Ufologist Albert Rosales said an email told that in Astoria, New York, on fall of 1965, at night, a five-year old girl had gone to bed with her mother and spoke for a while as the mother fell asleep.
Soon after, the girl saw a dark figure "flow" through the window panes, come towards the little girl and touch her on the forehead. Then figure backed out the same way it had come in.
The little girl woke up her mother and asked her if she had touched her and she said she did not. After the incident the little girl was afraid of large bodies of water and dreamt of flowing waves.
Basic information table:
Case number:
URECAT-000734
Date of event:
Fall 1965
Earliest report of event:
2000?
Delay of report:
Decades
Witness reported via:
eMail to ufologist.
First alleged record by:
Witness eMail.
First certain record by:
Ufology catalogue Rosales.
First alleged record type:
Witness eMail.
First certain record type:
Ufology catalogue.
This file created on:
July 6, 2008
This file last updated on:
July 6, 2008
Country of event:
USA
State/Department:
New York
Type of location:
In bed.
Lighting conditions:
Night
UFO observed:
Yes
UFO arrival observed:
No
UFO departure observed:
Yes
UFO/Entity Relation:
Certain
Witnesses numbers:
1
Witnesses ages:
5
Witnesses types:
Not reported. Little girl.
Photograph(s):
No.
Witnesses drawing:
No.
Witnesses-approved drawing:
No.
Number of entities:
1
Type of entities:
Not reported.
Entities height:
Not reported.
Entities outfit type:
Not reported.
Entities outfit color:
Not reported.
Entities skin color:
Not reported.
Entities body:
Not reported.
Entities head:
Not reported.
Entities eyes:
Not reported.
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:
Went in bedroom through window, touched witness forehead, went out through window.
Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in Astoria, New York, on fall 1965, at night, a five-year old girl had gone to bed with her mother and spoke for a while as the mother fell asleep. Soon after, the girl saw a dark figure "flow" through the window panes. The black figure came towards the little girl and touched her on the forehead. Then the dark figure backed out the same way it had come in. The little girl woke up her mother and asked her if she had touched her. The mother said no. After the incident the little girl was afraid of large bodies of water and dreamt of flowing waves.
Albert Rosales indicates as source an email address.
Points to consider:
It seems that the report is a summary of a late anonymous email sent to Albert Rosales.
This case shows most of the usual characteristics of an hypnagogic hallucination episode in childhood reinterpreted later as a close encounter of the third kind or possible close encounter of the third kind.
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.
New information from the witness:
On July 22, 2009, the witness contacted me. Thus she is no more anonymous, and her email address is verified. However, she asked me to remove her email address; which I published earlier as it was published by [ar1].
She told me:
"I read your analysis on my report. I just wanted to point out that I never fell asleep before or during the visitation."
List of issues:
Id:
Topic:
Severity:
Date noted:
Raised by:
Noted by:
Description:
Proposal:
Status:
None.
Evaluation:
No explanation.
Sources references:
* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.
[ar1] * "1965 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2007, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1965.shtml
Document history:
Authoring
Main Author:
Patrick Gross
Contributors:
None
Reviewers:
None
Editor:
Patrick Gross
Changes history
Version:
Created/Changed By:
Date:
Change Description:
0.1
Patrick Gross
July 6, 2008
Creation, [ar1].
1.0
Patrick Gross
July 6, 2008
First published.
1.1
Patrick Gross
July 22, 2009
As asked by the witness, removed her email address which was published by [ar1]. In the Point to Consider, addition of the paragraph "New information from the witness". Change of evaluation from "hypnagogic hallucination" to "No explanation".
