A reader of the sensationalist "UFO Universe" magazine apparently anonymously wrote to the magazine in the Summer of 1989 that in Bay City, Michigan, in 1965, in the early morning, as he or she was a young child, he or she woke up to see a three foot tall man standing at the side of the bed.
The man wore a brown jumpsuit, his skin was brown and he had large round brown eyes. He stared at the witness for a few seconds, smiled and then apparently went under the bed and vanished.
Basic information table:
Case number:
URECAT-000615
Date of event:
1965
Earliest report of event:
Summer 1989
Delay of report:
24 years
Witness reported via:
Anonymous letter to sensationalist UFO magazine.
First alleged record by:
Sensationalist UFO magazine.
First certain record by:
Ufology catalogue Rosales.
First alleged record type:
Sensationalist UFO magazine.
First certain record type:
Ufology catalogue.
This file created on:
April 12, 2008
This file last updated on:
April 12, 2008
Country of event:
USA
State/Department:
Michigan
Type of location:
In bed.
Lighting conditions:
Not reported.
UFO observed:
No
UFO arrival observed:
No
UFO departure observed:
No
UFO/Entity Relation:
None
Witnesses numbers:
1
Witnesses ages:
Not reported. child.
Witnesses types:
Not reported. Child.
Photograph(s):
No.
Witnesses drawing:
No.
Witnesses-approved drawing:
No.
Number of entities:
1
Type of entities:
Humanoid or human.
Entities height:
1.0 meters.
Entities outfit type:
Jumpsuit.
Entities outfit color:
Brown.
Entities skin color:
Brown.
Entities body:
Not reported. Man.
Entities head:
Not reported.
Entities eyes:
Large, brown, round.
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:
Stood near bed, looked at witness, smiled, disappeared under the bed.
Entities/witness interactions:
Looks at witness, smiled.
Witness(es) reactions:
Observed.
Witness(es) feelings:
Not reported.
Witness(es) interpretation:
Not reported.
Explanation category:
Possible hypnagogic hallucination. No credibility.
Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in Bay City, Michigan, in 1965, in the early morning, the witness, who was a young child at the time, woke up one morning to see a three-foot tall man standing at the side of the bed. The being wore a brown jumpsuit. His skin was brown and he had large round brown eyes. He stared at the witness for a few seconds, smiled and then apparently went under the bed and vanished.
Albert Rosales indicates as source Witness letter in UFO Universe Summer 1989.
Points to consider:
In addition to the total lack of element of credibility and the lack of information, it is clear that this experience without UFO, in bed, by a child, could quite obviously be only one very ordinary episode of hypnagogic hallucination.
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.
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April 12, 2008
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Primary source not available.
Help needed.
Opened.
Evaluation:
Possible hypnagogic hallucination. No credibility.
Sources references:
* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.
[---] ? Anonymous reader's letter in the UFO magazine UFO Universe, USA, Summer 1989.
[ar1] * "1965 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2007, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1965.shtml
