Introduced as an expert on matters of "Near Death Experiences" (NDE), professor Kenneth Ring reported in a 1993 book that on April 12, 1979, a woman or girl woke up in the middle of the night feeling someone's hand on her back.
She turned around to se two beings leaning over her; one held a large hypodermic syringe with a long needle; the being had a gloved hand. She attempted to resist but was pushed down gently and told by telepathy that it was useless to resist.
She noticed that the room had a soft glow and the beings wore suits designed with a series of inflated rings resembling a "Michelin Man." Next thing she remembered was seeing the beings walking out the door.
Basic information table:
Case number:
URECAT-000400
Date of event:
April 12, 1979
Earliest report of event:
1993
Delay of report:
14 years
Witness reported via:
Not known.
First alleged record by:
NDE and UFO book.
First certain record by:
Ufology catalogue Rosales.
First alleged record type:
NDE and UFO book.
First certain record type:
Ufology catalogue.
This file created on:
December 16, 2007
This file last updated on:
December 16, 2007
Country of event:
Not reported, USA?
State/Department:
Not reported.
Type of location:
Bedroom, in bed.
Lighting conditions:
Night
UFO observed:
No
UFO arrival observed:
No
UFO departure observed:
No
UFO/Entity Relation:
None
Witnesses numbers:
1
Witnesses ages:
Not reported. Child, adult or aged.
Witnesses types:
Not reported. Girl or woman.
Photograph(s):
No.
Witnesses drawing:
No.
Witnesses-approved drawing:
No.
Number of entities:
2
Type of entities:
Not reported.
Entities height:
Small
Entities outfit type:
Michelin man type.
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. Hand in glove.
Entities fingers:
Not reported.
Entities fingers number:
Not reported.
Entities hair:
Not reported.
Entities voice:
None heard. Telepathy.
Entities actions:
Are in bedroom, with syringe, walk away though door.
Entities/witness interactions:
Have syringe, communicate by telepathy that resistance is useless.
Witness(es) reactions:
Slept, observed.
Witness(es) feelings:
Frightened.
Witness(es) interpretation:
Not reported.
Explanation category:
Possible hypnagogic hallucination. Insufficient data.
Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that on April 12, 1979, late in the night, a witness woke up in the middle of the night feeling someone's hand on her back. She turned around to se two beings leaning over her. One held a large hypodermic syringe with a long needle; the being had a gloved hand. The witness attempted to resist but was pushed down gently and told by mental telepathy that it was useless to resist. The witness noticed that the room had a soft glow and the beings wore suits designed with a series of inflated rings resembling a "Michelin Man." Next thing the witness remembered was seeing the beings walking out the door.
Albert Rosales indicates that the source is Kenneth Ring, PhD. "The Omega Project".
Points to consider:
Introduced as an expert on matters of "Near Death Experiences" (NDE), professor Kenneth Ring apparently failed to provide important information such as the place - I classified the case as a US case, but this is arbitrarily based on the assumption that as Dr. Ring is a US scientist the witness would possibly also be from the US.
More important, Dr. Ring does not seem to let us know why this could not have been a very ordinary case of hypnagogic hallunication and sleep paralysis.
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
December 16, 2007
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Insufficient data.
Help needed.
Opened.
2
Ufology
Severe
December 16, 2007
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
No investigation report available.
Help needed.
Opened.
3
Ufology
Severe
December 16, 2007
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Although obvious, the possibility of an hypnagogic hallucination experience does not seem to have been considered.
Help needed.
Opened.
Evaluation:
Possible hypnagogic hallucination. Insufficient data.
Sources references:
* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.
[---] ? "The Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, Ufo Encounters, and Mind at Large", book by Kenneth Ring, Quill publisher, USA, 1993.
[ar1] * "1956 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2001, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1956.shtml
