A story says that somwhere unspecified in California, USA, in the Winter of 1978, at night, the six-year-old witness was in his bedroom getting ready to go to sleep, when three dark, almost black beings walked past the doorway.
The witness pretended to be asleep and noticed that the beings had dark blue skin, almond shaped black eyes and very small noses. They also had a sliver for a mouth and small lips.
One of the beings came over and looked directly into the witness eyes, he then jerked his head out the witness view and this one now could see a grotesque being standing behind the door, this being begun to talk to the witness. The grotesque being had appendages protruding from his cheeks, chin, and forehead, the appendages moved like facial gestures. He spoke in English to the witness.
The beings were about 5-feet tall, with a lumpy face and reddish orange skin. All the beings were thin and appeared to have thick skin. When the grotesque being stopped talking to the witness the other dark blue humanoids rushed towards him, he panicked and grabbed a fishing pole and began striking the beings who quickly ran outside and dispersed among the bushes.
Suddenly a metallic disc shaped craft appeared and hovered over the bushes for a few seconds it then vanished, so did the humanoids.
Basic information table:
Case number:
URECAT-001118
Date of event:
Winter 1978
Earliest report of event:
2007?
Delay of report:
3 decades?
Witness reported via:
Not known. Probable web story.
First alleged record by:
Probably a story from the web.
First certain record by:
Ufology catalogue Rosales.
First alleged record type:
Probably a story from the web.
First certain record type:
Ufology catalogue.
This file created on:
May 20, 2010
This file last updated on:
May 20, 2010
Country of event:
USA
State/Department:
California
Type of location:
In bed.
Lighting conditions:
Night
UFO observed:
Yes
UFO arrival observed:
Yes
UFO departure observed:
Yes
UFO/Entity Relation:
Certain
Witnesses numbers:
1
Witnesses ages:
6
Witnesses types:
Not reported. Child.
Photograph(s):
No.
Witnesses drawing:
No.
Witnesses-approved drawing:
No.
Number of entities:
3 or 4
Type of entities:
Humanoid
Entities height:
1.50 mètres
Entities outfit type:
Not reported.
Entities outfit color:
Not reported or dark.
Entities skin color:
Dark blue, or reddish orange.
Entities body:
Thin, with thick skin.
Entities head:
1 with appendages protruding from his cheeks, chin, and forehead.
Entities eyes:
Almond-shaped.
Entities mouth:
Slit with thin lips.
Entities nose:
Very small.
Entities feet:
Not reported.
Entities arms:
Not reported.
Entities fingers:
Not reported.
Entities fingers number:
Not reported.
Entities hair:
Not reported.
Entities voice:
Speak English.
Entities actions:
Appear in bedroom, speak English to witness, flee when witness hits them with fishing road.
Entities/witness interactions:
Speak English to witness, flee when witness hits them with fishing road.
Witness(es) reactions:
Observed, pretended to sleep, hit entities with fishing rod.
Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in California, exact location not given, on Winter 1978, at night, the six-year old witness was in his bedroom getting ready to go to sleep, when three dark, almost black beings walked past the doorway. The witness pretended to be asleep and noticed that the beings had dark blue skin, almond shaped black eyes and very small noses. They also had a sliver for a mouth and small lips. One of the beings came over and looked directly into the witness eyes, he then jerked his head out the witness view and this one now could see a grotesque being standing behind the door, this being begun to talk to the witness. The grotesque being had appendages protruding from his cheeks, chin, and forehead, the appendages moved like facial gestures. He spoke in English to the witness. The beings were about 5-feet tall, with a lumpy face and reddish orange skin. All the beings were thin and appeared to have thick skin. When the grotesque being stopped talking to the witness the other dark blue humanoids rushed towards him, he panicked and grabbed a fishing pole and began striking the beings who quickly ran outside and dispersed among the bushes. Suddenly a metallic disc shaped craft appeared and hovered over the bushes for a few seconds it then vanished, so did the humanoids.
Albert Rosales indicates that the source is "Unsolved UFO Sightings #2."
Points to consider:
The story shows the features of a typical hypnagogic hallucination, plus probable later addition, probably from someone prone to fantasy who has some vague memories from an hypnagogic hallucination at age 6.
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.
It is also possible that there was no hypnagogic hallucination and that the story is entirely invented: the contradiction about the skin color of the entities being dark blue, but orange-reddish elsewhere in the story, might be an error in the invention.
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Primary source not available and insufficiently referenced.
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May 20, 2010
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Probably an anonymous story fished on the web with no investigation and no checking.
