During those turbulent times in between the two World Wars, right before the Wall Street Crash and the beginning of the Depression, there were little known and mostly hidden encounters with 'strangers' among us.
For various reasons, probably because of witness reluctance and faltering memories, many of the encounters reported from 1920 through 1929 were mainly ignored and poorly documented. But there is a core of incidents that appear to mirror what was going to occur in the not too distant future. I will attempt to cover some of the least known incidents reported during the time, not only 'humanoid' encounters but other high-strangeness events:
In a 1984 article in "'Fate'" magazine, authors Rob McGregor and Trish Janeshutz recount an extremely bizarre and improbable tale occurring sometime in the year 1926 near the location of Ancud, southern Chile, without going into any speculations I will present the following narrative from the article:
The 18-year old brother of Marcelino Zaldivia was sleeping one night on the porch when he disappeared and was not found until Easter week of 1976 when Marcelino, feeling nostalgic about his lost brother visited their old home on the banks of the Rio Pudeto. There seated in the living room and dressed as he'd been half a century earlier, was his brother, now old and evidently demented. When Marcelino asked where he'd been all those years, the man replied only that he'd been on a 'boat' and implored him not to ask anything more. When a woman named Elena Vera Guerrero asked him about it, he shook his head and said, "They hear everything."
This area of southern Chile has been the scene of numerous other bizarre and similar tales. Whatever happened to the unfortunate 18-year old perhaps will never be known, I do wonder who he meant when he said, "They hear everything."
Seasoned Polish researchers Bronislaw Rzepecki and Marcin Mioduszewski provided me with an interesting case from the area of Ujazd, Poland said to have occurred one afternoon in September of 1926. The case both involved a disc and related entities:
The witness (Zofia) was alone in a meadow grazing three cows when she suddenly turned around and saw three gray discs (about 2 meters in diameter) hovering just above the ground and three strange entities standing in front of them. There was total silence. All three objects had something resembling opened doors. The humanoids were less than 120-130 cm tall, maybe about 80 cm, and wore dark green suits and something like belts or ropes around their waists. She was unable to see any hair or facial features as the humanoids stood about 100 meters away staring at her. Very scared she began running away. She briefly turned around and everything was gone.
From French researchers Joel Mesnard & Michel Morel Seythoux we get a brief summary mentioned in the "UFO magazine FSR Vol. 37 # 1" of a case which would have been labeled as a CE3 type 'A' (occupants seen within UFO) using modern UFO research classifications:
Location. La Combe De Morbier, Jura, France
Date: Winter 1926 Time: evening
A woodcutter reported seeing a large brightly lit sphere hovering at treetop level, several figures, human-like in appearance could be seen inside the object. These apparently ignored the witness.
Quoting Italian UFO researcher Paolo Fiorino in "UFO Universe" another CE3 type 'A' incident was reported sometime in 1927, one morning, in Corbola, Rovigo, Italy:
One morning while a 12-year old girl was going to fetch drinking water at the River Po she saw a shiny and round object come from the sky, it later crashed in the water seven meters away from her. After a couple of minutes, the witness noticed a big bubble in the water and later the object resurfaced and flew away disappearing in the sky. The girl had the chance to observe the interior of the object and saw a little man who seemed to be seated because he was only visible from the neck and above. The facial features were human looking and he was not wearing a helmet. The object, which emitted a hissing noise, had a diameter of 2-3 meters.
Researcher and author Jacques Vallee illustrates another similar case in his book CONFRONTATIONS: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact the following is a summary of this very interesting case:
Location. Near Yakima Washington
Date: late April 1928 Time: 1600
Harry Dillon was driving along an unpaved country road when as he reached the top of a slight rise he saw an object slowly coming into the view. The object was described as resembling a metallic hexagon with a dome on top, olive drab in color. The witness could see rivets along a vertical section and a two by three foot window set in a metallic frame. In the window he could see the upper torso of a man dressed in a dark blue uniform. The man had a dark complexion and was totally human-like. He looked intently in the direction of the witness's car, and then the object rotated, flew across the road, and shot away at terrific speed.
"DEPICTION OF ENTITIES SEEN AT BOLTON"
Long time English researcher Norman Oliver shared with us in "Quest UFO Magazine Vol. 11 # 4" a humanoid sans UFO encounter said to have occurred on November of 1928 one late evening in Bolton, Lancashire, England:
A young boy, Henry Thomson, playing with a gang of friends was running through a dark alley when he saw in the backyard of a house three strange figures peering into a lighted living room. The central figure was tallest; it turned and looked at the witness. He mumbled at the other two and they all turned. A wide black eyepiece divided down the center by a ribbed silver piece covered the face of the tall entity. All three appeared to be wearing inflatable rubber suits with dark boots. On their heads were transparent dome-like helmets. Tubes came from these and joined tanks that were on their backs. They had pale heads shaped like light bulbs, slit-like eyes, scarcely any nose, and no visible mouth. One made a strange noise, and all three began to move toward the boy. He ran away from the area in terror.
One of the strangest incidents of this roaring decade was said to have taken place one morning sometime in 1929 in Hertford, England. The incident is summarized by researchers and authors Janet and Colin Bord in Modern Mysteries of Britain: One Hundred Years of Strange Events It definitely involves a humanoid and an 'unorthodox' conveyance to say the least:
A sister, 5, and brother, 8, were playing in the garden one morning, at that date the road was a lane, with just two pairs of houses, one of which was theirs, and behind the houses there was an orchard. As they played, they heard the sound of an engine years later the sister would likened it to a quiet version of a trainer plane. Her brother and her looked up and saw, coming over the garden fence from the orchard, this small aeroplane (of biplane type) which swooped down and landed briefly, almost striking a dustbin. It remained there for possibly just a few seconds and then took off and was gone, but in that short the girl had a perfect view of the tiny biplane but also of a perfectly proportioned tiny pilot wearing a leather flying helmet, who waved to them as he took off. Neither she nor her brother spoke of the strange sight until years later. She estimated the wing-span of the tiny aircraft at no more than 12-15 inches, with the tiny pilot in perfect proportion thereto.
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LARGER VERSION OF A 'REAL' TRAINER BIPLANE"
A more 'mundane' incident (if there is such a word in the world of humanoid encounters) was given to me by veteran Brazilian researcher Antonio Faleiro from "Passa Tempo Minas Gerais". It consists of brief but very interesting details of an incident said to have occurred in 1929 (no specific month) in the town of Paraguaco, Minas Gerais Brazil:
One night a large shiny white metallic craft with several window-like apertures was seen on the ground. Two giant humanoid figures about 2.50 meters in height stood next to the object. These wore silvery outfits and brown boots and gloves. No other information.
In his excellent book When Saucers came to Earth: The Story of the Italian UFO Landings in the Golden Era of the Flying Saucers Italian researcher and author Maurizio Verga gives us the following very 'high strangeness' report:
Location. Roccagloriosa, Salerno, Italy
Date: summer 1929 Time: 1400
A girl was working in a field when she looked up and saw a stationary ball of white light in the sky. This then descended vertically, stopping just a few centimeters above the ground, while descending the ball greatly dimmed creating a sort of "opening" in the center of the sphere. After 5 or 10 seconds, a female figure emerged from the opening wearing sumptuous black garments, "like those from the 19th century". Inside of the ball, 2 or 3 small beings moved slowly and peered outward. The female figure walked toward the witness, without her feet touching the ground. Thereafter, she turned left and was lost in some trees. The girl was frightened and made the sign of the cross. She then ran to call her father. When he arrived at the landing site, he smelled the fragrance of roses.
There seems to be a combination of unusual factors in this case. The female entity could have been interpreted as a type of 'Marian' vision, the small beings unfortunately are not described, but in modern terms they could represent 'aliens'. The fragrance of roses at the site is also interesting, which tips the balance to the Marian vision hypothesis. Whatever took place was definitely out of the ordinary.
According to French Canadian UFO researcher Henri Bourdeleau on or about June 15 1929 at Fermeneuve, Quebec, Canada what appears to have been a close encounter of the third kind took place:
Louis Brosseau, riding home to Fermeneuve, saw on a hillside a sort of black "cloud" with a yellowish light coming from within. Approaching on foot to within 150 ft, he saw it to be a dark object on the ground; he could indistinctly see, in the darkness, 4 or 5 small "yellowish" colored men running around in a 20-foot radius. The dark object rose coming from it he heard 2 voices as if in argument. The object was about 50 ft in diameter, with windows "lit like the moon," and with black protuberances 3 ft apart all around the circumference.
Quoting an entry on the "NUFORC" site (National UFO reporting center) we learn of an alleged incident said to have taken place one afternoon on July 5 1929 near Burns, Oregon:
The witnesses were traveling east of town climbing up through a cut in the rim rocks when an object, very slowly flew over the top of the car, about 50 ft above the rim rock. The object stopped and through a transparent window the witnesses could see two completely human-like figures that appeared to be pointing down at them using their arms and hands. One of the witnesses stepped out of the car but his mother demanded that he get back in. He stood on the running board observing the craft, which was two tones of brown. The craft, which had windows in the middle section, hovered for about 40 seconds emitting a soft hum. One of the figures then moved to another window and the craft suddenly accelerated and was gone in a blink of an eye.
Russian researcher and author Aleksey K. Priyma in his book "UFOs: Witnesses to the Unknown" (later quoted in Soviet Ufo Files: Paranormal Encounters Behind The Iron Curtain) mentions another close encounter case that allegedly took place in the Pestovskiy area in the Novgorod region Russia, one day in August of 1929. It again involved an object with occupants seen inside through a clear or glass-like dome:
17-year old Anna Petrovna Poletayeva was walking on a road on her way to visit her parents. The road passed next to Gusevskoye Lake and as she glanced at the lake she noticed a flying craft hovering above the lake. The object was round, small, without wings. Its lower part was yellow-reddish in color, resembling copper. The upper part was a glassy cupola. The glass from the cupola was joined to the lower part by large "copper" bolts. The UFO hovered about 15 meters above the water. Anna could see two small sized "people" inside the glassy cupola one male the other female. They were dressed in gray tight-fitting suits. Both were smiling, looking at the witness. Their faces were very much like ordinary humans. Feeling initial fear she panicked and ran from the area stumbled and injured her elbow. She looked back and the object was still hovering in the same place.
I will finish my case summaries with an incident reported by Greek researchers C. Trantafyllou and Homer Carajas of an incident said to have taken place one midnight during August of 1929 in the village of Krini in Chalkidiki Greece:
Theocharis Moustakas was carrying flour in his cart, returning home after the grinding of wheat at Krini mill. Suddenly he saw an object like a "parachute" (semi spherical) landed on a nearby field and three "little people" speaking a very curious language between them. They were dressed in white clothing with white hoods and their skin was also white. Near them was a fence and the small men repeatedly jumped over it with ease. The witness was terrified and went to the village running. Some of the villagers told him that he had seen "devils" while others laughed at him.
Of course there were many other encounters and strange encounters during the roaring 20's, I could not have possibly include them all, I hope I was able to chose the most interesting and perplexing cases. The fact is that whoever or whatever this entities are, they have been with us for decades before the so-called modern era of encounters in June 24, 1947. Many of these 'ancient' or like some like to say, 'pre-Arnold' cases are mirror images of modern cases and were mere glimpses of things to come. Please feel free to contact me at garuda79@att.net for additional information or questions.
Sincerely, Albert S. Rosales, April 20, 2013
"Thanks to Albert for sharing another fantastic narrative!"
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