"Alien sighting in Mae Jan" countered by villager claiming
phantasm probably his missing inflated doll

By Manager Online September 13, 2005 01:59 pm

(Picture) Sketch of the alien being witnessed by villagers in
Mae Jan District, Chiang Rai Province

Click on the picture to enlarge.

(Picture) Rice farm the villagers claimed they saw the extra-
terrestrial being

Chiang Rai- The alien witnessing at Mae Jan, Chiang Rai, was
countered by a resident of Chiang San District. The man living
10 kilometers away from the area the entity was seen claimed
that the incident might have something to do with the inflated
doll he got when attending his relative’s graduation ceremony in
Chiang Mai. He said it had been tied up at the front of his
house before being blown away on August 29, 2005, only two days
before the alien sighting claimed by the Mae Jan villagers. He
believed that the particular inflated doll could be the actual
cause of the alien sighting news, but said he did not want to go
against the villagers.

Today (September 13) at 11:00 am, Tongmuan Pochailoet, a
resident of Doi Kam Village, Moo 10, Pasak Subdistrict, Chiang
San District, Chiang Rai Province, being about 10 kilometers to
the east of Huay Nam Rak Village, Moo 5, Jan Jawa Subdistrict,
Mae Jan District, Chiang Rai Province (where the unidentified
entity that resembled an extra-terrestrial being was witnessed),
called in "Ruam Duay Chuay Kan" community radio station of
Chiang Rai Province regarding the incident.

He told the reporter that he thought the phantasm claimed an
alien by the Huay Nam Rak villagers might be his missing
inflated rubber doll that had been tied up at the front of his
house.

Tongmuan said that in the middle of August 2005 he made a
journey to congratulate his relative at the graduation ceremony
at Chiang Mai University Conference Center. Then he visited the
Ancient Village Museum nearby. On the way, he found an inflated
greenish orange rubber doll being about 1 meter tall in a
roadside tree. He believed a child had lost the doll, so he
decided to take it home. The doll was tied up with the front
fence of his house in Chiang Rai since August 20, 2005 to be
used as a scarecrow. He thought it could scare away ducks and
chicken, as its neck, arms and legs moved, and it also floated
due to the gas filled.

On August 29, 2005, two days before the unidentified entity
believed to be an extra-terrestrial being was witnessed by the
Mae Jan villagers, the storm hitting the village carried away
the doll.

Tongmuan said the entity seen by the Huay Nam Rak villagers 10
kilometers away from where he lived might be his lost inflated
rubber doll he got from Chiang Mai that had been tied up with
the front fence of his house before being blown away. The strong
wind might have carried the doll to the area where the villagers
witnessed the entity. After early morning as the weather became
hot, the gas inflated might have caused some reaction leading to
the doll’s floating. That could be why the witnesses believed
the entity was an alien.

He did not take the missing of the particular doll seriously
until several days later when the news of the Huay Nam Rak
villagers’ alien sighting in Mae Jan District, Chiang Rai
Province, was widely spread. The news stirred the public
interest so much that he decided to call for help from the
community radio station and media to investigate the issue.
Although he was not certain whether what the Huay Nam Rak
villagers witnessed was his missing inflated rubber doll that
had been tied up at the front of his house, he did not want the
public to blindly believe in unproven thing. However, he did not
intend to go against those villagers.