Someone reported that whereas she was a 7-year-old girl, in Richmond, Virginia, in 1965, she was going to sleep, it was late in the night, but she was not asleep yet, and as she looked at a corner of the bedroom, there was a little man floating in the air.
He was dressed in silver, had a silver-bluish skin, a helmet with a clear mask, white eyes and very red lips. The girl thought that the small man tried to talk to her but was unable to.
Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in Richmond, Virginia, in 1965, late at night, a young girl, age about seven, was going to sleep, but insists that she wasn't asleep yet. She looked over into the corner of her bedroom and there was a little man floating in the air. He was dressed in silver and had skin of silvery blue. He had white eyes and very red lips. He had a helmet with a clear mask. He looked at her like he was trying to talk to her but couldn't. She got scared and ran out of the room.
Albert Rosales indicates as source Michael D. Swords, "Grassroots UFOs" and comments that it is a bedroom visitation.
Points to consider:
With insufficient information, with very likely a late reporting dated based on childhood memories, no evidence, a single witness who
was a 7-year-old child in bed, with an entity that looks more like a folklore character than some being from another planet, no UFO, it is possible that
the case is the late memories of a frightening and vivid hypnagogic hallucination sleep experience. In such experiences, the subject can very honestly
swear that he or she was not asleep but awake, that it was much to vivid to be a dream, and indeed hypnagogic hallucination
are much more vivid than dreams as the subject is indeed not really asleep.
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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Data
Severe
June 13, 2008
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Primary source not available.
Help needed.
Opened.
2
Ufology
Severe
June 13, 2008
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
No investigation report available.
Help needed.
Opened.
3
Ufology
Severe
June 13, 2008
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
When, how, to whom reported not reported.
Help needed.
Opened.
4
Ufology
Severe
June 13, 2008
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Single witness case.
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Ufology
Severe
June 13, 2008
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Witness aged 7.
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Ufology
Severe
June 13, 2008
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Possibility of hypnagogic hallucination, apparently not considered.
Help needed.
Opened.
Evaluation:
Possible hypnagogic hallucination.
Sources references:
* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.
[---] ? "Grassroot UFOs: Cases from the Timmermann File", booklet by Dr. Michael D. Swords, CUFOS and FUFOR, USA, 2006.
[ar1] * "1965 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2007, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1965.shtml
