing which seemed to impede their movements.
Needless to say, the witnesses fled the scene and shortly after saw a huge, brightly glowing, discshaped object coming down the road behind them, only a foot or so above the ground. It swooped up
over their heads and flew away, pulsating and giving off a shower of sparks. The men were in a state of
shock when they were given shelter shortly after their experience by post office engineers in a hut near
the scene.

September 29, 1959:

It was 6:55 p.m. on September 29, 1959, in the little hamlet of Mariannelund, Sweden, where
Johannson lived at the time. He was the electrician in charge of the central switch plant which served the
plant where he was employed. He was on his way out of the house when his son, twenty-five, was
coming in and they exchanged words about the blackout which had just plunged the area into darkness.
The son told Johannson: Its jet black everywhere, but not up there in the air, and pointed at the
sky. Looking up, Johannson saw a bright white light and thought it was an airplane with engine trouble
and told his son to get the people out of the house because the thing was coming down toward the house
and he was afraid it would set the house on fire. It took only seconds for the two men to realize that it
was no airplane of any kind it was completely soundless and hovering dead still in the air. Then it
began to move, lowering itself slowly, passing over a nearby building, and buzzing the top of a maple
tree, which when examined later, was found to be damaged. Johannsons son yelled at him to get out of
the way as the thing was lowering itself toward the street. Not much could be made out of the craft itself
because of the brilliant illumination inside the glass-enclosed top. Inside this transparent enclosure could
be seen two figures. Johannson compared their size to that of twelve-year-old boys; they had chalk-white
faces, long heads, very high foreheads, large dark eyes, long narrow noses, pointed chins, and were
completely bald. He thought there were some kind of apparatuses sticking out of their ears and they
wore black belts across their chests. One seemed to be very busy with something and the other just sat
glancing from his companion to Johannson.
The object was now only 2 meters (6 feet) above the street and Johannson later commented
that it must have been quite small to have been able to navigate that street, which was 6 meters wide (20
feet). It came within 5 meters (16 feet) of Johannson, enabling him to see the occupants quite clearly.
Johannson followed it about 30 meters (100 feet) along the fence line of his lot and then it stopped and
the light went out. They did not see where it went there was just darkness everywhere. Johannson
estimated that the whole incident took only two minutes, after which he hurried to the switch plant. He
found nothing wrong there and in a few minutes, the power came back on with no help from anyone. The
power company never did find any cause for the blackout, but Johannson was of the opinion that the UFO
was linked to it somehow.
Johannson noted that when the craft left, his pants flapped around his legs from the draft and he
felt shaky. His wife told him that inside the house, the radio rattled and went dead when the lights went
out. Johannson noted that of the people in the town, very few saw the craft because they were busy
hunting for candles and lanterns.

November 16, 1963:

A human-sized, headless, bat-winged creature approached a couple of teenagers, after the boys
saw a bright object land in a field near Sandling Parke, Hythe, Kent, in England. Later investigation by
teenagers curious about the report turned up an expanse of bracken that had been flattened, and three
giant footprints, an inch deep, 2 feet long and 9 inches wide.

July 1, 1965:
At 5:30 a.m., Monsieur Maurice Masse went to work at his lavender field a little north of
Valensole. He was lighting a cigarette before starting his tractor when he heard a high-pitched whistling
sound. He couldnt tell where the sound came from, so he stepped out from behind the stone pile, and
saw before him an oddly-shaped object which he assumed to be a helicopter. He immediately realized it
was not, for the thing looked like a huge rugby football, about the size of a Dauphine car and was topped
by a cupola. It rested on six legs. Despite the odd nature of the object, Masse was curious and walked
toward it along among the lavender plants. As he approached, he saw two small beings of human shape
bending over a lavender plant. Masse still was not frightened and walked toward them. When he was
about 25 or 30 feet from them, one of the beings noticed him and pointed a kind of tube at him which

paralyzed him on the spot. Although rooted to the ground, Masse was still able to observe what was
going on.
He described the two little men as about the size of an eight-year-old child, but their heads were
huge, about three times the size of an adults head. They were bald and completely hairless, and their
skin as smooth as a childs and very white. Their bodies were covered by a coverall-like garment.
The size of the features of the beings was comparable to that of a human being except for the
mouth, which was a lipless hole. Sounds made by the pair were unintelligible and did not seem to
emanate from their mouths. Their general attitude as they looked at Masse was as if they were making
fun of him.
After a few moments, the little men jumped into their machine by way of a sliding door and it took
off, flying into the west at an angle of 45. Its speed was great as it moved away, and a whistling sound
like the sound which first attracted Masse was heard again.
The object left holes in the ground which were examined by many people, including police
personnel after they learned of the report. This incident is generally considered to be authentic,
especially in view of Mr. Masses good reputation.

January 7, 1970:
Aarno Heinonen, thirty-six, a forest worker, and Esko Viljo, thirty-eight, a farm worker, were avid
and active skiers and on January 7, 1970, they were on their way to the ski area near Imjarvi, Finland, to
redefine the ski track after a fresh snow. Upon arriving at the opening in the wood, they stopped for a
short rest. The time was 3:45 p.m.; there were no clouds, no wind, and twilight was beginning.
Both of the men were startled to see a very bright light in the sky coming from the north. It was
enveloped in a luminous fog, no sound was heard at first, and the cloud suddenly changed course,
starting toward the two men while it gradually lost altitude. A humming sound was heard and it became
louder as it neared the skiers. The cloud was red-gray in color, appearing to pulsate while brooms of
smoke were emitted from the top of it, like smoke from chimneys. When it reached a distance of about 15
meters (50 feet) from the ground, they could see that a round craft with flat bottom and of shining gray
metal was inside the cloud. It was approximately 3 meters (10 feet) in diameter and around the lower rim,
there appeared three round balls. From the center of the bottom part, a pipe-like affair protruded,
estimated by the men to be about 2 meters (6 3/4 feet) in height and 5 meters (16 3/4 feet) in diameter.
The humming sound increased and the object continued to approach them.
The cloud seemed to be thinning out more and more and the craft stopped at about 3 or 4 meters
(10 -13 feet) from the ground. At this short distance, the men could see that the object was round and as
it was inclined toward them, they could see the dome on the upper part. Heinonen was watching the
reddish-gray mist and said that, suddenly, he felt like something had seized him around the waist and
pulled him backwards. He took a step back, and at that instant, noticed a creature was standing in the
middle of the circle of light which issued from the tube. The creature was about 90 centimeters (3 feet)
in height, very thin with slender arms and legs, and a waxy, pale face. No eyes were noticeable and the
nose gave the appearance of a hook. The creature was clothed in some sort of overall material looking
light green in color. The feet were encased in boots of a deeper shade of green and white gauntlets
covered its hands and arms to its elbows. Claw-like fingers clutched a black box. Out of a round hole in
the box, a yellow light was pulsating.
Viljo said that he didnt get an impression of clothing on the little figure, but noted that he glowed
like he was made of phosphorus. His head, Viljo said, was crowned with a conical helmet which
appeared metallic.
According to the two men, the creature was in sight for only about 15 to 20 seconds. Then, he

turned, and the opening in the box was directed toward Heinonen and the light which it emitted was
brilliant and almost blinding. The red-gray mist began pouring down from the craft and big sparks were
jumping from the luminous circle on the ground. The sparks looked like luminous staffs, one centimeter
(.40 inches) long and red, green and violet. They seemed to flow outward from the circle, quite slowly;
some of them struck Heinonen and he was surprised that he did not feel them.
The red fog shortly encompassed the creature and he was no longer visible. The light cone on
the ground then appeared to be sucked up into the opening at the bottom of the object. Then, when the
red mist dissipated, the whole object was gone. The two men stood there for 2 or 3 minutes, and
Heinonen, who had been closest to the object and the lighted circle, experienced an insensitive feeling
along his right side. When he attempted to step forward, his right leg crumpled beneath him. Viljo had to
half carry and drag his friend to his home which was located about 2 kilometers (a little over 1 mile) from
the area where the object was seen.
Mr. Heinonens mother, when questioned, revealed that when the men came home, they
pounded on the door and when she opened it, they just stood there, Heinonen leaning on Viljo. Viljos
face was swollen and red. Heinonen was ill, complained of a backache, aching joints, and a painful
headache. He later vomited, and in an interview with the writer of an article in a Finnish magazine,
claimed that for a period of two months, his urine appeared black in color.
Both men were examined by a doctor who stated that he had given them sleeping tablets
because it was obvious to him that they were in shock. He attested to the complaints of Heinonen, but
said that both men were so excited in telling their story that they were nearly incoherent and felt that they
had encountered some kind of electrical phenomenon.

October 7, 1972:
A Mrs. H. (Anonymity requested), a sixty-year-old innkeeper at a village about 30 kilometers (17
miles) from Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, was on her way home from the hairdressers at 9 a.m. on October 7,
1972. She was bicycling along a cartway when she spotted two figures a considerable distance away,
making their way along the edge of a hill.
The figures were dressed in sort of white gowns which reached the ground and there was a
black belt around the area just below the chest and they wore black round-shaped caps on their heads.
The faces appeared dark, she said, and she was not able to observe features (possibly because of the
distance because at their nearest point, they only came within 150 meters, approximately 475 feet).
The lady said that the spectacle was so strange that she descended from her bicycle and walked
for a while in order to watch them. Then, she climbed back on her bicycle and proceeded to follow their
tracks. She looked around for someone else, but not seeing anyone, she left. By then, the figures were
out of sight.
Mrs. H. Said that one of the figures was about 1 meter (40 inches) in height and she got the
impression that one of the figures was a head higher than the other. They walked together, she said, with
their shoulders touching.
When Mrs. H. told some local people of the occurrence, they tended to ridicule the episode, so
she decided against talking about it further. During one discussion, however, one of the men at the inn
asked where she had seen the figures and she told him, and he then said that the night before, his
children had come running home very frightened, saying that they had seen two white figures near the
field, at the turnip plantation. The figures had risen up out of the turnip field and began to approach the
children, and they became frightened and ran home as fast as they could. The little girl was so frightened
that her parents had to leave a light on in her room all night.
When questioned, the children gave the following information: At 7:30 p.m. the children saw two

strange creatures with white hoods on their heads and the rest of them was black. They were moving
slowly from the field toward the road. The children said that they were quite close when they rose out of
the field, only about two meters (6 feet) away. One of the youngsters said that their faces were
spotted and that they wore a round, white cap and they seemed to be creeping on their hands and
knees. They said they had seen them on two occasions, were not sure of exact dates, but that it was in
the evenings, and that on the second evening, the two figures walked upright and wore white gowns and
one was larger than the other.
Although Mrs. H. did not see any sort of vehicle, whether on the land or in the air, the children
said they saw what looked like a Fiat 750, which was behind the figures, with its lights on. It could not be
established that a Fiat 750 was, in fact, in the vicinity and inasmuch as small, compact-car-sized UFOs
have been sen on the ground and flying through the air, it is possible that what the children assumed was
a Fiat 750, was not. It was dark or fairly so, and the lights on the vehicle might have served to hide or
camouflage the contours of the object.

Mid-December 1973:
The weather was cold, although there was no snow, and a strong wind was blowing over the area
of Vilvorde, some 12 kilometers (7 miles) to the northeast of Brussels, Belgium. The witness, Monsieur
V.M., twenty-eight years old, and his wife, were in bed and asleep. At 2 a.m., he arose to go to the
bathroom which is in a small outer yard adjoining the kitchen. In order to avoid waking his wife, he used a
flashlight. Upon reaching the kitchen, he heard a sound like a shovel striking the ground which came
from the outside. He also became aware of a greenish-colored light which filtered in through the gap at
the left hand window curtain, and compared it with the diffused glow of an aquarium light. Knowing that
the garden should be in total darkness at that hour, and puzzled by the noise as well, he went to the
window and parted the curtain to behold an astonishing sight. At the other end of the garden was a small
being about 1 meter, 10 centimeters (3 feet) in height and wearing a shining green one-piece suit. The
creatures back was to him in three-quarter profile; he was of medium build and his head, arms, and legs
seemed normal in appearance. The green uniform was very bright and sparkling, and Mr. M. compared it
with the material of the upholstery of certain buggy types of cars (polyester tinged with metallic
particles).
The entitys head was encased in a transparent globular helmet and a tube led from the rear of it
down to join a sort of rectangular-shaped knapsack on his back. This knapsack covered his back from
about the waist area upward to the level of the shoulder blade area on a man. The apparatus appeared
to be the same material as the rest of the uniform.
The creatures clothing appeared to be smooth, without buttons or seams, and did not exhibit any
evidence of fasteners of any kind, or pockets. The witness did notice a belt, and as the creature moved
around, he could make out a small bright red box on his abdomen at waist level, which was sparkling
and luminous. The belt appeared to be about 3 to 4 centimeters wide (1 - 1 inches) and the box
about 8 centimeters (3 inches) long and 3 to 4 centimeters (1 - 1 inches) wide. These estimates are
very rough considering the distance involved. This box emitted a red light of constant intensity.
The creatures trousers, which were slightly baggy at the bottom, were thrust into close-fitting
boots which had the same appearance as the rest of the clothing. At this time, no detailed features of the
entity could be made out. Although his hands were the same shape as those of humans, they were
gloved and the sleeves of his suit were tight at the wrists, but like the trousers, the rest of them were
slightly full. V. M. said that from the rear, the head looked round and black, and he thought the creature
had short hair. A luminous halo surrounded him from head to foot and also partly illuminated the ground
around him and the wall which was located at his left. The creature made no sound and the witness
could not detect any respiratory movement.
The creature was holding a device in his hands which closely resembled a vacuum cleaner or
metal detector which was slowly being passed to and fro over a heap of bricks that the witness had

gathered together a few days previously. The device had a long shaft which was bent at one end to form
a handle, with a small rectangular box just below the handle. The instrument itself consisted of a thick
rectangular plate with the front edge bevelled and the rear consisted of a cylinder with about the same
diameter as the thickness of the plate. The shaft was connected to the instrument between these two
areas. The device was the same color of the humanoids clothing and the witness could detect no sound
or light coming from it.
V. M. noticed that the small man seemed to have difficulty moving about for he would move
slowly, with a waddle, bending his knees slightly. His gait seemed very heavy. At this point, V. M. made
use of his flashlight, flashing it towards the end of the garden twice. Thereupon, the creature turned
around; he did not turn his head around, but rather brought his whole body around, suggesting that his
neck might not have been movable. Then V. M. caught sight of the dark face for the first time. Neither
mouth nor nose was visible, but he could distinguish a pair of ears which appeared somewhat pointed.
The eyes were oval and yellow in color, quite large, bright, and surrounded by a green rim. V. M. Said
that on the iris of the eyes, he noticed small, black, and red veinlets, and the pupil was black and
somewhat oval. At times, the lids would come down over the eyes and at such time, the face became
completely dark for a few moments. But when the eyes were open, these lids were not visible.
The creature stood there with the device in his left hand and seemed to answer V. M.s flashlight
signals by raising his right hand and giving the V signal, holding up the index and second fingers. Then
he turned away and with waddling gait and arms gently swinging, walked off toward the back wall.
At the wall, the creature placed one foot flat against it and then, without hesitation, did likewise
with the second foot and walked straight up the wall with no change of pace, except that his knees did not
bend. He continued to hold the instrument in his hand and to swing his arms as though walking normally
on flat ground . When he reached the top of the wall, which is about 3 meters (10 feet) high, he walked
over the top and down the other side, his body perpendicular to the side of the wall, and was out of V.
M.s sight.
About four minutes after this astonishing exhibition, a vivid halo of light appeared beyond the wall
and the witness heard a faintly perceptible chirring sound which seemed to be muffled by the wind.
Then a round object began to slowly rise above the top of the wall, probably only a few meters from it.
After rising a short distance, the object halted and remained stationary for about another four minutes, still
giving off the chirring noise which was compared to the sound of a cricket rubbing its wings together, and
with the same amount of loudness. V. M. thought the diameter of the object might have been about 5
meters (16 feet) based on the width of his garden. The upper half was an orange color, phosphorescent, and topped with a transparent cupola which emitted a greenish light. The lower half of the object
was a dark red color and on this area, very much in evidence, were three lights arranged horizontally; the
left one being blue, the middle one yellow, and the one at the right was red. These lights flashed on three
times in sequence. The humanoid he had seen on the ground was clearly outlined in the greenish light of
the cupola, but he could see no other detail in the cabin. On the periphery of the object, the witness
said, there issued what looked like showers of sparks like those from a cigarette lighter. They were
located at the point where the dark lower part and the bright upper part came together. On the bright
upper part was a round black circle traversed diagonally from right to left by a yellow lightning flash. This,
Mr. V. M. took to be an emblem of some kind.
The object then rose again vertically about 20 meters, still horizontal, and began to rock gently to
and fro. The sparks were still coming out all around it. Then the chirring sound grew in volume and
became a sort of hiss and the craft increased speed and shot straight up into the atmosphere, leaving
behind it a luminous trail. Within a few seconds, it was a tiny point of light among the stars, then lost to
view.
V. M. Said that at no point in the experience did he feel fear or hostility, and that he found no
marks on the ground or on the wall.

February 28, 1974:

A single witness case, this report was made by a man who is described by his acquaintances and
friends as a very simple man, fifty years of age, grown old prematurely by hard labor in an open forge.
Until his observation, he absolutely did not believe in the UFO phenomena. Even his family, after being
told of his experience, showed no interest, and his wife and two sons did not even bother to go see the
place or the landing traces on the ground.
After his experience, the witness proceeded on to work, where in response to questions, he
revealed the details of his encounter with strange humanoids. As a result, he was ridiculed and became
the object of unsettling raillery and ultimately became quite depressed. Consequently, when the
experience came to the attention of researchers, the investigation was made quite difficult because the
witness did not want to talk. Eventually, he consented to an interview and the investigators learned the
following:
At 5:30 a.m. on the day in question, Mr. X left his home and took the road (State Route 38, then
called RN 363) to Origney-en-Thierache (Aisne Province), France. He passed the last houses of the
hamlet of Routieres and took the curve just before the bridge over the Thon (a river between Oise and
Etreoupont), seeing nothing but that part of the roadway illuminated by his headlight. After crossing the
bridge, he was suddenly stopped and was nose to nose with two cosmonauts, as he called them. The
man was stupefied and did not understand what had happened, so he asked them how they had stopped
him since he had not slowed down or braked. He then noticed a large dark mass, circular, to the left in
the grass below the level of the road (about 1 meter below or 3.3 feet) and about 35 meters (110 feet)
from him and immediately thought that this must be their ship. He noticed nothing else no signals,
noise, absolutely nothing except the dark circular mass.
The witness had put his feet on the ground to keep his balance, the two figures were standing
facing him on each side holding the handlebars, and it seemed that they were watching him. They
appeared about 1.7 meters (5 feet, 6 inches) tall and wore dark uniforms like an astronauts, including a
helmet with an opening for the face, but nothing could be distinguished because it was dark inside and it
seemed as though their faces were covered. No other details could be made out, except that the gloves
had five fingers which were joined to the suit at the shoulders.
The witness later estimated the height of the object in the field as 1.8 to 2 meters (6 feet to 6 feet,
8 inches) and was as large as two cars.
The cosmonauts, after stopping the motorcycle, made very expressive gestures which the
witness described as quasi-human, and seemed to be telling him that they needed food. He panicked.
The two UFOnauts were looking at each other, turning their helmets. Then the one on the left made a
sign to the one on the right and the witness saw the latter search with his hand behind his back for
something which the witness could not see. Then, this being showed a morsel of a substance of about
1.2 centimeters (.39 inches) on the palm of his right hand and made new signs with his left hand, seeming
to indicate that the witness should eat what he was offered. Completely panicked, the witness grabbed
the material (which seemed like a bit of chocolate), put it in his mouth, and ate it. The substance had no
taste and was of a softer consistency than chocolate. The two entities watched as he ate; then when he
was finished, they let go of his motorcycle and he left as quickly as he could.
Upon questioning later, the man could not tell whether the engine of his cycle had been stopped
or not, and being glad to get out of the predicament, he did not come back nor did he ever look back as
he made his hasty departure.
The investigation of this case was carried out two months after the fact and inspection of the area
where the dark mass had sat revealed nothing; however, neighbors and friends who went to the area
after hearing the witnesss story said that they had found an area which was circular in shape in which the
grass had been flattened or compressed. This area measured 4 or 5 meters (13 - 16 feet) in
diameter.

March 21, 1974:

Maximiliano Iglesias Sanches was twenty-one at the time of his experience, which took place on
March 21, 1974, at 2:15 a.m. Maxi was a driver for one Aquilino Garrido Bernal in Lagunilla, Spain, and
he lived in Salamanca. At 9:30 p.m. on the 20th, Maxi drove to Pineda, completed his assignment, and
went to visit his girl friend who lived there.
At about 2:15 the next morning, he began his return trip and had just passed the town of Horcajo,
en route to Lagunilla, when he observed a powerful white light on the roadway some 700 or 800 meters
(2,250 to 3,000 feet) ahead. He first thought it might have been the light of a truck or car, but as the
distance between him and the light decreased to some 200 meters (650 feet), he realized something was
amiss for the lights of his truck went out and the engine stopped.
It then became apparent that the light was actually a craft of some kind, appearing to be metallic
in composition with no rivets, joints, seams or openings, and it stood on three round legs. The object,
Maxi estimated, was 10 or 12 meters (33 to 40 feet) in diameter and the legs were by comparison very
short, about a meter (1 feet) in height. He was certain that the object extended beyond both sides of
the highway, which is some 7 or 8 meters (23 to 27 feet) wide at that point. The object gave off a faint
light which was even all over its surface, and Maxi described it as a light like nothing I have ever seen,
making it difficult to describe. To the right of the object, at an altitude of some 15 or 17 meters (50 to 56
feet), was another object which was hovering motionless and gave off the same but a much weaker light.
Suddenly, to the right of the craft on the ground, two beings appeared and Maxi could not discern
whether they were entering or leaving the object or, in fact, where they came from. They stood in front of
the object in the center of the road and began to gesticulate with their arms. Maxi stood his ground and
just looked at them and they continued to signal to him. Shortly, one of them made a half turn toward the
object and disappeared to the right where he had initially made his appearance. The other remained
where he was, watching Maxi, and then the other being reappeared from the right of the craft and
rejoined his companion. They looked at each other and turned toward the craft, then went around the
right side of the object and out of sight. A few seconds later, the object ascended, making a noise which
ceased when it hovered motionless.
When questioned about the beings, Maxi said that they were between 1.90 and 2 meters tall (6
feet, 4 inches and 6 feet, 8 inches) and were dressed in tight-fitting outfits that covered their entire bodies.
The material was brilliant and metallic-looking like the ship, and rubbery-looking like the material of a
divers suit. They walked normally and were built like human beings, although no detail of the face could
be discerned because of the distance from Maxi, and the fact that the only light was the light from the
ship. This may have been the reason that the entities seemed to disappear when they went to the right
of the ship and out of its glow.
The ship ascended very slowly until it was parallel to the other one and the distance between
them was 1 or 2 meters (3 to 6 feet). At this time, Maxi felt they would let him pass so he started the
truck and continued his journey.
Some 150 to 200 meters (500 to 650 feet) down the road, Maxi stopped the truck to observe the
two objects. He shut off the lights and got out, at which time the illuminated ship began to land in the
same place. At this juncture, Maxi decided hed better leave and did so, rapidly.
The following morning, Maxi told friends of his experience, but no one believed him. However,
when he described what had happened to him to his employer, Mr. Garrido, he believed Maxi and later
told investigators that he is a hard worker, very serious and incapable of lying.
Because he had another load of material to deliver to Pineda, Maxi returned to the town on the
21st and again, visited his girl friend, telling her of his experience. She tried to convince him that he

should stay in Pineda overnight because she was worried about him; however, he decided to return to
Lagunilla anyway, but left at an earlier hour 11:00 p.m.
Fifteen minutes later, and at the same spot where hed had his experience earlier that day, he
saw the same or similar objects again, only this time, there were three of them and they followed his truck
until they were about 200 meters (650 feet) away, then settled to the ground in a row in a field at the side
of the road. Maxi decided to observe the objects, so he turned off the engine and the light and settled
down to watch.
The light from each of the crafts was faint and Maxi could not detect any changes in the intensity,
and the three were separated by a distance of some 8 or 9 meters (26.5 to 30 feet).
This time, there were four persons instead of two, and like the first time, the witness was not
able to determine where they came from, only that they appeared and came to a position in the center of
the highway in front of the crafts. They looked toward the witness while gesticulating among themselves.
Then they signaled to Maxi and began to move in his direction, walking normally. At this point, Maxi
opened the door on the right side of his truck and began to run down the road, whereupon the entities
quickened their pace. He turned around several times to determine their progress and realized that the
gap between him and the beings was lessening.
Maxi then dove in the ditch along the side of the road and watched as the beings drew up to his
location and passed him, and then began searching for a distance of 14 or 15 meters (46 to 50 feet).
Despite the fact that they, at one point, were so close that they almost touched him, they did not find him.
When he saw them move off some distance, he took that opportunity to flee and headed toward Horcajo,
the nearest town. About 1500 meters (1 mile) from the town, he saw its lights and when he got to town,
he talked to no one. After about ten minutes, he worked up enough courage to return to where his truck
was parked, hoping that the ships might have left, but they were still there. The beings were nowhere in
sight.
Apparently feeling safe because the entities were not around, Maxi started toward his truck. The
right hand door was closed and he distinctly remembered having left it open. Feeling apprehensive, he
checked the inside of the truck before getting in. He tried to start it, but with no success. At that juncture,
the four beings appeared again, walking along on the asphalt and moving toward the ship, and as before,
they disappeared from sight in the vicinity of the craft. Shortly, one of the ships began ascending,
reached an altitude of 15 to 17 meters (50 to 56 feet) and then hovered motionless.
Then Maxi again tried to start his truck, was successful, and drove away. After driving about 200
meters (650 feet), he stopped his truck so that he could watch what was transpiring with the crafts behind
him. Despite what had happened before, he turned out the lights, got out of the truck, and walked toward
the craft. Walking quietly, Maxi approached to within some 8 or 9 meters (26.5 to 30 feet) and looked
closely at the craft closest to him, attempting to learn how the beings entered and exited. But he could
find no evidence of ports or doors the entire surface was perfectly smooth. He then saw four beings
doing something on the embankment of the roadway. Two of them were holding T-shaped instruments
and a third held something which resembled a horseshoe. They did not speak or make any sounds and
Iglesias could not make out what they were doing. Neither was he able to ascertain any details of the
faces as they were covered with the same smooth material which encased the rest of their bodies.
Maxi estimated that he stood there for approximately three minutes and although he was
extremely curious, he decided to leave because his fear overcame any inclination to investigate further.
The beings did not move toward him, indicating that they probably were unaware of his presence. He
returned to the truck and without further difficulty, proceeded on his way home.
On the following day, he told his employer what had happened and was advised to report it to the
Civil Guard. Investigators who returned to the scene with him found marks on the ground where the
objects had landed in the field. On the highway where he said that one of the ships had landed, they
discovered a gouged spot which was in the form of a straight line, the depth indicating that it had been

marked by a very heavy object. On the embankment were found two marks which the investigators
assumed had been made by the tools or devices which Maxi had observed during his last observation.
Nothing else was found.

This case, of course, raises more questions than it answers. It would seem that Maxi
would have reported the objects when he went into Horcajo and bring witnesses back in order to
verify what he had seen. But we must assume that these questions were thought of by the
investigators and were answered to their satisfaction. Also, too often these reports lose
something in the translation, no matter how careful and talented the translator. In a case such as
this, the investigation can be on-going for months and sometimes years. Shortly after providing
the interview which led to the report, Maxi Iglesias entered the military service, and investigators
have had difficulty in contacting him for further interviews. Suffice to say that Iglesias report of
the men with the covered faces is not unique, and unless he was a dyed-in-the-wool UFO
researcher who has access to all of the literature, he would not have had knowledge of the
faceless UFOnauts which have been reported in quite a few instances elsewhere.
His failure to report the happening when he went into Horcajo is perfectly understandable
if one thinks about it in the context of a young man who does not want to face ridicule. American
researchers have been living with the UFO enigma for twenty-eight years, but there was relatively
little UFO activity around the rest of the world until the wave of 1954. Even though France
received the bulk of the action at that time, it was not until 1974 that the French people and the
government came to grips with the problem. So it is not entirely unthinkable that a twenty-oneyear-old Spaniard would hesitate to report having had such a bizarre experience as he claims he
had near Horcajo.

The Humanoids in South America

Early 1953 saw the emergence of a new kind of report out of South America. Prior to that
time, many incidents had been documented which concerned the presence of strange aircraft
hovering or maneuvering in various areas. The new activity, however, concerned landed objects
and humanoids of varying sizes apparently gathering plants and soil or rock specimens.

January 3, 1953:
A strange case involving three entities apparently taking soil samples took place on January 3,
1953, near Santana dos Montes, Guanabara state, in Brazil. Mauricio Ramos Bessa, a hospital
employee who lives some three hours from the town on a farm, had been shopping and was returning to
his home via a shortcut when he saw a luminous object ahead of him. It appeared to be about the size of
a Volkswagen bus, of metallic appearance, and hovered some 1.3 meters (4 feet) from the ground. The
lower half appeared flattened and the upper half was oval-shaped. Bessa stopped his car to observe. It
approached to within 2 meters (6.5 feet) of Bessas car, stopped, and two persons garbed in shiny gray
clothing came out of the object from the bottom. One of them carried a cylinder of 12 to 14 centimeters (5
inches) in length which he used to scoop soil off the road.
When the figures first emerged from the objects, Bessa began to experience a severe headache
and had difficulty seeing. When the two re-entered the object, he did not see them climb upwards nor did
he see the opening close because of the pain in his head. As soon as the two were gone, the headache
abruptly ceased.
Another entity was in the upper portion of the object behind a transparent panel. Bessa noted
that this one wore an outfit which seemed to cover him completely, including his hands and head, and

there was an open portion for the eyes, but he did not note any detail of the eyes. The height of the
beings he estimated to be from 1.30 to 1.40 meters (4 to 4 feet). Their faces seemed to be flatter than
a humans. They did not communicate with one another, except that one did make a motion with his
head to the other. All in all, Bessa had difficulty recalling details because of the headache and his terror
which literally rooted him to the spot.

November 28, 1953:

An extremely interesting case involving an object over a river took place on November 28, 1953,
when Pedro Serrate was walking along the banks of the river Guapore in Bolivia. He saw the object
some 50 meters (160 feet) from him and it approached to within 4 meters (13 feet) of his position,
making no sound. The thing was disc-shaped and Serrate estimated its dimensions as 4 meters (13
feet) long, 2 meters (8.5 feet) wide and 3 meters (6 feet) in height. The hull seemed to be made of
some kind of material resembling glass and was supported by metal beams in the material. It was of a
dark blue color and in the rear and on each side, there were curved tubes some 5 centimeters (5 inches)
thick from which water was emerging. From the time he spotted the thing until it reached its nearest
position to his location, it had circled around over the river just above the surface. When close, he noted
six people, four of whom he assumed were men and two women, all of whom appeared no more than
twenty years of age. They appeared to be of medium height and had blond hair and rose-like or pink
complexions. All were dressed in outfits which were the same color as the ship, and when they became
aware of Bessas presence, the ship immediately ascended into the sky and was out of sight shortly.

There were no further cases involving occupants until the fall of 1954, when we received
the following case forwarded by Jose Rolas of Caracas, Venezuela:

November 28, 1954:

At about 2 a.m. on the morning of November 28, Gustavo Gonzales and his helper, Jose Ponce,
set out from Caracas for Petare, a suburb, to pick up some produce to be put on sale in the markets of
Caracas the next morning. Upon entering a street leading to the warehouse area, they saw a luminous
spherical object hovering about 6 feet off the ground, and blocking their way. They stopped the truck and
Gonzales got out to investigate. A dwarfish-looking, man-shaped thing about 3 feet tall, hairy, and with
glowing eyes came toward Gonzales, who attempted to grab him. The little fellow struck Gonzales and
sent him reeling about 15 feet. The little man then leaped at Gonzales, clawed hands extended.
Gonzales drew his knife and made a stab at the creature, striking it in the shoulder, but the knife glanced
off as though it had struck steel. Another of the little fellows emerged from a hatch in the side of the
sphere, directed a light from what appeared to be a metallic tube at Gonzales, blinding him. At this point,
the creature with whom Gonzales had scuffled leaped the sphere, and it took off swiftly and was lost to
sight in seconds.
During this scuffle, Ponce watched two other entities answering the same description as the first
two, emerge from the side of the street carrying what appeared to be rocks or dirt in their arms. They
leapt easily up into the sphere through the opening in the side. Alarmed, he ran to the police station
about a block and a half away. He was telling his story when Gonzales arrived. Both men were
questioned closely and it was determined that they had not been drinking and that both had obviously
been badly frightened by something. They were given sedatives and Gonzales was put under
observation for a deep, red scratch on his side.

December 16, 1954:

On December 16, three young men were driving home from a dinner engagement in San Carlos,
Venezuela. One of the men, Jesus Paz, asked the driver to stop by the road so that he could relieve

himself. Shortly after he stepped off the side of the road, his friends heard him scream and, rushing to his
aid, found Paz unconscious on the ground. A short distance away, a hairy-looking little man was running
toward a flat, shiny object which hovered a few feet off the ground. The object rose from the ground with
a deafening buzzing sound and disappeared into the sky.
Paz was rushed to the hospital by his friends where he was treated for several long, deep
scratches on his right side and along his spine. Authorities who interviewed the men said that all three
were badly frightened and that Paz was in a state of shock.
On the same evening as the San Carlos incident, two young rabbit hunters, Lorenzo Flores and
Jesus Gomez, were being interviewed about their reported encounter with strange little men on the night
of December 10. The two had been hunting near the Trans-Andian Highway between Chico and Cerro
de Las Tres Torres. They saw a bright object off the highway and approached it, thinking it was a car.
They found it to be a shiny object which looked like two metallic soup bowls placed together lip to lip.
They estimated its diameter to be about 9 feet and said it was hovering about 3 feet off the ground. Fire
was issuing from its belly.
Then the boys saw four little men coming out of it. They said the creatures were about 3 feet
tall and hairy. They spotted the boys and the four set upon Jesus and tried to drag him toward the
saucer. Lorenzo used his shotgun as a bludgeon and tried to beat them off, since he knew it was
unloaded and he had no time to load. The gun seemed to have struck rock or something harder, as it
broke in two, Flores reported later.
Jesus fainted during the melee, and Flores remembered only the apparent light weight of the
little men, their hairy bodies, and great strength. Investigation by authorities at the scene revealed signs
of a struggle, and one of the doctors who examined the boys said both were almost hysterical when he
questioned them. Both exhibited scratches and bruises and their shirts were torn to shreds.

December 19, 1954:

December 19 was the next date for an incident involving small humanoids. Jockey Jose Parra
dashed into the National Security office at Valencia, Venezuela, and told of his encounter with a half
dozen little men near the local cement factory. Parra had been doing his running exercises in the cool
of the night in an attempt to work off a little excess poundage. He had stopped when he spotted the little
men pulling boulders from the side of the highway and loading them aboard a disc-shaped craft which
was hovering just a few feet off the ground. Parra started to run away, but one of the creatures pointed
something at him which gave off a violet-colored light and paralyzed him. He stood there helpless as the
creatures got into the craft and it took off. Detectives who were sent to the area where Parra had his
experience, found strange tracks on the ground which could not be identified as either human or animal.
The publicity accompanying the aforementioned incidents moved a well-known Caracas doctor to
come forward and tell of his experience with little men, providing the press would protect his identity,
which they did. On the same night as the Flores-Gomez incident, the doctor was riding with his father
between the La Carlota Airdrome and Francisco de Miranda Avenue at 6:30 p.m. His father suddenly
pointed at the side of the road and the doctor stopped the car. Together, they watched two little men
running into the brush. Shortly after they disappeared into the thickets, a luminous disc-shaped object
took off with a sizzing sound.

Two other incidents were then dug out of newspaper records and described in the large
city dailies.

December 4, 1954:

One involved Jose Alves of Pontal, Brazil. Alves was fishing in the Pardo River on the evening of
December 4 when a strange craft came down out of the sky in his general direction. He later estimated
its size as 10 feet in diameter and said it looked like two washbowls stuck together, lip to lip. Too
frightened to run, Alves sat transfixed as three little men, clad in white clothing and close-fitting skullcaps,
emerged from a window-like opening in the side of the craft. Their skin appeared to be dark, but Alves
could not get a good look at them because of the failing light. The little creatures took samples of grass,
herbs, and leaves, and one of them filled a shiny tube with water from the river. They suddenly jumped
back into the object, and it took off vertically and swiftly. Alves was sure the men were devils, never
having heard of flying saucers. His friends and acquaintances attested to his honesty and sobriety and
believed his story.
December 9, 1954:
The second story to come to light during the December interest in UFOs involved farmer Olmiro
da Costa e Rosa, who on the evening of December 9, was working in his French bean and maize field in
Linha Bela Vista, two and a half miles from Venancio Aires, Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil.
Costa e Rosa heard a sound like a sewing machine, whereupon the animals in the nearby
pasture scattered and ran. He looked up and saw a strange object hovering just above the ground,
which looked like an explorers hat. It was cream-colored and surrounded by a smoky haze.
Three men were visible to Costa e Rosa. One was in the craft, his head and shoulders sticking
outside an opening, and another was apparently examining a barbed-wire fence. Another approached
Costa e Rosa, who dropped his hoe in surprise. The man then raised his hand, reached down and
picked up the hoe, and gave it back to the farmer. He then stooped over, uprooted a few plants and
started back toward the craft.
Somewhat reassured by these actions, the farmer advanced toward the craft. The man in the
object and the one who had picked up the hoe made no motion toward him, but the one near the fence
made a gesture as if warning Costa e Rosa to stop, which he did. Some of the animals then approached,
and Costa e Rosa, with gestures, told the strange creatures that he would give them one of the animals
as a gift, but they didnt seem interested. Quite suddenly and unexpectedly, the two men on the ground
boarded the ship, which rose to about 30 feet, accelerated abruptly, and flew into the west at high speed.
The description of these men is most interesting: They appeared to be of medium height, broadshouldered, with long blond hair, extremely pale skin, and slanted eyes. Their clothing was light brown in
color and seemed fastened to their shoes, which looked odd to Costa e Rosa as they had no heels. The
farmer was questioned at length by authorities from Porto Alegre and it was determined that Costa e
Rosa was a responsible, honest man.

December 11, 1954:

Two days after the Venancio Aires affair, Pedro Morais, who lived less than a mile from Costa e
Rosa, was preparing to go to a warehouse for supplies at 5:00 p.m. He heard a chicken squawking, and
thinking hawks were raiding, he went outside to investigate. He could still hear the chicken, but could not
find it (and never did), for he saw an object which he described as looking like the hood of a jeep,
hovering just above the ground. The bottom resembled that of an enormous polished brass kettle.
Morais then spied two human forms in a cultivated field nearby and he started toward the craft, planning
to register his displeasure at this trespass. As he did so, one of the men ran toward him while the other
raised his arm in a gesture which appeared to be a warning to stop. Morais, angry, did not pay attention
and continued toward the machine. The second man stooped quickly and pulled a tobacco plant out of
the ground, then both of the creatures got into the craft which disappeared into the sky within a few
seconds.
This particular incident involves a new type of occupant. Although human in shape, they both

gave the appearance of being enveloped in a kind of yellow-colored sack from head to toe.

July 23, 1947:

Another renegade in the occupant reports involved seven-foot giants allegedly observed by
Jose C. Higgins, a Brazilian survey worker on July 23, 1947, within days of a sighting by Kenneth Arnold
over Mount Rainier in the state of Washington, U.S.A. This case surfaced in 1954. According to Higgins,
a huge (150 feet wide) disc landed with a piercing whistling noise. Out of it came three giant creatures
who were bald, had huge round eyes, no eyebrows, and were encased in transparent suits which covered
their entire bodies.
Higgins reported that they seemed to shun bright sunlight, and when they attempted to lure him
with gestures, he eluded them, finally hiding in the brush where he watched them gamboling about,
leaping, and tossing huge stones. They then re-entered the craft, which vanished toward the north.

A second sighting of the type just described was reported at Lago, southern Argentina, in
1950.

March 18, 1950:

The observer, Wifredo Arevalo, said that at 6:30 p.m. on March 18, he saw a huge disc land while
another hovered above it. Through the transparent dome, he saw four tall, well-shaped men, dressed in
something like cellophane suits, who appeared to be working on some instruments. He was particularly
struck by the pallor of their faces. When landing, the disc gave off a greenish-blue vapor. Arevalo had
succeeded in getting within 500 feet of the object. The next day, Arevalo and fellow cowhands found that
the area where the object had rested exhibited burned grass, and they notified the Argentine Air Force
and a Buenos Aires newspaper. It was later discovered that a similar object had been observed by
others in the same area, at the same time.

We have so far seen a couple of general types of UFO occupants, and it is obvious that
unconnected sources are seeing the same thing. The bulk of the cases indicate a preponderance
of small beings about 36 to 40 inches in height, but there is also another category made up of
occupants ranging in size from about 4 feet to 5 feet. Still another is the giant species, which
is rare. The small hairy, animal-like beings with claws and hot tempers seem to be menial
workers, while the others are more docile and generally keep their distances, except on rare
occasions.
We encountered another report claiming some sort of mental communication, related by
Rubem Hellwig concerning his experience with average-sized beings near Santa Maria, State of
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

March 1954:
Hellwig claimed that an object, which looked like a melon or rugby football and about the size of a
Volkswagen car, landed at about 5:00 p.m. one day in March, 1954. He was driving, stopped his car, and
walked to the craft. Two men were there with brownish faces and fair hair. One gathered specimens of
grass; the other stayed in the machine. They spoke to Hellwig in a language he could not understand
and yet, he somehow knew what they wanted, which was where they could get some ammonia. He said
he directed them to a nearby town, whereupon the craft glowed, gave off blue and yellow fumes, and
vanished silently and instantly.

Hellwig further claimed that he met the same ship the next day, but with a different crew a tall
man with a fair complexion and two women with light-brown skin, long black hair, and large, dark, slanted
eyes. They were clad in brown suede-like garments, and talked about the natural riches of Brazil,
explaining that they were scientists. They also commented on the fact that Hellwig did not run away from
them as had others in the past.

November 14, 1954:

On November 14, at about 3:30 a.m., a Brazilian railroad employee allegedly saw three small
human-shaped beings in tight-fitting, luminous clothing, who appeared to be examining the ground
around the railroad tracks by the light of some kind of lantern. When the creatures spotted the man, they
entered an oval-shaped craft which rose into the sky and rapidly disappeared.

April 1957:
An unidentified motorist allegedly had a very eerie experience while driving on the highway some
15 kilometers (9 miles) from the international airport of Pajas Blancas, Argentina, in April 1957. The
engine of his car suddenly and inexplicably stopped, and he said he got out to see what had happened
and saw an enormous disc, which he estimated to be about 18 meters (60 feet) in diameter and 4
meters (14 feet) high, suspended some 15 meters (50 feet) above the ground in front of his car.
Frightened, he ran and hid himself in a ditch beside the road.
With a sound like that of air escaping from a valve, the disc descended to an altitude of a little
more than 2 meters (6 feet) and from its base came a sort of elevator which came down almost to the
ground. Out of this device came a man who approached the motorist and courteously asked him to come
out of the ditch, all the time stroking him gently on the forehead as if to calm him. The being wore a tightfitting outfit much like that worn by a diver and which seemed to be made of some kind of plastic.
This man took the motorist to the disc and they entered it by way of the elevator. Once inside,
he saw five or six men, dressed in a similar manner to that of the man, who were seated in front of an
instrument panel. A bright light illuminated the cabin and on the wall could be seen a series of large
square windows which were not visible from the outside, which seemed very strange to the motorist.
The motorist was shortly taken back out and escorted to his car and the being put his hand on his
shoulder as a gesture of departing, and then got into the elevator, which retracted rapidly into the disc.
Then the disc, which appeared to be made of a blue-green, iridescent metal, ascended rapidly in a
northwest direction. During the following hour, the same or a similar object was allegedly seen in six or
seven places in the same area.

October 10, 1957:

Another instance of luminous suits, long hair, and diminutive size was reported by a Spanish
naval officer, Miguel Espanol, and a companion, who claimed that on the night of October 10, 1957, they
saw a huge oval or saucer-shaped object which stalled the truck in which they were riding. Then it
hovered, during which time, they could clearly see the seven occupants through an open hatch.

November 18, 1957:

At 10 a.m. on November 18, 1957, one of the few daylight sightings of occupants took place near
Maracaja, State of Santa Catarina, south Brazil. Farmers Joao Ernani and Pedro Zilli saw two aluminumcolored discs hovering about three or four feet above the ground from a distance of about 700 feet. Six
medium-sized men of slim build with tight-fitting, dark-gray suits were returning to the craft. The discs

appeared to be about 10 feet in diameter and rose with a sharp whistling sound, bending some palm
trees almost double as they went over. At the same time, three more discs rose from behind trees and all
five craft headed out over the South Atlantic.

June 13, 1958:

It was more than a year later before another occupant case was recorded when, on June 23,
1958, Remo DallArmellina left Cordoba, Argentina, by car, en route to Santa Fe. Because he wished to
arrive by morning, he left before midnight. At approximately 4:30 a.m., he was driving along route 19, at a
speed of about 60 kilometers (37 miles) per hour, not far from Boca del Tigre (Mouth of the Tiger). He
suddenly noticed a brilliance behind the hill ahead of him which he attributed to an oncoming car. But
when he approached, he saw that the lights did not belong to a car. Ahead, in the middle of the highway,
he saw a strange individual. He was taller than normal, was wearing strange clothing, but most
surprising of all was the light which came from what resembled small metallic-like balls that covered him
from head to foot. This man raised his arms above his head and appeared to signal. DallArmellina
applied the brakes and stopped his car. He then picked up an iron crowbar which he made a habit of
carrying with him for protection and got out of the car.
DallArmellina said he didnt take two steps toward the being. He brought the crowbar up, then
the white light given off by the being turned rose-colored, and he felt dizzy as if hed taken a narcotic, and
fell to the road, quite senseless. When he regained consciousness, he and his car were alone. He ran to
the car, got in, and drove rapidly to the police station at Boca del Tigre. His back and shoulder hurt him
and a doctor was called but the examination showed nothing but nervousness.

November 23, 1958:

The last occupant case registered for the year 1958 occurred on the night of November 23 when
Julio Marino Madeleto, an American technician of Spanish origin who was employed on a project for the
construction of dikes in El Salvador, Central America, had a small auto accident followed by a strange
adventure. He was driving on the highway between Cojutepeque and Zacatecoluca at about 11:35 p.m.,
and due to poor visibility and rain, he struck and ran over a can of gasoline which wedged itself beneath
the car.
Madeleto got out of the car, took some tools and began to remove the can. As he worked, he
saw, illuminated by the cars headlights, a bell-shaped flying object appearing to be some 12 or 13 meters
(40 to 43 feet) in diameter and coming to rest about 30 meters (100 feet) from him. He then noticed a
human figure about 2 meters (6 feet) tall and dressed in a kind of blue outfit engaged in examining the
rim of the disc which he struck gently from time to time with a metallic instrument. Suddenly, the pilot was
no longer there, the transparent portion on the upper portion of the disc that was giving off a pulsating
light greatly increased its brilliance, and Madeleto heard a buzzing sound and felt intense heat. The noise
increased without stopping and the object began to rise slowly, giving off sparks from its lower part.
When the disc began to oscillate, turning slowly on its axis, the witness was able to see two groups of
portholes or windows on the circular exterior surface of what he assumed was the cockpit or command
center. Through these openings, he observed a greenish luminescence. When the disc rose upwards,
he saw that on the bottom portion, there were three yellowish hemispheres which he estimated to be
almost 2 meters (6 feet) in diameter and separated from each other by 120, placed equidistant from
one another. Then the disc stopped oscillating and departed vertically at great velocity.
Exploring the area with his flashlight, Madeleto found three hemispherical depressions in the wet
ground, arranged to form a perfect equilateral triangle. He also found the footprints of the pilot, which
were filled with water. The prints were much deeper than those produced by Madeleto himself, which
indicated to him that the being was much heavier than he.

Two years passed with no occupant activity being reported in South America. But no
condition ever remains static and researchers were rewarded for their vigil and patience. This
time, it was Brazil.

May 14, 1960:

During the night of May 14, 1960, a six-state area of Brazil experienced an unusual number of
UFO sightings and among them was the incident in which farmer Raimundo dos Santos saw two landed
discs on the beach near Paracura, Ceara State, northeast Brazil, and several small, pale-looking humanlike entities standing near them. They beckoned to dos Santos, who turned and fled in fright. Returning
later with other men, he found marks in the sand where the discs had rested.

At this juncture, it is necessary to mention the robots which have been reported less
frequently than the humanoids, but nevertheless in sufficient number to be discussed.

May 24, 1962:

One of the first of these came from the Province of La Pampa, Argentina, where, on May 24,
1962, a woman had to be taken to a hospital suffering from shock after seeing a disc-like object land and
two robot-like creatures near it. The womans husband was also a witness to the sighting. Argentine Air
Force officials who investigated, found a circle of scorched grass which was 18 feet in diameter.

July 28, 1962:

On the same day that many people reported having seen a luminous object flying overhead, a
seventeen-year-old student claimed that he was assaulted by a strange being. Ricardo Mieres,
seventeen, a student at National College at Parana, Argentina, was riding his motorcycle on July 28,
1962. When in the vicinity of Bajada Granda, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Parana, his engine stalled and
he was accosted by a being with a round head, long hair that was almost white, and three eyes that
looked at him fixedly without blinking. Terrified, he tried to run but the thing approached him and with a
violent gesture, grabbed him by the edge of his collar. He then did a half turn, like a robot, released the
boy and departed, leaving tracks.

October 12, 1963:

On October 12, 1963, truck driver Eugenio Douglas was blinded by a bright light while driving
from Monte Maiz, Brazil, to Isla Verde and ran his truck into a ditch. When he climbed out, he found the
road blocked by a huge, oval, metallic object which seemed at least thirty feet high, and from a door in its
side emerged three huge robots which he estimated to be as much as 14 or 16 feet in height. He said
their clothing seemed snug or stuck to their bodies and they had helmets bearing short antennae which
resembled the horns of a snail. Douglas fired several shots at them and fled. The robots re-entered
their craft and pursued him, apparently beaming some kind of ray at him, which caused a burning,
prickling, heat sensation such as he had felt when his truck first stalled. Despite the heavy rainfall,
investigators, the next day, found footprints some 18 or more inches in length near the disabled truck, the
wiring of which was all burned out.

One incident, which we havent been able to pin down as to the exact date, allegedly took
place one afternoon in 1963, and is probably as weird as the weirdest cases we have collected to
date.

1963:
Three employees of the railroad were on a train going from Presidencia La Plaza to Resistencia
in Chaco Province, Argentina, when they saw a towering person over 2 meters (6 feet, 8 inches) tall and
dressed in a red one-piece outfit, walking on the railroad tracks toward them. The being appeared
human, had pale skin, long blond hair, and had his hands out in front of him as though offering
something. They thought it looked like the body of a young boy. Suddenly, when the train was less than
5 meters (16 feet) from the strange figure, he departed, disappearing upward as if sucked up by a
whirlwind.
Meanwhile, at Resistencia at about the same time, Justo Masin and his son were resting in the
garden and eating when a strange being descended towards them. Their description of the being was
the same as that given by the railroad men. Unfortunately, these two cases were from a newspaper
article which did not give dates, nor did it mention what happened to the being in the Masin case.

An incident involving humanoid forms apparently interested in a railroad took place near
Trancas, Province of Tucuman, Argentina, on the night of October 21, 1963.

October 21, 1963:

The occupants of a farm house saw a strange lighted object on or near the ground near the
railway some distance from the house, and human forms were moving about. The distance was too great
to make out any details. After a flashlight was obtained and trained on the grounds outside the home, two
of the discs came in toward the house, took up positions about 200 feet away, beamed a narrow
nondiffusing beam of light at the house, after which it heated up like an oven. When the discs finally left,
a misty substance remained where the closest discs had hovered next to the ground, and was still there
when reporters investigated later.

One of the strangest of the horde of occupant sightings concerns one in December 1963 at
Sauce Viejo, Santa Fe Province, Argentina. Although no craft was seen, the humanoid was
certainly out of this world.

December 1963:
Cesar Tulio Gallardo, a railroad worker, was sitting and reading in a coach on a siding when
suddenly, the radio failed and his carbide lamp went out. He went outside, saw some strange lights,
came in again, and closed the door. At that moment, a being, totally surrounded by light, came in from
the door at the other end of the coach. The dazzle from the light was so great that Gallardo shielded his
eyes with the paper, whereupon the entity snatched the paper away from him and tore it up. The weird
visitor then grabbed an oil can and emptied its contents into a sort of bottle he had with him, and left as
abruptly as he had entered. The only thing Gallardo could see with clarity was the beings legs, which
were clad in some sort of dark, shiny material.
Shortly after Gallardo reported his experience to police, passengers on an oncoming train told of
seeing a luminous man walking along the railway track as their train approached the city.

June 5, 1964:
At Pajas Blancas, Cordoba, Argentina, a doctor who preferred anonymity, and his wife, told of the
failure of their cars engine on the night of June 5, 1964, and the subsequent sighting of a huge bright

object in the road. The bright lights went out, leaving only a violet light. A figure approached their car,
spoke to them in Spanish telling them not to be afraid, that if they tried to start the car, it would start.
They did, then the man walked away, joined two others dressed in gray clothing, entered the machine,
and left.

July 1965:
During the flap of July 1965, a daylight sighting took place at Quilmes, Province of Buenos Aires,
Argentina. Senor Ramon Eduardo Pereyra was driving his van when he saw a parachute-like object
drifting down from the sky into some trees. Upon investigation, Pereyra saw a chrome-colored, eggshaped craft standing on metal legs. The top of it was transparent and beside it, stood a blond young
man dressed in a plastic divers suit with small boots and a briefcase-like object attached to his leg.
Pereyra approached the craft without being seen by the young man, looked into a porthole, and saw a
second man seated at an instrument panel. The man outside noticed him, then came toward him with an
angry expression on his face. Pereyra attempted to talk to the man, who immediately stepped into the
craft which rose at once to a height of about 100 feet and moved away in swift, level flight.

July 26, 1965:

An evening sighting on July 26, 1965, involved a fifteen-year-old boy named Adilon Batista
Azevedo on his way to a movie. As he walked across a piece of open ground on the outskirts of the city,
Carazinho, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, he heard a strange humming sound, then saw two cones
of light, and two round craft landing not far from him. The boy hid and watched the following. Three
human-like beings emerged from one machine and two from the other. The two parties combined and
talked in a strange language. They were about 5 feet tall, wore helmets and one-piece suits of dark color,
and boots. One held a brilliant object similar to a wand in one hand. The five conversed for about five
minutes, walked around the machines three times, bending down and looking at the hull.
Sketches of the objects and the entities submitted to Dr. Buhler of the Brazilian UFO Investigation
Group, resemble the descriptions of the beings seen by Antonio Villas-Boas in 1957. After the inspection
of the craft, the entities re-entered their machines which took off at great speed and were gone within
seconds.

August 15, 1965:

A leaden-colored object landed on a road near Saito, northwest Uruguay, at about 11 p.m. on
August 15, 1965, and stalled a car. The object sported a white light which changed to red, green, then
yellow, and nearly dimmed out before repeating the sequence. Three of the astonished passengers of
the car fainted and the other two sat transfixed with fear. Through a window in the object, they could see
three human-like beings moving about. As usual, it suddenly departed at high speed amid bursts of
reddish-yellow flame and a deafening humming noise.

August 20, 1965:

Several humanoid figures were seen moving about a UFO which landed within 700 feet of the
home of Eduardo Lujan Yacobi at Mar Del Plata, Argentina, at 11 p.m. on August 20, 1965. The object
was heard (a humming sound) and seen (a luminous oval in the sky overhead) before it landed. The
sighting was corroborated later by witnesses who either saw the object go over or heard the humming
sound.
Little folk two of them small enough to fit into a silvery disc about five feet in diameter were
observed shortly before noon on August 20, 1965, by engineer Alberto Ugarte and his wife and Senor

Elwin Voter. The three were sightseeing at the Inca ruins just outside Cuzco, Peru. The object landed on
a terrace of the Inca stone fortress and the entities who emerged were small beings of strange shape
and dazzling brightness. The little creatures seemed surprised at the presence of the witnesses, got into
their ship, and departed hastily into the west.

August 23, 1965:

A reporter for the El Territorio in Apostoles, Argentina, claimed that Casimiro Zuk, twenty-seven,
came to him with a tale about a landed UFO and an occupant who apparently landed just to stretch his
legs. He said that on the night of August 23, 1965, at around 1 oclock in the morning, he was travelling
on the outskirts of Apostoles when he saw a luminous object which was giving off, at intervals, very bright
light. He stopped, got off his bicycle, and noted that little by little, the object was getting closer to the
ground, and upon reaching an altitude of approximately 500 meters (1650 feet), it described a semi-circle
from east to west. Later, it touched down gently on the nearby beach area about 400 meters (1350 feet)
from Mr. Zuk. He described it as some kind of self-propelling vehicle of an elongated form some 5
meters (16 feet) in diameter at the center. Around it, he said, was a kind of visor, similar to that in an
automobile used to protect passengers from the Suns rays, and under this were several windows. The
total height, Zuk said, he estimated to be 2 meters (8 feet).
Then a hatchway began to open slowly, from which emerged a person of normal height, dressed
in an outfit resembling that of an aviator, which covered him from head to foot, and gave off luminous
sparkles. The being walked several feet as if wanting to stretch his legs and then, returned to the ship
which, after the hatch was closed, began to ascend in a spiralling motion and made a howling noise.
Asked if he had heard any other noise, Zuk said that when the individual came out of the device, he could
hear what seemed to be soft music.

September 1, 1965:
A tiny man (about 34 inches high) with a head about twice the size of a humans, was seen
emerging from an oval-shaped object which landed on the private airstrip of a large estate near Huanaco,
Peru, on September 1, 1965. The little man made gestures at the one witness (who requests anonymity),
then entered the machine which vanished.

September 10, 1965:

A strange hum accompanied the appearance of a disc 5 feet in diameter which reportedly landed
at Sao Joao, State of Pernambuco, Brazil, on September 10, 1965, at 8:30 a.m. Farmer Antonio Pau
Ferro was working his maize field when the object landed, then it ascended to about a foot from the
ground, leaving two small man-like creatures (less than 3 feet tall) on the ground. They were wellproportioned, beardless, had smooth, reddish-brown complexions, and wore tight-fitting one-piece
garments.
The witness clung to a tree in terror as the little men approached him, chattering to each other in
an unintelligible language. They examined some tomato plants and picked a tomato, then got into their
craft which took off vertically with a high-pitched hum. During the investigation carried out by Dr. W.
Buhler, the doctor noted that Ferro literally shook while relating the experience, and had to sit down.
Although no one else saw the landed discs or their occupants, several in the area heard the humming
sound.

September 12, 1965:

Lieutenant Sebastian Manche, military officer in charge of the Peruvian town of Santa Barbara,

reported seeing two 32-inch beings walking about on the snow near Lake Ceulacocha in the Andes on
September 12. On the same night, many residents of Huancavelica watched two UFOs flying about
above the town for about two hours.

September 20, 1965:

The little 32-inch creatures made their next appearance at 4:30 p.m. on September 20, 1965,
near the town of Pichaca, District of Puno, in southeast Peru. A shepherdess saw a half dozen of the
little fellows emerge from a landed UFO, and talk together in a language which sounded like the cackling
of geese. They were dressed in white clothing which emitted intermittent flashes of light. She was so
frightened that she fled the area and hid. Marks found on the ground later consisted of a liquid
resembling oil.

When the concentrated UFO activity of 1967 began, researchers expected to obtain more
cases of humanoids associated with the UFOs, and they did. It almost seemed a repetition of the
phenomenal wave of 1954, as certain areas were revisited; Venezuela in particular.

August 23, 1967:

Ricardo Hurtado and Antonio Piedra, two young residents of the Santa Monica section of
Caracas, reported on the morning of the 23rd of August that the night before, they had heard a strange
noise like horses galloping in the kitchen of their apartment, and when they entered the room to
investigate, they saw two small beings leaving hurriedly. There was no light in the kitchen, so they said
they were not able to discern any features, but they did not believe that the uninvited guests could have
been children because of the late hour at which the incident took place.

August 26, 1967:

Then, at 2 a.m. on the 26th, according to Marine Pfc. Estaban D. Cova, he was accosted by a
small being about 3 feet tall and covered with a sort of hairy or wiry material, who asked him to come
along since he needed the company of an earthling. Cova had just gotten off duty at the hangar of the
Venezuelan Airpostal Airlines at Maiquetia Airport, showered and changed clothes, and was leaving the
building when he ran into the little creature. The little man had a very large head, he said, bulging eyes,
and made a deep, whistling sound which Cova associated with a prickling feeling throughout his body.
After the little man spoke to him, Cova fainted. When he woke, he went immediately to the office of the
Commandant and made his report. The Commandant later told investigators that something had
frightened Cova badly and that he believed the story.

September 26, 1967:

The only Brazilian occupant case that came in during the fall flap was from a young sixteen-yearold boy named Fabio Jose Diniz, who claimed that on the night of September 26th, he was going home
after visiting a girl friend, when he encountered a landed half-sphere-shaped object of about 70 feet in
diameter on a football field near the Hospital da Baleia. The object was brown in color, had a line of
portholes along it, and a fixed triangular piece on top. It also had a black cylindrical support some 3
meters (10 feet) by 2 meters (7 feet) wide. Two creatures, each over 6 feet tall, dressed in green clothing
similar to that of a divers underwater suit were near the object. They had wide-spaced and round eyes,
their eyebrows appeared to be triangular in shape and very thick. Fabio said he did not see their noses
which were covered by a long tube. He said they uttered two sentences: Do not run come back and
Be here again tomorrow at this same hour or we shall take your family with us.

Brazil again seemed to be the target of the humanoids in the latter part of 1968.

October 1968:
A nightwatchman at the Central Electric Station of Sao Paulo claimed that at 1 a.m. on an
October morning (as is often the case, the press did not give the exact date), he was attacked by unusual
creatures. He said he had just signed in to work when he noticed a light shining above the building, so he
went outside to see where it was coming from. He saw a mans face at a distance and ran toward it. The
morning was very dark so he could only make out that the mans head had a covering of some kind. The
watchman had an iron bar in his hand and he aimed a couple of blows toward the mans head, but the
man dodged both of them quite agilely, then grabbed the watchman by the arm and threw him down. The
two rolled about on the ground, whereupon the stranger was joined by another man, then still another,
and the watchman was overcome. He noticed that one of the men was dressed in yellow clothing and
he tapped the watchman on the back, uttering unintelligible words. The watchman called to other
workers, whereupon the three strangers got into a small vehicle which resembled a Volkswagen station
wagon in size and it flew off into the air over the offices of the electrical complex.
The watchman described the men as being about his own height, one wearing dark trousers
and polo shirt, with his face covered. The one who had been on top of the small building who first caught
his attention, had worn light-colored clothes which he thought were yellow and resembled overalls. The
third wore dark clothing.
The vehicle, he said, was unlit and of a grayish color. The watchmans experience was reported
to police who were impressed by the similarity between what he saw and the incident involving another
encounter with UFO entities at Lins. A representative of the President of Brazil was sent to interview the
watchman. Authorities at first thought that terrorists might have been involved in the incident, but after
the questioning was over, they were forced to discard the idea.

We must call attention to the fact that so many of these occupant reports allude to a
Volkswagen or Volkswagen station wagon-sized flying object being involved.
Another Brazilian occupant case which took place in August 1967, but did not become
available to APRO (Aerial Phenomena Research Organization) for quite some time thereafter,
ended up in tragedy for the primary witness. It is one of the few incidents in which a weapon was
allegedly used against a human. The investigation was initiated by APROs Brazilian
representative, Dr. Olavo T. Fontes, who became ill in late 1967 and passed away in the spring of
1968. It was some time before Professor Felipe Carrion and Jader Pereira were able to carry the
investigation to an end.

August 13, 1967:

At 4 p.m. on the 13th of August 1967, Inacio de Souza and his wife, Maria, returned from an
outing. De Souza was the tenant farmer and caretaker for a wealthy man who made his headquarters in
Sao Paulo and commuted to the farm by private plane when necessary. Upon arriving at the farm, they
immediately saw a strange, basin-shaped object of approximately 35 meters (115 feet) in width resting
on the landing field. Standing between the craft and the de Souzas were three strange-looking creatures
who appeared, to Inacio, to be naked. His wife, however, got the impression that the men were dressed
in tight-fitting yellow jersey suits. They appeared to have no hair and were playing about like children.
When they caught sight of the de Souzas, they began running toward them. Inacio sent his wife into the
house and he reached for his rifle and began to shoot. At the moment that Inacio began to fire, a jet of
green-colored light erupted from the disc and struck him full in the chest, knocking him to the ground.

At this moment, Mrs. de Souza ran out of the house to her husbands aid and took the gun and
flung it away. But the three figures were already running toward the disc, which thereafter lifted straight
up off the ground, making a sound like the swarming of bees and was shortly lost to sight.
Three days after the incident, the owner of the farm arrived in his airplane. He found de Souza
quite ill. Inacio complained of extreme nausea as well as a tingling feeling and general numbness
throughout his body. He was taken to Goiana, the capital of Goias State, where a doctor examined him
and found burns on his torso. The farm owner (who did not want to be identified and connected with the
case) told the doctor the facts surrounding Inacios condition and the physician decided to do some blood
tests. The tests revealed that Inacio was suffering from leukemia and malignant alterations of the blood.
The doctor took the farm owner aside and told him that Inacios probable life expectancy was about sixty
days.
De Souzas weight dropped very fast, he suffered great pain, and yellowish-white spots appeared
all over his body. Within months, Inacio de Souza was dead. Before his death, he begged his wife to
burn his bed and clothing as he was afraid that what had killed him might have been transmitted to his
wife or their five children. De Souza had not been told that he had leukemia and not having much
knowledge of medicine, probably assumed that what he suffered from was communicable.
It is believed by Inacios family, his employer, the doctor involved, as well as the investigators,
that Inacio de Souza died of radiation poisoning. The incident took place on the farm which is located
between Crixas and Pilar de Goias in Goias State.

February 7, 1969:
Another occupants case involving little flying men and a basin-shaped object was reported at
Pirassununga, Sao Paulo State, Brazil, in February of 1969. A parachute or basin-shaped object giving
off a blue light was observed by many residents of that city at 7 a.m. on the 7th of February.
Among those who saw it was nineteen-year-old Tiago Machado, a fruit peddler who lived with his
family. He had been in bed when he heard people shouting and upon looking out his window, he saw the
object. He dressed hurriedly, grabbed his binoculars, ran to the Zootechnica Institute, and excitedly
informed two guards, Francisco Hanse and Benedito Joana, of what he had seen and asked them to
accompany him to the site where the object was located.
The three of them set out running, each by a different route, because of the obstacles presented
by streams and trees and vegetation. Tiago reached the location first and stopped at about 10 meters
(about 35 feet) from the object, which now gave the appearance of an aluminum disc. A lid opened on
the upper part of the disc and there emerged two smallish men of about 1 meter, 10 centimeters (3 feet, 8
inches) in height. Two others could be seen inside the glass-enclosed cabin. They appeared to fly
down from the opening to the ground. Tiago later described them as wearing silvery-colored clothing,
including gloves and boots, and through the helmets, their faces appeared to have a yellowish tinge, their
noses squashed at the ends. A tube projecting down from the area of the cabin seemed to be where
their hoarse, guttural sounds were coming from. Tiago could not understand the noises they made.
The creatures seemed to be afraid of the binoculars which he had around his neck, so he took
them off and laid them on the ground and then, put them on again, which seemed to reassure them.
Being nervous, Tiago then lit a cigarette and proceeded to smoke. The creatures began to laugh,
apparently very amused, so Tiago took the pack and laid it on the ground, pushing it toward the creatures
with his foot. One of them extended his hand above the cigarette pack and it rose up into the air to his
palm. He then made a quick motion toward his body and the pack disappeared.
The little men seemed to try to converse with Tiago by using sign language and Tiago responded
in a likewise manner. The two raised their arms and made the outline of a sphere in the air, then
indicated a motion which seemed to Tiago to denote a craft falling or drifting to the ground.

These events took only a very few minutes and soon, the shouts of others who were approaching
were heard. The little creatures began drifting up to the top of the disc and entered it through the lifted
hatch which had opened when they first appeared. The last one to enter made a gesture to one of the
crew inside, then pointed a pipe-shaped contraption at Tiago. He gave the handle a turn and it flashed a
bluish-red ray at the boys legs and he fell to the ground. The rim of the ship had been turning all the
while that the creatures were on the ground and the central part, which rested on a tripod landing gear,
remained still.
As soon as Tiago fell down, the object left the ground and disappeared into the sky at high speed.
Others who were approaching saw the little men and the machine as it took off.
One additional detail which should be mentioned is that when the creatures laughed, Tiago noted
that their teeth were dark. As our translator, Mrs. Irene Granchi, pointed out, we should note the similarity
of the creatures in this incident as well as their apparent ability to fly, to the French Cussac Plateau case
which is described in the chapter titled Floating, Flying UFOnauts.

July 4, 1969:
Anolaima, Columbia, is the next setting for our next occupant case. A total of eleven witnesses
were involved and the incident took place at 8 p.m. on July 4, 1969. Mauricio Gnecco, thirteen, saw a
yellow-red light moving from east to west. He was with a friend, Enrique Osorio, twelve, and they were
outside watching for shooting stars. Mauricio called to the other children, Andres Franco, thirteen;
Marina Franco, eleven; Rosita N., ten; German N., fourteen; all of whom were playing inside the house.
Also present in the house were Arcesio Bermudez, Lucrecia Bermudez, his sister Rosa Ortiz, Luis
Carbajal, the butler; and Evelia Carbajal, the butlers wife. Mauricio urged them to go outside and see the
flying saucer.
At first, they would not go; then when Mauricio insisted, they stepped out and watched the light
which appeared to be at a distance of about 600 feet. Mauricio obtained a flashlight and began to turn it
on and off as if to signal. At that moment, the light source approached the house at considerable speed
and remained suspended between two tall trees about 150 feet from the farmhouse, where it hovered for
about five seconds. When this occurred, Mrs. Ortiz shouted to Mauricio: That thing is coming down upon
us turn that flashlight off, Mauricio!
The witnesses described the object as follows: Between 4 and 6 feet tall, yellow-orange in color
with an apparent arc of light or halo surrounding it, and two luminous legs which were blue with green
tips. It made no sound. It then flew to the right of the farmhouse and appeared to come low over a
nearby hill. Mr. Bermudez, described as the only person in the group who was unafraid, took the
flashlight from Mauricio and went running in the direction of the object. His sister, Lucrecia, followed him,
but in the darkness, she fell to the ground.
According to the testimony of the children and Mrs. Rosa Ortiz, Bermudez approached the area
where the object was and began calling the butler, who was the only other adult male present, saying,
Luis, come here. Look at this Martian. Mauricio and Andres watched the object from a nearby hill and
reported that it blinked on and off. Finally, they saw it rise high into the sky and fly away in the direction
of Bogota.
Mr. Bermudez returned to the farmhouse and told the other witnesses that he had approached
the object, which had landed on the ground, to within a distance of about 20 feet. The object, he said,
blinked out momentarily and he shone the flashlight at it. He claimed that he saw a person inside and
described the upper half of the entity as normal, but from the waist down, the anatomy of the person
appeared to be like the letter A and was luminous. The object then blinked on, rose into the sky, and
flew away. About five minutes later, all of the witnesses saw an identical object crossing the sky at about
300 feet altitude. The speed was slow and constant as it flew toward Bogota and it also was soundless.

Two other adults, Clemente Bolivar and Rosalba Prieto, who live about two miles from the Bermudez
farm, reported a bright orange-yellow light flying slowly toward Bogota at approximately the same time.
Within two days of the observation, the principal witness, Mr. Arcesio Bermudez, was taken very
ill; his temperature dropped to 95 and he had a cold touch although he claimed that he didnt feel cold.
Within a few days, his condition became far more serious; he had black vomits and diarrhea with blood.
He was taken to Bogota and attended by Dr. Luis Borda at 10:00 a.m. on July 12, and later by Dr. Cesar
Esmeral at 7:30 p.m. At 11:45 p.m. Mr. Bermudez passed away.
APRO has a copy of the medical report signed by Dr. Esmeral, diagnosing the cause of death as
gastroenteritis. Neither of the two doctors knew of Mr. Bermudezs UFO experience which may or may
not have some bearing on the case.
APRO Representative for Columbia, Mr. John Simhon, and Field Investigator Elias Nessim
became aware of the UFO incident four days after Mr. Bermudezs death, on July 16. On the same day,
the children, Andres, Marina, Enrique, and Mauricio were put into a hypnotic trance by Dr. Luis E.
Martinez of the National University of Columbia. The session took place at 8:00 p.m. that night and both
Simhon and Nessim were present. The hypnosis had been requested by relatives of the children.
The taped testimony of the children while under hypnosis is almost identical to the testimony
already obtained and to the testimony of the adult witnesses (with the exception of Arcesio Bermudez,
who was dead and consequently was never interviewed by APROs representatives). The investigators
considered all of the witnesses to be of unquestionable integrity and honesty. Drawings of the object
made by the children depicted a spherical object with a ring at the midsection and two legs jutting down
underneath.
The possibility of animal reaction to the object is also a part of this reported incident. A pet
monkey named Michin commenced to screech loudly and persistently, and several dogs around the
farm began howling. This was reported by all of the witnesses. A visit to the farm by Simhon and Nessim
yielded nothing more and they found no landing impressions.

A year later, the occupant action had switched back to Brazil and this report detailed what
three witnesses observed while they watched a water-going object.

June 21, 1970:

On June 21, 1970, at 11 a.m. Mr. Aristeo Machado, forty-nine, his wife Maria Nazare, and federal
agent Aguiar, a friend of the family, were outside the Machado home which is perched high above
Avenida Neimeyer and affords a sweeping view of the Atlantic Ocean. They saw an object about the size
of a Ford Galaxy, which landed on the surface of the ocean about 1 kilometer (3,280 feet or a little over a
half mile) from the shore. When the object settled down onto the sea, spray was thrown out on all sides.
The witnesses first thought it was a boat in trouble and went to the nearby hotel to telephone the Maritime
Police. However, the object floated another 100 meters (about 350 feet ) closer to the shore and the
three people were able to discern that it had a transparent cupola, inside of which were clearly visible two
beings in dark-gray coveralls, wearing helmets. Both appeared to be smallish and thickset.

At this point, we should note that it is difficult to conceive of anyone thinking the object
could have been a boat when it had been airborne and settled down onto the ocean. However,
apparently the witnesses spotted it just as it settled on the water, giving the impression that it
might have been a speedboat skipping across the water and occasionally, speedboats do
become airborne for a very few seconds.
Mrs. Irene Granchi, APROs Field Investigator in Rio de Janeiro, investigated the report a

week after it happened, at the same time of day and with the same lighting conditions. She took
note that a motorboat going by at approximately the same distance from shore was easily seen,
its passengers were noted, but no details were visible.

Other observations of the object, which was in view for between thirty and forty minutes, were
that it had a bright rotating light which changed from red to green to yellow. Mrs. Machado said that while
she waited for Mr. Aguiar to return from telephoning, she saw the object relieve itself of a yellow ball
which proceeded toward the shore, but was not floating, for it was moving against the current and
seemed to be powered by something underneath it. Shortly thereafter, the yellow ball relieved itself of
another object which was bottle green in color and of indeterminate shape. She ran down the beach after
the yellow object and pointed it out to some children, but they all lost sight of it shortly.
The duration of the observation was forty minutes, after which the larger object took off quickly in
a low, long flight out to sea.

September 22, 1971:

The year 1971 brought more cases out of Brazil and the report by Paolo Caetano Silveira, twentyseven, was enough to boggle the mind of even a veteran UFO researcher. He claimed that at 5 p.m. on
Wednesday, September 22nd, he was driving home from Tombos when he noticed a light which
appeared to be following his car. He stopped at a police station and reported it, but the police did not
appear disposed to investigate but rather suggested that he engage a room for the night and continue his
journey in the morning. Silveira, however, was a typewriter mechanic and had worked all day at Tombos,
and was anxious to get home to his family at Itaperuna, so he continued on his way.
At about 7:40 p.m. in an area near Itaperuna called Serraria, he saw the same (or a similar) light
again. It came to a stop in front of his car and its bluish rays turned to white and his car engine stopped.
The car rolled to a halt and then, two bright beams were focused on him and the two car doors popped
open with no help from him.
Silveira said the two beams of light dragged him out of the car toward the large light, and he then
became aware of three objects, man-shaped and about 50 centimeters (about 20 inches) tall, which
moved toward him. He said they moved mechanically, holding their arms at right angles to their bodies,
but at no time did he refer to them as beings always objects.
The objects did not touch Silveira; rather, the beams of light drew him to the large light and his
legs were numb. He did not see the shape of the large light because of its brightness. Once inside the
object, Silveira said he saw three beings, all of whom were dressed in blue siren (or jump) suits, with a
smooth covering over their heads which reminded him of Roman helmets. Their hands and faces were
gray, but he could discern no features. The hands, he said, appeared to him to be transparent.
While inside the object, the beings moved around him and communicated with each other, but he
could not understand them. A sound like a turbine engine was heard all the while that he was aboard.
The next thing he knew, he was lying on the ground a few meters from his car and Dr. Cirley Coutinho
Crespo was talking to him. Dr. Crespo sent for help and Silveira was taken into Itaperuna where Dr.
Bussade took over.
Dr. Bussade, who is Silveiras personal physician and knows him well, made the following
observations: Silveira was highly excited, but his blood pressure was normal; his face was very red, his
eyes were bloodshot; he had scratches on his hands and arms which terminated at the elbows; and his
clothing was torn and dirty, as if he had been dragged. He had not been robbed, nor had his car been in
an accident, and Dr. Bussade was very firm in asserting that Silveira had not been drinking.
Silveiras descriptions indicated that he might have been in a somnambulistic state for some of

what he remembers is disjointed and not too clear. For instance, he said the inside of the UFO was very
large and white, the beings inside were about six in number and there were a lot of little faces
everywhere. They were about 20 inches tall. He noticed some buttons in the ship, he said, but does
not relate them to anything such as a control board.
After the experience, Silveira complained of loss of appetite and a smarting sensation in his eyes.
His wristwatch, which customarily lost about four minutes a week, was fifteen minutes slow when he was
examined by Dr. Bussade at the First Aid Station in Itaperuna.

Before we attempt to compare Mr. Silveiras experience with another, lets take a look at
another report which allegedly took place on September 25th, also in Brazil.

September 25, 1971:

Benedito Miranda, twenty-four, a truck driver from Cataguazes was on his way home from
Itaperuna at 2 a.m. and was crossing the Carangola River bridge when he was drawn from his car by a
beam of light and was held suspended at 50 to 100 meters (200 - 400 feet) above the ground. His legs
were numb, he said, and he felt as though he was on a platform of some kind. He swayed in the air, he
also said, and tried to call for help but his voice failed him. At this point, a car was seen coming down the
road and Miranda was gently lowered to the ground. He seemed unhurt and got into his truck and drove
home.

To our knowledge, the Silveira incident had not been publicized by the time Miranda
allegedly had his experience, so it is not likely that Miranda had any knowledge of it. However,
shortly after he made his report to authorities and the press, he retracted his statement and
disappeared. At the time, his sister was extremely upset and concerned about him, but further
news was not forthcoming about him or his claim.
In the latter case, we can theorize that Miranda got sick of the attention and simply
dropped out of sight, which quite often happens under these circumstances. Sometimes,
witnesses report their experiences and live to regret it because of the hounding they receive from
the press. This could have been the case. If so, this is unfortunate, for shortly thereafter, the
Silveira case was publicized and was corroborating testimony for Mirandas claims, because the
reported happenings were similar.

The Occupants in the United States

August 19, 1949:
The first reported occupant case purportedly took place on August 19, 1949 in Death Valley,
California. According to the story, two prospectors witnessed the crash landing of a disc-shaped flying
object. Two small men jumped out of it and the prospectors gave chase. They lost the little fellows in
the sand dunes and when they returned to what they thought was a landing site, the craft was gone. This
incident took place in the early years of the UFO mystery and as far as is known, has not been thoroughly
checked out, although it is mentioned often. It has not been exposed as a hoax, however.

Most researchers are familiar with Frank Scullys little men, which he described in quite
a bit of detail in his book, Behind the Flying Saucers. Although generally rejected by most
researchers in the early years, subsequent incidents seem to indicate that Scully was either telling

the truth or that he was a prophet. Small humanoids which generally answer the description
given by Scully have been seen on several occasions since, as we shall see.

December 1951:
Another rather fragmented report comes from Red Springs, North Carolina, where in December
1951, Mr. Sam Coley and his two children reported seeing a low-hovering disc-shaped aircraft with a
human-shaped occupant inside. Coley was reportedly interviewed by the states Director of Defense
and the local police chief; the latter expressed his loss of skepticism after the talk. There was no
detailed description of the occupant, but the source material tends to accept Coleys story.

September 12, 1952:

Probably the most frightening landing incident on record, considering the physical description of
what was thought to be an occupant and its actions, is the Flatwoods, West Virginia, incident which took
place on September 12, 1952. At sunset of that evening, a group of youngsters saw what appeared to be
a meteor land on the top of a nearby hill. Similar observations of a low-flying meteor were made in that
vicinity on the same night along with many others along the central Atlantic seaboard.
The boys decided to investigate and started toward the hill. Along the way, they stopped at the
home of Mrs. Kathleen May and she, her two sons, and a seventeen-year-old national guardsman, Gene
Lemon, joined the group and they made their way to the top of the hill.
The first thing the crowd observed was a large globe or sphere beyond the crest of the hill. One
of the boys said it was as big as a house, another boy said he heard a throbbing sound, and another
said he heard a hissing sound. At about this juncture in the sequence of events, one of the group saw
what was thought to be an animals eyes in the branches of a tree and shone a flashlight beam toward it.
The whole crowd then saw what appeared to be a huge figure just under the lower branches of the tree.
It seemed to be about 10 or 15 feet tall, had a blood-red face, and glowing greenish-orange eyes. The
lower part of the thing was in shadow, but Mrs. May thought she saw clothing-like folds. The whole
apparition floated slowly toward the observers, who fled hysterically down the hillside in the direction
from which they had come.
Some of the group were violently ill during the rest of the night, and this was verified by the editor
of the local paper. He was one of several who searched the hill shortly afterward, but found nothing. On
the following day, however, he and others found marks on the ground, including two parallel skid marks
and a large circular area of flattened grass. A strange and irritating odor lingered close to the ground.

The Flatwoods incident is one which was accepted by researchers, partly because of the
large number of observers and supporting evidence, but we suspect that the non-human
characteristics of the entity was a large factor. By and large, researchers in the United States
have hesitated to accept, and even strongly resisted, the idea of humanoid UFO operators. It was
generally felt that UFO occupants would not be likely to resemble human beings. The Flatwoods
case is one of the few occupant cases involving a monster.

May 20 and June 20, 1953:

Little men returned to the scene in 1953 when two goldminers working a claim near Brush
Creek, California, reported to police that two midget-sized saucer pilots had been visiting the creek near
their claim. The first incident took place on may 20, the second on June 20, and the two men expected
that they would return on July 20.

The veracity of the miners, John Q. Black and John Van Allen, was attested to by the owner of
the Brush Creek store, who said the two miners had a very good reputation and were not drinking men.
Both of the men unhesitatingly told their story to the sheriffs captain, Fred Preston, four days after the
second encounter. Black had actually seen the little men, while Van Allen, his partner, had only seen the
landing marks which he said were a foot wide and looked like the tracks of elephant feet.
Black described the observed occupant as about the size of a midget and said he was very
broad shouldered. He wore something like a parka (a piece of clothing which covers the head as well
as the trunk of the body) and his arms and legs were covered with a heavy, tweed-like cloth fastened at
the wrists and ankles with buckles or ties of some kind.
Some of the details were not included in press reports, and at that time, APRO was only a year
and a half old and did not have a member in that part of California who was willing to make the long trek
into the brush country to interview Black and Van Allen. The available details, however, are as follows.
In each instance, on May 20 and June 20, the object landed at almost exactly 6:30 p.m. The little man
got out, scooped up a bucket of water in a shiny pail, and handed it to someone inside the craft. When
the little man saw Black, he hurriedly jumped into the saucer and it took off at high speed, making a
hissing sound which resembled the sound of steam coming out of a boiler. The saucer, silver in color,
appeared to be about 7 feet in diameter, 6 feet thick, with a tripod landing gear, and a little dome in
front. It landed on a sand bar in Brush Creek and Black was within 50 yards of the saucer on each
occasion.

September 1954:
Coldwater, Kansas, was the site of the next little man appearance in September 1954. The
exact date of the incident is not known, but the story appeared in a clipping from the Lincoln, Nebraska
Star in late September. According to International News Service and the Star story, young John J. Swain,
twelve, son of a farmer near Coldwater, had been returning to the farm from the fields at about 8 p.m. on
his fathers tractor, when he suddenly spotted a tiny man no more than 20 feet away behind a terrace in
the field. The small figure had a very long nose and very long ears, and when he moved, he seemed to
fly. Young John watched as the little man flew over a small hill to a saucer-shaped object which was
hovering about 5 feet above the ground. It opened up, the story said, and the little man, no bigger than
a five-year-old child, then popped inside, the thing lighted up, and then took off at a high rate of speed.
The Swain boy went home and told his parents; they then called the Coldwater sheriff, who came
out and questioned him. The sheriff cautioned them to stay away from the place where the boy reported
seeing the thing. He came back the next day, and with John and his parents, went out to examine the
site of the landing. They found wedge-shaped tracks in the soft dirt which did not appear to be human
not made by ordinary shoes. Although it was not made clear, the possibility that the tracks were
those of the object has not been discarded, but it does not seem likely for the boy was definite in his
assertion that the craft was hovering about 5 feet off the ground.

July 3, 1955:
On July 3, 1955, Mrs. Wesley Symmonds of Cincinnati, Ohio, was driving through Stockton,
Georgia, on her way to Florida. She claimed that she saw four bug-eyed creatures near the road. The
sketch of the creatures based on her description shows little bipeds with rather thin arms, large eyes, and
pointed chins. Two, in the background, appeared to be turned away from the observer. One was
bending over with what appeared to be a stick in its hand, and the other had its right arm raised and was
facing the observer. This creature had large, bulging eyes; a cap-like affair on its head (or what appeared
to be a cap), no visible mouth; a long, pointed nose, and a chin that came to a sharp point. Its long, thin
arms ended in claw-like appendages.

March 1955:
At about 4 a.m. on a morning in March 1955, Mr. R. H. of Loveland was driving through Branch
Hill on his way to Loveland. His headlights suddenly illuminated what appeared to be three men kneeling
at the right side of the road. He first thought that someone was hurt, so he stopped his car to have a
better look. He discovered that the figures were non-human, about 3 feet tall and grayish in color. Their
clothing was also gray and seemed to be tight-fitting; it stretched over a lop-sided chest which appeared
abnormally large on the right side, bulging from the shoulder to the armpit. Over this bulbous area hung a
slender arm which appeared much longer than the opposite member. Legs and feet were not discernible
because they were obscured by the vegetation in which the entities stood, but the observer got the
impression of something baggy.
The heads of these creatures, said R. H., reminded him of a frogs face, mostly because of the
appearance of the mouth: it was a thin line cutting across the smooth gray face. The eyes, which lacked
brows, looked normal, the nose was indistinct, and the top of the head appeared to have a painted-on
hair effect, comprised of what appeared to be rolls of fat running horizontally from above the eyes, over
(or around) the whole head.
Mr. R. H. said the middle one of the three, who was the closest to him, was first seen with his
arms raised about a foot above his head and appeared to be holding a dark-colored chain or stick which
gave off blue-white sparks. As R. H. approached, this entity lowered the object to about the area of the
ankle. The observer said he wanted to approach closer to the creatures, but by the time he reached the
area of the front fender of his car, one of them made an unnatural move toward him as if motioning him
not to move closer, so for about the next three minutes, he just stood and looked, too amazed to be
afraid. The next thing he knew, he was on his way to Fritzs office (chief of police).

August 22, 1955:

Probably the granddaddy of all occupant sightings in the United States is that which occurred on
August 22, 1955, near Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The basic details include the beginning of the episode
when visiting relative Bill Taylor went out to the well for a drink and came back in to tell of a spaceship
which had landed in a nearby field. Just a scant few minutes later, the aroused household saw a small
specter-like figure approaching the house. It appeared to be lit by an internal source, had a roundish
head, huge elephantine ears, a slit-like mouth which extended from ear to ear. The eyes were huge and
wide-set. Only about 3 or 3 feet in height, the creature had no visible neck, and its arms were long and
ended in clawed hands. Although it stood upright, it dropped to all fours when it ran.
According to the Frank Sutton family, several of these creatures roamed the area adjacent to the
house, climbed trees, climbed up on the roof. At one point, Sutton fired a shotgun through the screen
door at one of the little men. Although struck and knocked over by the blast, the little fellow got up and
scuttled away on his hands and feet. Later, Taylor walked out the same door, only to be confronted by
one of the creatures on the roof, apparently grabbing for his head.
This weird sequence of events continued for the greater part of one night, and finally the family
scrambled to the car and drove into town to report their plight. Deputy Sheriff George Batts and two
Kentucky state police came to the house, but found no evidence of the little mens presence or the
spaceship. However, researchers who interviewed the Suttons and carefully investigated the whole
affair, including Isabel Davis of New York (Civilian Saucer Investigations), were inclined to believe the
incident did take place. Local investigators, including Chief of Police Greenwell, said that something
scared those people something beyond reason nothing ordinary. One investigator with medical
experience noted Suttons rapid pulse beat of 140 per minute, which is about twice the normal rate.

Although generally discounted by UFO researchers, probably partly because of the

ensuing publicity, the Kearney, Nebraska, landing and contact claim of Reinhold Schmidt is

nevertheless interesting, for several reasons.

November 5, 1957:
The gist of this story is that Schmidt, a grain buyer from Bakersfield, California, came to Sheriff
Dave Drages office late in the afternoon of November 5, 1957, seemed frightened, and asked to see a
minister. (The sheriffs office is the wrong place to find one) Schmidt then said he had been driving near
Kearney when his car engine stopped. He found he was within about 20 yards of a silvery, blimp-shaped
object about 100 feet in length, 30 feet wide, and about 14 feet high, which stood on four post-like legs.
Schmidt approached the object, whereupon a staircase came out and two middle-aged men
searched him for weapons, then took him inside where he stayed for a half hour. They told him they
would have to be there for a little while and he might as well come inside. The people, two women and
two men, all middle-aged and wearing ordinary clothing, were working on some wiring. When they
moved about, they slid instead of walked. While there, he was told nothing about the ship, its
occupants, nor was he given any message as most contactees claim. Schmist said they told him to tell
the people they were doing no harm, and that in a short time he might know all about it. He was then
asked to leave, the ship lifted straight up, silently, and disappeared into the sky. After it left, he found he
could start his car again.

Most UFO enthusiasts are familiar with what transpired later. Schmidt was grilled for the
better part of that night by Air Force and civilian law enforcement officers, eventually pronounced
unstable, and very ill by psychiatrists and committed to an institution. Later, after release, he
set about lecturing about his experience, other contacts, and the poor way in which he was
treated by authorities. It is generally felt that he later embroidered his original story and this
tended to discredit him. During his incarceration, another incident was related in the press which
was quite similar, but which was apparently unknown to officialdom or ignored.

November 6, 1957:
At about 6:30 a.m. on the morning of November 6, 1957, twelve-year-old Everett Clark of Dante,
Tennessee, got up to let his dog Frisky outside. He saw an object in the field about 100 yards from his
home. He thought he was dreaming, he said, and went back inside. About twenty minutes later, he went
out to call his dog and found Frisky and other dogs across the road in the field by the object.
Outside the object were two men and two women, apparently normally dressed. One of the men
grabbed at Frisky, who growled and backed away. He grabbed another dog who attempted to bite him,
so he let it go.
During interviews later, Everett said the people talked like German soldiers he had seen in
movies on television. When they got into the ship, they looked as if they walked right through the side,
as if it were glass. The object took off straight up and made no sound. It was long and round, he said,
and of no particular color. Asked if it could have been translucent, he said he guessed so.
Other information that bears on the incident is that one of the men had motioned to Everett to
come to him, but Everett declined. He was questioned by reporters to ascertain whether he had heard of
the Schmidt incident, but he apparently hadnt. (The Schmidt story was just hitting news wires late on the
preceding night and didnt appear in Knoxville papers until the 6th.)
When reporter Carson Brewer went to the field with Everett and others, he himself saw an oblong
ring of pressed grass. He found he could not make a similar marking unless he walked round and round
at least a dozen times. The impression was 24 feet by 5 feet. Everett said the object was considerably
larger than that, however. His father remarked later: I dont think he made it up, but I still dont believe it.

November 6, 1957:
Another dog story took place on the evening of November 6, if we can believe John Trasco, of
Everittstown, New Jersey. He claimed he went outside at dusk to feed his dog and saw a brilliant eggshaped object hovering in front of his barn. He was confronted by a 3-foot being with putty-colored face.
He had a nose and chin and large protruding frog-like eyes. Trasco said he thought he said, in broken
English: We are peaceful people, we only want your dog. To which he, thoroughly frightened,
replied: Get the hell out of here. The creatures then fled into the object which took off straight up.
Mrs. Trasco also claimed she saw the object from inside the house, but did not see the little
man due to some shrubbery near the house, although she heard the voice, and heard her husbands
angry command. It is not known if certain details were ever cleared up, and were mentioned only
nebulously in the Delaware Valley News on November 15. One of these questions involves whether
there was more than one entity, for Mrs. Trasco is quoted as saying that her husband tried to grab one
of them, and got some green powder on his wrist which washed off. He also found some of the green
powder under his fingernails the next day. The little man was dressed in a green suit with shiny buttons,
with a green tam-o-shanter-like cap, and gloves with a shiny object at the tip of each.

November 6, 1957:
A strange story about stalled cars and little men was told to authorities and the press on the
morning of November 6, 1957, when Richard Kehoe, an employee of the General Telephone Company of
Santa Monica, related his early-morning experience. This is another tale which has fallen into ill repute
because of the reluctance of researchers to accept human-like occupants as real, and the lack of
corroborating witnesses.
Kehoe claimed that while driving along Vista del Mar at Playa del Rey in California (a beach area)
at 5:40 a.m. his engine stopped as did the engines of two other cars. When the drivers got out to see
what was wrong, they saw an egg-shaped spaceship wrapped in a blue haze on the beach. Kehoe
claimed two little men (about 5 feet, 5 inches, which isnt really small) got out of the object and asked
questions of him and the two other drivers, such as: Where we were going? Who we were? What time it
was? etc. He said their skin appeared to be yellowish-green in the early morning light, but that
otherwise they looked normal. He said they were wearing black leather pants, white belts, and lightcolored jerseys.
The two other drivers were identified as Ronald Burke of Redondo Beach and Joe Thomas of
Torrance, and Kehoe claimed Thomas called the police. He said they sounded as though they were
talking English, but he couldnt understand them, and said simply that he had to go to work. The men got
back into their ship and it disappeared into the sky, whereupon his car started up immediately. The ship
was oval, tan or cream in color, with two metal rings around it upon which the object apparently rested,
according to Kehoe.

November 7, 1957:
On November 7, 1957, a Tennessee truck driver for Cook Lines reported meeting three little
men on the road about 15 miles northwest of Meridian, Mississippi, on State Highway 19. He was on his
way to Meridian from Memphis, Tennessee.
The driver, Malvin Stevens, forty-eight, of Dyersburg, is described by his fellow workers and
company officials as a reliable family man not given to practical joking and they stated they were
inclined to believe that he saw what he said he had seen.

Stevens said he first thought the object, which was parked on the highway, was a weather
balloon. He said it had a single propeller blade on each end and a third propeller on top. Stevens got out
of his truck and was met by three little men who came out of the thing. They were about 4 feet tall,
wore gray clothing, and had pasty white faces. He said they seemed friendly and wanted to talk, but he
couldnt understand their chattering. I stood there for what seemed like an eternity, he said. They got
back into the machine and it took off straight up. When he first spotted the object, it had no effect on
his car engine as was the case in some stories of UFO landings. People to whom he talked upon arriving
at Memphis said Stevens was visibly shaken and white as a sheet. Although the experience lasted only
about two minutes, Stevens said it seemed like an eternity.

The foregoing report faded into nothingness as other reports flowed out of news rooms
across the United States in the ensuing months. The next incident took place at Old Saybrook,
Connecticut, and was carefully investigated by Civilian Saucer Investigations, New York. Because
of the reliability of the witness, this is probably one of the most important of all the occupant
reports.

December 16, 1957:

In the early morning of December 16, between 2 and 3 a.m., Mrs. Mary M. Starr, a resident of Old
Saybrook and a holder of two degrees from Yale University, was awakened by bright lights passing by
her bedroom window. The bedroom is located on the second floor of her cottage, the floor being 15 feet
above the ground level. She was looking north.
She saw an object just coming to a stop about 10 feet from her house. It appeared to be about
20 to 30 feet long, dark gray or black in color with brilliantly lighted portholes. The object remained
motionless, about 5 feet above the ground, and had no protrusions of any kind.
Through the windows, Mrs. Starr saw two forms which passed each other, going in opposite
directions. What appeared to be their right arms were upraised, reminding her of stewards carrying trays,
but no hands were visible. They wore a kind of jacket; their heads were square or rectangular, of a
reddish-orange color, with what appeared to be a red bulb located at the middle of the head. The feet
were not visible. A third form entered from the left, and Mrs. Starr leaned forward in an attempt to see its
face better, and at that point, the portholes faded and the entire shell of the object began to glow.
Immediately, a kind of antenna about 6 inches long, rose from the top of the object at the end nearest to
Mrs. Starr. It appeared to oscillate and sparkle. This antenna continued to glow and sparkle for about
five minutes, and then the craft began to move to the right, back in the direction from which it had come.
It made a very abrupt right-angle turn, turned bluish-gray again, and small circular lights outlined the
entire rim where the portholes had been. When it was over the nearby marsh, it tilted steeply and shot up
into the sky at the speed of a jet takeoff, but without any sound.
Considering the fact that the object, while near the ground, was just above the clothesline yet
below the upper part of the tool shed, according to Mrs. Starrs account, we can assume that the object
was about 6 feet thick, and probably about 20 feet in diameter. Therefore, the occupants were no more
than 4 feet tall.
The Old Saybrook incident is the last 1957 occupant case, and it seems that the NovemberDecember time period was a popular one for landing incidents. Most people will recall that the November
1957 flap came close on the heels of the launching of the first space satellite by Russia. A few months
earlier, however, according to the Milford, Pennsylvania Dispatch, Miss Francis Stichler observed a
strange object and its occupants. Although no date is given, the December 19 issue of the Dispatch says
the incident took place in May, as follow.
Miss Stichler, who lives on a farm near Milford, was doing chores in her barn at 6 a.m. when she
heard a whirring sound and looked up. She said a flat, bowl-shaped object about 20 feet in diameter with

a rim 3 to 4 feet wide came into view over the barn, about 15 feet above the ground. When it stopped
with one side tilted toward her, she saw a man clothed in a light-gray, tight-fitting helmet and loose, shiny,
gray suit perched on the broad rim of the object. His feet and legs seemed to be concealed from view in
the lower portion. His position was on the rim opposite Miss Stichler, so that he was facing her. He
seemed to be of average size, had deep-set eyes, a long face with a quizzical expression, and looked
quite tan. Just as Miss Stichler got over her initial shock, the object left toward the southeast, making a
spinning sound, and streaked out of sight. She claimed she said nothing about the sighting as she had
no corroborating witnesses, and didnt think anyone would believe her. She eventually told about it after
the other sightings of UFOs and occupants during the November-December flap.

The little men, or occupants, seem to have disappeared from the scene in the United
States after December 1957, although there certainly may have been some which were not
reported for fear of ridicule. Our next case deals with a little man although there is no craft
involved.
A lady whom I know well and whose word I trust, reported the following incident to me,
and I quote from her report verbatim.

June 10, 1960:

Joe and I and the two children were on our way to California on vacation in early June 1960. It
was the night of the 9th, about midnight, when we were about fifteen minutes east of Globe, Arizona,
heading west. Joe was asleep beside me and the kids were fast asleep in the back seat of the car. I was
driving through the hills through which the road winds and dips. The Cadillac was performing beautifully
and I kept a steady speed of about 65 miles per hour.
At about 12:05, I began pulling around a right-hand turn and when I straightened out, the car
headlights hit a small figure about 100 yards ahead on the right edge of the highway. It was facing to my
left about to cross the road, it seemed. My immediate reaction was to let up on the accelerator, and the
heavy car slowed immediately as we were on an upgrade. Simultaneously, the figure turned so that it
was facing me, then turned again, and ran off into the wash out of range of my lights and off the road.
The second I saw that thing, my heart came up in my mouth and my stomach turned a flip-flop.
When I got back my wits a few seconds later, I called out to Joe and tramped on the accelerator. He
didnt respond right away, so I jostled him and he sat bolt upright. Then I told him what I had seen: the
little figure, no more than twice the height of the posts which held the metallic reflecting road-guard (about
3 feet tall), small, broad-shouldered, with long arms, dark in color, and it had a head shaped like a
somewhat flattened sphere quite like a pumpkin. In this head were two yellowish-orange glowing
eyes. I recalled that when it was in side view, there was light extending beyond the limits of the face. I
saw no nose, or mouth or ears. The body was not as well defined as the head, suggesting hair or fur.
When Joe finally got the gist of what I was telling him, he told me to stop and we would go back.
I told him that if he wanted to go back, we would go to Miami. He could drop us off, then go back by
himself, but neither my children nor I were going back there, on that lonely, dark road. By then, I had
pushed the Cad to 85 miles an hour, in a hurry to see lights and people again. He didnt insist so we kept
on, stopped in Miami, then continued our trip.

The significant thing about this incident is, that besides the veracity of the observer and
her husbands verification of her near-hysteria, the entity generally resembled the little men in
Venezuela in 1954.

April 18, 1961:

On April 18, 1961, at 11 a.m., Joe Simonton, a sixty-year-old chicken farmer of Eagle River,
Wisconsin, allegedly witnessed the landing of a UFO in his yard. This is probably one of the most
controversial cases we have ever investigated, and in the diverse spectrum of United States saucer
groups, it has aroused considerable suspicion, controversy, charges and countercharges, so that the truth
seems almost indiscernible.
The original story is basically this. At 11 a.m. that morning, Simonton was startled by a strange
loud noise outside and above his farmhouse. He stepped to the window and was surprised to see a
silvery object coming down vertically in his yard. He approached the object (with no fear), whereupon a
hatch in the upper portion opened and he saw three dark-skinned men inside. One of them handed him a
silvery jug with two handles, made a motion like drinking, apparently indicating that he wanted water.
Simonton took the jug, filled it and handed it back. Looking into the object, he saw a man cooking on
some kind of flameless cooking appliance. There were several small, perforated, cookie-like objects
beside the griddle and Simonton motioned that he wanted one, whereupon one of the men handed four of
them to him. Then, the object took off at a 45 angle and was gone in just a few seconds. As it left, pine
trees near the takeoff path bowed over, apparently as a result of air turbulence as the object went over.
The men involved were small, about 5 feet tall, had dark hair and skin, wore dark blue knit
outfits with turtleneck tops, and knit helmets similar to those worn under headpieces. They had no beards
or were clean-shaven. The whole episode lasted about five minutes, and Simonton observed a few
details of the inside of the craft. It was dull black, instrument panels included, he said, somewhat like
wrought iron. One of the occupants appeared to be cooking, and stacked beside the appliance on which
he cooked were some of the cookies. One man took care of getting the water, and the other stayed at
the instrument board. The two who were cooking and watching the instruments did not look around. Just
after Simonton obtained the cookies, the man hooked a line or belt into a hook in his clothing near the
waist, the hatch closed and the object rose to 20 feet above the ground, then took off straight south.
The object itself appeared like two washbowls turned face to face. The sound Simonton heard
before coming out of his house was like knobby tires on a wet pavement. The craft hovered a short
distance (probably only a few inches) off the ground, all during the episode. The hatch was about 30
inches wide and about 6 feet high. All this, Simonton admitted, was guesswork.

April 24, 1964:

Our next several occupant reports occurred during that historic period in the spring of 1964. On
the morning of April 24, according to dairy farmer Gary T. Wilcox of Tioga County, New York, he was
visited by the occupants of a flying saucer. Shortly before 10 a.m., he was spreading fertilizer in an open
field and stopped to go and check a V-shaped field on another part of the farm which is almost completely
surrounded by woods. As he approached the field, about a mile from his dairy barn, he saw a shiny
object which he, at first, thought was a discarded refrigerator that had been there for a time. As he drew
nearer, he realized it was not, and thought it was a wing tank from an airplane which had fallen there.
The object was about 20 feet long and 16 feet wide, shaped like an egg and made of a shiny metal which
resembled aluminum. He saw no door or hatch, but two small men (approximately 4 feet tall) suddenly
appeared, dressed in clothing without visible seams, and a hood which covered their faces completely.
Each was carrying a tray of what appeared to be soil removed from the field. One of the men started to
talk to Wilcox, informing him that they were from Mars, that he neednt be afraid, and that they had talked
to people before. His English was very smooth and effortless. Wilcox said that he thought someone was
playing a trick on him. One man stood by the craft, the other about 5 feet from Wilcox, and the voice
seemed to come from the body rather than the head area.
The conversation then turned to a discussion of organic material, including fertilizers. They
seemed to be interested in this facet of farming, and said that where they came from, they grew food in
the atmosphere. Among other things, they said they could only travel to earth every two years and were
currently using the western hemisphere (for a base?). They asked for fertilizer then, and when Wilcox

went to get it, the craft took off. Wilcox got a bag of fertilizer, left it in the field, and the next day, it was
gone.

July 16, 1964:

Another incident, which is similar to the Tioga County affair, allegedly took place on July 16,
1964, at Conklin, New York. Five young boys claimed they saw a spaceman and his craft just 2 miles
from their homes. The field where the incident took place is favored by the youngsters because of a
proliferation of huckleberry bushes. When questioned closely and threatened with punishment for fibbing,
they broke into tears, but none of them would retract their original claim.
The boys were Edmund and Randy Travis, nine and seven years old; Floyd Moore, ten; Billy
Dunlap, seven, and Gary Dunlap, five. Mrs. Travis said she first learned of the experience when three of
the boys came running to her house shortly after 12:30 p.m., seeking a jar of water. They said they were
taking some water over to the spaceman, she said. They said they couldnt understand what he said,
but it sounded like he needed water. An adult was sent after the other two boys and met them walking
home from the field. They, at first, denied seeing the spaceman, afraid of a spanking because they didnt
think anyone would believe them. They were separated from one another and questioned.
When Mrs. Travis finally convinced them they should tell what they had seen, this is what they
told. They had come upon the creature in the field. He was about the size of a little boy, had a humanlooking face, and was wearing a black suit and black helmet. The helmet had antenna-like wires on top
and white lettering (unidentified by the children) across the front. He was wearing a plastic or glass lens
over his eyes and was making a peculiar noise which sounded like it came out of a pipe. They described
it as similar to the noise made by a kazoo.
The spaceman walked toward the vehicle. Part of it was obscured by bushes, but what they saw
was shiny like a car bumper. He stepped up on top of it, and it was then that the children asked if he
needed help or water. Then the creature seemed to fall backward from the top of the vehicle. At this
point, the children left the field and ran toward home. An observer who visited the field later noticed
matted foliage where the boys said the vehicle had been. There were also three depressions around the
matted area as though whatever had crushed the foliage was supported by columns or legs.

January 23, 1964:

An industrial worker claimed he witnessed the landing of two noiseless, unlighted UFOs which
came down in a wooded area in the vicinity of Lynchburg, Virginia, on January 23, 1964. The craft, he
said, were 20 and 80 feet in diameter. Three creatures, 37 inches high, disembarked from the small ship
and approached to within 12 yards of the observer, and he froze in his tracks. They were humanoid
types, except for their small stature and strange eyes which looked through me, he said. The little
fellows uttered unintelligible sounds, then turned around and walked back to the object from which they
had emerged. A door opened, they entered, and the opening appeared to seal itself so there was no
evidence of an opening when it was closed. The encounter purportedly lasted about thirty minutes,
having begun at 5:40 p.m. The observer refuses to be identified publicly.

March 3, 1965:
Most of us are familiar with the Brooksville, Florida, sighting of March 3, 1965, in which sixty-fiveyear-old John Reeves claimed he had watched a 5-foot spaceman and his craft near his home on the
outskirts of Weeki-wachi Springs, Florida. Reeves claimed he came upon the object while out walking at
about 2 p.m. He spotted the object some distance away, approached it by a circuitous route, then saw
the spaceman who approached him and looked at him. The craft was 20 to 30 feet in diameter and
about 8 feet thick. Around the circumference, there was an arrangement of slats which resembled

Venetian blinds which opened and closed just before the object took off. The craft rested on four legs,
and a cylindrical affair with disc-shaped steps provided entry into the craft from underneath.
The creature in this instance was dressed in a silver-gray, tight-fitting, stiff-appearing suit, atop
which was a helmet much like a glass bowl inverted over his head and resting on his shoulders. The
head inside was covered by dark material which covered the hair area. The ears, mouth, and nose
appeared normal, but the eyes were large and very wide-set with a flat area between. The chin was
very pointed. The hands were covered by mittens which appeared to be very pliable and the same color
as the suit. Reeves did not notice the foot gear.
Reeves claimed that the creature, while approaching the saucer from some bushes, spotted him,
came toward him, and just looked at him. Then he drew a small black box from his left side, it flashed,
whereupon Reeves started to leave. He lost his hat, stooped to retrieve it, turned, and the box flashed
again. He saw no flash attachment, doesnt know if it was a camera or not.
Footprints were later found, but unfortunately, the photographer did not bother to take long-range
shots of several sets and valuable information was lost.

October 23, 1965:

Three tiny tin men star in the case at Long Prairie, Minnesota, on October 23, 1965. According
to his story, Jerry Townsend, nineteen, a fledging radio announcer, was driving from Little Falls to Long
Prairie at 7:40 p.m. on the night in question. At about four miles out of Long Prairie, he rounded a curve;
his engine, lights, and radio went dead, so he braked his car. Ahead of him was a rocket-shaped object,
about 30 to 40 feet high and 10 feet in diameter, resting on three fins in the middle of the road.
Townsend got out of his car, walked toward the front fender, then stopped at the sight of three little, beer
can-shaped objects which came from under the ship and moved toward him. They were 6 inches high,
walked on two fins, and when they stopped, a third fin came down in the rear. He saw no faces, eyes,
etc., and said they moved with a side-to-side waddling gait. They seemed to be watching him. After what
seemed to be an eternity, he said, they went under the big rocket, and disappeared into it. The object
then took off. The colorless light which issued from the bottom of the rocket went out after it was
airborne. The objects takeoff, Townsend said, looked like someone had lifted a flashlight off a table.
The wrap-up on this case included inquiries to teachers and friends. Townsend got a clean bill of
health as far as his reputation for honesty was concerned. After the object left, he drove to Long Prairie
where he told of his encounter at the sheriffs office. Sheriff Bain told us via telephone that Townsend
had a good reputation, was not a drinker, and that he had been visibly frightened when he reported his
experience. Bain and Long Prairie Police Officer Lavern Lubitz returned to the spot where the object was
reportedly seen, and found three parallel strips of oil-like substance about 4 inches apart and a yard long,
on the surface of the road. I dont know what they were, but Ive looked at a lot of roads and never saw
anything like them before, Bain told reporters later.

August 1965:
A report out of the state of Washington in August 1965 told of three non-human-appearing men
seen by two girls near Renton. According to the report, at 7:30 a.m. the two girls were in a bean field.
The beings had white-domed heads and protruding eyes. The faces had no expression, the eyes were
gray like stone, and the lower part of the faces appeared to be deeply tanned. They wore armless, Vnecked jerseys of purple color with white shirts underneath. The frightened girls ran about 50 feet past
the men, and when they looked back, the beings had disappeared. No craft was seen in connection with
this incident.

March 28, 1967:

One of the most unusual incidents involving occupants which has come into APRO Headquarters
allegedly took place in the early morning hours of March 28, 1967. It is one of those extremely strange
stories that one is prompted to completely disbelieve from the outset. However, after checking into the
character and reputation of the witness, we were forced to conclude that he was telling what he saw and
nothing more.
The witness, David Morris, who was twenty years old at the time, was a finish grinder at the Lamb
Electric Company in Kent, Ohio. He usually worked from 5 p.m. to 2 or 4 a.m. and on the morning in
question, he left work at 2 a.m., drove out Rt. 5 to Marsh Road, south to Munroe Falls Road which is a
short cut to his home in Munroe Falls. Since that time, however, Morris takes the long way around and
refuses to drive the route anymore.
It was about 2:20 a.m. when Morris spotted an orangish-red glow off to the left and on the other
side of the hill on Munroe Falls Road. He was proceeding slowly because of a thick fog which had settled
over the Kent area following an electrical storm.
Upon seeing the glow, Morris said he thought it might be a house on fire, and automatically
slowed his 1964 Chevrolet. He thought perhaps a house had been struck by lightning. When he topped
the crest of the hill, he saw a glowing wedge or cone-shaped object 25 to 30 yards off to the left, south
of the road, in a wheat field. It appeared to Morris to be about 25 feet tall and about 12 feet wide at the
base. On top of the object where the triangular shape came to a point, was what appeared to be a ballshaped object.
Morris was non-plussed at the sight of the object, but was more curious than frightened. His
estimated speed was about 30 miles per hour. He pulled his eyes from the object and looked back at the
highway, whereupon his curiosity turned to horror. About 45 to 50 feet in front of his car were four or five
small figures about 3 to 4 feet tall with oversized heads which gave off the same orangish-red glow as
the object sitting in the wheat field. He said he didnt know if the little beings had headpieces on or not,
but that their heads were abnormally large. The bodies appeared to be of stocky build and were
humanoid in form. He could not distinguish any clothing or features, but had the impression that they
were wearing an all-encompassing piece of clothing such as a coverall.
The small figures ran very quickly back and forth across the road with much more speed and
agility than Morris felt he could accomplish. They seemed to be moving purposefully from a drainage
ditch on the north side of the road to the south side and back again.
At first sight of the creatures, Morris slammed on his brakes. The figures had given no indication
that they were aware of him, despite his headlights, and he did not stop his car in time. He heard a
thump as the right front of the auto struck one of the figures as it was crossing the road. The car
traveled another 8 to 10 feet before he could bring it to a complete stop. Almost instinctively, Morris put
his hand on the door handle to open it, but stopped. He said he had no fear that he had struck down an
ordinary human, but the thought flashed through his mind: If I killed them, theyll kill me. He then sped
away as fast as he dared to in the fog. Looking into the rear view mirror, he saw that the figures were
standing in a group but could not discern whether or not one of them was lying in the road. When he
reached home, Morris said, he simply sat in the living room for two hours. Then, finally having calmed
down, had enough strength to climb the stairs and go to bed.
That afternoon, accompanied by a friend, he went back to the spot. The field where the coneshaped object had been seen yielded no evidence of its presence there. They did find the skid marks on
the road where Morris said he slammed on his brakes and struck the figure. But there were no
footprints or other indication of the presence of the little creatures, or that one had been struck down.
The front of Morriss car was dented in the chrome trim in three separate places and scratches
were visible. He did not notify any authorities concerning the incident, fearing ridicule. What evidence
there may have been on the chrome trim was destroyed that day, because being a meticulous individual

who took good care of his car, he had washed and polished it that afternoon before going to work.
The foregoing is the basic information received at APRO shortly after the incident took place.
Later, Morris was interviewed by Virgil E. Tarlton who learned the following. Morris got the impression
that the cone-shaped object was hovering 2 or 3 feet above the ground and that its light came from the
inside it appeared to be translucent. It did not move nor did the glow change in intensity. He saw no
markings, windows or doors, nor did he hear any sound. He did recall a smell (his window was rolled part
way down) resembling the odor of hot brass. He admitted that it could have come from the car, but didnt
think so.
Morriss car was apparently not affected by the object; the lights and engine functioned perfectly.
He felt no sensation of heat, but felt cold and clammy after the experience of seeing the figures. He was
sure of the presence of four figures, but said there could have been five. He could not discern that the
figures were carrying anything and said that when his skidding car struck one of them, it had been
running across the road. At the point of impact, he saw the figures hand and there were no fingers that
he could see.

Because of stepped-up UFO activity in 1967, when APRO published the Morris case, we
urged the membership to be doubly alert in the months ahead, for it was felt that more occupant
cases would be reported, and our efforts bore fruit.

September 15, 1967:

Two fourteen-year-old girls observed a strange tableau for quite a period of time on the night of
September 15, 1967, near Winsted, Connecticut. Although they readily described what they saw, they
refused to let their names be used. At 8:45 p.m., the two girls were in the bedroom (one was staying
overnight with the other) and looking out the window when their attention was attracted by an egg-shaped
glowing object which appeared to be about the size of a Volkswagen car. It was about 200 yards away in
a field and looked as though it was over or beyond a barn complex. They watched the thing for at least
thirty-five minutes while it moved back and forth, occasionally hovering. On occasion, the color of the
object would change from white to beige to pink to a deep red-orange in a continuous pattern, then
reverse the procedure. This took place about ten times during the course of the observation.
After a period of time, the girls heard a noise from the direction of the barn which sounded like a
lawn mower starting up. Immediately following that, two small figures emerged quickly from the barn and
stood by the mailbox next to the road, and appeared to be staring in the direction of the house. The girls
could not get a good look at the two figures because the clouds repeatedly blocked out the moon. They
said they had fleeting impressions more than anything else, but did judge the figures were less than 4 feet
tall and appeared to be wearing similar outfits. One of the girls stated her impression that one of the
figures, which she could see more clearly than the other, appeared to have an abnormally large head.
The figures were in the vicinity of the mailbox for about two minutes, then darted quickly across
the road and stood under a large tree in its shadow. During this period, the object in the field continued
its maneuvers. The girls considered the possibility that the two small, dark figures might have been
children, but discounted it because they felt it would have been impossible for them not to have seen the
object, and if they had been children, they should have reacted to it, but they didnt.
The figures stood by the tree for a matter of moments until car headlights appeared down the
road. Then they ran back across the street, where they were joined by a third figure, all three of whom
ran across the lot by the side of the barn and disappeared in the darkness. The light went out on the
object and stayed out until the car was out of sight up the road. The object stayed around, still
maneuvering, for quite some time. The girls tired of watching, but later showed it to the mother who had
been out shopping, but by this time, it was very dim and a considerable distance away. A neighbor
across the street watched the craft for a few minutes, became frightened, and went back into the house.

She did not see the figures. Two adults in Winsted saw what apparently was the same or similar object
for a period of five minutes, within forty minutes of the sighting at the barn.

A little over a month later, a report came in from a western state. Although we published
the basic information, we were limited to that only and no names or location. The witnesses were
cognizant of the ridicule they might suffer if they made public what they had seen, along with their
identity.

Week of October 22 - 28, 1967:

A couple of campers watched a strange-appearing, glowing object on the side of a mountain
twice during a weeks camping outing. On both occasions, they observed small lights which danced
about as if the law of gravity had no effect on them whatsoever. Through binoculars, the campers found
that each of the lights had a tiny human form below it, giving the impression that the figures were being
propelled through the air by some device with a light in the head area for illumination. Both sightings
occurred during the week of October 22 to 28, 1967.

By the end of 1967, we had thought that the lag in sighting reports as well as the lack of
occupant cases signalled the end of another UFO flap and we were right. But in the months and
years ahead, we were still receiving information on sightings for that particular year. A February
14, 1967, report did not reach the office until the fall of 1969 and again, because of the bizarre
nature of the experience, the witness asked that his identity be kept a secret.

February 14, 1967:

The location of the sighting was on a farm in Miller County, Missouri. At 7 a.m., the sky was clear
and bright with no stars visible. Mr. X was walking toward a large barn located about 100 feet east of his
house, when he noticed one of his cows looking out into the field located east of the barn. He then saw
an object on the ground some 335 feet from him. At this point, he was looking through scattered trees
and thought the object was a parachute. He walked to the northeast corner of the barn and could see the
object and several smaller ones moving below it. They were moving quite rapidly and they seemed to
have arms or levers which were also moving rapidly. The smaller objects appeared to have wide-set
eyes, but he could not see any legs. Mr. X had a bucket of feed which he placed inside the barn gate,
then started toward the object, and as he reached a fence some 70 feet from the barn, he stopped and
picked up two rocks.
He said, As I came through the first gate, I picked up two rocks, pretty good size, one of them
was, I got up to about 30 feet of it and it was sitting there, kind of rocking slightly and I thought, boy, here
goes. Im going to knock a hole in that thing and see what the hell it is. I cut down on it and the rock
stopped along about 15 feet from it and just hit the ground. The next rock I thought I would throw on top
of it and it just hit something and bounced. As Mr. X neared the object, the small objects started moving
around, behind, and into a shaft which extended to the ground. The last smaller object was just going
into the shaft when X was still about 80 feet from the UFO.
Mr. Xs description of the object is quite interesting. It just looked like a big shell, a grayish-green
outfit, and underneath, there were oblong holes where the lights were coming out. They were so bright
you couldnt see when you got up close to it.
Concerning his progress toward the object, Mr. X told APROs investigator: I thought I was going
right up to it; I got up to about here (about 15 feet from the object) and there it was. I just walked up
against a wall; I couldnt see it at all; there was just a pressure.

He claimed that as he stood there, some 15 feet from the object, it started to rock slightly off the
vertical about six times before it took off. When it took off, it just rocked back and moved real fast to the
left of that ridge, he told the investigator, pointing to a hill nearby. He said it made no sound and he
detected no odor and the shaft was pulled up into it as it took off.
In this incident, there were clearly some sort of beings, whether living or robots, involved. Mr. X
did not try to supply details which werent there. He pointed out that the incident took place just before
the sun broke above a large ridge in the east and the ground was well lighted. The sky was clear, the
morning was cool with a light wind out of the east, the ground was muddy, and the largest object rested
on a slight rise near the northeastern edge of the field.
The object was a disc, rounded at the top, flattened at the base. It appeared to be some 12 to 15
feet in diameter, about 6 feet thick, and sat on a shaft of some 2 feet in height and about 18 inches in
diameter, which was the same gray-green color. Mr. X compared the surface of the object to that of silk
with no seams or rivets in evidence. Around the lower rim were located several oblong holes about 6 to 8
inches long and spaced about 1 foot apart. Extremely bright light emanated from the holes and the light
changed colors. They were all the colors of the rainbow, Mr. X said. There was no sound heard at any
time and the whole incident lasted approximately five minutes and no ground markings were found after
the object had left.
The smaller objects, which moved about in the vicinity of the larger one, were between ten or
twelve in number and about 2 feet tall. The drawing made by Mr. X of the small objects or humanoids
resembles generally a peanut with a proboscis-like protrusion near the top, an eye, and what may have
been a visor, and the arms (if such they were) were quite slim. No feet or legs were observed.

Another late-arriving report reached us in late December 1970 and related a strange
nocturnal experience of a woman alone at night tending a sick child. Mrs. Adeline Davis initially
contacted Mr. Walt Andrus, then a field investigator for APRO who was fairly well known in the
states of Illinois and Missouri, and related her story to him. In June 1970, she attended the
Midwest UFO Conference which was co-sponsored by APRO and APCCI of Peoria, Illinois.
Because of the crowd she did not have the opportunity to talk with Mrs. Lorenzen, who was one of
the speakers at the conference, so she wrote to her later. She was disappointed that, after having
related her experience to one of our investigators, there had been no follow-up, and she wanted to
know our decision regarding her report. Headquarters had not received the report and asked
Field Investigators Allen Benz and Ted Phillips to go to Edima, Missouri, to interview her.

They learned the following. Mrs. Davis was in the northwest bedroom with her daughter, who
was ill. She was not sleeping soundly because she was making regular temperature checks. The exact
date is not remembered, bu the experience took place in the first or second week of January 1969.
She suddenly found herself sitting up in bed and looking at the window, although no sound was
heard. She had no idea why she suddenly woke and sat up. At the window, she saw an unusual looking
object with an occupant in it who was looking in her direction. Unable to believe her eyes, she pinched
herself, hit herself, jumped up and down, trying to make sure that she was awake. She even ran into the
bathroom and bathed her face. After returning to the bedroom, she sat down in the middle of the edge of
the bed by the window, and once again, peered at the entity outside the window. He seemed to be on a
level with the window which would have placed him about 7 feet above the ground. When first seen, the
occupant was about 6 feet from Mrs. Davis, and seemed to be working on something below the window
and looking downward.
Mrs. Davis said that the occupant suddenly raised his head, his mouth dropped open, and there
was a definitely surprised look on his face. He continued to look at her for a brief time, then resumed his
work below the level of the window. After a short time, he looked up again and reached upward and to
the right with his right hand for something which Mrs. Davis could not see. It seemed to her that he

couldnt reach whatever he was after, for he turned slightly and reached with his left hand. He then
turned and looked at Mrs. Davis, and the object in which he was located, began to back slowly away from
the house. As it moved away, she could see a white light beam coming from the base of the object,
projecting downward. It made a bend and illuminated a small cedar tree. This light was the only light
observed by Mrs. Davis, except for the light from the interior of the object. No sound was heard at any
time.
The object then moved back about 10 to 12 feet, stopped, and the white light went out. After the
object stopped, it started turning slightly and moved to the northwest, and as it turned, Mrs. Davis could
see that the windows were tinted blue. The back side of the object was identical to the front, except for
the window area. The frame around the window area was visible, but a shield covered the window
section, which was the same color of the object itself army green. A dark, vertical marking was
observed extending from the top edge of the window framing.
Mrs. Davis again went to bathe her face and when she returned to the window, she noted that the
leg on the far side of the object was about 3 feet off the ground, and the near leg about 5 feet above the
surface. She could only see about half of the back side as it turned and the object was last seen as it
moved slowly northeast at very low altitude (just above the ground) and it disappeared behind the corner
of the house.
After the object left, Mrs. Davis went into the living room and smokes a cigarette. It was at this
time that she noted that the furnace fan (which is on automatic and runs constantly) was not operating. A
minute or so after she sat down, it started running again, indicating to her that the electricity had been off.
The next morning, Mrs. Davis found that the electric clocks were twenty minutes slow. She checked with
neighbors, but they reported no electrical failure.
In their report, Benz and Phillips noted that at one point during its presence, the object was in a
position where it could have touched or pushed the power line to the Davis home. The power line is
some 10 feet above the ground and tree branches, which were pushed back by the object, are about 9
feet above the ground. Mrs. Davis was not frightened by the episode and went to bed and slept soundly
after the object left. The morning after the incident, Mrs. Davis felt extremely nervous, a condition which
persisted throughout the entire day.
Mrs. Davis described the occupant as wearing dark clothing with a cap resembling an army
fatigue cap. No hair was noted and the eyes, rather slanted and wide-spread, had fuzzy or indefinite
pupils. He wore a dark jacket with an opening down the front and a small upright collar with scalloped
edges and a scarf.

November 2, 1973:
The craft and occupant described by Mrs. Davis amount to a tame report when compared to the
alleged experience of Mrs. Lyndia Morel of Goffstown, New Hampshire, in the early morning of November
2, 1973. Although a one-witness incident, Mrs. Morels hysterical condition when she began beating on
the door of the Beaudoin residence on the outskirts of Goffstown, indicates she had a frightening
experience of some kind. She had left her place of work in Manchester at 2:45 a.m., stopped for a cup of
coffee with a friend, bought some gasoline for her car, and then proceeded home. During the trip, she
became aware of a strange, large, bright yellow light, which during the next few miles, seemed to be
following her.
Ultimately, on a deserted stretch of road, the object came close enough so that she was able to
observe its shape as well as the appearance of the sole occupant, visible through an oval port on the
front of the object. The thing itself was a sphere which was covered with what appeared to be six-sided
facets all over the surface. Above midline was situated the oval-shaped window.
The occupant was only visible from about the waist up and the hands were out of sight below a

dark portion which cut across the bottom of the oval, and which Mrs. Morel thought might have been an
instrument panel. The occupants body appeared darker than the face with small shoulders, but it was
uncertain whether the body had clothing on or not. The rounded head was grayish (between a gray and
flesh tone), except for a darker color on top, and the face bore wrinkles or loose skin like an elephants
hide. Angling upward across the forehead, two large egg-shaped eyes with large, dark pupils gripped
her attention so much that she felt she was unable to look away. She said she received the impression or
awareness that told her dont be afraid. A mouth-slit turning down at the corners, completed the
description of the face. No nose or ears were noted.
Panic-stricken, Mrs. Morel believed she was in imminent danger of being captured by the UFO,
and after passing by a cemetery, she spotted a house ahead on the left. The globe had become so
dazzling that she covered her eyes with an arm, and simultaneously turned the wheel with the other hand,
entering the driveway of the Beaudoin house at an angle and coming to a halt partly on the front lawn.
She got out of the car, ran across the lawn where she began beating on the door and pleading for help.
At this point, the object changed position and moved away. When Mrs. Beaudoin opened the door two
minutes later, Mrs. Morel began sinking to her knees in a faint, but did not lose consciousness. Mrs.
Beaudoin attested to the fact that the young woman was extremely frightened and hysterical when she
saw her at the door.
In addition to the description of the occupant and the object, Mrs. Morel told Field Investigator
Betty Hill and Astronomy Consultant Walter Webb that at one time before she came to the Beaudoin
neighborhood, she had the impression that she had lost control of her car and that the object had been
accompanied by a high-pitched whine.

In early 1974, Headquarters received a report from Field Investigator Kevin Randle who
operates out of Des Moines, Iowa, and who has been an indefatigable researcher for many years.
He had handing case, and although he eventually convinced the witness that he should submit to
the interview, the man would not allow his name to be used and he refused to even fill out a report
form.

June 6, 1972:
Mr. T. claimed that he was working in the fields in a rural Iowa area where he operates a farm on
the afternoon of June 6, 1972, when his attention was drawn to the sky by a flash of light. He didnt pay
much attention to it at first, because he thought it was an airplane, but did note its silver color and the fact
that it was approaching him. As it got closer, it was obvious that it was an unusual object, shaped like an
egg and slowly descending into Mr. T.s cornfield. Just prior to landing, legs or a type of landing gear
grew out of the bottom and the strange craft landed gently in the field, about 100 yards from the witness.
A port of some sort opened on the side near the bottom and then some people got out. In Mr. T.s
words, they messed around in the corn for a while, then got back into the craft and it took off. As the
object took off, a blue flame shot out of the bottom and the legs retracted. There was a slight roar as the
ship shot into the sky. The corn shocks in that area of the field looked as though they had been caught in
a whirlwind, but Mr. T. found no burned vegetation.
The people were thought by Mr. T. to be about 5 feet tall and seemed to be wearing one-piece
flying suits. From 100 yards distance, the witness said he couldnt see much detail and he didnt
attempt to get any closer. Mr. T. said the object cast a shadow when it was on the ground, was faster
than a jet when he first saw it, but slowed as it approached the ground. When it left, it was out of sight in
a matter of seconds. He estimated its size to be about 15 to 20 feet tall.

December 2, 1974:
Another farmer, Mr. William Bosak, sixty-eight, of rural Frederic, Wisconsin, told the press of his

encounter with an unusual-appearing entity on the night of December 2, 1974. At that time, Wisconsin
was just beginning to feel the effects of concentrated UFO activity throughout the state. Police officers as
well as the average citizen were reporting strange, lighted objects in the skies.
Bosak was returning home from a Farmers Co-op meeting in Frederic and was driving southeast
when about a mile from his farm, he spotted an object on the left side of the road ahead of him. He had
been driving slowly because of patches of fog, and his headlights reflected off the object, so he slowed
down as he approached it.
It had a curved front of glass and inside, I could see a figure with its arms raised above its head,
Bosak told reporters. The object was standing still, he said, and appeared to be between 8 and 10 feet in
height. The transparent glass area through which Bosak said he could view the occupant was bulletshaped at the top, or tapered to a peak. He had slowed nearly to a stop when he came up to the object,
but then fear took over and he stepped on the accelerator and left the object behind. He said that when
he did so, the inside of his car became dark and he heard a swishing sound like branches of a tree
brushing against the car.
The human, as Bosak referred to it, had hair sticking out from the sides of its head with ears
protruding out about 3 inches and they were shaped like a calfs ear. The creature had no collar or shirt
with seam in front, but appeared to be clothed in something tannish-brown in color and fitted (skin-tight)
like a divers suit. Both arms were extended above its head and hair stuck out from the outside of the
arms. There was no beard, but there was hair or fur on the upper part of the body. The rest of it, from
the waist down, was not visible because of the fog. The object itself was not lighted, but reflected light
from the headlights of Bosaks car.
Bosak said he returned to the location the next morning to search for marks or evidence of the
objects presence, but found nothing. He said he was very frightened at the time, but the look on the face
of the occupant of the craft indicated that it was frightened too. Its eyes were very large and protruding.
Bosak, afraid of ridicule, kept the experience to himself for nearly a month, not even telling his
wife and son. He admitted also that he was so frightened at the time, that he was afraid to go out at night
for a few days. Bosak admitted that prior to his own experience he had been very skeptical of UFO tales
and said he realized that a lot of people wouldnt believe him and he would be willing to take a lie detector
test to prove his honesty in the matter.
Mr. Bosak has operated a 450-acre farm east of Frederic for the past forty years and is
considered to be honest and reliable by his fellow citizens in the area.

August 1965:
Another rural sighting incident which was of the late-blooming nature (not arriving at
Headquarters until early 1975 while it had taken place in 1965), was a sighting of an object as well as a
possible occupant in August of that year. Partially because of the way they were treated when they tried
to get police to investigate, and partly because they fear ridicule, the parties involved will not allow their
names to be used. Although the occupant was observed by only one of the trio, all three saw the landing
or at least the descent of the main object.
D. G., his father, and sister were sitting in the yard of their rural home in Iowa at about 3 or 4 p.m.
one day in late August 1965, when they heard a high-pitched whining sound. They looked around but
didnt see anything at first, and then D. G. saw an unusual object descending in the southern part of the
sky. The witnesses described it as looking like two saucers glued together, about 15 to 20 feet in
diameter, and silver in color. In fact, D. G. told Field Investigation Kevin Randle that the surface looked
like polished aluminum. The object descended at about the speed of a man on a parachute and finally
disappeared behind a hill. The hill wasnt very far away and D. G. decided to try for a better look, so he
headed in that direction. The whining sound had faded away when the craft went out of sight.

At about 160 yards from the hill, D. G. spotted a being or some object standing behind a tree at
the top of the hill. He watched it for only a very few seconds and started to walk faster. At that point, he
tripped and to keep his footing, had to look down for an instant and when he looked up again, the being
was gone. A few minutes later, he saw a blur, heard a sound like rushing air, and saw the object ascend
into the air and disappear in a couple of seconds, going straight up.
D. G. ran to the tree where he had seen the being and, based on the size of the tree and the area
where the being had shown its head and shoulders, guessed it to be approximately 3 or 3 feet tall. The
head had seemed to be bald, but he was too far away to observe much else. He found no footprints so
he continued over the hill to see if the object had left any evidence.
In an old quarry, D. G. found a perfectly round, burned area. It was about 15 to 20 feet in
diameter. (Note: Investigator Randle said he believes D. G. assumed the burned area would be the same
size as the craft and therefore, the estimate of the size of the object itself may be inaccurate.) All the
grass in the circle was charred, but at the edge, it was green. There was a definite edge to the circle and
inside it, D. G. found three indentations about 1 inch deep, 5 inches wide, and 12 inches long. They were
about 2 feet from the edge of the circle. The ground in the area was very firm.
D. G. ran back to his house and told his father. They set out for Cedar Falls where they stopped
by the highway patrol office, but personnel there made fun of them and they received the same treatment
when they reported the incident to the Waverley police. They told Randle they were bitter about the way
they had been treated, but were glad to talk to someone who would be willing to listen.

A certain segment of UFO researchers (which happen to be in the minority in our country,
fortunately) resisted the idea of humanoid UFO occupants until the famous Socorro (Lonnie
Zamora) case in 1964. To attempt to convince these people that their attitude is emotionally
rooted would be a waste of time. Therefore, those of us who are deeply interested in every phase
of the UFO mystery have been greatly hampered by our own colleagues. The modus operandi of
these researchers is to gather every kind of report, but to suppress those which are not
personally acceptable thus preventing others from the type of correlative work which needs to
be done with all reports.

March 23, 1966:

Early on the morning of March 23, 1966, Mr. Eddie Laxton, fifty-six, of Temple, Oklahoma, came
upon a fish-shaped silver object in the road on Highway 70, near the Texas-Oklahoma state line. Laxton
is an experienced electronics instructor at Sheppard Air Force Base at Wichita Falls, Texas. He got out of
his car, approached the object, and saw a man dressed in GI fatigues (work uniform) standing by the
craft. He turned back to his car to get his camera, and when he turned around, the man was getting into
the object via a ladder and the craft took off vertically. Laxton, familiar with aircraft, could not identify the
object, although he got a good look at it. The letters and numbers TL41, arranged vertically, were easily
visible on the ship. It was learned later that a truck driver approaching from the opposite direction, saw
the same object. Laxton is sure that the object is a secret test vehicle, but if Anderson, the truck driver,
is telling the truth when he says other drivers have seen similar things on the road in the same area in the
near past, we have a ridiculous situation in which some U.S. government agency is flying test machines
outside the confines of guarded test ranges. What else, then? Perhaps test vehicles from another
country? Not likely that would be too risky.

Our only possible answer, therefore, is that our visitors are modifying their own craft to
look somewhat like earth aircraft and dressing their crews to resemble ours. Why? Thats a good
question. If we hypothesize that they are attempting to confuse us, we only come up with another
question: Why?

Canada and Elsewhere

Because there were no occupant cases reported in Canada prior to 1965, it seemed as
though they must have been confined largely to the United States and South America. There is
always the possibility, however, that sightings were made, but for some reason, the witnesses did
not report them. The first case to come to our attention allegedly occurred in 1965, but Field
Investigator Louis J. Normandin did not learn of it until 1972 when he made his report to APRO. It
should be noted that with seven years separating the actual incident and the interview by
Normandin, much detail was forgotten.

August 1965:
Mr. Harris and a lady friend were parked at the base of a water reservoir near the Carlington
Heights Pumping Station near Ottawa, Ontario, on an August evening in 1965. At between 9:00 and
10:00 p.m., they saw an extremely bright light appear in the sky which lit up the whole area. When they
looked out of the front window of the car and up toward the top of the reservoir, they saw a glowing object
approaching the reservoir. It had what appeared to be four searchlights on the underside which beamed
down to the ground. Shortly after the craft stopped at an estimated 15 to 20 feet above the reservoir,
what looked like a sliding door opened and a figure was standing in the doorway, joined shortly by two
more figures. Harris did not recall if there was a ramp or anything of that nature, just that the figures,
which appeared to be dark but shiny, stood there in the opening. His girl friend was very frightened and
urged him to drive away, so they left the area while the object was still there.
Harris did not recall any details of the figures, such as height or facial features, due to the fact
that they were so far away from his location. Mr. Normandin asked if there were any other witnesses to
the incident. Harris said that he had seen other cars in the area when they first arrived at the reservoir,
but did not speak to any others about the presence of the craft. He said that he was not frightened and
that he thought that the Air Force must have been carrying out some experiments in the area, which
accounted for the craft and the figures.
Mr. Normandin pointed out that the top of the reservoir affords a good view of Ottawa, is located
near a rock quarry, and that high tension electrical transmission lines run along the edge of the reservoir.
All three of these features have figured in landed UFO incidents.

Our next case is reminiscent of the little men seen in a western state by campers in 1967
and mentioned briefly in The Occupants In The United States.

June 13, 1967:

At approximately 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 13, 1967, Carmen Cuneo, a mine worker at
Caledonia, Ontario, Canada, stepped outside briefly and saw two aircraft hovering about 12 feet above
the ground near the lower part of the mine. One of the craft was cigar-shaped and estimated to be about
36 feet long with four small, evenly spaced windows along the side facing Cuneo. The other object was
disc-shaped and appeared to be about 15 feet in diameter.
The most surprising thing, however, was the presence of three small men wearing hats similar to
those worn by miners, who were moving about under a boom or aerial which protruded from one end of
the cigar-shaped object. On top of each of the helmets were four amber lights. Cuneo stood and
watched in fascination for about ten minutes, then decided that he should get someone to verify what he

was seeing, so he went inside and called his friend, Merv Hannigan. The two men went outside, but the
little men were nowhere in sight. However, they watched the two objects which continued to hover in the
same spot, for a total of twenty minutes. At 3:05, the two craft took off toward the southwest with many
colored, flashing lights in evidence. No noise was heard during the crafts presence at the mine nor
during takeoff.
After the sun came up, Cuneo went to the area to investigate and found a large gouge in the
ground and an oil residue on the burdock leaves. The oil was analyzed and was found to have no
unusual elements, but it was not an ordinary type of lubricating oil.

A single witness report of the silver-suited being type came out of Australia in August
1967 when attorney Peter Norris, APROs representative, forwarded the report resulting from an
interview with Ron Hydes of Kilda, Victoria.

August 24,1967:
Hydes claimed that at 5:00 p.m. on the 24th, he had been en route from Melbourne to Sydney
when he found himself surrounded by a bright, bluish-white light. He said it was quite obviously coming
from above him. As he slowed down to look up to see where it was coming from, he was blinded by the
light and had to stop his cycle. He said the light was so bright that it obliterated the surrounding terrain so
that all he could see was the light and a little bit of the road ahead of him. Hydes stopped the bike, left
the engine running, and put it on the stand. Taking off his sunglasses, he wiped his eyes and when he
opened them, he saw a disc-shaped craft about 100 feet away to his left and off the road. He surmised
that this object was the source of the light above him a few seconds before when he had stopped his
cycle, but he did not actually see the object land.
The craft gave the appearance of two plates joined together at the rim, the top half being silver
quite like high-polished silver and either a very dark gray or black underneath. No light emanated from
the object as it rested on the ground.
After spotting the craft beside the road, Hydes was amazed and continued to look at it for a
minute or so until his eyesight came back to normal (it took a little time for his eyes to adjust after the
blinding from the bright light source), whereupon he realized the object was not on the ground, but was in
actuality about 3 or 4 feet above it. Her could see nothing supporting it. At about that time, a car went by
(Hydes wasnt sure it was a car, but at least some kind of vehicle passed), and Hydes turned away from
the object to flag down the vehicle. When he turned back toward the craft, there were two figures on the
side of the object closest to him. They appeared to be about 5 feet tall, but he admits they could have
been a bit taller, as he was not precisely certain of the distance the object was from his location. The
persons were dressed in some sort of metallic coverall which did not appear to have buttons or zippers
or anything of that nature indicating a closing. Hydes said the clothing had the same sort of metallic
sheen as the disc behind them. What he originally thought were abnormally-sized heads he soon
realized were actually helmets. These helmets were not clear at least he could not see through them
but they were darker than the suits.
He described them in this manner: They were obviously dark colored just like a fish bowl
popped on somebodys head, but they werent clear.
Hydes also said that he felt that the figures came from the back of the object, or the side away
from him, for he did not feel that he had looked away long enough for them to have opened a door,
disembarked, then closed a door again. He assumed that as they stood there, they were looking at him
despite the fact that he couldnt see their faces for they were facing him. At this stage, although a little
frightened, Hydes was still curious and he took a step forward to see what would happen and the two
figures did the same and Hydes became even more frightened. The three stood and looked at each other
for some time and then one of the figures the one on the left took another couple of steps toward

Hydes and lifted his hand in a beckoning gesture the same gesture one would use to call somebody
across a street or something of that nature.
It was at this stage that I panicked and I just dived on the bike and took off down the road,
Hydes reported.
In response to questioning by Mr. Norris, Hydes said that he neither saw the persons get out of
the disc nor get into it, but that quite obviously, they belonged to it.
After getting on his bike, Hydes proceeded down the road at what he estimated to be 100 miles
per hour. He shortly realized that the object was keeping company with him when he heard a humming
sound and knew straightaway what it was. He tried to flag down a couple of cars and point out the
object to them, but the people in them acted as though they had not seen anything out of the ordinary.
Hydes felt that he had been on the road a minute or two before he noticed that the object was with him
again, but admitted that it could have been following him from the moment that he left the area where the
disc had been, and he might not have known it. The craft preceded him down the road at a distance of
between 100 and 200 feet and 100 to 200 feet altitude. He said he looked for a house or farm or
something to pull up to, but found nothing.
When he had first spotted the object, he began to slow down and the object decreased its speed
to correspond with his until he was nearly stopped. When he last observed the object, he was at a
standstill in the road. He had decided that there was nowhere to go so he had might as well stop, so he
did. When he had left the original spot where the craft had been on the ground, he had been flat out
doing maximum speed for his cycle which was between 120 and 125 miles per hour. And when he
slowed down, the object did so correspondingly until his speed was 3 or 4 miles per hour.
It was then that the object tilted its base toward Hydes and shot straight up into the air at about a
45 angle and vanished in two seconds, he said.
Hydes told Norris about the only structural detail he observed. When the craft was on the ground,
it had a bulge or cupola on the top and when it was in the air, when it leapt in front of his cycle as he
made his escape, it was pinkish in color much as if it was reflecting a pink sunset. However, this was not
the case, for the sun was still above the horizon and also, the whole of the craft had the same color.

But on to our next case which involves more of the diminutives. This case is another
which was published in the French UFO journal, Lumires Dans La Nuit. M. Luch Fontaine is
considered to be a serious, hardworking, and entirely trustworthy man, so when he reported his
strange experience on the 31st of July, 1968, there was no reason to disbelieve him.

July 31, 1968:

He said that he was at the kilometer 21 mark on the plain called La Plaine des Cafres, on the
Island of Reunion (which is located in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Mauritius) at 9:00 a.m.,
picking grass for his rabbits when he saw a sort of oval-shaped object in a clearing about 25 meters
away. The sides of it were dark blue in color while the middle was transparent and shaped somewhat like
the windshield of a Peugeot 404 car. Above and below, it had what appeared to be two glass feet of
shiny metal.
In the center of the object were two individuals wearing what appeared to be divers suits replete
with helmet through which Fontaine could catch a glimpse of their faces. They were standing with their
backs to Fontaine, but then one turned around and looked directly at Fontaine, while the other (to his
right) turned his head so that part of his face was visible through the faceplate of the helmet. The suits
were segmented in appearance.

Fontaine said that then both of the figures turned their backs to him and there was a flash, similar
to that made by an arc welders torch, and everything went white around him. He felt a powerful heat and
a blast of wind and a few seconds later, there was nothing where the craft had stood.
When he approached the spot where the object had been, he found no marks. He had estimated
its diameter to be 4 or 5 meters (13 to 16 2/3 feet) and about 2 meters (9 1/3 feet) from top to bottom.
He told his wife about it, then the police, and the next day, an enquiry began. At the scene, a certain
degree of radioactivity in a radius of from 5 to 6 meters (16 2/3 to 20 feet) from the presumed scene of the
near-landing and also on the clothing that M. Fontaine had worn, was detected.
This case is one of those absolutely perplexing ones. Obviously, the object was not on the
ground. The suits worn by the persons are not unusual in UFO files, nor was their size (90 centimeters
or just short of 36 inches), nor the shape of the machine. But the shiny feet, one above and one below
are most unusual. These appendages were white, it seemed, and closely resembled the broad, circular
pedestal sometimes used on some tables, particularly patio tables, and in this instance, the upper one
being flat side up and the lower one flat side down.

Four sightings of a small, Volkswagen-like car which could both move along the ground
and fly through the air were reported to APRO by our representative in the Philipine Republic,
Colonel Aderito de Leon. The four sightings, just hours apart, took place on November 1, 1968,
near the communications satellite station (Philcomsat) some thirty miles east of Manila.

November 1, 1968:
The first in this series of observations began at 4:00 a.m. local time, when a farmer in an area
north of the town of Baras saw an object descend, making a hissing sound like an electric welder. It had
a light on the front of it. The farmer took a flashlight and left his hut to get a better look at the craft, which
he estimated to be about 100 yards distant. As he approached, he saw what he described to the
investigators as a white vehicle as big as a Volkswagen beetle car with two occupants. The vehicle had
small wheels and six big exhaust tubes at the rear, each the size of which was comparable to the
thickness of a mans leg.
The body of the vehicle was milky-white in color, the farmer said, and had a transparent canopy
on the top through which he observed two occupants who were dressed in white overalls with earphones
on their heads. He said they looked like ordinary Caucasians, and one was taller than the other.
When the farmer approached the object, it emitted a loud roar, and he ran off in fright. He then
observed it as it moved forward on the ground (on the wheels) until it reached a clearing, whereupon it
took off. The roar made by the object was only apparent during its horizontal movement on the ground,
and during its vertical ascent, there was not much noise. Colonel de Leon tried to determine if there had
been a downward blast as the object rose, but the farmer replied in the negative. He pointed out that the
objects horizontal movement on the ground (accompanied by the roar) caused dust to fly, but there was
no dust when the object took off in vertical flight.
The second observation occurred two hours later, at 6:00 a.m. Another farmer who was walking
to Baras suddenly felt that something had landed behind him. He looked around and observed what he
described as a strange, white car with two people in it. He ran as fast as he could and reported the
incident to the mayor of Baras. This observation was not long or detailed, but the description is of an
object very similar to the one observed earlier.
At 8:00 a.m., a farmer plowing his field with his son observed a white object hovering silently over
them. Colonel de Leon was not able to investigate this particular report because the farm in question was
located in the middle of a mountain range and was very difficult to reach. Also, inasmuch as a detailed
description was not given and no humanoids were viewed, it was not considered significant to the group

of observations.
The fourth and last observation, however, occurred at 11:00 a.m. at the same place as the first
sighting, but involved another farmer who was riding his bicycle up an incline coming from Baras. Upon
reaching the top of the grade, he saw a strange car downhill from him. Although he felt undecided
whether or not to continue, he let the cycle carry him downhill towards the object and he passed right by
it. He told de Leon that he saw two men, one was inside and the other was outside looking around.
The latter, he said, was very tall and looked like a Caucasian. Both were wearing white coveralls with a
head cover that had two black objects on the sides.
He continued cycling and stopped after about 20 yards and looked back. The man who was
outside the vehicle was watching him. He considered returning to speak with him, but then the man
climbed into the vehicle, which the farmer described as resembling a Volkswagen and was about the
same size. There was a loud roar as the object moved up the hill from where the farmer had come, then
took off vertically and silently.
When Colonel de Leon submitted his reports to APRO Headquarters, he pointed out the similarity
of the object and occupants to those observed by Lonnie Zamora at Socorro, New Mexico, four years
earlier. In both cases, the objects were white and at first, Zamora thought the vehicle he saw was a car.
Also, the occupants in both cases wore white clothing. But there, the similarity ends, for the Zamora
object had four wedge-shaped pads, whereas the objects described by the farmers near Baras described
wheels. Also, the Zamora craft made a roar while landing or taking off and was silent during flight,
whereas the Baras vehicle made a roar while running along the ground.

June 9, 1971:
Animal reaction to the presence of a UFO figures in our next case almost a common
occurrence in UFO research. Investigated by William K. Allan, an indefatigable field investigator from
Calgary, Alberta, Canada, this incident took place on June 9, 1971, at about 8:50 p.m. The witness, Miss
Esther A. Clappison of Rosedale, Alberta, was attracted to a light that shone through a window of her
house. She couldnt imagine what could have caused it, so she went out to the front porch of her house,
accompanied by her dog George. Upon reaching the porch, she was surprised to see a rectangular
object which appeared to be on the ground at the intersection of two roads. At first shocked, she
overcame the emotion and decided that she should try to observe as much as possible and because of
the full moon did manage to observe many details.
At this point, she became aware that three men were present, two inside the craft whom she
could see through a window or port and another outside. One of those inside could be seen to make
signs to the man on the outside to the right end of the craft. At the same time, the man outside seemed
to be trying to attract the attention of the men on the inside. During this interlude, the man on the inside,
who was gesticulating to the man on the outside, seemed to be attempting to conceal something with his
body, which Miss Clappison took to be the instrument panel. She said that he kept looking backward as if
to see if his arm was covering something. The man or humanoid located on the outside of the craft
seemed to be picking up samples of something objects or rocks not dirt, she thought, because he
was picking and not scooping.
Miss Clappison said that she tried to get closer, but could not because the old dog wouldnt allow
her to do so; he just pushed her back. He didnt bark, she said, but it was obvious that he was scared to
death and would not let her go further. He was trembling and cowering and shoving against her to keep
her back.
At this juncture, she decided to go inside the house, being afraid by now, and to tell her brother
about the strange apparition. When she arrived inside the house, she looked out through a window and
found that there was nothing where the craft had been seconds before. She then went outside again and
found nothing.

Miss Clappison estimated that the craft was possibly between 10 and 13 feet in length, but the
burned area which was found at the site where the object had hovered, was just over 20 feet. In October
of the same year, when Mr. Allan investigated the case, the grass was still blackened and had not grown.
Miss Clappison estimated that the height of the three humanoids could not have been over 5 feet
tall and their faces were covered. But, she said, their hands were the things that got me. They were like
mittens, not exactly like a skidoo mitten, but the thumbs, very prominent thumbs going into points, but I
gathered that was why he was having difficulty picking up the rocks. The hands were very obvious and
the wrists were very obvious.
Their clothing, she said, was a kind of olive-green to drab green and all that she observed was
seen by the light of the ship. However, the moon was full that night and it is possible that it added to the
illumination.
Miss Clappison kept trying to describe what she called the instrument panel which she felt the
humanoid aboard was trying to conceal. It went right across the thing and was about 15 inches and
straight down, but there seemed to be darker shapes on the down part. Her description here leaves
much to be desired, but her very inability to describe what she saw tends to lend credence to her story.
However, we might here call attention to her difficulty in describing the hands they seemed to be
claw-like in the manner of those in several other reports in this book.

We are constantly being told how one should react while viewing a UFO or its occupants.
The following case is one that is difficult for researchers to understand because obviously, the
witnesses were viewing something very strange, but were not interested enough to take the time
out from mundane chores to view and record the events in detail.
Our investigator in this case, Wido Hoville, is a very dedicated young man who has spent a
great deal of time and effort in documenting the cases of UFO occupants, especially within the
range of his ability to travel, and has done an outstanding job.

October 6, 1974:
At 12:45 a.m. on October 6, 1974, Mr. and Mrs. R (names withheld upon request) of St. Matthias,
Quebec, Canada, took a walk near their home to get some fresh air before retiring. Suddenly, Mrs. R
noticed a bright spotlight on their farmland about 1650 feet from their house. She pointed it out to her
husband, saying , Look over there somebody seems to be searching for something. Her husband
said it was probably the police chasing cattle thieves. Mr. Hoville pointed out that since the price of beef
went up in 1973, there had been some cattle thievery in the area.
The next morning, the Rs had workers at their home to install a new wrought-iron balustrade in
the rear of their house. Mr. R was helping to install the connection of a welding machine in the basement
and Mrs. R was busy washing clothes. At 11:45 a.m., Mrs. R took some laundry out to hang on the
clothesline. While hanging the clothes, she noted heavy dark smoke rising into the sky from
approximately the same location where they had seen the spotlight earlier that morning. Several
neighbors later confirmed having seen the smoke in that area, at that time. Mrs. R described the smoke
as similar to that given off by burning rubber tires. Mr. Hoville doubts that the smoke had anything to do
with the first sighting or what transpired later. The smoke lasted approximately thirty minutes. No fire
was seen and Mrs. R was astonished because, to her knowledge, there was nothing in the field which
could burn, as the ground was still wet from the rainfall, the preceding Friday.
While watching the smoke, Mr. and Mrs. R suddenly saw what they described as a domeshaped tent of orange-yellow color about the same distance (1650 feet) from their house as the
spotlight seen earlier.

Out of this tent (which the Rs estimated to be 75 feet in diameter) came what the Rs described
as a bulldozer which was approximately one quarter the size of the larger object. The smaller object
moved 200 feet away from the large object, became stationary, then went out of sight toward a spring,
disappearing from sight behind a slope. Before the smaller object left, out from the big tent emerged
what Mr. and Mrs. R described as five scouts of small stature dressed in bright, yellow-colored clothing
much brighter than the clothing of highway workers. They appeared to be very busy running between
the large object and the smaller one. Mrs. R said they had some sort of helmets on their heads and that
because of the high grass, only the upper part of their bodies could be seen. The movement of their arms
were clearly observed, however. No windows or doors were noted on the objects, and the outlines were
not sharp and were somewhat hazy.
Mr. Hoville notes: It seems incredible but nobody asked himself what was going on. The
workers installing the balustrade did not notice the UFO, nor did the Rs call their attention to it. The
witnesses continued their normal business, and after returning to the observation spot, found everything
the large object and the five scouts gone. They wondered how this could have happened without
the object and scouts passing close to the house.
Mr. and Mrs. Rs daughter arrived home at noon, and upon hearing what her parents saw, she
immediately visited the area where the objects were seen and found a straight track of flattened grass
about 6 inches wide leading to the spring. Where the largest UFO had been located, the grass was
flattened and discolored, and three imprints arranged in a triangular pattern were found, each of which
measured 1 foot 10 inches by 1 foot 3 inches. These impressions were exactly 34 feet apart.
On Sunday, November 4, 1974 and again on Sunday, November 11, Mr. Hoville visited the site
and verified the existence of the 6-inch-wide track as well as the imprints which he interpreted as being
from the landing gear. On the 11th, Mr. Hoville discovered more flattened and discolored vegetation
further back from the landing area as well as broken bushes.

It is impossible to read a report such as this and not lament the fact that the Rs, though
sufficiently interested in the events transpiring to occasionally glance over and notice the activity,
made no attempt to investigate. This case involves unaccountable smoke which subsided, then
two objects and five figures on the ground, but no one observed the arrival or departure of any of
these phenomena. Therefore, it cant be labeled a genuine UFO. However, the description of the
two objects and the figures, as well as the colors displayed, correlate sufficiently with other cases
so that we can assume that had the Rs investigated, or at least observed continually, they would
have seen the occupants and smaller object re-enter the large object which then would fly off,
making it a case of an unidentified flying object or UFO. As things stand, this case involves an
unidentified landed object. There was no evidence to indicate that any land-based vehicle had
been in the vicinity of the site.
Our final case in this chapter seems very bizarre because it is one of the few cases
involving what seem to be robots. Again Mr. Wido Hoville was the field investigator and
submitted an excellent detailed report of the alleged event. And, as is very often the case, we
must use only initials of the full name because the witnesses did not care to be identified.

July 23rd, 1974:

Mr. and Mrs. L had come home from a holiday in Florida on the evening of July 22, 1974. Being
tired from the trip, Mrs. L had gone to bed, and her husband was sitting up watching the late show on
television. They live in a house trailer near St. Cyrille, Quebec. Other trailers on the lot had been
installed, but the Ls were the only occupants at the time.
Shortly after the end of the show, at about 1:15 a.m. on the 23rd, Mr. L was preparing to go to

bed when he heard a strange sound like bum bum bum outside, much like something falling on the
grass. He lifted the curtain in the living room and saw a reddish-orange, round object hovering over the
field to the northeast side of his house trailer. He then went into the bedroom to wake his wife, and while
there, heard another sound like buzzing. When he looked outside, he saw what he described as a robotlike creature, about 6 feet tall, within 15 feet of the trailer. Needless to say, Mr. L was shocked by what
he saw and he and his wife then went into the living room where they looked out and observed three
more robots (they described them as such because of their stiff manner of moving about, as well as their
appearance) close to an adjoining trailer, and apparently examining the shaft and wheel assembly. From
then on, Mr. and Mrs. L only looked out occasionally to see if the robots were still there and because
they were very frightened. During the observation, which lasted until 4:20 a.m., they both saw
approximately fifteen of the robots together in one line close to the creek. The robots stood there for over
five minutes and when they moved, they did so as if they were one unit, giving the Ls the impression that
they were remote-controlled.
During the following few days, the Ls learned that a farmer had had trouble with his dog on the
morning after the incident. The dog, which usually barked wildly at the slightest provocation, had
managed to slip out of his collar and was hiding.
Although only one object was seen, three of what could be described as landing traces were
found. One was where the witnesses observed the object, the others on the other side of the creek
hidden by high bushes, which would have screened anything from the Ls view. Since the sighting, when
Mr. Hovilles investigation was made, the grass had been cut on both sides of the creek, but the landing
marks were clearly seen because the grass had grown twice as high in the area of the marks as in the
surrounding area. The grass in the landing area was not burned, but merely swirled as in the cases of
so-called saucer nests around the world. According to the witnesses, they found a strange substance of
whitish color where the robots were seen moving about, and close to their pre-fabricated shed.
The results of the analysis were that the whitish, chalkish substance was low-grade limestone
and nothing out of the ordinary. In his final report to APRO, Mr. Hoville pointed out that there was a
limestone quarry in the area and that inasmuch as UFOs had repeatedly been observed over and in
limestone quarries, he assumed that the robots may have visited a quarry prior to their visit to the area of
the L home.

Floating, Flying UFOnauts

Now that the dust has cleared after the concentrated UFO activity in the U.S. in the fall of
1973, some very interesting data has presented itself. Although we had previously noted with
interest several cases which involved UFO occupants with an apparent ability to fly, it was the fall
flap which presented two outstanding cases of UFO occupants who either could fly or
maneuvered about some distance above the ground.

October 11, 1973:

The Pascagoula incident of October 11, 1973, has been described rather extensively in the press
and various magazines as well as in at least one book. The entities were described as about 5 feet tall,
grayish in color with wrinkled skin, a protuberance where the nose on a human being is located, and two
additional protuberances where the ears would be. They did not walk as humans do and their legs
appeared to be bound together and did not separate as they moved about. Also, their hands gave the
appearance of pincers or of opposing two-digit members.
When we first learned of the Pascagoula incident early on the morning of Friday, October 12, we
were intrigued by the description of floating entities and decided to contact the sheriff at Pascagoula and

try to determine if the incident warranted sending in one or two of APROs scientific consultants. After a
conversation with the sheriff, it was apparent that a full investigation should be undertaken and Mrs.
Lorenzen called one psychologist and two psychiatrists on APROs scientific consulting staff. She felt
hypnotic regression would be helpful in extracting any information from the witnesses subconscious
minds which may have been suppressed due to fear or shock.
None of the three were available so she put in a call to APROs Research Director, Dr. James A.
Harder, who is a professor of civil engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. He also was
impressed with the case as she disclosed it to him, and when she noted that none of our psychologists or
psychiatrists were available, he reminded her that he was a certified hypnotist and had used the
technique in past investigations, notably the Mr. S. (Cisco Grove) case described later.
After discussing the situation with Dr. Harder and Mr. Lorenzen, the decision was made to send
Dr. Harder to Pascagoula and after we terminated our second conversation, Dr. Harder booked his flight
and there was nothing for us to do but wait.
The next morning, Saturday, October 13, Dr. Harder interviewed Hickson and Parker and called
to make a preliminary report. The two men claimed that while fishing on an old abandoned pier at the
Schaupeter shipyard, they had seen a bright lighted object descend to the ground near them. Out of it
came three strange-appearing creatures who approached them. Young Calvin Parker fainted when one
of the things took hold of him with its pincer-like hands, but Hickson remained conscious throughout the
ordeal. Two of the creatures took him, one on each side, into the ship. Hickson recalls that he was
elevated above the floor of the inside of the ship and a round device which resembled an eye passed
above, below, and all around his body. He estimated that he had been in the ship for about fifteen
minutes when he was taken outside and placed on the pier. Parker was similarly deposited, the three
entities went inside the object, and it took off. Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson could not give much
more information than they did when interviewed while conscious. During the entire episode, the
creatures at no time touched the ground they moved along a few inches above the ground.

The description of the entities who allegedly kidnapped and examined the two men closely
resembled that of another entities case which had taken place twenty-six years before, if we can
believe the lone witness. It involved a Mr. C. A. V. Of Lima, Peru, and he claimed it occurred six
miles south of Lima in February or March 1947, and was investigated by Mr. Richard Greenwell in
October 1967. Mr. Greenwell, APROs representative for Peru at the time, had heard about the
case through the Instituto Peruano de Relaciones Interplanetaris (Peruvian Institute of
Interplanetary Relations) and had planned to obtain his name and address and interview him, but
was approached by the witness himself. The man did and still does want his identity kept secret,
but inquiries into his background indicate that he is a reliable individual and APRO has found no
motivation for a hoax.

February or March 1947:

C. A. V. claimed that he had been in Pucusana to attend to business concerning one of his trucks
which had gone off the highway and into the sand dunes. On his way back to Lima, he was six miles
south of the city when he saw a disc-shaped object hovering about 6 feet off the ground. He left his car
and ran toward the object, but found it was considerably farther away than he had initially thought. The
object appeared to be the color of the sand, only very shiny. When the man was a few yards from the
object, three figures came out of it; he saw no door, but the figures did appear to emerge.
C. A. V.s description of the figures follows. They didnt have a defined form. They looked like
three mummies. They had a profile of human beings, but the legs were joined. They did not have two
legs, but one double one like twins. They had arms, but their hands consisted of a group of four
fingers stuck together and a separate thumb. They had a sort of strange skin, a sort of towely, sandycolored skin.

C. A. V. further noted that the creatures had no exterior features except a transparent area where
the eyes on a human are placed, which had a bubble that moved about.
For those interested in the whole story, which is quite long and involved, the entire interview
between Mr. Greenwell and C. A. V. is contained in Chapter Eight of our book UFOs Over the Americas
(New York, Signet, New American Library, 1968).
The important thing about this case is that the general physical characteristics of the entities
closely match those of the Hickson-Parker incident, including the pincer-like appendages, one leg, and
the manner of moving about.

The foregoing two incidents involve UFO occupants who floated above the ground, took
place in two different countries, and the alleged times of the incidents are separated by many
years. The similarities are striking, and when we note that neither Hickson nor Parker had any
interest in UFOs prior to their experience, and the fact that the C. A. V. Case was published only in
our book and the APRO bulletin, the odds against two such similar cases being happenstances
begin to grow.
If, in both cases, the alleged incidents were hoaxes, one must wonder why these men
selected that particular UFOnaut form as a basis for fabrication? Why not a more acceptable and
more frequently reported type?

Mid-August 1953:
At about 6:00 p.m. on a mid-August evening in 1953, Salvador Villanueva was underneath his
broken-down taxicab on the main highway near Ciudad Valley, Mexico. As he worked at repairing it, he
became aware of a pair of legs encased in what appeared to be gray corduroy pants. Scrambling out
from under the car, he was confronted by two pleasant-appearing men about 4 feet tall who were clad
in one-piece garments from head to toe, wore wide shiny perforated belts, small black boxes on their
backs, and metal collars around their necks. They carried helmets which Villanueva compared to those
worn by pilots or by American football players. He said he assumed at the time that they were pilots
from another country.
Villanueva claimed that ultimately, the men got into the car with him when it began to rain and
they conversed at some length and stayed in the car until dawn. One of the men spoke good Spanish,
Villanueva said, only he seemed to string the words together. They discussed the trouble he was
having with the car, and Villanueva began to realize that there was something strange about the men
when the speaker finally volunteered the information that they were from another world, but that they
knew much about the earth.
When dawn finally came, the strangers invited Villanueva to come to their craft, which was parked
about 600 feet from the highway. To reach it, they had to cross swampy terrain and Villanueva noted that
the mens feet did not sink into the mire as his did, but that when they walked into the mire, they touched
their belts which began to glow and the mud seemed to spring away, as if repelled by some force.

September 4, 1964:
Another case involving reported floating UFO occupants took place on Labor Day weekend in
1964, when three men from the Sacramento area in California went bow-hunting in the mountains near
Cisco Grove. On the afternoon of September 4, the three men were hunting on a ridge some distance
from their camp. As dusk approached, they were separated from each other and one of the men ended
up in a canyon with a granite outcropping, few trees, and sparse brush. He heard what he thought was a

bear crashing through the brush and took refuge in a tree. After all became quiet and he was confident
that the bear was gone, he got down from the tree and, realizing he was lost, built three small signal fires,
hoping to attract the attention of rangers.
Shortly, he saw a light below the horizon which he assumed was a lantern and concluded that it
must be his friends searching for him. But when the light darted up and over a tree, he realized it wasnt
a lantern and thought perhaps a search and rescue helicopter was coming. When the light came in his
direction, then stopped and hovered motionless without any sound, he realized that it was something out
of the usual and he went back up into the tree.
The tree into which Mr. S (he still insists on anonymity) took shelter was 25 to 30 feet tall, big
enough at the base so that it could not be circled by a mans arms, completely branchless up to 12 feet,
and with sparse but sturdy limbs from there to the top. S climbed to the 12-foot mark and stayed for a
time.
The light which S had seen appeared to be 8 to 10 inches in diameter and white in color. It
appeared to be accompanied by two or three other objects which stayed at a regulated distance from it. It
was dark and the moon was just rising so that S could only make out vague shapes.
The light then circled around the tree in which S had taken refuge, a flash was seen, and a dark
object fell to the ground. Then, S noticed a dome-shaped affair 400 to 500 yards away, on or near the
ground.
At this point, noises like someone moving in the brush attracted Ss attention and he saw a figure
emerge from a patch of manzanita brush. It seemed to be examining the manzanita. Then another figure
approached from a slightly different direction and the two came and stood at the base of the tree and
looked up at him. He occasionally heard a cooing or hooting sound to which the two always reacted,
but didnt know if the sound came from them or from an owl in the area. The reaction from the entities
might have been a simple curiosity about the noise. The only other noise he heard during the night was
the sound of movement in the brush, and once, he heard a sound like that of a generator running.
The two figures at the bottom of the tree seemed to S to be approximately 5 feet 5 inches in
height, clothed in silvery-gray material with a covering that went up over the head straight from the
shoulder. This same characteristic was noted by Parker and Hickson in the Pascagoula entity case. He
was not able to make out any facial features at any time.
Shortly after the two figures arrived at the base of the tree, S saw another figure come from the
direction of the dome. It seemed to move in a different manner than the other two, making more noise,
and seeming to run into bushes, going over or through them rather than around as the others did.
This third entity was gray, dark gray, or black. It had no discernible neck, but two reddish-orange
eyes glowed and flickered where the head would be. It also had an opening where a mouth would be,
which when it opened, seemed to drop open, making a rectangular hole in the face. The mouth extended
completely across the face area.
Mr. S saw the first two figures more clearly than the third as they had come toward him from an
area bathed in moonlight, while the other had come from an area still in shadow. The eyes of the latter
appeared to S to be about 3 inches in diameter. The three entities attempted to get to S, the first two by
boosting one another up the tree, but apparently they didnt know anything about climbing trees. The
third entity to whom S refers to as the robot seemed to be just watching and waiting at the base of the
tree.
S climbed up past the 12-foot mark into the branches of the tree, and taking his belt which held
his quiver and bow, belted himself to the tree because the third entity would float up toward him, open
its mouth out of which issued smoke. When the smoke reached him, he would become light-headed,
and several different times between the time the entities arrived and dawn, he lost consciousness. He

shot three arrows at the robots chest and they apparently hit metal for they created a spark when they
hit. This did no good and he resorted to tearing up his camouflage suit and setting bits of it on fire and
tossing it at the figures below. All in all, he destroyed his cap, the suit, and his jacket, and was left belted
to the tree with nothing but shoes, socks, underclothing, T-shirt, and levis. At dawn, a second robot
joined the first. The two stood chest to chest, sparks issued from them, and although he didnt know
where the gas came from, another cloud of it hit him and he lost consciousness. When he woke up
again, they were gone.
A certain amount of corroboration was given Ss story by his companions who came looking for
him, and found him curled up some distance from where he had holed up in the tree, exhausted and
suffering from exposure to the cold. They noted that on the night before, they had seen a brilliant light
come slowly down in the area where S had spent the night.

So far, we have examined cases dealing with floating entities, but the number of reports
which involve UFO occupants which actually seem to fly are more abundant.
A United States case of this nature came to our attention in early November 1973 when Mr.
Donald Worley, one of APROs field investigators for Indiana, submitted a lengthy report which
related the details of a case in his state. Although no UFO had been seen on the occasion that the
flying men were seen, there had been heavy UFO activity in the area. Based on past cases, it
would be logical to assume that a UFO was in the area, but not visible at the time.

October 22, 1973:

At 9:45 p.m. on the evening of October 22, 1973, Mr. and Mrs. De Wayne (Donna) Donathan of
Hartford, Indiana, were driving east on Indiana State Road 26 on their way home from a visit with Mrs.
Donathans mother. Donna was driving and De Wayne was holding their baby.
They were about one block from their home when the car rounded a slight curve and a small hill.
On the road ahead, they saw what they thought at first were two small children about 4 feet tall, moving
about on the road. Mrs. Donathan stopped the car about 30 feet from them, and with the headlights
shining on them, she decided they couldnt be children. She said they looked confused and they would
hop up in the air. Their feet would come up slowly, one at a time and the arms would flop funny. They
moved slower than humans and their feet and arms would go up funny. Their feet came off the ground
easy and they were bright silver in color, Mrs. Donathan told Mr. Worley.
Mrs. Donathans description is of a figure with slight build, straight in form to the ground, and she
doesnt remember a head. But her attention was attracted to the feet which appeared as boxes square
shoes, in other words. She did not detect any hands nor does she recall hearing any sounds, but she
had the tape player going fairly loudly and the engine running, so she could not be certain that no noise
was being made by the creatures.
When she realized that she was confronted by something quite out of the ordinary, she became
frightened and screamed; Oh, my God! and jammed the accelerator to the floor, swerved to the side of
the road, and sped past the creatures. The little creatures had just begun to leave the center of the road,
and as she sped past them, they seemed to be having difficulty getting off the road. They moved off in a
slow, clumsy manner with feet apart and arms flopping.
Mr. Donathans description of their experience closely parallels that of his wife except that he got
the impression that the little fellows were dancing. He at first thought they were little kids dressed in
aluminum foil, but wondered why they would be out on the road in the country, at that time of the night.
He said that when his wife panicked and sped off the road and moved in a slow skipping motion with
arms swinging slowly. When his wife screamed and veered around them, Mr. Donathan had turned to
look at her and didnt therefore have the opportunity to get a really close look as the car passed them.

However, he did look back after they had passed the creatures, and saw that the two were apparently
over behind the fence on the edge of a cornfield.
Mr. Donathan described the creatures as straight and a little slight in build, but in proportion to
their heads. He did not recall the hands or feet, but got the impression that they were wearing tight-fitting
silvery suits.
Mrs. Donathan became so excited that she drove several blocks past their home, and when she
stopped, Mr. Donathan suggested that they go back to see the little fellows. He took over the wheel and
they drove back, but the creatures were nowhere about. They did see unidentified flashing or pulsating
lights at a 45 elevation in the north, but attached no significance to them after what they had just seen.
The Donathans went into Hartford City where they reported their experience to the sheriffs office.
Deputy Sheriff Ed Townsend was on duty and with him was a friend, Gary Flatter, who is a wrecker driver
and the owner of a service station on Hartford City. A state policeman, who did not wish to be identified,
also was present when the report was made and when the Donathans finished their report, he got into his
car and went out to the area. Townsend and Flatter headed in the same direction in Townsends patrol
car. Flatter, in his report to APRO, said that when he and Townsend reached the intersection where the
Donathans had allegedly encountered the little creatures, they heard a high frequency sound. They
ultimately covered considerable territory looking for the little men, but the sound was only heard in that
one place.
It was getting late, so the three men went back to Hartford City. Townsend remained in town, but
Flatter and the state policeman decided to go back out and check again. The policeman drove his cruiser
and Flatter took his wrecker. When they reached the area where the Donathans had had their
experience, the policeman continued on further east, but Flatter drove up and down the road looking
along both sides. The high frequency sound was still heard in the one particular area.
Going back west on Highway 26, Flatter decided to turn south on Highway 303 and check the
area a half mile south, and turned on another road which runs east and west. Heading east again, he
was forced to slow down to avoid hitting what appeared to be a virtual exodus of animals coming from the
north side of the road to the south. He said there were six or seven rabbits, an opossum, a racoon, and
several cats. As he slowed down, he began to watch both sides of the road carefully and finally spotted
what he had been searching for, just as he became aware of the high frequency sound again.
On the north side of the road, in a field, were two human-shaped entities. They appeared to be
about 4 feet tall and wearing tight-fitting silver suits. Flatter stopped his truck and backed up until he was
about 75 feet short of them because he could see them best, just in range of his headlights. When he
was closer, the light glared off the suits making viewing difficult. Flatter observed them for a while, then
decided to use his spotlight. When he turned it on them, the two turned toward him. The glare of the
silver suits was blinding, so Flatter turned off the spotlight. The entire description included the following.
The heads were egg-shaped, they appeared to be wearing masks which looked like a gas mask from
which a hose about the size of an ordinary garden hose extended down to their lower chests. He saw no
facial features or ears, the arms just seemed to end, and no hands were evident. The feet appeared to
be rectangular and box-like about 3 by 6 inches and about 2 inches thick.
After Flatter used the spotlight, the two figures began to hop about. They moved much slower
than humans do, Flatter said, and when they left the ground, it was similar to the way a person jumps
when jumping rope, but much slower. They left the ground three times, slowly coming back down, and
the fourth time, they rose into the air, they continued to go and flew off into the darkness. Flatter said that
he saw some red, tracer-like lights, but that was all.

Because of Mrs. Lorenzens early interest in reports involving alleged occupants, she has
kept an extensive file of such cases. In August 1967, we and our son Larry, who served as
interpreter, paid a twenty-one day visit to South America, conferring with APROs representatives

and others who were actively engaged in UFO investigation. Our tour of that continent took us to
Lima, Peru, where we visited APROs Peruvian representative, Richard Greenwell. Two days later,
we emplaned for Santiago, Chile, where we conferred with our Chilean representative, Pablo
Petrowitsch.
When we arrived in Buenos Aires a few days later, we had the good fortune to make
contact with Captain Omar Pagani who at the time, was heading up the Argentinian Navys
investigation of UFO reports. He took us to his office in the Navy Ministry where he showed us
the extensive files he had amassed. His investigatory techniques were very thorough and each
case included an artists rendering of the object or objects, and if such was the case, the
occupants involved were drawn to the specifications of the witnesses.
Because of out time schedule, we had no opportunity to obtain copies of the cases, but we
were able to read several good occupant reports. There were no flying men cases, however.
After a prolonged visit and rest in Rio de Janeiro, where we talked with an Admiral in the Brazilian
Navy and a Captain in Air Force Intelligence who were carrying out separate investigations of the
UFO phenomena, we left for Caracas, Venezuela, where we really hit pay dirt.
On July 31 of that year, Caracas was hit by a devastating earthquake which did millions of
dollars of damage to its buildings. Within hours, close encounters with UFOs and sometimes
their occupants were made. The late Mr. Horacio Gonzales G., APROs representative in
Venezuela at the time, was ready with clippings and reports which he had personally investigated.
We were frankly astounded with the number of cases and our son Larry was a bit
chagrined because of the extent to which he was pressed into duty as interpreter. However, we
did come away with some very unique cases, a few of which we shall discuss here.

August 7, 1967:
One of them involved Pedro Riera who claimed that he was startled out of a sound sleep on the
7th of August at about 2 a.m. by the sudden and violent shaking of his bed. When he awoke, he sat bolt
upright and saw a creature by his bed which flew or soared out of the open window. It should be noted
here that there are few if any flying insects in the Caracas area and that windows are left open without
benefit of screens because of the lack of insects, and because of the need of ventilation in the tropical
heat.
When he realized what he had seen, Riera went to the window to see what was happening, but
was blinded by multi-colored beams of light which forced him to turn away. They seemed to come from
the ground, but beyond that he could not identify the source. By the time he was fully awake and dressed
to go to investigate, a light rain had begun to fall and he decided to wait until later to look for the source.
On the next morning, however, Riera and several friends and neighbors found a semi-circular
scuff mark on the street below, as well as small footprints which were composed of a reddish dust. The
prints led from the scuff mark to the balcony where Riera had claimed the little man had flown out of the
window.
Mrs. Betty Ruff, a neighbor in the area, was questioned about the incident and revealed that
having known Riera since his boyhood, she felt that she was qualified to comment on his reliable nature.
Also, Rieras uncle, Civil Air Captain Gregorio Armando, questioned his nephew and was convinced that
he had seen what he claimed to have seen.
Besides the corroboration concerning Rieras veracity, there was added testimony about a
saucer-shaped device on the ground at 2 a.m. that morning in the same street by Carmen Ortega, Jose
Andres Pasqual, and Javier Pascaul, who said that they had seen the object in front of Rieras building.
They said they had been awakened by the lights and viewed the object from their window, which was

situated a floor above street level.

On the 26th of August, reports were made of strange objects in the vicinity of Puente del Rio
Tigre. National Guardsmen who were questioned by newsmen would not elaborate, but it was known
that they had been stationed on the highway to Maturin and that they had been stopping cars and
warning the passengers that strange things were being reported in the area.
One man, an Arab national named Saki Macharechi, was driving between Barracas where he
lived and Maturin, when he spotted a flying object which he, at first, thought was a wild heron. As he
drew closer to the object, he realized that the thing he had seen in flight only seconds before was a
dwarfish being about 3 feet tall, with huge eyes. When he got close enough to get a good look at it, the
creature was standing near a bridge. Macharechi was so frightened by the sight that he jammed the
accelerator to the floor and sped away from the area. News accounts stated that other motorists had
seen similar odd things, but unfortunately, none of the news offices kept records of incoming calls,
reports, or names of witnesses.

August 29, 1967:

During the same period, little men were observed near the village of Cussac in France. On the
29th of August, two children, a brother and sister aged nine and eleven, reported that they had seen three
little black-clad men on the ground near a black sphere. The object was in a field near where the children
were tending cows. Suddenly, the little fellows soared up into the air, one by one, and entered the top of
the sphere, which then took off and flew out of sight. The case was thoroughly investigated by a French
UFO investigative group which concluded the children were telling the truth.

Back in Caracas, the situation was becoming critical. There were nightly sightings of
unidentified flying objects, but there was also a proliferation of little men reports. Paula Valdez
reported to police that she had had a very strange and unnerving experience on the evening of the
3rd of September.

September 3, 1967:
She had come home from work with a severe headache and on advice of her mother, she took
two aspirins, drank some lemonade, and went to bed. Turning on her bedside radio, she soon lapsed into
a half-sleep. She was shortly roused by a whistling sound and, thinking that her transistor radio was
acting up, she turned toward her night stand and began turning the knobs of the radio. At this moment,
she became aware of another presence in the room. At the side of her bed stood a small man leaning
toward her. He had a large head and prominent eyes and said to her: I want you to come with us so that
you will know other worlds and youll realize how small your world is.
As the significance of the creatures appearance and what he had said began to sink in, Miss
Valdez began to scream loudly. At this noise, the little man moved out of the room with a floating motion.
The girl continued to scream until her family came running to her room.

This claim was ready-made for sensational treatment by the news media. It was pointed
out that Miss Valdez was a budding actress who attended classes in dramatics in the evening.
But Miss Valdez did not act like someone interested in publicity after the initial story hit the
papers, she went into hiding at a friends house to escape the hounding from the press.

September 8, 1967:

Another young lady had a similar experience a few days later, but fortunately for her, she had
corroboration. Miss Alicia Rivas Aguilar, twenty-three, stated that at 2:30 a.m. on the 8th of September,
she was turning off her bed lamp when she saw a peculiar creature just outside her bedroom window,
apparently gesticulating to her. She didnt get a good look because being very frightened, she closed her
eyes tightly and began screaming. When her parents ran into her room in response to her screams, they
saw the creature soaring over the rooftops surrounded by a bluish-yellow glow. Mrs. Aguilar said that the
little man moved as if suspended by a balloon, and a strong smell which resembled that of hot iron was
detected by all.
Alicias brother-in-law, Gumersindo Neiro, probably got the best view of the little fellow from his
own room. When Alicia first began screaming, she yelled that something was outside her window,
whereupon Gumersindo went to his own open window and looked toward Alicias. There, a little fellow
was just pushing off from the window ledge outside Alicias bedroom.
No one got a look at the little fellows features, but all agreed that he was wearing silvery clothing
with something on the shoulders which generally resembled epaulettes.

September 9, 1967:
Still another flying man incident took place at 5:10 a.m. the next morning. Only one witness was
involved, but he happened to be a police officer of good repute. The location, however, was Valencia, in
Carobobo state. Officer Porfirio Antonio Andrade was on duty in the City Hall of Valencia when he heard
a humming sound, and then the sound of light footsteps coming from the garage. As he gained the
outdoors, he was confronted by a small man of about 4 feet in height, with a large head and bulging eyes
which gave off a reddish light. It was wearing a silver-colored coverall.
Andrade pointed his gun at the creature, whereupon he heard a voice which seemed to come
from the area of the roof, and speaking in Spanish, it said: Dont do him any harm. We are here on a
peaceful mission. Hell do you no harm.
Looking up, the officer noted that the voice seemed to come from a disc-shaped object hovering
in mid-air and wobbling from side to side. The little man on the ground then began talking to Andrade,
repeating that he meant no harm, and that they wanted him to come as a guest to their world which was
very distant and much larger than earth and which held many advantages for earthlings.
Thoroughly frightened, but nevertheless standing his ground, Andrade said that he couldnt leave
because he was on watch. The little fellow then assured him, still in perfect Spanish, that they would
bring him back. Andrade restated his position that he could not leave his post. At that juncture, the little
man lifted one foot, then the other, and somehow flew up into the air toward the object suspended
above them. A door opened in the side of the disc and the creature sailed into it. The door then closed,
white smoke with tongues of flames issued from the four exhaust tubes on the bottom, the humming
noise started again, and the object left.
A detailed report of this incident was made to government authorities, and it was classified and
forwarded to the Ministry of the Interior.

September 22, 1967:

Eighteen days later, on the 22nd of September, another flying man report came out of the
Caracas area. A well-known television performer reported that he had been called in the middle of the
night by a racetrack employee who stated that the performers horse had been attacked by a Martian.
Upon questioning the fellow, the man learned that the trainer was in bed and was awakened by a tug at
his pillow. Then his arm was grasped tightly, and when he tried to sit up, a very strong arm encircled his
neck, almost choking him. He had given up hope of getting free when he heard the frantic neighing of

one of the horses in the stable. Whatever or whoever had grabbed him released its hold suddenly. The
trainer screamed for help and the creature left. The trainer was found only moments later by fellow
employees and he had numerous scratches and nicks in the flesh on his back and chest where the
creature had apparently raked him with its fingernails.
A half hour after the attack incident, another employee heard a mare kicking and prancing around
in her stall and, thinking it was some pest hanging around the stable, he went to see what was going on.
As he approached the stall, a small man about 3 feet in height zoomed out of the stable and was out
of sight within seconds. This employee described the creature as resembling an orang-utan or monkey.

With rare exceptions, the UFO occupant cases of 1967 seemed to deal with quite humanappearing, hairless creatures as was apparently the case when four boys from Duncan,
Oklahoma, beheld a strange sight while driving east out of the town on State Route 7, on the 21st
of October.

October 21, 1967:

At about 10 p.m., they saw something on the highway ahead, but out of range of their dimmed
headlights. When the driver turned on his bright lights, they said, they saw three small men who almost
flew off the road and disappeared. They estimated the size to be about 4 feet in height and the figures
were either wearing tight-fitting shiny blue-green clothing or had skin of that color. From their location,
they said the faces of the creatures appeared human, but that the ears were extremely large.
The four young men reported their experience to the police and Police Lt. Elmer McGill and
Detective Pleasant Foster both said the boys appeared to be sincere. They were really scared, and I
think they must have seen something, McGill remarked.
The next morning, two of the boys, Ivan Ritter and Jerry Bennet, drove out to the spot and looked
around for evidence. The only sign of anything unusual was a footprint about 100 yards from the road, in
the mud of the creek bed. It was so small that it resembled a babys footprint, except that the heel was
too big and the arch appeared to come out past the heel on the sides and the foot had only four toes.

Our last two cases are real brain-teasers, not only because the featured players moved
about above the ground with ease, but because of their bizarre appearance.

October 25, 1974:

Carl Higdon of Rawlins, Wyoming, habitually takes to the wilds of the forests in his area every fall,
in search of game. Although an accomplished hunter, he does not hunt solely for the sport of bagging
game; the animals he brings back from his expeditions are bound for the family table.
The Tuesday, October 29, 1974 issue of the Rawlins (Wyoming) Daily Times carried Mr. Carl
Higdons account of his strange experience while elk-hunting on the north boundary of the Medicine Bow
th
National Forest on the 25 of October.
On Saturday, November 2, Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle, APROs Consultant in Psychology, Mr. Rick
Kenyon, art teacher in the Public Schools of Rawlins, and Mr. Robert Nantkes, vocational rehabilitation
counsellor at Riverton, Wyoming, spent four hours with Mr. and Mrs. Higdon, their children, and several
relatives, talking about Higdons experience and their reactions to it. The pendulum technique and other
hypnotic procedures were utilized to obtain more information from Mr. Higdon about his experience. Dr.
Sprinkle was not satisfied with the results and decided to pursue the matter further at a future date. On
November 17, another session was held and more information was obtained.

Mr. Higdons experience is certainly strange. At about 4:00 p.m. he was hunting south of Rawlins
when his experience began to unfold. I walked over a hill and saw five elk, Higdon said. I raised my
rifle and fired, but the bullet only went about 50 feet and dropped. He went over, got the bullet and
tucked it into a fold in his canteen pouch. I heard a noise like a twig snapping, and looked over to my
right, and there in the shadow of the trees, was this sort of man standing there.
The man was 6 feet 2 inches tall and approximately 180 pounds. He was dressed in a black
suit and black shoes and wore a belt with a star in the middle and a yellow emblem below it. Higdon also
said he was quite bow-legged, had a slanted head, and no chin. His hair was thin and stood straight up
on his head.
The man, Higdon said, asked if he was hungry, he replied that he was, and the man tossed him
four pills, and he took one. The pills were in a container much like a Dristan package (apparently the
cellophane type as he said it was transparent). He put the container in his pocket. Higdon also
commented that he didnt understand why he took them because ordinarily, he doesnt even like to take
an aspirin. The man had told him that the pills were four-day pills, apparently to slake his hunger.
Higdon said the man called himself Ausso and asked Mr. Higdon if hed like to go with him and Higdon
replied that he guessed so. The man pointed an appendage which came out of his sleeve and at this
juncture, Mr. Higdon said he found himself in a transparent cubicle along with Ausso. He was sitting in a
chair with bands around his arms (apparently holding him in the chair which resembled a high-backed
bucket seat.) and a helmet-like apparatus on his head somewhat like a football helmet except that it
had two wires on top and two on the sides leading to the back. On a sort of console opposite his chair,
Higdon said he saw three levers of different sizes which had letters on them and which Ausso
manipulated.
Mr. Higdon was very unclear on the size of the cubicle. He said there was a mirror on the upper
right, in which he could see the reflection of the five elk which seemed to be behind him in a cage or
corral. They were still, not moving, just as they had been when he first spotted them before he
encountered Ausso. He thought the cubicle was about 7 by 7 and couldnt account for the elk being
there also.
When Ausso pointed his appendage at the largest lever, it moved down and the cubicle felt as if it
were moving. After they took off, Higdon said he saw a basketball-shaped object under the cubicle which
he took to be the earth. There was another being in the cubicle who left, just disappeared, when they
landed. Ausso said that they had traveled 163,000 light miles.
Outside the cubicle, Higdon said, was a huge tower, perhaps 90 feet high with a brilliant, rotating
light and he heard a sound like that made by an electric razor. The light bothered his eyes considerably
and he put his hands over them.
Standing outside the tower were five human-appearing people a gray-haired man of forty or
fifty years old, a brown-haired girl of about ten or eleven, a blonde girl of thirteen or fourteen, and a young
man of seventeen or eighteen with brown hair, and a blonde seventeen- or eighteen-year-old girl. They
were dressed in ordinary clothing and appeared to be talking among themselves.
Ausso pointed his hands and they (Ausso and Higdon) moved into the tower and up an elevator
to a room where he stood on a small platform and a shield moved out from the wall. Ausso was on the
other side of it. The shield was glassy appearing, stayed in front of Higdon for what he estimated to be
three or four minutes, then moved back in the wall.
Ausso then told Higdon he was not what they needed and they would take him back. The two
moved out of the room to the elevator and then down to the main door. It seemed that all Ausso needed
to do was to point his hand and they moved effortlessly.
Next, Higdon found himself back in the cubicle with Ausso, who was holding his gun. He said the

gun was primitive and he wanted to keep it, but wasnt allowed to and he gave it back to Higdon. Then he
pointed at the longest lever and Higdon found himself standing on a slope. His foot struck a loose rock
and he fell, hurting his neck and head and shoulder.
At this point, Higdon didnt know who or where he was, and got up and walked past his pickup
truck, which was sitting in a wooded area on a road with deep ruts. He walked along the track about a
mile past the truck, then came back to the truck and heard a womans voice. As he regained a little of his
senses, he used the citizens band radio to call for help. He told the woman he didnt know who he was
or where. Authorities were notified and Higdon was eventually found about 11:30 that night. He was
dazed and confused, and had difficulty recognizing his wife. The search party had a considerable
problem getting Higdons two-wheel drive vehicle out (it had to be towed as it could not navigate the
rough road).
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Higdon was brought to the Carbon County Memorial Hospital in Rawlins at 2:30 a.m. on the 26 .
Besides the sore head, neck, and shoulder, his eyes were extremely bloodshot and teared constantly.
He had no appetite on Saturday and his wife Margery had to force him to eat. On Sunday morning,
however, he was ravenous and complained about the meagre size of the hospital breakfast.
This, essentially, is Carl Higdons account of his time from 4:15 p.m. on October 25, 1974, when
he first spotted the five elk until he called in on the CB radio.
Some foundation for his story is found in the testimony of the search party who said Higdons
pickup truck could not have driven into or out of the area where it was found. Also, unidentified lights
were seen near the area where Higdon was found before the searchers started driving out of the area, so
the lights of the vehicles could not have accounted for the unidentified lights.
The bullet, which was greatly mangled, was only the copper jacket; the lead slug was missing.
This jacket was examined by Dr. Walter Walker, APROs Consultant in Metallurgy, who could only say
that it had struck something extremely hard with great force. Higdon points out that the 7mm bullet is so
powerful, it can completely transit a standard telephone pole.
Other interesting details which Higdon recalled during hypnotic sessions are these. Before
Higdon was returned to the ground, Ausso pointed at the pocket where Higdon had put the pills and they
floated out and up, and remained suspended in the air. Ausso had only six teeth three above and
three below. He said that on his planet, there was no fish, that he could not tolerate the suns rays as
they burned him, and that he was exploring and searching for food. He said they took animals back with
them for breeding purposes. Last but not least, when the cubicle first took off, Ausso pointed at Higdons
truck and it just disappeared.
In conclusion, we quote Dr. Sprinkle from his first (and preliminary) report: Although the sighting
of a single UFO witness often is difficult to evaluate, the indirect evidence supports the tentative
conclusion that Carl Higdon is reporting sincerely the events which he experienced. Hopefully, further
statements from other persons can be obtained to support the basic statement.

Dr. Sprinkles comment about single witness UFO experiences is most appropriate and
points up the difficulty researchers have in attempting to understand the descriptions of
occupants and, indeed, the purported experiences in many of these reports.

January 4, 1975:
In the case of the January 4, 1975, abduction of Carlos Alberto Diaz of Bahia Blanca, the
circumstances are even more bizarre than those surrounding the Higdon experience and we are left with
a puzzle which nevertheless tends to support Diaz claims.

Carlos Alberto Diaz, a twenty-eight-year-old married man and father of one child, was born and
lives in Ingeneiro White, a suburb of Bahia Blanca, which is located approximately 785 kilometers (423
miles) north of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. Since becoming an adult, he has been employed
as a clerk, a laborer, and in 1974 to 1975, helped with the preparation of a football training school. To
augment his income, he frequently worked as a waiter at private parties.
At 3:30 a.m. on January 4, Diaz left the Holy Protective Society where he had spent several hours
waiting on tables at a party, paused outside the building to buy a copy of La Nueva Provencia (The
Province News), the morning newspaper, then boarded a bus to go home. The bus comes within several
blocks of Diaz home, and in order to save time and distance, it is his habit to take a short cut through a
large and desolate railroad yard.
The sky was overcast, so when a brilliant flash lit up the area and momentarily blinded him, Diaz
dismissed it as a flash of lightning from the approaching storm.
At 8:05 a.m., Diaz was found lying about 100 feet from a major highway in Buenos Aires; his
valise with work clothes in it and the morning paper were beside him. He told a strange tale to a passing
motorist who stopped because he thought Diaz had been struck by a car. He didnt believe the tale, but
because of Diaz distraught condition, took him to the Railway Hospital where Diaz was admitted at 8:30
a.m.
Diaz watch had stopped at 3:50 a.m., and it was when he noticed that fact, that Diaz became
convinced that what he remembered of the past hours was true and he had been aboard an aircraft of
unknown origin and in the company of extraterrestrials.
At 9:20 a.m., a call was put in to Diaz family. Mrs. Diaz was by then frantic because Carlos
seldom arrived home later than 4 or 4:30 a.m. The family set out by car and arrived in Buenos Aires at
about midnight, that same night.
For the next four days, Diaz was confined to the Ferroviara Hospital in Buenos Aires where he
was examined over and over again by no less than forty-six doctors. The hospitals director informed
federal police who also questioned Diaz. Their examination revealed no physiological or psychological
problems with the exception of dizziness, upset stomach, lack of appetite, and patches of hair missing
from his head and chest. During the day of January 5, he had only one cup of milk which had to be fed to
him forcibly.

During the course of the examinations by physicians and psychologists and interrogation
by federal police, Diaz story came out. His alleged experience was even more strange than that
of Higdon or any of the other UFO occupant witnesses whose accounts we have examined in this
chapter.

Thunder did not follow the flash of light, and he later described the light as not straight, but
broken. After he regained his sight, he was frightened and decided to run the rest of the way to his
home, which was now in sight, but he couldnt move he seemed to have become paralyzed.
At that point, Mr. Diaz heard a humming sound which he compared to the sound of rushing air or
wind, and his strange experience continued. Although he tried to resist, Diaz was pulled off the ground
and went about 3 meters (about 8 feet) off the ground when he became unconscious. His vision faded
before he fainted.
When Diaz regained consciousness, he was inside a smooth, bright sphere which appeared to be
semi-transparent plastic. There were no furniture or devices and the illumination seemed to come from
the walls. Diaz said he was completely lucid and conscious, half kneeling and half lying on his side
against several openings of about 3 centimeters in diameter (1 inches) in the bottom of the sphere,

through which issued air. He said he felt ill if he turned away from the openings and felt they served to
keep him conscious. He estimated the sphere was 2 to 3 meters (about 7 or 8 feet) in diameter.
Suddenly, Diaz reports, three creatures resembling humans came sliding into the sphere. They
appeared to be 1.74 to 1.80 meters in height (approximately 5 feet, 10 inches), their heads were half the
size of a human head and completely devoid of features no ears, nose, mouth, or eyes. The head was
mossy green in color and the body, which was rather thin, was covered with something Diaz defined as
rubber light, cream-colored, and very soft, and the creatures were completely hairless. The arms were
almost straight and very flexible, and ended in stumps rather than hands and fingers.
When the creatures came into the sphere, they immediately began pulling tufts of hair from Diaz
head. He didnt know how they did it, at first, not having hands or fingers, but each time they would reach
out, their arms would pull back and they had hair. They would then jump up and down, and wave their
arms.
Diaz tried to resist the creatures, but to no avail. During his struggles, Diaz felt the softness of
their bodies and ultimately noted they had suckers on their arms and assumed that was the method by
which they removed the hair. One of them held him, another pulled his hair, and the third apparently only
observed. Diaz noted the fact that he felt no pain as they pulled at his hair, both on his head and chest.
The creatures moved slowly, but were very strong and seemingly tireless, he said. After this ordeal was
over, Diaz sight began to wane gradually and he then fainted. He remembers nothing else of the
experience.
Several hours went by and Diaz woke up and found himself lying on the grass and had to close
his eyes as the sun was high and shining into them. He was fully recovered and conscious, and near a
large, busy highway. Diaz looked at his watch which had stopped at 3:50, the time he last noted before
his experience began. Beside him was his bag containing his work clothes and the newspaper he had
bought hours before. Diaz felt ill and this illness stayed with him throughout the day.

We are immediately struck by three similarities in the Higdon and Diaz cases, namely: in
both instances, the creatures had no hands or fingers, and in both cases, the witness suffered a
loss of appetite after the experience, and lastly, the entities in both cases glided rather than
walked.
As we have pointed out in the APRO Bulletin in the past, we must consider the possibility
of deliberate confusion in these cases of absolutely bizarre (to us) creatures and experiences. It
seems likely in Higdons case that he was under the influence (both he and his gun) of something
when he went over the crest of that hill and saw the elk. In Diaz case, he was rendered
unconscious before his experience with the humanoids began. Was he also under some kind of
influence? Obviously something unusual happened to him the absence of hair in various spots
on his head and chest attest to that. If we speculate that he pulled his own hair out, for whatever
reason, we must then consider the fact that, outside of one interview with a magazine, he
permitted no interviews with newspapers, radio or TV, and was questioned by only one civilian
UFO investigator, Mr. Peter Romaniuk. He obviously did not thirst for publicity or notoriety. Then
we have the problem of how he got from Bahia Blanca to Buenos Aires in a matter of four hours
and ten minutes a distance of 423 miles. In the United States, traveling on the best roads and
breaking speed limits, the best that could be done would be something over five hours. Diaz does
not own a car. We can rule out cars and, of course, buses. That leaves only air travel.
Diaz did not drive from Bahia Blanca to Buenos Aires. Nor did he fly; there was no record
of a man of his description having booked passage on an airline on that date, and actually, the
airlines do not have a schedule which would accommodate that time period.
So how did Diaz get there? It is established that he did indeed work at the Holy Protective
Society until the hour he claims. He did ride the bus to his stop and he did get off. But what he

did in the ensuing hours until he was found lying beside the road in Buenos Aires, we can only
learn from him. What he remembers seems unacceptable, but on the other hand, we have the
problem of the missing hair.
With this last case, we have what appears to be a motley bunch of reports of impossible
things flying men. Clearly, though, there is a correlation in the majority of the reports; they
were small, wore some sort of clothing, had no visible means of locomotion, yet they could fly.
Of the four elements which has confronted man from the dawn of time, he has come to
grips with three: he walks upon the face of the earth, he has learned to propel himself through the
water without artificial help, and he has designed protective covering so that he can walk into fire
if it should become necessary. But he has yet to devise a means by which to propel himself
through the air without some mechanical aid.
Man has always wanted to fly. There was the mythological Icarus who flew too close to
the sun and his wax wings melted.
One of the many inventions of Leonardo da Vinci was the prototype of the modern
helicopter.
On that historic day at Kitty Hawk, in North Carolina, the Wright brothers proved that it
was possible for man to fly with the help of a machine.
Since then, man has gone on to improve upon the machine so that he can transport
hundreds of people through the air in one machine at speeds approaching that of sound. Quite an
accomplishment! Yet, man has not been able to devise an instrument by which one individual can
take off and easily fly through the air with out benefit of large and cumbersome mechanical
devices. But the cases we have examined here indicate that someone, and usually someone
associated with UFOs, has perfected a method by which they can do precisely that: fly without the
benefit of a machine or device.
It is quite likely that some sort of device was used in all cases, but that the witness or
witnesses were so surprised that they failed to make a careful, detailed observation. Or it may
simply be that because most such cases take place at night, not much detail is readily discernible.
In summing up the cases of the flying, floating UFO men, we should consider the
advantages of free flight for an individual. UFOs have been seen in the air, going into and coming
out of water, on the ground, and accompanied by occupants.
However, if they are carrying out some kind of research, it is difficult for them to obtain
certain data, such as our mode of living and things of that nature, without close-up, closeencounter study. If they have devised a means by which an individual can fly, then they can
operate at will in urban areas where it would be somewhat difficult to park a flying machine and
thence, dispatch individuals to investigate on foot without fear of hindrance or capture.
Most UFO sightings, as the evidence shows, take place at night and the cases of UFOs
landing in urban areas are very rare. Therefore, what would be more useful and appropriate than
a device by which UFO occupants could gain easy access to places of interest which they
otherwise would have to pass by?
Man may not yet have learned to fly without cumbersome mechanical means, but someone
or something has!
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