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About 1947, Yakima, Washington, USA, a little girl:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

apparently, US ufologist Gre Long investigated a case said to have occurred in 1947 or 1948:

In Yakima, Washington, USA, at night, a "small girl" named Sylvia was suddenly awoken by a bluish-white light flooding her bedroom through the window. Outside the surroundings were illuminated by a sort of huge cloud hovering 30m above the ground. Its silvery bottom was larger than the top, but its edges were blurred by the intense light. Gliding down from this "cloud" on a sort of ramp were tall beings wearing blue-silver robes, in groups of four about 1m apart, their feet immobile, as they went behind a low hill in the distance.

The girl was reluctant to leave the window but then had an urgent desire to go back to sleep so returned to her bed and fell into a deep sleep. She didn’t talk about the experience next morning. Around the time this occurred her small brother talked about "little green men" visiting him regularly.

Basic information table:

Narratives:

[Ref. pr1:] PETER ROGERSON:

Points to consider:

I miss the original report, so I cannot assess th case with much certainty. But obviously, this is a late report by someone who lived an experience in bed in the childhood.

Some light outside could have triggerred an hypnagogic hallucination experience in the young girl's sleep, quite simply. This does fit the "dream-like" narrative, starting and ending in bed.

I provide a few references among dozens about the topic of hypnagogic hallucination and sleep paralysis:

• "The Old Hag phenomenon as sleep paralysis: a biocultural interpretation", paper by R.C. Ness, in Cultural and Medical Psychiatry, vol. 2 #1, pp 15-39, March 1978.
• "Lucid Dreaming: The Paradox of Consciousness During Sleep", book by Celia Green and Charles McCreery, Routledge publisher, U-K., 1994.
• "Wrestling With Ghosts: A Personal And Scientific Account Of Sleep Paralysis", book by Jorge Conesa Sevilla, Xlibris Corporation publishers, U-K., 2004.
• "Hallucinations and pathological visual perceptions in Maupassant's fantastical short stories - a neurological approach", by L.C. Alvaro, in Journal of the History of Neuroscience, vol 14, #2, pp 100-115, June 2005.
• "Effects of hypnagogic imagery on the event-related potential to external tone stimuli", paper by N. Michida, M. Hayashi, T. Hori, in Sleep, Vol. 28 #7, pp 813-818, July 2005.
• "Sleep and Society: Ventures into the (Un)Known", book by Simon A. Williams, Routledge publisher, 2005.
• "Mental representation of space: Insights from an oblique distribution of hallucinations", paper by T.A Girard, D.L. Martius, J.A. Cheyne in Neuropsychologia, vol. 45 #6, pp 1257-1269, 2007.
• "Parasomnias", paper by D.T. Plante, J.W. Winkelman, in The Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Vol. 29 #4, pp 969-987, December 2006.
• "Paranoid delusions and threatening hallucinations: A prospective study of sleep paralysis experiences", paper preview by J.A. Cheyne, T.A. Girard, scheduled in Consciousness and Cognition for April 2007.

List of issues:

Evaluation:

Probable hypnagogic hallucination.

Sources references:

* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.

• [gl1] ? Investigation report by Greg Long in the ufology magazine International UFO Reporter (IUR), Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), USA, 19, 4, page 16.
• [pr1] * "INTCAT 1946-1949 - International Catalog of Entity Reports", catalog by Peter Rogerson, U-K., 2016, at http://intcat.blogspot.com/2018/02/intcat-1946-1949.html

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