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SEPTEMBER 1965, MUNCIE, INDIANA, USA, A FEMALE STUDENT:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

Most folks have a foklore about "little people"; such is the case in Indiana where beings called "puk-wud-jies", or "little wild men of the forests" in Delaware Indian language are reputed to live in caves and camouflaged huts in good terms with Indians but staying hidden from other people, by camouflaging as vegetation. One story of such beings from a 1995 mystery magazine was then included in a ufology catalogue.

It told that in McCullough Park, Muncie, Indiana, on September 1965 in the afternoon, a female student at nearby Ball State University was studying in the park and was getting ready to leave when she saw two little men about 2 feet tall standing in the nearby underbrush watching her.

She closed her eyes and shook her head, but when she looked again they were still there. They appeared to be wearing clothing made out of bark and were bareheaded. One was thin, the other one was plump and had a beard.

After a few moments they turned and silently disappeared into the brush along a river.

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Narratives:

[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:

Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in McCullough Park, Muncie, Indiana, on September 1965 in the afternoon, a student at nearby Ball State University had gone to the park to do some studying and was getting ready to leave when she was astonished to see two little men about two-foot tall standing in the nearby underbrush watching her. She closed her eyes and shook her head, but when she looked again they were still there. They appeared to be wearing clothing made out of bark and were bareheaded. One was thin; the other one was plump and had a beard. After a few moments they turned and silently disappeared into the brush along a river.

Albert Rosales indicates as source Paul Startzman, Fate Vol. 48 #3.

Points to consider:

There are apparently rumours that claim there are beings called "puk-wud-jies", or "little wild men of the forests" in Delaware Indian language, reputed to live in Mounds State Park in Anderson, Indiana and along the White River that runs through Indiana. They are supposedly seen by some people locally and supposedly two to four feet tall, living in caves or camouflaged huts and are on good terms with the Indians but stay hidden from other people, by camouflaging as vegetation. They are mentioned at least as early as 1901 in a poem of Henry W. Longfellow or "The White Canoe And Other Legends of the Ojibways", a 1904 book by Elizabeth Monckton.

Deeply set in the local foklore, these alleged creatures, totally human in their appearance except for their size, seem to be what the alleged report here is about, Whether real of fantasy, these creature, in any case, are in no way UFO occupants. And expectedly, the witness is anonymous, the story cannot be checked, it appeared 40 years after it allegedly occurred, and no investigation report appeared.

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Evaluation:

Possibly only folklore. Not UFO-related. No credibility.

Sources references:

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

• [---] ? "The Puk-Wud-Jies of Indiana", article by Paul Startzman, in Fate magazine, Volume 48 #3, March 1995.
• [---] ? "The Puk-Wud-Jies of Indiana", book by Paul Startzman, Dorrance Publishing Company, USA, 1998.
• [ar1] * "1965 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2007, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1965.shtml

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