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Humanoid/Occupant/Encounter Cases

Abduction on the North Canol Road - Yukon, Canada Featured Case

September, 3, 1987 - Yukon Territory, Canada

Witness saw cigar-shaped object of green color, with portholes along side of it, flying low. Soon after, 2 beings/creatures were seen briefly nearby on the ground, and then abduction experience followed. Scoop marks found on hands afterwards.  View full report

Source: Martin Jasek, M.Sc., P. Eng.   ID: 100
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Abduction, Humanoid/Occupant, Humming, Portholes/Windows, Physiological Effects, Witness Sketch

Cigar-shaped UFO and three small discs at Hexam, NSW, Australia

December, 1984 - Hexam, Australia

The witness "observed a large, cigar-shaped object with a brilliant white light at the front it was coming towards them... The cigar had windows along the side... three small disc-shaped objects (3-4 metres across) flew into view moving towards the object...They travelled very quickly, zigzagging to join the larger cigar... Mrs L said that she saw what seemed to be a shadow or outline of a head with a helmet on in one of the smaller discs..."  View full report

Source: UFO Research (NSW), Australia - UFO Reporter, June 1992   ID: 1071
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Humanoid/Occupant, Multiple UFOs, Humming, Portholes/Windows, Body Lights

The Alfred Burtoo Encounter Featured Case

August, 12, 1983 - Aldershot, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Alfred Burtoo was fishing along an isolated canal when a disc-shaped UFO landed nearby. The beings were humanoid, 4'6" tall, dressed in green overalls and wore helmets with visors. The beings gestured at the witness to follow them and he went up a stairway into the craft. He was made to stand under an amber light. The beings spoke to him in broken English telling him that he was too old and infirm for their purposes, he was then let go.  View full report

Source: CJ website   ID: 707
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Humanoid/Occupant, Landing, Witness Sketch, Animal Reaction, Contact, Communication, Witness Photo

Close encounter with huge object, 20-30 occupants seen inside

February, 3, 1983 - Mobile, Alabama, United States

Huge object witnessed by Pat Norris of Mobile, Alabama. "As the craft appeared Mrs. Norris' attention was drawn to a top deck with a long window which she estimates 53 feet and through which she viewed 20 to 30 persons, apparently oblivious of her presence, walking about as if they were changing shift."  View full report

Source: APRO Bulletin, Vol. 32, No. 2 (May 1984)   ID: 267
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Humanoid/Occupant, Portholes/Windows

Forester Encounters Mine-Like Entities in Scotland (the Dechmont Woods Encounter) Featured Case

November, 9, 1979 - Livingston, Scotland, United Kingdom

Robert Taylor, a forester from West Lothian, Scotland, encountered a strange object and equally strange smaller objects or "entities". The rounded larger object, 20 feet in diameter, hovered above the ground. Then, two small objects, which were round but had appendages, "rushed" toward him. These objects each attached itself to one (each) of his trouser legs and tugged him towards the larger object, at which time Taylor lost consciousness. Ground marks were discovered at the scene of the encounter.  View full report

Source: APRO, July 1980   ID: 682
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Landing, Humanoid/Occupant, Smell/Odor, Physical Trace, Witness Photo

Disk-like craft hovers low, 'people' visible in windows

March, 1979 - Michigan, United States

From the witness: "The disk like craft came down directly over the church/rectory and hovered about 20 ft. above it.... It was disk-like with a very wide band of windows around the middle of the thing.... There were people/beings (?) looking down at me.... Two of them then were standing up and came up to the windows, and they just started down at me and the car.... I could see right into their craft. It was very brightly lit up inside."  View full report

Source: MUFON   ID: 1186
Case Type: RawReport

Landed UFO and humanoid encountered by four hunters in Spain

November, 24, 1978 - Gerena, Seville, Spain

The four witnesses were hunting in the early morning hours near the Guadiamar River, when they encountered a landed object with a humanoid being standing next to it. The UFO looked like a large earthen jar, upside down, with a red light on top. The being seemed strong and tall (some 2 meters or taller), and had on a dark-colored helmet and silvery body suit. The witnesses become frightened when the humanoid approached them, and they left the area running.  View full report

Source: Ignacio Darnaude, APRO, Sept. 1979   ID: 681
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Humanoid/Occupant, Landing, Physical Trace

Fort Dix / McGuire AFB Case Featured Case

January, 18, 1978 - Fort Dix/McGuire AFB, New Jersey, United States

The primary eyewitness in the case, Jeffrey Morse, alleged (i) that he had been working as a security policeman at McGuire AFB when he was notified about UFO activity over Fort Dix army base. (ii) Morse alleged that he heard that a non-human entity had been shot and he later saw the dead body of the entity lying on the ground on a disused runway at McGuire AFB.  View full report

Source: NIDS, National Institute for Discovery Science   ID: 317
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Military, Humanoid/Occupant, Witness Sketch

Abduction by robot-like beings in Brazil (La Rubia case) Featured Case

September, 15, 1977 - Paciencia (near Rio de Janeiro), Brazil

Antonio La Rubia, a 33-year-old bus driver, encountered a huge object, which he estimated to be 70 meters (235 feet) across, sitting in a field near his home. He decided to retreat, but was unable to do so, for at the moment he started to run, an intensely bright light lit up the area, and he was unable to move. At that moment Antonio saw three "robots" positioned near him, and he was captured and taken into the disc.  View full report

Source: APRO Bulletin, Vol. 26 No. 4, Oct. 1977   ID: 464
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Abduction, Physiological Effects, Injury, Humanoid/Occupant

UFO with two occupants seen by Dorset, UK woman Featured Case

September, 1977 - Parkstone, United Kingdom

Mrs. Ethel May Field, 62, a housewife, had gone out to the back garden to take in washing from the clothes-line, when she heard a humming sound which prompted her to look at the sky. She encountered a round object with a dome on top. Standing inside the windows of the object were two humanoid occupants, one at each window.  View full report

Source: Leslie Harris, FSR Vol. 24 No. 2 (1978)   ID: 632
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  'Dyad Scout Craft', Humanoid/Occupant, Physiological Effects, Humming, Witness Photo, Communication

Man has close encounter with UFO occupants (the Dawson encounter)

August, 6, 1977 - Pelham, Georgia, United States

Retired automobile salesman Tom Dawson, 63, was walking with his two dogs from his trailer home to a nearby farm when a "circular shaped space ship" with a dome and portholes, 40-50 ft in diameter and 12-14 ft high, set down in a field in front of him. He found he was unable to move a muscle. A hatch in the object opened, a ramp was extended, and 7 strange looking humans 5 ft tall emerged, five men and two women.  View full report

Source: Billy Rachels / Ronald Story (2001)   ID: 657
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Humanoid/Occupant, Landing, 'Dyad Scout Craft'

Man has encounter with 35 beings from landed UFO

June, 22, 1977 - Bulloo River, Australia

Gold prospector "Albert Smith" noticed three lights in the sky, which moved down toward him and then nestled in a clump of trees near his camp. He saw figures emerge amid dazzling lights. Thus began the most incredible, two days in the life of 47-rear-old Albert, in which he claims he was visited by people from another world at his lonely camp on the Bulloo River in far southwest Queensland.  View full report

Source: Brisbane Sunday Sun (Brisbane, Australia), Jan. 8, 1978   ID: 441
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Humanoid/Occupant, Communication, Landing, Portholes/Windows

Three boys frightened by strange creatures from landed UFO

May, 20, 1977 - West Pittsburg, California, United States

On the night of May 20, 1977, three Contra Costa County boys say they saw an object resembling a flying saucer land in West Pittsburg. They fled in terror when strange creatures came toward them, walking like stiff robots surrounded by smoke or steam vapor. The Center for UFO Studies, directed by J. Allen Hynek, considered this to be one of only three credible humanoid encounter cases of the year.  View full report

Source: Oakland Tribune (Oakland, CA), Apr. 2, 1978   ID: 452
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Humanoid/Occupant, Landing, Children, Portholes/Windows, Witness Photo

Occupant Case in Tucson

February, 10, 1977 - Tucson, Arizona, United States

Ms. Lois Stovall was sitting on her couch when she noticed a light, like a bright star. It curved toward her house, approaching at a low level. Lois and her grandmother went out into the yard, less than 50 feet from the hovering object and watched. The object was almost capsule-shaped. Inside crouched a human-shaped figure, all over gray in color, that looked puffed up, like a balloon.  View full report

Source: APRO Bulletin, Vol. 25 No. 8 (Feb. 1977)   ID: 358
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Humanoid/Occupant

Youth reports UFOs with 'greenish creatures' Featured Case

January, 19, 1977 - Harrah, Washington, United States

Nine-year-old Jose Cantu of Harrah woke his mother up at about 6:30 a.m. asking her to explain the little "man" he saw outside. According to the boy, he had seen two greenish creatures about three feet tall, who rotated on a base instead of having feet, and two "steely" crafts in which 2 other creatures were sitting.  View full report

Source: Toppenish Review (Toppenish, WA), Jan. 26, 1977   ID: 462
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Humanoid/Occupant, Children, Witness Sketch, Physical Trace

Sixty-foot craft lands with two occupants (Johnny Sands case)

January, 29, 1976 - Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Johnny Sands, a country-western singer living in Las Vegas, saw a 60-foot craft at about 1000 feet altitude, shaped like the Goodyear blimp, with portholes around the circumference. The object appeared to land, and Sands then saw two figures approaching. Then, he "froze" -- he wanted to move, but he couldn't. The figures came near him, to about three feet away.  View full report

Source: APRO Bulletin, Vol. 24 No. 9 (Mar 1976)   ID: 314
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Physiological Effects, Vehicle Interference, Humanoid/Occupant, Polygraph Test, Portholes/Windows

UFO lands and humanoid taps young schoolboy on shoulder Featured Case

February, 23, 1975 - Kofu City, Japan

Young Japanese schoolchildren watched a UFO touched down on February 23, 1975. The landing took place near Kofu City, Yamanshi Prefecture, Japan. An occupant allegedly emerged and touched one child on the shoulder, temporarily paralyzing him. The occupant then walked around the craft and reboarded. The boys, in hysterics, ran home to their parents, who observed a large, orange-red light hovering over the vineyard.  View full report

Source: Yamanashi Nichi-Nichi Shimbun (Daily News, Japan), Feb. 25, 1975   ID: 443
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Humanoid/Occupant, Landing, Children, Witness Sketch, Witness Photo, Physical Trace

Man taken into craft, encounter with 3 beings

January, 4, 1975 - Bahia Blanca, Argentina

Carlos Alberto Diaz, a clerk in a central store, was walking home from work, when he was paralyzed after being blinded by a brilliant flash of light. Trying to resist, he was pulled off the ground and when about 3 meters off the ground he became unconscious... When Diaz regained consciousness he was inside a smooth, bright sphere which appeared to be semi-transparent plastic... Suddenly, Diaz reports, three creatures resembling humans came sliding into the sphere...  View full report

Source: APRO Bulletin, Vol. 23 No. 5 (Mar 1975)   ID: 307
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Physiological Effects, Abduction, Humanoid/Occupant, Witness Photo, Humming

UFO with two occupants hovers over man's car

1975 - San Antonio, Texas, United States

A 48-year-old San Antonio sheet metal worker claims he had a close encounter of the third kind with two occupants of a UFO. He was driving his pickup truck just south of San Antonio when he "was approached, spotlighted and, nearly buffeted off the road by an unidentified craft," investigators report.  View full report

Source: San Antonio Evening News (San Antonio, TX), Feb. 20, 1978   ID: 437
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Humanoid/Occupant, Vehicle Interference, Witness Sketch, 'Dyad Scout Craft'

Occupant Case In Wisconsin (William Bosak Encounter)

December, 2, 1974 - Frederic, Wisconsin, United States

Farmer William Bosak, 68, had what he termed as a hair-raising experience December 2, 1974. As he was driving home, he spotted an object on the left side of the road ahead of him. "It had a curved front of glass and inside I could see a figure with its arms raised above its head."  View full report

Source: APRO Bulletin, Vol. 23 No. 4 (Jan/Feb 1975)   ID: 360
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Humanoid/Occupant

Carl Higdon's humanoid/UFO encounter Featured Case

October, 25, 1974 - Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming, United States

Carl Higdon, while hunting elk, raised his rifle and fired, but the bullet only went about 50 feet and dropped. He heard a noise and looked over to see a "sort of man" standing there. The man called himself "Ausso" and asked Mr. Higdon if he'd like to go with him and Higdon replied that he guessed so. The man pointed an appendage and at this juncture Mr. Higdon said he found himself in a transparent cubicle along with Ausso.  View full report

Source: APRO Bulletin, Vol. 23 No. 5 (Mar 1975)   ID: 308
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Humanoid/Occupant

Robots In Quebec, Canada

July, 22, 1974 - St. Cyrille, Province du Quebec, Canada

Mr. L. was preparing to go to bed when he heard a strange sound like "bum bum bum" outside. He lifted the curtain in the living room and saw a reddish-orange round object hovering over the field to the northeast side of his house trailer. When he looked outside he saw what he described as a robot like creature, about 6 feet tall, within 15 feet of the trailer.  View full report

Source: APRO Bulletin, Vol. 23 No. 3 (Nov/Dec 1974)   ID: 305
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Physical Trace, Humanoid/Occupant, Animal Reaction

UFO with occupants approaches witness and hovers over farm

June, 14, 1974 - Medellin, Spain

Santiago Pulido Romero, 46, was going to his father's farm when he saw an object flying at low level. It was "round on the bottom and with a sort of cone-shaped tower on top." When he switched his car lights on, the object came towards him at very high speed, only to move away from he turned out the lights. Inside the craft, Santiago could see three tall men, "who seemed to be holding on to some sort of control levers" and wearing helmets.  View full report

Source: Eileen Buckle, FSR Vol. 20 No. 3   ID: 600
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Humanoid/Occupant, Interaction/Reaction

Occupant Encounter in New Hampshire (Lyndia Morel Encounter)

November, 2, 1973 - Manchester, New Hampshire, United States

Excerpt: "As the car approached a point opposite the middle of the cemetery the UFO closed possibly to within less than 500 feet... At this point she estimated the object to be at the height of a three-story building. The figure in the window was now distinct."  View full report

Source: Walter Webb, APRO Bulletin, Vol. 12 No. 4 (Jan/Feb 1974)   ID: 303
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Humanoid/Occupant
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