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END OF AUGUST 1965, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA, A WOMAN:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

Journalist and author of UFO books John A. Keel apparently told that in late August 1965, during a nationwide UFO flap, an unnamed young woman from Seattle woke up at 02:00 a.m. and found herself paralyzed, when a football-sized dull gray object came in the room through an open window and landed on tripod legs on her floor.

A tiny ramp descended from the miniature UFO and 5 or 6 little people dressed in tight-fitting clothes climbed down the UFO and started to work on repairs, then stepped back into the craft and it flew away. Then the woman, who was certain that she was wide awake, was able to move again.

Basic information table:

Narratives:

[Ref. cc1:] JEROME CLARK AND LOREN COLEMAN:

The authors, discussing the topic of miniature UFOs, indicate that according to ufologist John A. Keel, in late August 1965, during a nationwide UFO flap, a young Seattle woman woke up at 02:00 a.m. and found herself paralyzed.

She lay helpless, when a football-sized dull gray object came in the room through an open window and landed on tripod legs on her floor.

A tiny ramp descended from the miniature UFO and five or six little people dressed in tight-fitting clothes climbed down the UFO and started to work on repairs.

When this was done, they stepped back into the craft and it flew away. Then the witness, who was certain that she was wide awake, was able to move again.

[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:

Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in Seattle, Washington, on late August 1965, at 02:00 a.m. the witness suddenly awoke and realized she was paralyzed and could not move. Her bedroom window was open and then a small dull gray football shaped object entered. It hovered above her carpet; it then lowered three tripod legs and landed on the floor. A small ramp descended from it and five or six tiny man-like figures emerged. They wore tight fitting outfits and seemed to work on something on the object. They went up the ramp again and the object then floated silently out the window. At that point the witness was able to move again.

Albert Rosales indicates as source John A Keel, UFOs Operation Trojan Horse.

[Ref. ud1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:

The website indicates that late in August 1965, at 02:00, in Seattle, Washington, USA, there was a close encounter with a an unidentified craft and its occupants. Nocturnal lights were reported.

The sources are indicated as Keel, John A., UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1970; Eberhart, George M., A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, Greenwood Press, Westport, 1980, ISBN:0-313-21337-2; Hatch, Larry, *U* computer database, Author, Redwood City, 2002.

Points to consider:

In one of his books, John Keel spares no harsh words against ufologists, accusing that they "do not to give the names of their witnesses"; which is actually what Keel didn't do in many cases. He accuses that ufologist wantto impose an extraterrestrial explanation on testimonies whereas, he argues, some cases are so absurd that extraterrestrial cannot be involved; here, the absurdity is about the tiny size of the UFO and its occupants. Like many authors who insist on a "paranormal" or "interdimensional" or "psychic" for UFO sigthing reports, he simply failed to carry out a true and documented investigation by delivering only some anecdotic lines and failed in first checking whether what this woman apparently reported - we are not told when, how and to whom it was reported - would not be explicable in a conventional manner.

We have, in this sparse information, at least the indication that the witness was single, that she was sleeping when the experience started, but that it was not a simple dream since it was sure to be "wide awake", a typical impression during hypnagogic hallucination episodes, just as typical as the impossibility of moving one's bodyduring those experiences.

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:

Evaluation:

Possible hypnagogic hallucination. No credibility. Insufficient information.

Sources references:

* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.

• [---] ? "Why UFOs", book by John Keel, Manor publishers, USA, page 183, 1970.
• [---] ? "UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse", book by John Keel, reissue of "Why UFOs?", Putnam's Sons publishers, USA, 1970.
• [cc1] * ""The Unidentified", book by Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman, Warner Paperback publishers, USA, page 20, 1975.
• [---] ? "A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies", book by George M. Eberhart, Greenwood Press publishers, USA, 1980.
• [---] ? "*U* Computer Database", compiled by Larry Hatch, USA, 2002.
• [ar1] * "1965 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2007, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1965.shtml
• [ud1] * "In late August 1965 - Seattle, Washington, USA", web page by the website UFOdna, circa 2008, at ufodna.com/uf03/uf9/039031.htm

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