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JANUARY 4, 1978, WROSE, WEST YORKSHIRE, U-K., SOMEONE:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

Ufologist Nigel Watson reportedly told in a 1990 book that on January 4, 1978, at night, in Wrose, West Yorkshire, U-K., someone was lying in bed when a short silvery transparent figure suddenly appeared hovering above the bed.

It is descreibed as human-like, wearing a monk-like robe, and with some short wing-like protrusions and a bright halo-type light around its head. It suddenly vanished in plain sight.

Basic information table:

Narratives:

[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:

Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in Wrose, England, on January 4, 1978, at night, the witness was lying in bed when a short silvery transparent figure suddenly appeared hovering above the bed. It seemed human like and was wearing a monk like robe. It also appeared to have some short wing like protrusions and a bright halo type light around its head. It suddenly vanished in plain sight.

Albert Rosales indicates that the source is "Nigel Watson, Portraits of Alien Encounters."

[Ref. dj1:] DONALD JOHNSON:

Donald Johnson indicates that on January 4, 1978, the witness was lying in his bed in Wrose, England on this night when a short silvery transparent figure suddenly appeared hovering above the bed. It seemed human like and was wearing a monk like robe. It also appeared to have some short wing like protrusions and a bright halo type light around its head. It vanished in plain sight.

The source is indicated as Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case 1790, citing Nigel Watson, Portraits of Alien Encounters.

[Ref. ud1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:

The website provides the summary by Albert Rosales as in [ar1], indicated as source.

Points to consider:

There is no UFO, and the being seems more like some sort of religious figure, an angel, than a being from another planet: a monk-like robe, silver, small winglets, a halo around the head. Unfortunately we are not told what the witness thought the being was.

The experience likely occurred when the person was asleep. Although the information is insufficient, of unknown origin and with a witness whose age is not even indicated, this is obviously one of the numerous hypnagogic hallucination experiences changed into a "humanoid encounter" for no valid reason.

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.

• [---] ? "Portraits of Alien Encounters, book by Nigel Watson, Valis Books publishers, U-K., 1990.
• [ar1] * "1978 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2007, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1978.shtml
• [dj1] * "Encounters with Aliens on this Day - January 4", web page compiled by Donald Johnson, USA, circa 2007, at www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/January04.html
• [ud1] * "4 Jan 1978 - Wrose, UK", web page by the website UFOdna, circa 2008, at www.ufodna.com/uf18/uf3/183529.htm

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