1955, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, USA, EVELYN MCKEEVER:
Brief summary of the event and follow-up:
A UFO magazine sometimes around 2000 published a testimony by Mrs. Evelyn McKeever who was possibly a child when it occurred, who told that in San Francisco, California, in 1955, this late at night, she was in bed when she observed a beautiful female of medium height, with abundant blond hair and wearing a white Grecian style dress. The female walked through the closed door of the bedroom, crossed the room, and walked out through the opposite wall.
During that time, Mrs McKeever felt an odd sensation throughout her body, her heart beat violently and she felt shock waves passed through her.
Eventually she got up, looked out of the window and saw a large glowing orange cigar-shaped object maneuvering high over the area.
Basic information table:
Case number:
URECAT-000473
Date of event:
1955
Earliest report of event:
2000?
Delay of report:
5 decades?
Witness reported via:
Letter to UFO magazine.
First alleged record by:
UFO magazine.
First certain record by:
Ufology catalogue Rosales.
First alleged record type:
UFO magazine.
First certain record type:
Ufology catalogue.
This file created on:
February 3, 2008
This file last updated on:
February 3, 2008
Country of event:
USA
State/Department:
California
Type of location:
In bed in bedroom.
Lighting conditions:
Night
UFO observed:
Yes
UFO arrival observed:
Not reported.
UFO departure observed:
Not reported.
UFO/Entity Relation:
None
Witnesses numbers:
1
Witnesses ages:
Not reported. Possible child.
Witnesses types:
Not reported. Female.
Photograph(s):
No.
Witnesses drawing:
No.
Witnesses-approved drawing:
No.
Number of entities:
1
Type of entities:
Human
Entities height:
Medium
Entities outfit type:
Dress in Greek fashion.
Entities outfit color:
White.
Entities skin color:
Not reported.
Entities body:
Not reported.
Entities head:
Not reported.
Entities eyes:
Not reported.
Entities mouth:
Not reported.
Entities nose:
Not reported.
Entities feet:
Not reported.
Entities arms:
Not reported.
Entities fingers:
Not reported.
Entities fingers number:
Not reported.
Entities hair:
Abundant blond hair.
Entities voice:
None reported.
Entities actions:
Crosses bedroom entering through closed door and getting out through wall.
Entities/witness interactions:
None.
Witness(es) reactions:
Observed.
Witness(es) feelings:
Not reported.
Witness(es) interpretation:
Not reported.
Explanation category:
Hypnagogic hallucination and confusion, insufficient information.
Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in San Francisco, California, in 1955, late at night, while lying on her bed Mrs. Evelyn McKeever observed a beautiful entity described as female of medium height, with abundant blond hair and wearing a white Grecian style dress. It walked through the closed door of the bedroom, crossed the room, and walked out through the opposite wall. At the time that the figure was visible, the witness felt an odd sensation throughout her body. Her heart beat violently and she felt shock waves passed through her. She got up and looked out the window and saw a large glowing orange cigar-shaped object maneuvering high over the area.
Albert Rosales indicates that the source is Evelyn McKeever, UFO Magazine Vol. 15, #1.
Points to consider:
This is probably a reader's letter to the magazine by the witness Mrs. McKeever, with no ufological investigation thereafter. The entity which crossed the room has hardly a real chance to be someone coming from another planet, it is a woman, wrapped in some "Greek" dress, probably meaning a dress of ancient Greece looks; this could have been a hypnagogic hallucination with sleep paralysis. The part of the report where Mrs. McKeever stands up and looks outside cannot be such an ordinary sleep phenomenon anymore, but the reported UFO seems "high", no angular size is indicated not any other information sufficient to eliminate some plane or meteor. This is typically the kind of observation which cannot be really understood without an investigation.
I provide a few references among dozens about the topic of hypnagogic hallucination and sleep paralysis:
"The Old Hag phenomenon as sleep paralysis: a biocultural interpretation", paper by R.C. Ness, in Cultural and Medical Psychiatry, vol. 2 #1, pp 15-39, March 1978.
"Lucid Dreaming: The Paradox of Consciousness During Sleep", book by Celia Green and Charles McCreery, Routledge publisher, U-K., 1994.
"Wrestling With Ghosts: A Personal And Scientific Account Of Sleep Paralysis", book by Jorge Conesa Sevilla, Xlibris Corporation publishers, U-K., 2004.
"Hallucinations and pathological visual perceptions in Maupassant's fantastical short stories - a neurological approach", by L.C. Alvaro, in Journal of the History of Neuroscience, vol 14, #2, pp 100-115, June 2005.
"Effects of hypnagogic imagery on the event-related potential to external tone stimuli", paper by N. Michida, M. Hayashi, T. Hori, in Sleep, Vol. 28 #7, pp 813-818, July 2005.
"Sleep and Society: Ventures into the (Un)Known", book by Simon A. Williams, Routledge publisher, 2005.
"Mental representation of space: Insights from an oblique distribution of hallucinations", paper by T.A Girard, D.L. Martius, J.A. Cheyne in Neuropsychologia, vol. 45 #6, pp 1257-1269, 2007.
"Parasomnias", paper by D.T. Plante, J.W. Winkelman, in The Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Vol. 29 #4, pp 969-987, December 2006.
"Paranoid delusions and threatening hallucinations: A prospective study of sleep paralysis experiences", paper preview by J.A. Cheyne, T.A. Girard, scheduled in Consciousness and Cognition for April 2007.
List of issues:
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Topic:
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Date noted:
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Description:
Proposal:
Status:
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Data
Severe
February 3, 2008
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Missing the primary source, probably reader's letter, very late report to UFO magazine.
Help needed.
Opened.
1
Data
Severe
February 3, 2008
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
No known ufological investigation to eliminate the possible ordinary causes of the reported experience.
Help needed.
Opened.
Evaluation:
Hypnagogic hallucination and confusion, insufficient information.
Sources references:
* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.
[---] ? Evelyn McKeever, in UFO Magazine, Volume 15, #1.
[ar1] * "1955 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2001, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1955.shtml
