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URECAT - UFO Related Entities Catalog

URECAT is a formal catalog of UFO related entities sightings reports with the goal of providing quality information for accurate studies of the topic. Additional information, corrections and reviews are welcome at patrick.gross@inbox.com, please state if you wish to be credited for your contribution or not. The main page of the URECAT catalog is here.

SEPTEMBER 30, 1954, DEARBORN, MICHIGAN, USA, LAWRENCE CARDENAS:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

A British ufologist indicated that according to various Michigan newspapers. on September 30, 1954, driving to his work at a laundry at Dearborn, Lawrence Cardenas, aged 45, slowed down his car at a traffic light at 04:45 a.m..

To the right, there was a field through which a road was being driven. Close to the derricks, Cardenas was dumbfounded to see about 15 little men who were speaking an unknown tongue. They were around 1 meter 65 tall, in dark-green uniforms, they had tightly fitting skull-caps on their heads, with pointed peaks in front.

A larger entity, or man, in a brown uniform, about 15 cm taller than the rest, seemed to be addressing them. All wore heavy goggles over their eyes, and what looked like oxygen cylinders on their shoulders. Dawn was breaking, no other car was in sight, and Cardenas had just started up the car, when he was even more dumbfounded, he says, to see some 250 feet away a big oval thing resting on the grass, with colored lights on its upper surface, flickering on and off.

It seemed about twelve feet high, and had smoothly finned sides suggestive of a seas shell. He said he was not scared, but did not wish to be late for work.

The entities seemed quite friendly, and curious about their surroundings.

It is said that Mr. Cardenas is a reliable man and not given to tall stories.

Basic information table:

Case number: URECAT-000082
Date of event: September 30, 1954.
Earliest report of event: 1955.
Delay of report: Days, weeks, months.
Witness reported via: Not known.
First alleged record by: Various newspapers.
First certain record by: Ufology book.
First alleged record type: Newspapers.
First certain record type: Ufology book.
This file created on: December 22, 2006
This file last updated on: December 22, 2006
Country of event: USA
State/Department: Michigan
Type of location: Open country
Lighting conditions: Just before sunrise.
UFO observed: Yes
UFO arrival observed: No
UFO departure observed: No
UFO/Entity Relation: Uncertain
Witnesses numbers: 1
Witnesses ages: 45
Witnesses types: Laundry employee.
Photograph(s): No.
Witnesses drawing: No.
Witnesses-approved drawing: No.
Number of entities: 15
Type of entities: Humanoid or human
Entities height: 1.65 meters.
Entities outfit type: Uniforms, tight-fitting skullcap, goggles.
Entities outfit color: All green, one brown.
Entities skin color: Not reported.
Entities body: Normal.
Entities head: Not reported.
Entities eyes: Not reported.
Entities mouth: Not reported.
Entities nose: Not reported.
Entities feet: Not reported.
Entities arms: Normal.
Entities fingers: Not reported.
Entities fingers number: Not reported.
Entities hair: Not reported.
Entities voice: Heard speaking a foreign tongue.
Entities actions: Are there.
Entities/witness interactions: None.
Witness(es) reactions: Passed by, went to work.
Witness(es) feelings: Not frightened, worried to be late for work.
Witness(es) interpretation: Not reported.
Explanation category: Extraterrestrial visitors, hoax or confusion.
Explanation certainty: High.

Narratives:

[Ref. hw1:] HAROLD T. WILKINS:

The author indicates that on September 30, 1954, driving to his work at a laundry at Dearborn, Lawrence Cardenas, aged 45, slowed down his car at a traffic light at 4:45 A.M.

To the right, there was a field through which a road was being driven. Close to the derricks, Cardenas was dumbfounded to see about 15 little men who were speaking an unknown tongue. They were around 5 feet 4 inches tall, in dark-green uniforms, they had tightly fitting skull-caps on their heads, with pointed peaks in front.

A larger entity, in a brown uniform, about six inches taller than the rest, seemed to be addressing them. All wore heavy goggles over their eyes, and what looked like oxygen cylinders on their shoulders. Dawn was breaking, no other car was in sight, and Cardenas had just started up the car, when he was even more dumbfounded, he says, to see some 250 feet away a big oval thing resting on the grass, with colored lights on its upper surface, flickering on and off.

It seemed about twelve feet high, and had smoothly finned sides suggestive of a seas shell. He said he was not scared, but did not wish to be late for work.

The entities seemed quite friendly, and curious about their surroundings.

Mr. Cardenas is a reliable man and not given to tall stories.

Harold Wilkins indicates that the source of the above is various Michigan newspapers.

[Ref. jv1:] JACQUES VALLEE:

In his UFO landings catalogue, Jacques Vallée indicates that on September 30, 1954, at 04:45 a.m., in Dearborn, Michigan, while driving to work, Lawrence Cardenas, aged 41, a laundry employee, saw 15 strange men wearing dark green uniforms to his right. They had cylinders on their shoulders, tight-fitting skull caps with pointed peaks in front, and heavy goggles. They were of medium height, and a taller man seemed to be giving them instructions. About 80 meters away was a craft 4 meters high with colored lights flickering on and off. The witness did not wait. Vallée indicates that his source is "Wilkins U 230".

[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:

Albert Rosales indicates that in Dearborn, Michigan, on September 30, 1954, at 04:45 a.m., driving to his work at a laundry, Lawrence Cardenas, aged 45, slowed down his car at a traffic light. To the right was a field through which a road was being driven. Close to the derricks, Cardenas was dumbfounded to see about fifteen little men who were speaking an unknown tongue.

They were around 5 feet 4 inches tall, in dark green uniforms, they had tightly fitting skullcaps on their heads, with pointed peaks in front.

A larger entity, in a brown uniform, about six inches taller than the rest, seemed to be addressing them. All wore heavy goggles over their eyes, and what looked like oxygen cylinders on their shoulders. Dawn was breaking, no other car was in sight, and Cardenas had just started up the car, when he was even more startled, he says, to see some 250 feet away, a big oval thing resting on the grass, with colored lights on its upper surface, flickering on and off.

It seemed about twelve feet high, and had smoothly finned sides suggestive of a seashell. He was not scared, but did not wish to be late for work and drove on. The entities seemed quite friendly, and curious about their surroundings.

Rosales indicates that the source is Harold T. Wilkins, in Flying Saucers Uncensored, quoting newspaper sources.

Points to consider:

This is good example of the many stories picked in newspapers and introduced in the ufologic literature and copied from author to authors without any checking being made, and, in the absence of sure quotation of the articles, it is not possible anymore to differentiate the remarks from the newspapers and those from the ufologists. For example, the term "entity" could be merely a fashionable qualifier of the debutant ufology of that time for what the witness perhaps never called "entities" but "weird-looking men."

It should be noted that 5 feet 4 inches is 1.65 meters, that is to say a normal size, neear average, the 15 cm taller "chief" hardly qualifying for high strangeness, the more so as nothing is known as of the distance of observation and the certainty of the estimate.

The object on the ground is neither seen landing nor taking off, and its vague description allows all interpretations in term of some unusual but earthly vehicle or helicopter posed there.

The case could be as well a visit of extraterrestrial beings as some confusions caused by a group of foreign workmen carrying securiy goggle and having to complete some work on the neighbouring derricks, as a pure hoax by the witness or a newspaperman's invention.

List of issues:

Id: Topic: Severity: Date noted: Raised by: Noted by: Description: Proposal: Status:
1 Data Severe December 22, 2006 Patrick Gross Patrick Gross Journalistic sources not available. Help needed. Opened.
2 Data Severe December 22, 2006 Patrick Gross Patrick Gross No investigation done. Help needed. Opened.

Evaluation:

Extraterrestrial visitors, hoax or confusion. Insufficient data.

Sources references:

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

Document history:

Authoring

Main Author: Patrick Gross
Contributors: None
Reviewers: None
Editor: Patrick Gross

Changes history

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0.1 Patrick Gross December 22, 2006 Creation, [hw1], [jv1], [ar1].
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