The report was on the CAUS ufology website, disappeared with the website, was probably a reader's email report, and then entered one ufology catalogue.
The person apparently reported that in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1955, at night, he or she remembers floating out of his second floor bedroom window, and rising up into a hovering disc shaped object. Inside, several short gray creatures with huge black eyes, apparently performed several very "unpleasant" procedures on him/her.
Basic information table:
Case number:
URECAT-000465
Date of event:
1955
Earliest report of event:
2000?
Delay of report:
5 decades?
Witness reported via:
eMail?
First alleged record by:
UFO website.
First certain record by:
Ufology catalogue Rosales.
First alleged record type:
UFO website.
First certain record type:
Ufology catalogue.
This file created on:
January 30, 2008
This file last updated on:
January 30, 2008
Country of event:
USA
State/Department:
Ohio
Type of location:
Bedroom, flying saucer.
Lighting conditions:
Night
UFO observed:
Yes
UFO arrival observed:
No
UFO departure observed:
Not reported.
UFO/Entity Relation:
Certain
Witnesses numbers:
1
Witnesses ages:
Not reported. Child or young or young adult.
Witnesses types:
Not reported.
Photograph(s):
No.
Witnesses drawing:
No.
Witnesses-approved drawing:
No.
Number of entities:
Several
Type of entities:
Humanoid
Entities height:
Small
Entities outfit type:
Not reported.
Entities outfit color:
Not reported or grey.
Entities skin color:
Not reported or grey.
Entities body:
Not reported.
Entities head:
Not reported.
Entities eyes:
Huge, black.
Entities mouth:
Not reported.
Entities nose:
Not reported.
Entities feet:
Not reported.
Entities arms:
Not reported.
Entities fingers:
Not reported.
Entities fingers number:
Not reported.
Entities hair:
Not reported.
Entities voice:
None reported.
Entities actions:
Were in UFO, floated witness in, performed unpleasant operations on witness.
Entities/witness interactions:
Floated witness in, performed unpleasant operations on witness.
Witness(es) reactions:
Observed.
Witness(es) feelings:
Not reported.
Witness(es) interpretation:
Not reported.
Explanation category:
Possible hypnagogic dream. Insufficient information.
Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1955, at night, the witness remembers floating out of his bedroom window, which was on the second floor, and rising up into a hovering disc shaped object. Inside several short gray creatures with huge black eyes, apparently performed several very "unpleasant" procedures on the witness.
Albert Rosales indicates that the source is CAUS.
Points to consider:
The Citizen Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS) web site, disappeared circa 2006, had a number of web pages where reader's reports were published, ranging from interesting to nonsensical, the majority of them being simply published and not investigated case files. This is the likely origin for this report.
This case could have been an hypnagogic dream. The disappearance of the original source and the low chances of getting any further information for any investigation about it make it very unlikely that anything more than that can be said about it.
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:
Id:
Topic:
Severity:
Date noted:
Raised by:
Noted by:
Description:
Proposal:
Status:
1
Data
Severe
January 30, 2008
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Primary source disappeared.
Help needed.
Opened.
Evaluation:
Possible hypnagogic dream. Insufficient information.
Sources references:
* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.
[---] ? Ufology website Citizen Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS), USA, anciennement à www.caus.org, circa 2000-2006.
[ar1] * "1955 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2006, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1955.shtml
