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At 5 pm on December 4, 1949, Mário Retier, who lived in the city of Barra Mansa, was returning from his father's farm in Volta Redonda, when he noticed, still close to the site, a discoidal object silently flying over a group of trees, then landing 10 or 15 meters from the road. Surprised, he was even more scared when he heard the voice saying to him: “Don't be afraid... Do you want to know what this is about? We know you believe in us.”
As he approached, a hatch opened in the aircraft and two crew members, of about the same height as his, a little over six feet, appeared, and waved to him in a friendly manner, as if inviting him to enter. They wore a kind of Roman kilt and had their heads covered by a bonnet or helmet.
More encouraged, the young man entered the record being led down a corridor to a room with panels full of screens, pictures and buttons. By pressing some of these buttons, the luminous and phosphorescent charts would appear, explaining the ship's locomotion in space. They invited him on a trip. Retier replied that he would accept if they promised to bring him back safe and sound. Thus agreed, they laid him down, dressed as he was, inside a kind of urn or bathtub, filled with a liquid that, as explained to him, served to eliminate the inconveniences of great accelerations and also to feed the body. Only the eyes and nose were out of the liquid.
Hearing the crew say they were taking off, he felt himself falling asleep quickly. When he woke up, they told him they were already arriving. He was taken from the urn and taken to an adjoining compartment, where his soaked clothing and wet body dried immediately, as if by magic. They gave him the same clothes they were wearing, very comfortable, and shoes that were also identical. Looking at him through one of the portholes, he realized that they were arriving at a kind of spaceport, from which ships identical to the one that had brought him came up and descended. When he turned to his fellow travelers, he was startled to see them sitting on a sofa, with their head and trunk tilted forward, without any movement, completely obliterated, as if they were two dolls.
At that moment the door opened and some people, kind and smiling, greeted him, expressing themselves in Portuguese with phrases like this: “- We are happy with your coming... It's the third. .. We are at your disposal! ” They were all tall, some reaching 2 meters in height and radiant health, good humor, happiness.
They took him to visit some factories and various establishments. He walked the streets, but during the tour he saw people also walking in the air, at a height of about 10 meters. Vehicles glided on suspended roads.
He entered a building where there was a room reserved for our planet Earth. It was a kind of museum. They pressed a few buttons, projecting on a screen images referring to terrestrials, our nature, our feelings of ambition and violence, our degree of evolution. He was told that, billions of years ago, the Earth's orbit passed close to its planet. With the approach of a huge celestial body, the Earth was removed to another system. They also reported that their world was close to the constellation of Orion (the name we know it by) and that Russian astronomers had already located it.
The whole city was covered by gigantic transparent domes, through which a blue sky could be seen. He didn't see Sun, but there was diffused lighting that looked natural. The food did not leave residues. The average lifespan of people there was 300 terrestrial years.
After a time that seemed to be 6 to 8 hours, he wanted to return to Earth and, as if they guessed his thoughts, his 6 cicerones told him!
“We know you are looking forward to returning to your planet. ”
They took him to a ship identical to the one that had transported him, and the process was the same: he plunged into the bathtub, slept, woke up, dried his space suit. Then they dressed him in his primitive attire, landed and dropped him off close to where they had picked him up.
Arriving at his father's farm, the latter reproached him for disappearing for so long without giving news, worrying his family. It was then that Mário Restier realized that it was April 14, 1950. He was away from Earth for 4 months, but, by his calculations, it was three days at most!
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An alien family ate at a restaurant and stayed overnight in a motel in suburban St. Louis in May 1970, according to ufologist John E. Schroeder, who interviewed employees and heard a strange and comic tale. Dorothy Simpson, a front desk clerk at the motel and a fellow member of the UFO Study Group of Greater St. Louis, tipped Schroeder off to the incident soon after its occurrence. Simpson was examining billing documents at her desk at 10:30 A.M. on May 15 when a “whistling sigh” sounded. She looked up, and on the other side of the desk stood four tiny people, apparently members of a family: a couple and their two children. All looked strikingly alike. All were youthful in appearance, and the children were nearly the height of the ostensible parents. They were so short that they barely reached the level of the desk. They were all expensively dressed, the males in tailored suits, the females in pastel peach dresses. Their hair did not look real. Odd as it seemed, Simpson suspected that they were wearing wigs. In a falsetto voice the man said, “Do you have a room to stay? Do you have a room to stay?” She told him what the charges would be, but he seemed not to understand what she had said. He turned to his female companion as if expecting her to clarify matters, but she remained silent. An uncomfortable period of silence followed, broken finally when the man reached into his pocket and pulled out a thick wad of bills, many of large denomination. The bills were so crisp and new that Simpson wondered if they were counterfeit, but some quick informal testing suggested they were not. She took two twenty-dollar bills from the stack and gave the rest back. Because the man was too small to reach up to fill out the reservation form, Simpson said she would do it for him. He said his name was “A. Bell.” As he stepped forward she got a better look at him and was able to compare his face with his companions’. According to Schroeder, whose composite description comes from his interviews with Simpson and other motel employees who saw them, they were “wide at eye level, their faces thinned abruptly to their chins. Their eyes were large, dark and slightly slanted. . . . Their noses had practically no bridges and two slits for nostrils, and their mouths were tiny and lipless— no wider than their nostrils. All look uniformly pale. (Color descriptions varied from pearl to pale pink to light grey.)” “And where are you from?” Simpson asked. At that the man’s arm shot upward as if pointing to the sky, and he said, “We come from up there. Up there.” The woman pushed his arm down and spoke for the first time. She said they were from Hammond, Indiana, and she gave a street address. The man signed the register but did it so awkwardly that Simpson thought he seemed not to know how to use a pen. The woman wanted to know where they could eat. Simpson indicated the direction of the motel restaurant. Meanwhile, the bellhop came over to store their bags while they ate. At the manager’s insistence Simpson checked the Indiana address and learned that both the name and the address were bogus. The bellhop checked the parking lot for a car with an Indiana license plate but found none. The hostess who led the strange family to a table in the restaurant noticed that the chins of even the adults barely reached the top of the table. The man read aloud from the menu and kept asking odd questions about where milk, vegetables, and other common foods come from. The woman ordered peas and milk for herself and the children, and for the man peas, a small steak, and water. Their eating was similarly peculiar. Each picked up a single pea with a knife, brought it to his or her tiny mouth, and inhaled it with a sucking sound. The father was unable to get even a small piece of steak through his slit of a mouth. They stopped eating all at the same time. The man produced a twenty-dollar bill and gave it to the waitress, who went to get change; when she returned, they were gone. When the bellhop saw them, he retrieved their baggage and stepped into the elevator to lead them to their room. When the elevator door opened, though, the family recoiled in fright and confusion. The bellhop had to assure them that there was no danger. After letting them into the room, he turned on the lights. Suddenly the man began shouting at him that the light would hurt the children’s eyes. Suddenly frightened himself, the bellhop fled without waiting—one suspects futilely, in any case—for a tip. The bellhop, the manager, and Simpson vowed to watch for the little people’s departure in the morning, but they were never seen again, though the front door was the only door they could pass through without setting off a security alarm. The alarms were checked, and nothing was amiss. Schroeder interviewed all five employees who had interacted with the family. All seemed sincerely bewildered by the curious series of events.
Schroeder, John E., 1987. “The Strangers among Us.” The UFO Enigma 7, 7 (June): 36.
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Location. Santa Lucia military base, Zumpango, Mexico
Date: May 1971
Time: night
The witness 15-year old Dolores Martinez Briones was at the time living with her parents at a military base and that night due to the excessive heat she would get up in the middle of the night to open the windows and observe the stars. On that night there was a full moon and there was a strange stillness in the area. As she stared at the firmament she suddenly felt an overwhelming urge to look towards a nearby field about 200 meters away. There she saw a dull metallic cylinder-shaped craft hovering at seven meters from the ground. After a few minutes a hatch opened on the lower section of the craft and two men wearing white outfits stepped out, and descended slowly to the ground on a metallic platform without noticing the witness. Their white uniforms resembled those wore by doctors. However the men soon noticed the witness presence and began staring intently at her. In total fear and unable to move Dolores watched from behind the window as the two men approached to within several meters of her location. At this point she heard a clear message in her mind which said, "Relax, we are peaceful, nothing will happen to you." Immediately the witness felt at ease and somehow had the feeling that she knew the men. She opened the door and walked outside and then followed the men to their craft after receiving a telepathic invitation. She described the two men as human-like, about 1.80m in height, very light colored skin, brown hair and brown eyes. They wore thick soled white-colored shoes. After accepting their invitation the witness and the two men arrived at the hovering cylinder-shaped craft and the hatch opened up again. At this point a third seemingly older entity appeared at the hatch. He was also human-like about 70 years of age, with white hair and a short white beard. He wore a white tunic-like garment and also white thick soled shoes; he was about 1.60m in height and a very pleasant countenance. He greeted the witness by extending his hand and motioning her to step inside the craft. Once inside she looked up and saw numerous small multi-colored lights on the ceiling and also on the walls and halls. In the center of the craft there was something resembling a metallic desk and a bench, both objects appeared to be welded into the floor and were surrounded by a short ledge. The elder alien then approached Dolores and asked her if she wanted to know about his planet promising Dolores that she would be returned. She accepted and then the older man extracted a suit similar to his from the metallic desk and asked her to wear it. The suit was white, long and of a very thin material almost semi-transparent, she wore it over her pajamas. Ready to embark on the trip she received instructions to grab a hold of the ledge during the complete journey. She then heard a door close and the two taller men stood next to her one on each side. The elder alien sat on the bench by the desk and began pressing buttons similar to those on a microwave. The witness could see lights coming on and off on the control panel. Everything was silent; the two tall men did not speak a word while their "leader" worked with the control panel. Several minutes later the leader told Dolores that they were already in outer space and were traveling at a velocity unimaginable by humans, he added that this would put his world at about 2 light years away theoretically. He told her the name of his planet and galaxy which she wasn't able to remember. During the whole trip she did not feel any sense of movement. Suddenly she developed an urge to look at the stars and asked the alien leader if she could do so. The leader pressed a button and a small window-like opening became visible, which she could only see darkness through it. The alien leader explained to her that due to the velocity she was not able to see anything outside. At this moment she asked the leader for his name and he told her to call him "Elder one" since they identified themselves by codes and not names. She noticed that the leader was the only one that communicated verbally with her, the other two taller men used only telepathy. Later he asked Dolores if she wanted to see their planet from afar and she agreed, he then pressed another button and another window became visible, outside she was able to see a diminutive brilliant silver sphere, evidently the alien's planet. Soon the alien craft landed and a door opened which led to an enclosed area, which all four stood there for several minutes, she was told that they were going through a sterilization process. Soon after that the two tall men disappeared and the older alien leader remained by her side. After removing her "spacesuit" she was introduced into a transparent capsule like object, in there she went through some type of cleansing process in which she felt cool water and a cold breeze go through her. After a moment a door opened and she stepped outside. She now stood in a room with a flat metallic ceiling and floor illuminated by a tenuous light from an unknown source. Soon a door opened and the alien leader appeared carrying a tunic similar to the one he was wearing which he asked Dolores to wear. She was then led through a broad corridor with a luminous mirror-like floor where she saw multitudes of people all in constant movement, many were cleaning the floors other carrying packages, and all seemed to be in a hurry. Ahead on the corridor she found what appeared to be "electric" passageways in which the aliens traveled through. Without distinction, all the alien men and women wore beige blue clothing and all had short hair and were of thin built. The women were somewhat shorter than the men. And one thing that caught Dolores attention was that all seemed to be of the same age. She did not see any older aliens with the exception of the alien leader that always accompanied her. She traveled everywhere with the alien leader and noticed that all the other aliens seemed to ignore her but showed great respect and reverence towards her guide, who seemed to give out orders and instructions by using hand gestures. There also seemed to be a group body guards or "servants" always following them. Sooner or later they reached an area in which there were several corridors all leading into different directions. After a moment of hesitation the alien leader told her to follow him that he was going to show her the place where they lived. He emphasized that their way of living was very different from humans and that marriage did not exist in their society. Their population was totally controlled, when one of them died another one was born to replace him or her, this was done through artificial insemination. Disease was non-existent in their society and no one grew old, except for him since he was a leader. However he said that they were no immortals but lived for a long time. She was led through an endless labyrinth of corridors where everyone moved along in perfect order, no one seemed to laugh or joke around. Later she was shown what appeared to be their living quarters about six by six meters in diameter designed for six persons. A small window became visible and a small platform jutted out on it was a plate with several bon-bon shaped pieces, yellow-orange in color. She was offered a piece was refused. Later she was taken into a large auditorium and in there it was revealed to her that they also believed in God, who was the same in all parts of the Universe. From there she was taken to another location which appeared to be a center for children only. There was only an adult woman who seemed to be operating several computer consoles and screens. On the screens Dolores could see several hieroglyphics type symbols; on them she recognized the letters Z and X. For the first time Dolores saw somebody else smile on the planet as an 8-year old child saluted and smile at her. Soon she was taken along another corridor into a beautiful location or garden filled with trees, shrubs and different colored flowers and covered by a huge transparent glass dome. She was told that in this particular garden they kept flowers that they had brought from earth. He then added, "This is a sample of what our planet used to be, it was the same as yours (Earth) only that the ozone layer became depleted and we were force to live underground to escape the powerful ultraviolet rays of light." She asked if there was water available and was told that only very little and it was used only for drinking. The alien leader then went on to say that they were almost identical to humans that their organism possess several functions which were different from humans. He told Dolores that they were a peaceful people and were ready to assist humans whenever necessary. She thank him and they returned back through the same path and on their way back he told her that in their planet lived humans who were there of their own free will and then looking straight at her eyes he asked her if she wanted to stay with them. At first she was confused, but then thought about it and told the alien leader that she did not want to stay. She was then given the traveling suit again and taken onboard the spacecraft by the two taller aliens. Strangely none of the other inhabitants bade farewell or goodbye to her, most seemed to ignore her. The return trip was again in total silence and before walking home the alien leader advised her not to tell anyone since no one would believe her anyway. Arriving at her front door she stopped and turned around but the craft and the aliens were already gone. To this day Dolores has always regretted not staying with the aliens when she was invited to do so.
HC addendum
Source: Luis Ramirez Reyes "Acoso Extraterrestre"
Type: G
Translated by Albert S Rosales
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15th to the 16th of May 1951 11:20 p.m.
Salzburg, Austria
Entity Description: about 5 feet tall, wearing a transparent near-spherical helmet, a two-piece suit with tight-fitting legs that and merged into its toes. The body appeared to be rigid and cylindrical, with a torso round like a tin-can. It had no neck, proportionate legs, short arms ending in long and graceful four-fingered or three fingered hands. Its cranium was also slightly cylindrical, high, bald, with a white skull extending up and back from a wide, heart-shaped face. His eyes were large and compound like an insect’s eyes. It had only holes for ears, two holes for a nose, and its mouth was a very small horizontal slit. The entity never spoke and never communicated anything.
Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter III) Close observation with animate beings associated with the object.
Source: Charles Bowen, “Fantasy or Truth? A New Look at an Old Contact Claim”, FSR 13:4, July-August 1967 [sic, 1957], pp. 11-14.
Summary/Description: According to a journalist’s newspaper article in the Prince George Citizen, British Columbia, Canada, for December 11, 1957, a soldier with the US Army occupation force who has always maintained his anonymity told him the experience he had 6 years earlier near Salzburg, in Austria, at 11:20 p.m. in the night from the 15th to the 16th of May 1951.
As he was on his way home, an entity moved into view from behind some bushes and pointed a long thin pencil-like device at him, and he was paralyzed. He described the entity as about 5 feet tall, wearing a transparent near-spherical helmet, a two-piece suit with tight-fitting legs that and merged into its toes. The body appeared to be rigid and cylindrical, with a torso round like a tin-can. It had no neck, proportionate legs, short arms ending in long and graceful four-fingered or three fingered hands.
Its cranium was also slightly cylindrical, high, bald, with a white skull extending up and back from a wide, heart-shaped face. His eyes were large and compound like an insect’s eyes. It had only holes for ears, two holes for a nose, and its mouth was a very small horizontal slit. The entity never spoke and never communicated anything. The entity strapped a black and square device to the soldier’s chest. This made the soldier virtually weightless, and he was pulled towards a 150 feet disc-shaped apparatus posed in a nearby field. He and the entity floated up to the top of the disc, where a hatch opened, and they entered a transparent room.
Inside, the soldier watched the Earth “fall away” through the flying saucer’s transparent walls. The soldier told that he and the entity flipped over as they reached the “zone of gravitational neutrality between the Earth and the Moon.” They continued past the Moon and on to Mars, where they quickly arrived and landed on a raised platform. The entity left the craft, and the soldier said he saw fields of big red flowers, canals with bridges across them, and other saucers with human captives leaving two in them. The entity then came back and the saucer took off. They passed a Martian satellite that “that looked like a tin ball,” and 10 minutes later they were nearing Earth.
Once returned on ground, again, the square black device was strapped to the soldier’s chest, and he was floated to the ground. The entity pointed a pencil in the direction of the soldier’s head, then a dog barked, which seemed to frighten the entity. No loss of memory followed for the man. The whole episode had taken about an hour. The journalist who wrote the article said he tried on several occasions to trick the soldier into contradicting himself, he did not, and thus he expressed that he was greatly impressed by his apparent truthfulness.
FULL REPORT
The witness was working for the United States Occupation Army in Austria at the time. On this date he was driving for QM Colonel Cousin. He commanded him to drive Mr. Haste to Linz from Salzburg. Mr. Haste was teaching evening classes to United States soldiers in Linz. His job was to drive him from Salzburg to Linz three times a week.This particular day he came back as usual from Linz at about 2300 and arrived at the motor pool five miles north of Salzburg. He started for home, leaving the car at the motor pool. He took a short cut, and on the left side was brush. It was dark, with no moon. Suddenly someone came out of the brush and came close to him. He could only see the outline in the dark, but he seemed to have a helmet on. He was about his height, maybe a little shorter. He had something in his hand and he pointed it at him. I thought it was his finger, but it made a “click”.
After the click he waved his hand quickly and the witness went to put his arm up in front of his face but he was paralyzed. He felt like falling down, but he didn’t. The stranger placed a black square plate on the witness chest and strapped it around his back. He could hear a dog barking in the distance, but he couldn’t hear him walking. He must have walked very easily. He could see his outline as he walked around him.After he strapped the plate on him he walked in front of him, and pointed the thing in his hand at the plate on his chest rather than at his head like before. He walked away and pulled the witness after him. He couldn’t move or walk, but he just pulled him along after him. He wasn’t actually in the air, but his full weight wasn’t on the ground. It seemed as if he was light. Behind the brush was a small field. In the field hidden from the road, was a round object about 150ft in diameter. It was dark, and he couldn’t tell what it was. His first thought was that a spy had captured him for some reason.
The ‘thing’ that led him sort of roe from the ground and took him after him to the top of the object. He did something, either stepped on something or pushed some button, and a door opened and he pulled him after him down into the dark. He was plenty scared and he wondered what would happen next. He got down into the dark and he could finally feel a floor under his feet. He knew that where he was either glass or plastic, because the stars could be seen shining up above. Then he saw the outline of what looked like a door, and he pulled him through into what he later found was a room of glass or plastic. The stranger kept his finger or what the witness thought was his finger but later saw was some form of pencil shaped object, pointed at the witness all the time, then when he was in the room, he took it off him and he sank down on the floor. He went out and the witness could see his outline. There was a sort of shaking sensation, and he knew the door to the room had shut. The next sensation he had was a sensation of rising up into the air. He had never flown in his life.
In a few minutes he could see the left half of the moon shining. He was scared, but he figured he was dreaming. Then he started to feel his hands and feet again. He sat up, and then he got up on to his feet. By this time they were in the sunlight. He looked across the ship and he could see the ‘person’ that had brought him there. He looked like a person, like we are. A little bit shorter than the witness. To the witness at the time he looked like a “devil”. He had no hair at all. He could see through the sort of glass helmet. His head was sort of cylinder form. A very high forehead, with big eyes. You could see lots of little eyes in the two big eyes. It seemed to the witness that it looked like the eyes of a fly. No nose at all, just two holes. He had a very small slit for a mouth. It looked like he had skin, it was sort of white. There were two holes for the ears. His skull was very large. The torso was round like a tin can. The legs were of proportionate length. His arms were a little bit shorter than our arms. His hands seemed to be three long fingers.
He couldn’t see the neck, but he was wearing material that was like silver but wasn’t shiny. This covered all of him except the head part which had on the helmet. He didn’t look at the witness at all.The main part of the ship that he could see from the room he was in appeared to be round and the walls were like glass, but you couldn’t see through them. The floor was made of glass or plastic. In the middle of the floor, under the glass, was a black plate, something like he had strapped to his chest. From the corners of the plate, which looked to be about ten feet square, black beams ran to the walls of the ship. He could see under the black plate and there seemed to be a duplicate room on the other side of the ship. He could see the same kind of levers on the wall as the ‘thing’ was standing beside him. As soon as he came out in the sun, he could feel burning heat, but he stranger pulled a lever and a covering like blue water came over the roof. Then the sun was normal, but he could still see through it. His first thought was that he was dreaming, and then his second thought was that he was dead and that his soul was rising up.The ship was not rotating or going sideways, but kind of gliding straight up. He could see the Sun like a ball of fire, and the Moon was like a silver ball, but the rest was darkness. Suddenly he looked up, the Moon was right above him and it seemed to come down at them.
Suddenly they were both standing on what had been the roof. They seemed to be about a quarter of a mile above the Moon. He could see clearly the craters on the surface of the Moon. There were lots of them. The ground seemed to be a grayish color and he could see rocks and hills. They were in the sunny part of the Moon. The ship glided to the right and into the darkness. Then the driver stopped the ship, he could feel it sort of waiting. It was dark all around outside, but the sun seemed to shin into the ship. He saw the creature take on of the pencil things that he had pointed at him and he pointed it downwards. He thought at that time that he must be from the Moon and that he was signaling someone down below. There was no noise from the ship or from the signal. After about five minutes they started to move again to the right. His first thought was that he was going back to Earth. But he could see the outline of America and Asia, and he could see clouds. The Earth and the Moon were going away from him very fast. Then he began to think that this was from another planet. Suddenly another planet seemed to loom up in front of them, and he thought they were going to crash into it.
He was sure of this but the driver suddenly stopped it again, but there was no jerk. He realized then they were still quite a way from the planet, and then they started to glide sideways down, towards the ground. He looked out over the land and it looked like “paradise”. As they went down he looked over the land and on one side there red fields. On the other side there was what looked like gray green fields. Some places in the fields were what looked like big chimneys rising from the ground. It was bright daylight and the sun was shining with no clouds in the sky. They were approaching the red fields and he could see rivers with blue water in them. The rivers ran straight and at intervals there were bridges built across them and he could see roads. The bridges were just like our bridges. From high up he could see no sign of life. Then they glided to a field that was filled with the saucers like he was in.
There appeared to be hundreds of them. They were of different colors, gray, gold, and silver. But there were no black or red ones. The driver stopped the ship about a quarter of a mile above them by just pulling a lever. Then they went straight down until they were about 20 or 30 feet from the ground, and he parked the ship on a high platform. As they went down he could see the same kind of people were in them like his driver. When they got to the platform the driver pulled a lever and the glass slid back and he went outside. He put the pencil-like thing to his chest and slowly dropped to the ground like a falling leaf. He then started to walk very fast along to the third or fourth saucer. He pointed the pencil at his chest again and sort of jumped up inside the ship. He was inside that ship for about 10 minutes.
The witness could see that the creature in the other ship was smaller than the driver of the ship he was on.While he was inside the ship he looked around at the other saucers and he could see the same type of people. Suddenly quite a way away he saw two ships that had people from Earth on them. One ship was sort of dirty looking and there was one man, one woman, and two kids in it. In another saucer nearby that was kind of golden he saw one man and one woman. He was going to wave at them but he felt scared. He was waiting for them to wave but they didn’t wave. After he saw them he thought that he would have to stay there with them now. Way off in the distance by the river he could see things moving. They were dark, but he couldn’t tell what they were. Down on the ground he could see large red flowers growing. They looked something like our sunflowers. There were some green patches between them, but there were flowers as far as the eye could see. The earth could be seen in patches too and it was just the same as our Earth. He started thinking that he must be on Mars. Then the driver of the ship came back from the other ship. He got back inside and closed the door again.
Then they took off the same way they had come. They went into the darkness and then he could see a moon that looked like a tin ball. They came quite close to it, and he could see it was smooth and silvery, without any signs of craters on it.He didn’t know where they were going then; he thought they were going farther yet. After about ten minutes, he could see what looked like half our Moon and he realized they were approaching the sunny side of Earth. He was very glad that it was the Earth. But they came at it with such terrible speed that he thought for sure they would crash. The driver stopped the ship again when it seemed to hit the atmosphere, and he glided down towards Earth. He seemed to know the driver was going to take him back to where he found him, but he had the impression that he was going to kill him because he would want to keep it secret. They came into the darkness and then went down to the ground and he knew they were back at the same place he was picked up. The witness was really afraid the alien would kill him. The alien opened the door and took the small pencil thing and pulled the witness out the door the same way he pulled him in. He guided the witness back to the road. At that time he could walk, but he was very light and the alien was just pulling him. The alien took the pencil from the witness chest and pointed it at his head. At that moment a dog started to bark at them from about a quarter of a mile up the road and it seemed to have startled the alien, because the pencil-like thing clicked and nothing happened to the witness. He knew from the first experience he should be paralyzed, so he just pretended to be so that that the alien wouldn’t know. He took the plate off the witness chest and went back to the ship. The witness remained still until he saw the outline of the saucer going off into the distance. Then he ran home.
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Interesting case about a guy who was asked by ETs to move to Bahamas, he also had contact with an old priest working for them, certainly part of the secret brotherhood, who looked 70 but claimed to be 10 times older than that.
Richard Höglund was a Swede whose encounters covered a lengthy period. First investigated by Ernst Linder, the case is barely known outside Sweden. What follows is taken largely from several reports provided by Håkan Blomqvist, a leading researcher of contact cases, and from our many communications and discussions. He has
written a book on the case in Swedish.
Born in Stockholm in 1913, Höglund (picture left) was a rock-blaster by profession. Though by all accounts a very down-to-earth man, he nonetheless had an uncanny ability to read people’s minds—a talent that might have some bearing on his experiences. The story begins on the afternoon of December 9, 1965, the day before he was due to undergo surgery to remove a small kidney stone. He felt a sudden urge to take a long walk with his dog on a frozen lake, Grindhultsjön, just outside Uddevalla (near Gothenburg), where he lived with his wife, Gunvor.
As Höglund began walking on the lake, the dog began running in circles as though demented and had to be restrained with its leash. Suddenly, a whining sound came from above. Looking up, Höglund saw a saucer-shaped,
translucent craft about five meters in diameter. “He could see figures moving inside,” reports Håkan. “The object came closer to the ground in a spiraling movement. It stopped before touching the ice, and a dark tube was lowered from under the object. This tube was seemingly made of a soft material since it moved in the wind. He felt a breeze of hot air with a distinct smell of hyacinth. His first thought was that this must be a Russian machine. But he soon changed his mind.
“From the tube four entities floated down, as though they were in an invisible elevator, and walked up to him. They were three men and one woman. Other than for a translucent overall, they were naked. One of the men seemed old, while the others looked younger. They were of normal height, had very large, dark, somewhat slanted eyes and perfect teeth. Their skin had no blemishes and there was absolutely no hair on their bodies, not even genital hair.
“Richard was especially fascinated by their ears, which were large and pointed. See below.The ear opening in the head was very large, as on a cat: he thought he could almost see into their heads. The men seemed very strong, like wrestler types, with bull necks. They had a slight Oriental look about them. The entities were covered by the clear plastic overalls which looked like they were held out from the body by air pressure.”
Höglund became confused, though not afraid. Through sign language and drawings in the snow, the entities started to communicate with him. They seemed fascinated by his hair, and he had to remove his cap several times as they laughed and pointed at him. When he tried to touch their overalls, however, they quickly retreated, as if they did not want him to do so. Using a small black package, they sprayed something like a gas on everything, including the dog, before they touched it. The dog evidently objected, as the “gas” had a strong smell of hyacinth. Höglund himself smelled of hyacinth for several days afterwards, causing his wife to wonder if he had already bought flowers for the coming Christmas.
Communications in sign language continued for a while as Höglund tried to explain a number of earthly pursuits, such as hunting and dancing. The woman meanwhile played with the dog, which was out of character since it normally became aggressive toward strangers. (see ill.below) All this time, the strangers appeared to be walking on an unseen layer, as their feet did not touch the ground. When the woman patted the dog, she too leaned her knee against this unseen layer. On their left wrists the entities wore a broad, black bracelet with a yellow button, which when touched seemed to alter the effect of gravity on the beings.
The older man indicated that he knew about pygmies, by demonstrating how they hunted with bow and arrow. He also seemed to indicate that his people would come in “great armadas” in the future. After further communication, the older man returned to the craft and fetched an object the size of a cylinder or microphone,
which he proceeded to run along Höglund’s back. At this, he felt a sensation of warmth, vibration, and sudden relief from the kidney pain that had troubled him for fifteen years.
By now an hour had passed and it began to grow dark, at which point Höglund noticed that the craft was now surrounded by a blue phosphorescent light. The whole craft seemed to vibrate. Except for the dark cylinder underneath, it remained semi-transparent, consisting of two shells, the outer one rotating. Inside, the craft seemed Spartan: all that could be discerned were three shining “cylinders” standing on the floor. Terminating the communication, the entities entered the craft, which then took off at tremendous speed, changing color from blue to orange as it flew away.
The following day, Höglund was X-rayed at Uddevalla hospital. Much to the bewilderment of a Dr. Hartman and his colleagues,
no trace of the kidney stone could be found.
Subsequently, Håkan told me, all the X-ray plates were checked by Dr. Karl Erik Svensson in Stockholm, who confirmed that no stone was visible on the plates, taken after the encounter.
2.CONTACT
On August 24, 1966, Höglund felt a strong impulse to visit another lake outside Uddevalla. The urge was so powerful that it felt as if someone else was driving the car. Arriving at the lake, he saw the same kind of craft hovering above the water, beside which a man seemed to be suspended in the air. Spotting a small rowboat nearby, Höglund climbed in and headed toward the craft. He recognized the man as the same with whom he communicated during the first encounter. This time, he could hear the man speak (presumably in Swedish), though his speech did not synchronize with his lip movements and seemed to originate from the craft slightly delayed. (similar reported in the
ITIBI-RA contact in the mid 60s, where the humanlooking ETs used very advanced translator devises)
During this communication, Höglund learned that world peace was threatened because the USA and the USSR supposedly planned a war against China, and that he should go to the Bahamas to act as their contact man. He was given a metal plate with strange hieroglyphic-type symbols embossed thereon and instructed to wear it at all times. Höglund explained that such a mission was impossible; he was an uneducated man, did not speak English, and in any case had a wife at home. These objections were brushed aside, and Höglund felt obliged to comply with the order. Following the encounter, however,
he buried the plate in woods near the lake and then returned home.
Despite serious misgivings, Höglund and Gunvor went ahead with the plan. To finance their trip, they sold everything. On March 5, 1967, they flew via London to Nassau, thence to Little Exuma, a small island in the Bahamas where they had been told to go. Höglund did not bring the metal plate with him, however. During the flight, the couple noticed fourteen passengers dressed like priests,
all similar in appearance, who supposedly disappeared in an unusual way on landing at Nassau. Apart from this incident, nothing unusual happened during the trip. The couple returned to Sweden. Ashamed to resettle in their home town, they bought a cheap house trailer south of Stockholm, where Höglund was able to find work once more as a rock-blaster.
FURTHER DEVELOPMENT
In ensuing months, Höglund became involved with Ifologiska sallskapet, a Stockholm-based UFO group which had become interested in his story. Among the members was a wealthy building contractor who offered to finance Höglund in the event he was ordered to the Bahamas again. He decided therefore to recover the metal plate. On the drive from Gothenburg, after picking up the plate, he stopped at a gas station, where an old man approached and asked him for a lift. Höglund consented, as he felt tired and thought it a good idea to have someone to talk with during the journey.
The man was dressed in a black cape, boots, and a big slouch hat.
After a while, the man asked Höglund if he recognized him. He replied in the negative, but suddenly it dawned on him that the man was one of those dressed as priests on the outbound flight to the Bahamas. The man introduced himself as “Father Ra Paz” (later contracted to Rapas), and said he worked for “the Overlords,” that is, the beings who had contacted Höglund on the two previous occasions. Rapas suggested a coffee break at a motel. He took off his hat but ordered nothing to drink. By now thoroughly confused, Höglund began to worry that the stranger might be an illusion, so when a boy passed their table, Höglund knocked the hat onto the floor. The boy, assuming himself responsible, picked up the hat and apologized. Father Rapas was no illusion.
Nothing had happened in the Bahamas, Rapas explained, because Höglund had not taken the metal plate with him. He was told that he must return to the Bahamas, this time not forgetting the plate. 7 x 4.5 centimeters in size and about one centimeter thick, with a coarse back, the plate appeared to be made of an aluminum-type material, engraved with three rows of cryptic symbols.
At times, the plate became so hot that Höglund kept it in asbestos. He also said that it gave him rashes.
After continuing the journey for a few more miles, Rapas suggested that he should take the wheel. Höglund pointed out that Rapas seemed rather elderly to drive—he guessed about seventy years old. “If you double that some ten times, you will be closer to the truth,” came the riposte. Exchanging seats, Rapas proceeded to drive the old Volvo as if it were a racing car. Höglund protested, explaining that the police might have speed traps. “Don’t worry,” said Rapas, “I can sense where they are.” Höglund fell asleep. When he awoke, the car was parked beside the road outside
Sødertalje. There was no sign of Rapas, who had left a package of fruit on the seat.
A SECRET BASE?
The building contractor in the UFO group now agreed to finance Höglund’s second trip to the Bahamas, the money to be mailed via a school teacher in Nyköping by the name of Trygve Glantz. Höglund and his wife returned to the Bahamas around the New Year period of 1967–68, staying initially in Nassau. When nothing happened during the first two days, Höglund lost his temper and
threw the metal plate on the floor, shouting that he wanted nothing more to do with the whole business. That evening, he claimed to have been visited by three humanoid beings of rather oriental appearance but distinctly different from those encountered in Sweden. They delivered a sharp warning to Höglund not to act like that again.
On New Year’s Eve, acting on instructions supplied to him by Rapas, Höglund went to the harbor in Little Exuma Island and contacted an old black man called Joe, who owned a boat. A girl called Li was also aboard. “Höglund was told to lie down in the boat, presumably so he could not see where they went,” Håkan told me. “The boat was very fast.” They arrived at a small island where, through an opening in elevated terrain, they entered a secret base.
At some point, Li, presumably one of the “space people,” demonstrated her ability to walk on the water outside the boat!
Rapas, who had arrived before them, acted as a guide. In the base, Höglund met twenty-three different supposed representatives from various planets. “Some were giants, some were dwarves, and others hermaphrodites,” Håkan reports. “He was shown a three-dimensional ‘film’ of human history from the birth of Christ. During this experience he collapsed three times and had to be revived by Rapas. He was also shown a collection of weapons from all ages and given the mission of starting a peace movement in Sweden, though told that he himself should not appear in public to promote it.”
* * *
Back in Sweden, during a meeting of contactee-oriented enthusiasts in January 1968, a statement written by Father Rapas and dictated to Höglund (who did not attend) was read out. A new “international peace organization” should be started by the group, it began. With the approbation of the Overlords, the organization was to be named “The New Generation.” The statement contained so much drivel that it is a wonder anyone took it seriously. Among Rapas’s exhortations are the following:
“Your catchwords shall be: Freedom from violence, from hunger; we are all brothers and sisters…. You who have supported [Richard] shall not be forgotten, you shall reap a hundredfold, but if someone hurts him or his devoted wife, I say, they shall be revenged sevenfold.”
The group also received “Ra Paz’s Rules”—sixty-five “philosophical points”—one of which is more than enough to suffice here: “If there should be interplanetary people among you, which I believe is rather rare, don’t let them go to heaven but bring them down to Earth again and demand more work of them.”
Most members of the group felt uneasy about Rapas, his threats, and the “New Generation” and their platitudes. The building contractor, for instance, had been asked to pay thousands of sv-kronor without knowing what he was really supporting. And Höglund, thoroughly disillusioned, became reclusive. As a result, the group split up, though Mr.Glantz continued to act as spokesman. Interviewed by a Swedish newspaper in mid-1968, Glantz was quoted as saying that the now 600-member organization had been created by “the West Indian peacemaker Ra Paz” as “a worldwide peace movement in the spirit of Martin Luther King.”
The article went on to mention the organization’s plans for a large meeting in the fall that year, to be attended by the singer Harry Belafonte; Ralph Abernathy, a leader of the American civil rights movement and assistant of Martin Luther King Jr.; and King’s wife Coretta. The meeting never happened. In the article, Rapas is referred to as a wealthy industrialist who, during his travels around the world, had seen so much misery that he decided to devote his wealth to charitable causes.
* * *
The aliens encountered by Richard Höglund in the Bahamas were of human appearance, with “thin, pointed features, deeply tanned, with a somewhat Oriental look, long tapering fingers and dark eyes,” Håkan learned. “They all seemed perfect—not a blemish on their skin. (this description and else reminds some of the
the "itibi-ra" contact case in partly the same area in th 60s -rø-remark) He never saw the beings from the initial contacts in Sweden again….”
During the New Year period of 1968–69, Höglund and his wife returned to the
Bahamas. One night, he told Gunvor that she could meet one of his contacts at a discotheque in Nassau. Gunvor protested at visiting such a venue, but her husband insisted. They found a table on the second floor and Höglund began looking around for the man. He left the table and returned with a man dressed in an ill-fitting brown costume, Håkan learned from Gunvor:
“The man just nodded his head in a short greeting to Gunvor. He was rather short, his skin had a peculiar suntan, and he had a slight Mediterranean or oriental look. The clothes were too large for his rather thin body. The man returned to his table. Richard explained that the man was one of ‘them.’ When Höglund and Gunvor started dancing, the man came up and watched them very closely. He looked straight into Gunvor’s eyes. There was a sort of hypnotic power in his eyes. ‘I will never forget those eyes,’ she said.”
The man showed Höglund a photograph of his family and house, supposedly on another planet in our solar system, which Gunvor recalled her husband referring to as either Venus or Saturn—she couldn’t be sure which.
During this and another trip to the Bahamas (there were three in all), Höglund met others like himself who acted as couriers for the “space people.” One was a Russian, another an African-American named Loftin Anderson, with whom he became good friends. Anderson, it transpired, was an agent for the Central Intelligence Agency.
During 1968, Little Exuma was swarming with CIA agents, Håkan reveals. “Anderson had informed the CIA about the [alien] base. Later he was found dead with a bullet hole in his head...
Several photographs were taken of Höglund in the Bahamas.
The entities themselves, however, could not be photographed. “Instead, there was an illuminated square on the photo where one of them had been,”(same in the case where others have tried to take pictures of such humanlike ETs /not wanting to be photographed - as in the case of the
LYA-contacts - only a ghosly aura was seen on the pictures, as LYA also told him beforehand). Håkan explains. “Höglund remembers one episode when he sat on a bench, talking to one of them. Suddenly a stranger walked by and Höglund felt very embarrassed as it appeared as though he was talking to himself.
These people had the ability to disappear into thin air.” (dematerialized/teleported directly?- as also the
swedish contact-man Ante Jonsson experienced in the 80s.)
Another peculiar feature of the aliens was that they never seemed to sleep or eat, though they did drink—and even smoke. Also, Höglund never met any women among them.
A coincidental element in this saga is the Mafia. “Lou Chesler was the front man in the Bahamas for the big Mafia boss Meyer Lansky,” Håkan told me. “Richard and his wife found an ad in a Swedish newspaper in the autumn of 1968 about work in the Bahamas. They applied, and as they had been there before they got the work through a Swedish man. Richard was to be butler and his wife housekeeper at the Chesler residence in Nassau. They worked there for a couple of weeks before being forced to leave because of new laws by the government. During those weeks Richard met the visitors several times.”
Höglund was allowed the use of their cars and drove an unused but old model of a black Cadillac (like those reported in other cases involving the “men in black”). “The strange thing was that it couldn’t be crashed,” said Håkan. “It had a sort of magical ‘eye’ that steered it. When you learned the trick it was very easy, he claimed.”
In a letter sent from the Bahamas in early 1969 to a friend in Sweden, Höglund wrote: “I cannot and am not allowed to disclose what we are doing here, but I can tell you this much: we are in a school here, and as you can understand, the teachers are interplanetary.”
* * *
The building contractor having withdrawn his financial support, Höglund had to rely on his alien contacts for funding. “Obviously,” Håkan commented, “this group had unlimited economic resources.
“One day a man from a car firm visited Höglund and gave him a new car. He said it was paid for and was to be delivered to him. Before the third trip to the Bahamas, Höglund contacted a friend who was to take care of his apartment, pay the rent, and care for the indoor plants. The payment for this service would be sent from the Bahamas, to a special bank account. Höglund paid just five kronor into the account before he and his wife left. On the very day that they went to the Bahamas, someone paid 1,000 kronor into this account. Every week it increased by a few hundred kronor, but the receipts never stated who had put the money there. No money ever arrived from the Bahamas.
“When Höglund and his wife returned, they were very anxious as they thought they must owe their friend [who had looked after the apartment] a lot of money. When the friend explained that there was always money in the account, they first thought he had given it himself,
but later they realized that some of their [‘space’] contacts must have made the payments.”
Following the leak of information about the Bahamas base to the CIA, the aliens moved their base to an area outside Mexico City. Henceforth, Höglund’s foreign trips were to Mexico. He was often away from home for a month at a time. After the third and final trip to the Bahamas, Gunvor no longer accompanied her husband. In October 1968, during the Olympic Games in Mexico City, Höglund claimed to have been taken to the new base. He became very upset as he was not allowed to attend the Games!
“I had the feeling he was afraid,” Höglund’s friend Dr. Karl Svensson revealed to Håkan. “He told me in general terms that he had been in Central America. I don’t think he really knew where he was….”
Further contacts also took place in Sweden. Höglund’s wife always knew when a visit was forthcoming because her husband became restless and got up early. He claimed to have been taken on board spaceships during this period, but information on these contacts is scanty.
“He took his car to a secret location south of Stockholm, where he was picked up by a craft,” Håkan told me, referring to the first trip. “He was blindfolded and had to lie down on the floor. The craft was very small—he couldn’t stand up.” After that first trip, he became nauseated, but later adjusted to these experiences.
In the early 1970s, Höglund said that he had been operated on by his contacts, as Gunvor related to Håkan:
Höglund’s contacts reportedly continued until his death, from a heart attack, on October 23, 1977. He was sixty-four.
* * *
“Höglund acted as a courier for his contacts,” Håkan emphasized. “He translated coded messages in the form of numbers. The codes disappeared in a few days (invisible ink?). He went to different places, like airports, to deliver envelopes with information for his contacts. Many of his activities sound like 'cosmic espionage'.
Prior to the contacts, Höglund and his wife had seen an advertisement for land in the Bahamas, and he wanted to build a hotel there. Håkan wondered if the order to go to the Bahamas might have been a cover to persuade his wife to accompany him. The fact that one of Höglund’s financiers was a building contractor also raises suspicions in this connection, though that financier had withdrawn his support after the first Bahamas trip.
There is also the question of Höglund’s psychic abilities. By all accounts, he was a gifted telepath, and in my opinion this might have been a reason for the contacts—whatever the nature of those contacts. Moreover, he had other paranormal abilities. “I thought, before, that there was no psychic component prior to the contacts,” Håkan said to me, “but his wife told me that he sometimes went off and talked in a strange tongue. Also, he wrote a strange story about nuns and monks in the Middle Ages during one of his previous incarnations. So, he was, after all, a mystic. That changes the whole picture….” Also, Höglund excelled at telling stories (not lies), according to some.
Håkan interviewed Gunvor in June 1984 , then in her fifties. “Like her husband, she is very down-to-earth and practical,” he explains. “She confirmed almost all the details of the contacts.”
When Gunvor first heard about her husband’s experience in 1965, she was stunned. “I believed him, though,” she told Håkan, “because Richard never lied to me. He was almost cynical, and believed neither in God nor the devil.”
“If several of the people involved in the affair hadn’t been very close friends of mine, whom I have no reason to doubt, I guess I would never have started an investigation in the first place,” Håkan declared in 1984. “But there are just too many witnesses involved to dismiss the case.” Gunvor herself not only encountered one of the extraordinary beings in the Bahamas—which left her in a state of shock—but also with Richard at their apartment near Stockholm. She described these men as “beautiful, and tanned,” though, unlike the man in the Bahamas, “extremely well dressed.”
* * *
Most of those who knew Höglund—including his wife—were reluctant initially to go on the record under their own names, out of what seems a genuine fear of his sinister contacts. Höglund himself was both afraid and mistrustful of them. “I’m not allowed to say anything,” he admitted to Håkan, during their one and only communication, by phone, in 1973. “People would be shocked if they knew of these things. I’ve already said too much.” Fourteen months before he died, he reiterated these concerns in a phone conversation with a friend of Håkan’s. “What I have gotten into is negative,” he lamented. “You become very isolated. I warn you against going deeper into this.”
Asked why he did not simply stop working with the beings, Höglund explained that he “would go the same way as Loftin Anderson. There is a way in but no way out.” During the first few years of his contacts, he felt that he owed them some help in return for healing his kidney.
Höglund obtained very little information from his contacts. If he asked something, he said, they would return the next day after consulting with the Overlords. Nonetheless, the Russian friend of Höglund’s (mentioned earlier), who claimed contact with the same beings, said that Höglund seemed to know more about them than he did, after working for them for twenty years.
“They are totally without feelings and can witness the most brutal torture,” Höglund once revealed to a friend. “It means nothing to them.” He felt like an animal in their company. In some ways, he said, they seemed stupid, and not even telepathic. They claimed to come from another planet and were here to prevent a third world war. But Höglund speculated that their real objective was to take us over from the inside—by infiltration.
* * *
There are parallels with reports of the notorious “men in black”—MIBs. In his initial appraisal of the case, Håkan cites John Keel, the well-known author and leading investigator of the MIB phenomenon. “On a number of occasions,” wrote Keel, “I actually saw the phantom Cadillacs as advertised, complete with sinister-looking Oriental-like passengers in black suits. On Long Island, following the directions given me in an anonymous phone call, I pursued one of these cars down a dead-end road where it seemingly vanished into thin air….”
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