UFOnauts: The Flying Humanoids

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Cabeco, Portugal
Date: April 1916
Time: noon
Three young cousins were in a field when they felt a strong gust of wind. They then saw a brilliant light, hovering above some olive trees and within the light they could see a white figure resembling a crystal statue with rays of sun coming through it. They described the figure as resembling a very handsome young man, which then approached them floating in mid air telling the children not to be afraid. He said he was the "angel of peace" and told the girls to play and to sacrifice themselves. He gave two of children something to drink and something resembling "piece of bread" to the Lucia, the main witness. When the figure disappeared the children remained paralyzed, repeating the same prayers over and over and did not recovered until sunset. The second encounter with the "angel" occurred on a hot summer day that same year. The entity suddenly appeared to them, calling to them and demanding that they pray fervently and to "make sacrifices" on their daily lives. The children remained paralyzed during the encounter. Only at dusk where they able to move again, they refused to speak about the encounter among themselves.

Source: Enrique De Vicente Año Cero

 

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Near Nontron Dordogne, France
Date: Summer 1920
Time: 2300
On a Saturday evening, between 2300 and midnight, a group of young people was returning from a dance when they saw in the sky, above a little wood, a strange spectacle; a group of beings of small stature about in the air, and giving off “musical sounds.” The young people cold see their little legs move about, and to the group a “fiery aspect.” According to the accounts of two of the group, Louise and Marie Grasset, they felt no fear at the strange sight.

Source: French researchers Joel Mesnard and Jean Marie Bigorne

 

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Paromnyi hamlet, Volzhskiy, Tsaritsyno region (now Volgograd), Russia
Date: 1922
Time: evening
Elena Iosifovna Vaulina as a child saw the image of a strange “man” in the sky. Nowadays it would be described as a type of holographic image seen by the witness under the rays of the sun as it sank in the horizon. The man looked human and wore long flowing clothing or toga. It moved in the air in profile in the direction of the moon it then turned and began gesturing at the witness. Next, it turned his back to the witness and walked away in the sky towards the southwest in a semicircle, quickly disappearing from sight.

Source: Archives of Mikhail B. Gershtein, Saint Petersburg Russia

 

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Quero, La Mancha, Spain
Date: 1924
Time: afternoon
The witness was standing near a local rural church when he saw a short humanoid figure about 1.20 meters in height wearing a tight-fitting green colored coverall, it had its arms and legs in a rigid position and approached to within 2 meters of the witness. The humanoid seemed to have both feet together and resting on some type of circular platform that apparently propelled him above the ground. On his hands he carried an object or control panel that seemed to operate the floating platform. The humanoid, which had human features, disappeared silently into some distance fields.

Source: Iker Jimenez, Encuentros, Historia de Los Ovni en España

 

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Palm Springs, California
Date: July 1936
Time: unknown
Undocumented report of an encounter with three helmeted humanoid figures, that in spite of being wingless, appeared to be flying over the area. No other information.

Source: .Aldrich/Project 1947, quoting Gray Barker

 

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Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan
Date: Winter 1936
Time: dawn
Mrs E E Loznaya recalled, how as a teenager she had a strange and unforgettable encounter. Fifteen at the time, she was on her way to school along a deserted, snowy, country road on a fine cold winter morning, just before sunrise. She saw a dark object some distance away in the air moving in her general direction. As it drew closer she could see that it was a man like figure dressed in black and seen in profile. Its direction formed a 60-degree angle with the road. The “man” was of medium height and the black garment covered him completely---she saw no hands, and on his head was something like a helmet. He held his massive arms tightly against his sides. On his back was a device something like a rucksack. He suddenly changed course and headed straight for the student. She could now see his right arm was slightly bent at the elbow. As he came closer, she was unable to make out any features on his face---only a black surface. At this point she became aware of a rumbling sound that increased in intensity and it occurred to her that this thing might be more machine than man. The distance then was no more than 40 meters. Thoroughly frightened, she turned to search for some place to run; there was no place to hide on the barren snow covered steppe. When she turned, the figure had vanished as if into thin air; it occurred to her that he might have dived into a nearby snow bank. She fled to her home. The sighting had lasted about one minute and was so remarkable she could never forget it.

Source: .Vladimir V Rubtsov, FSR Vol. 24 # 4

 

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Near Chashniki, Belarus
Date: 1937
Time: 11:00 am
7-year old Ludmila Chepik was shepherding some cows and collecting flowers on a meadow near the River Uloy when suddenly she saw a “man” descending from the sky towards her without a parachute. He descended to about 1 to 2 meters from her. The man was approximately 113cm in height (dwarf like), of athletic built, with broad shoulders and a disproportionately large head. He had a narrow waist, and something like heavy boots starting at the knees, like wide trousers, red in color. The man wore dark tight-fitting clothing. He had a helmet on his head, resembling that of an ancient Russian warrior (?). The helmet had a cone-shaped “bulb” shaped protrusion on top. His face was visible, reddish in color and was wearing something resembling a transparent visor. The entity spent approximately 1 minute with the witness. He opened his visor, produced a protracted smile at the girl, looked around, touched the grass---he carried an oval device in his hands. After that, he waved his hands, and zoomed soundlessly up into the sky at high speed. After gaining an altitude of about 100 meters, he seemed to compress into a ball and dissolve into thin air.

Source: Aleksandr Kuzovkin, Selected reports of UFO observations in The USSR 1982

 

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Sinnet, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date: February 1938
Time: night
A man walking along the Sinnet road saw a figure approaching, and he thought it was a friend. The figure suddenly transformed, unbelievably, into a huge fireball, which flew up high, over the cemetery gate and telephone wires, then descended, still flaming, and disappeared among the tombstones.

Source: Unidentified in Saskatchewan

 

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Silver City, New Mexico
Date: Summer 1938
Time: Twilight
Four children, including Ann Alley saw a gray-clad man sail over them at treetop level. Alley would later recall that “he seemed to be wearing a belt which was wide and had points sticking out of it.” He also wore a Flash Gordon like cap and a wide cape. The flying humanoid drifted across the sky above the children as they all stood and stared, speechless. He finally disappeared from sight into the distance.

Source: Jerome Clark, The Unexplained

 

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East Anglia, England
Date: May 1947
Time: noon
The young daughter of an RAF pilot saw a strange entity glide through the open window and hover about an inch above the living room table. It was described as eight inches in height and was a female. It was dressed in a pink gauzy material and had shimmering wings and long blond hair with a pink headband. It appeared to have perfect teeth. After a few minutes it glided back out the window and disappeared.

Source: Norman Oliver, Quest UFO Magazine Vol. 11 # 4

 

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Chehalis, Washington
Date: January 6, 1948
Time: 1500
Mrs Bernice Zaikowski, hearing a “sizzling and whizzing,” sound, looked up to see a “birdman” 200 ft above her barn. She saw “a man equipped with long silver wings fastened over the shoulders with a strap” ascend rapidly, hover, bank, then fly on. “He flew in an upright position and appeared to be manipulating controls strapped to his chest.” The wings did not flap; they retracted close to his body during ascent, and then were extended to hover & proceed in level flight. Mrs Zaikowski said 5 other adult witnesses and a number of children had also seen the birdman.

Source: Humcat quoting Newspaper source, & John Keel

 

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Sebree, Kentucky
Date: 1949
Time: night
The two witnesses were entering a parked truck in front of the house when one of them noticed a bright light approaching them from the direction of the railroad tracks. Moments later as the witness attempted to start the truck the light got closer. It floated towards the front of the truck and now both witnesses could see the outline of a human like figure directly underneath the light. Both witnesses became frightened and scrambled out of the truck, one of them momentarily “froze” and could not move. Finally as they ran into the house to get further witnesses the floating man and light had already vanished.

Source: Coral E Lorenzen, The Shadow of The Unknown

 

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Longview, Washington
Date: April 7, 1948
Time: 1500
Mrs Viola Johnson & James Pittman, laundry employees, saw “3 men in dark drab flying suits flying through the air---about 250 ft high, circling the city, going about as fast as a freight train. I couldn’t see any motors or propellers on them, but I could hear motors like airplane motors, but not as loud. They had some kind of apparatus on their sides which looked like guns.” The flying men were gone before others could get outside, but “other residents reported hearing plane motors and seeing three planes circle at a high altitude.”

Source: Humcat quoting News INS story

 

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Selma, Alabama
Date: Summer 1948
Time: evening
One of the largest families in town was having their annual reunion when one family member looked up and saw a giant bird-like creature land next to a tree. Looking closer he saw that the bird had human form. Others gathered around and watched the creature. It appeared more human than animal and just stared at the group with gleaming red eyes. As more people gathered around it suddenly flew off without flapping its wings.

Source: Ron Schaffner

 

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Near Grassy Butte, Oregon
Date: September 18, 1948
Time: before dawn
Fred Scott, 63, walking from Antelope to Rome, Oregon, was walking around Grassy Mountain just before dawn when he looked up and saw 2 “flying persons” to the south of him. They were 150-250 ft up, one following the other at a distance of 8-10 ft, flying west east. Their wings, which were narrow & rounded at the tip, did not flap. Their legs were unusually short, almost as if cut off at the knees. They were moving quite slowly, & remained visible while Scott walked for ½-1 mile.

Source: Kenneth Arnold, Jerome Clark & Ted Bloecher

 

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Pelotas Rio Grande Sul, Brazil
Date: 1950
Time: night
A couple were walking along a wooded path by the ocean front one night when two fast moving shadows suddenly crossed their paths ahead, looking up they saw two large winged beings flying at treetop level. The beings descended vertically and landed near the witnesses. They were described as human like and about six-foot tall, these beings crouched down and appeared to observe the witnesses, who quickly left the area.

Source: Janet & Colin Bord, Unexplained Mysteries Of the 20th Century.

 

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Moscow, Russia
Date: 1950
Time: night
On Kalyaevskaya Street, while the witness slept she heard the window of the balcony opened. She felt as if someone was watching her. As she opened her eyes she saw a small man, about 1 meter in height, black in color with small wings and on the neck area an object resembling a backpack or “chute”. He stood at the entranceway to the bedroom from the balcony. Suddenly he departed through window emitting a noise similar to the flapping of wings. A feeling of fear remained with the witness.

Source: Igor Anantolevichem, UFOZONE Russia

 

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Maumee, Ohio
Date: 1951
Time: night
The witness began to recall details of a strange encounter she had as a 7-year old child in a Maumee, Ohio, orphanage. Having awakened in the night to go to the bathroom, she saw up to 10 small, strange humanoid figure floats in through the window of the dormitory she shared with 7 other girls. They glided toward her bed with their legs together, and their tube like arms appeared joint-less; their skin seemed to have scales and was of a dark gray color, and their heads were similar in shape to that of a tadpole, although she is unable to recall any facial features. The entities surrounded her bed and the "leader" stood at the top left corner, speaking to the others in an incomprehensible language, with the others nodding in response. The "leader" held his hand above her, under which was suspended a small "eye like" device that scanned her body, as he moved his hand back and forth. At no time did he, or any of the others, touch her. At no time during the examination did any of the other girls in the room awaken.

Source: Robert Pratt, National Enquirer

 

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Camp Okubo near Kyoto, Japan
Date: 1952
Time: night
Air Force Pvt. Sinclair Taylor on duty saw a giant winged man like being descending towards him; it then hovered near him, looking intently at his direction. The being was about seven-foot tall with a similar wingspan. The panicked guard began firing his weapon towards it but when he looked at the spot where the being had been hovering, it had vanished.

Source: Janet & Colin Bord, Unexplained Mysteries of the 20th Century

 

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Near Remedios, Santa Clara, Cuba
Date: September 14, 1952
Time: afternoon
At a local farm called “Dolores” a farm worker, Caridad Martinez reported seeing a strange winged humanoid descend from the sky and land on a plot a land near where she was working. The strange winged figure approached Martinez and communicated with her in a strange language, which she could not understand, according to her the only word she was able to make out was “Tierra” (Earth). The strange humanoid was carrying on both hands a luminous object which apparently emitted a strange gaseous substance that made Martinez very dizzy and almost semi-conscious. She further described the stranger as having yellowish skin a round face, very tall in stature (over 7ft). The humanoid had a silvery disc-shaped plate which appeared to be attached to the stomach area. The most bizarre fact of the encounter was the huge pair of wings which the humanoid had attached to its shoulders that hung down to the waist area. Using these same wings the strange creature rose back up into the sky and disappeared from sight.

Source: Orestes Girbau Collado, Cuba