"UFOzone" in Russia reporttedly told that in Moscow, Russia, on April 1978, late in the evening, a woman was lying on her couch reading a book. After finishing reading, she attempted to fall asleep.
Suddenly, she felt some pressure on her entire body, she was under the impression that some "load" had been dropped on her body.
Perturbed, she looked around and saw a deep heavy fog entering the opened window. Suddenly from within the fog two very tall figures appeared, these were about 2.5-2.8 meters in height, dressed in luminous clothing with round and also luminous helmets.
The figures approached the woman and leaned over her. At this point she heard some unintelligible speech.
She wanted to move and turned away from them, but she was unable to move, she was totally paralyzed. She begged with them that it was getting heavy and that she was suffering. In an instant, both figures disappeared the same way they had appeared, first into the fog, which then floated out the opened window. She was immediately able to move again.
Basic information table:
Case number:
URECAT-001275
Date of event:
April 1978
Earliest report of event:
2007?
Delay of report:
3 decades?
Witness reported via:
Not known.
First alleged record by:
UFO magazine UFOzone.
First certain record by:
Ufology catalogue Rosales.
First alleged record type:
UFO magazine.
First certain record type:
Ufology catalogue.
This file created on:
November 28, 2011
This file last updated on:
November 28, 2011
Country of event:
Russia
State/Department:
Moscow
Type of location:
On couch.
Lighting conditions:
Night
UFO observed:
No
UFO arrival observed:
N/A
UFO departure observed:
N/A
UFO/Entity Relation:
None
Witnesses numbers:
1
Witnesses ages:
Not reported. Young adult, adult or aged.
Witnesses types:
Not reported. Woman
Photograph(s):
No.
Witnesses drawing:
No.
Witnesses-approved drawing:
No.
Number of entities:
2
Type of entities:
Not reported
Entities height:
2.50 to 2.80 meters
Entities outfit type:
Luminous clothing, round luminous helmet.
Entities outfit color:
Not reported.
Entities skin color:
Not reported.
Entities body:
Not reported.
Entities head:
Not reported. Round luminous helmet.
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:
Not reported.
Entities voice:
Yes. Unintelligible.
Entities actions:
Came in room, approached witness in couch, leaned over witness, said unintelligble words, disappeared when begged to go.
Entities/witness interactions:
Approached witness in couch, leaned over witness, said unintelligble words, disappeared when begged to go.
Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in Moscow, Russia, on April 1978, late in the evening, a woman was lying on her couch reading a book and after finishing reading the book she attempted to fall asleep. Suddenly she felt some pressure on her entire body, she was under the impression that some "load" had been dropped on her body. Perturbed, she looked around and saw a deep heavy fog entering the opened window. Suddenly from within the fog two very tall figures appeared, these were about 2.5-2.8 meters in height, dressed in luminous clothing with round and also luminous helmets. The figures approached the woman and leaned over her. At this point she heard some unintelligible speech. She wanted to move and turned away from them, but she was unable to move, she was totally paralyzed. She begged with them that it was getting heavy and that she was suffering. In an instant both figures disappeared the same way they had appeared, first into the fog, which then floated out the opened window. She was immediately able to move again.
Albert Rosales indicates that the source is "UFOZONE Russia."
Points to consider:
Although hypnagogic experiences and sleep paralysis are now quite understood in the medical literature on non-pathological sleep disorders and sleep phenomena, although there are knowledgeable ufologists who understand this phenomenon, many other ufologists are still unable to identify such causes when they apply and still believe such experiences are alien encounters or alien abductions.
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:
Id:
Topic:
Severity:
Date noted:
Raised by:
Noted by:
Description:
Proposal:
Status:
1
Data
Severe
November 28, 2011
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Primary source not available and not correctly referenced.
Help needed.
Opened.
2
Ufology
Severe
November 28, 2011
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
No sign of investigation.
Help needed.
Opened.
3
Ufology
Severe
November 28, 2011
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Single anonymous witness.
Help needed.
Opened.
3
Ufology
Severe
November 28, 2011
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Nature of report unknown: anonymous letter, investigated case...?
Help needed.
Opened.
Evaluation:
Probable hypnagogic hallucination, or invention.
Sources references:
* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.
