Many cases from 2010 and 2011 are summarized in the issues of THE JOURNAL OF HUMANOID STUDIES and will not be duplicated here. After a busy 2011...2012 has proved to be a most interesting year so far with numerous assorted encounters and cases. Are we building up for something? Is this our last year to learn our real place in the cosmos? I suspect it will be my last year for collecting cases and I will start work in other projects. (All the available issues of the Journal of Humanoid Studies can be downloaded for free from the UFOINFO site).
Albert S. Rosales
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JANUARY - JULY 2010
Date: 2010
Time: 02:00 a.m.
The witness was visiting his mother and late at night left the house to visit a longtime friend who also lived in the city. It is only a 10 minute walk. However while walking his next memory was of having his eyes closed and hearing a calm, relaxing, soothing almost hypnotizing female voice saying, “Kevin…Kevin..Is ok Kevin we are here to help, it’s ok we are not going to harm you. We’re going to make you feel better.”
He then opened his eyes and at first there was a blinding light that vanished and he could now see a room and in the room he saw two ‘Grey’ aliens, very tall. He remembers that the room was of two different colors , 1 on the top of the wall and on the bottom almost like a trim around a room, the top color was purple and the bottom color was blue, it was a thin line of these colors trimming the room as light, as light seemed to emanate from them. He asked the aliens if they were going to harm him and what were they going to do. They replied telling the witness, “We are going to help you and fix you”. The witness was sure that his mouth was not moving as he ‘spoke’ to them. His next recollection was of each Grey on each side of him; he was then placed against a cold metal object and brought to a hall to the left of the room. The hall was dark and cloudy or misty like a fog and it must have been about 40 to 50 ft long. Before he got to the next room he saw to the right in the room a huddle circle ‘formation’ of at least 7 to 8 gray humanoids, they were all very tall. There was an ‘exit’ to another room next to them into a white colored hall. To the left of the groom was a smaller group of about 5 grays.
The room itself was round and dark and also foggy, there was also a dim light across the room. The walls of the room were indented almost like a V-shape he also noticed an odor in the air resembling Peroxide or Ammonia. As he was taken into the room he remembers looking at one of the grays that was so tall that ‘he’ had to bend down and looked directly into the witness’ eyes. Strangely at this point the witness felt no fear. Suddenly one of the gray humanoids inserted a small back tube inside the witness’ nose, which made a small noise. The humanoid had long fingers and had a small mouth which seemed to move up and down ‘like a fish’ but did not say anything. He remembers screaming after that was done. All the time he could hear a voice saying, “It’s going to be ok we are here to help”. It was a soft calm voice. He next remembers being ‘slammed’ down into a metallic table and moved to another area of the room. At this point the witness became defensive and began kicking the humanoids around him, one of the creatures fell against a wall and then fell down. The other ‘grays’ then quickly backed away, his next memory was of being on the side of the road again. He felt confused and tired. A police officer drove next to him and stared at him in a strange manner but did not stop to assist. It was now nearly 06:00 a.m., the witness had lost nearly 5 hours of time.
He additionally described the ‘grays’ as at least 7ft to 8ft tall with long fingers, slits for mouths and small black eyes. They communicated to him and among themselves telepathically. The witness used to have a ‘crooked’ nose before the event but is now straight. The colors inside the craft were white, purple and blue.
HC addendum
Source: http://mufoncms.com/
Type: G
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Location. Heiden, The Netherlands
Date: 2010
Time: night
The witness, a young man named Soufian (involved in other encounters) had gone to sleep as usual and during the middle of the night Soufian began to experience a strange ‘dream’. In this dream he saw himself lying down in bed. There was a tall and slender female humanoid figure standing alongside the bed, about 1 meter away. The lady was wearing light colored robes; she had pale gray colored skin and long pale blond/white hair which hung down to her shoulders. She looked very healthy, with smooth skin. For some reason Soufian does not remember her facial features. Her arms and lower legs were exposed, and other than the skin tone looked human.
Soufian stared at this scene for a couple of seconds. Then without warning the figure was closer and appeared to have her hands down inside of his lower chest. He immediately felt excruciating pain, like the lady was moving his lower ribs back and forth and crushing down on them. From his current viewpoint he could not see whether or not his chest was actually opened up, but he feels that it wasn’t and that the hands of this being had somehow entered his skin. He watched himself struggling against what was taking place, but he felt that he was paralyzed and trapped. The intense pain continued. He tried shouting out but could not scream, there was just complete silence. The procedure seemed to go on for a very long time, possibly a couple of hours, although Soufian says that it could have been less but felt so long due to the pain. Then all of the sudden it was over. The lady vanished and he awoke with a shock. However despite the traumatic experience he had just undergone, Soufian soon drifted back off the sleep. In the morning he lay in bed remembering what had taken place. He could feel that his lower ribs were aching. At first he was frightened to check, but after about half an hour he looked over his body for any markings or cuts. There was nothing. He got up and went into work like normal. The aching pain in his ribs continued for several hours before finally dispersing. However his ribs continued to feel sensitive for at least another day.
HC addendum
Source: Dave Hodrien, Birmingham UFO Group
Type: G?
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Location. Michigan (exact location not given)
Date: February 2010
Time: late night
The witness was getting ready to go to bed when she looked out the window and noticed a strange but somehow ‘familiar’ object which was very close to the window and hovering low over the ground. The UFO was circular and she could the light on the inside of the craft with a ‘being’ inside it, but could only see the outline of its body…which was black. It was not human but humanoid in shape with a noticeably larger head than those of humans, shortly after the witness noticed it; it then rotated away from the spot and shot up towards the sky.
HC addendum
Source: http://mufoncms.com
Type: A
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Location. Athens, Texas
Date: February 10 2010
Time: 23:00-23:30
The witness had just exited a vehicle he had been riding with friends and was going to walk across a field surrounded by woods to an apartment complex. His reason for not going directly to the apartments what that he did not want someone at the apartments to see him with his friends. As he was crossing the wooded area heading to the field he felt a presence above him. Somehow ‘he knew it was a UFO without looking’. He started running through the woods to escape. That is when he heard a ‘twitching’ noise in the bushes in front of him. He turned and ran in a different direction but no matter which way he turned he would hear the same noises ahead. The noises kept him running in a circle. Then he became paralyzed and could only move in a jerking motion and fell to his knees. At this time ‘God told him not to open his eyes’, he became weightless for a few moments and next he was examined with some device that he called a scanner. As it moved around his head he could hear a buzzing sound similar to a radio being tuned across the band. The device made his hair stand up as it was moved over his head. While lying down (he assumes inside the craft) he hears someone say ‘he is still alive.’ Then he hears someone else say, he needed a transfer and then a string of numbers. For some reason he felt that these numbers were very important and related to future UFO research, that he should be hypnotized to reveal the ‘sequence’. The duration of the incident was about fifteen minutes. He then cried so much that his shirt was soaking wet. When he was returned (to the ground?) he was standing, his arms outstretched, looking up at the sky. The sky had been cloudy before, upon his return the clouds were gone and he could see the stars. He also added that they had scraped his skin in the stomach area he thought that they might have been collecting DNA samples.
HC addendum
Source: http://mufoncms.com/
Type: G
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Location. Near Wakefield, England
Date: March 31 2010
Time: 11:30 a.m.
The witness (requesting anonymity) began having strange experiences some time in 2009 when she was about to commence life guard training. She was staying at her mother’s house for the week and it was also the time when there had been a volcanic eruption in Iceland that grounded planes across Europe for several weeks. She had read an article about the government testing a drone plane in Wales about 50 or so miles from where she lives. This drone could only be tested in restricted air space so it was quite interesting to be informed that planes across the UK and Europe were to be grounded because of the risk from ash effectively making all airspace restricted and leaving the skies free for the drones.
According to the witness, at the time she could see several formations of these drones in the sky at any given time in the evening. She also noticed another strange occurrence, lasers in short green bursts apparently raining from the sky. The witness became curious about all these events and made a huge amount of search engine requests combining these things. But low and behold her computer (a Mac) started behaving strangely and any software she tried to use also failed. After discovering that most people could not see these lasers (though a few did, she went to a friend’s house and they were pouring through her windows and bouncing around the room, even off the carpet and soft furnishings and her friend and husband could see them). When she asked her friends if they had noticed them they replied they had been coming in for several days and they assumed they were coming from satellites and pointing out of the window at what she thought were about 7 drones. According to the witness she could clearly see the drones when they were flying very high but obviously much closer than satellites.
One evening as she approached her mum’s house in her car she thought she saw someone run into an alleyway opposite her house. All these alleyways are gated and it was dark so not many people would want to go into them. She thought it might have been a burglar so she mentioned it to her mum. She then made a point of keeping an eye out of the window just in case the ‘burglar’ made a return visit. She could also hear noises coming from outside though she could not see anything from the window. She looked out the from door letter box and saw what looked like a tall very skinny man standing in front of a neighbor’s car facing where she was, his face looked like it had large eye sockets though they were dark and she couldn’t make out any eyes, his skin looked gray and wrinkly though stuck to the bones like it ‘dried and dead’. He seemed to sway very slightly. She opened the front door quickly but there was no one there. She went to the front window, but there was no one there. She went back inside and watched through the letter box window as a car drove by and the tall thin stranger turned his head to watch the car pass, and then resumed his posture facing her direction, another car passed and he did the same thing. She told her mum and she went barging out of the house to check but he was gone.
The lasers continued for several days and one day she had to call the police out when she was back at the house because she could hear noises in her attic and what sounded like muffled speech, while she was on the phone with the police there was a loud banging coming from her daughter’s room where one of the loft hatches is located, when a policeman later checked the hatch and fell down her daughter’s wardrobe it made the same noise but the police could not find anyone in the house and no sign of entry.
The final and most significant incident happened on March 31 2010 at around 11:30 a.m. when the witness was on her way to meet a client when something very ‘odd’ happened. She pulled off the M1 motorway just south of Wakefield to call the client and tell him that she was 10 minutes away, she didn’t want to hang around too long as she had just performed a U-turn at a no U-turn sign and after a 2 hour drive she just wanted to get there, finished and go home. In front of her a lorry (truck) drove off and 2 large black saloon cars with blacked out windows pulled in front of her. She watched briefly as 3 men in black suits got out of the first car and made their way to the back door of the second car, which opened and the men started talking with someone in the back seat of the car. She then heard her cell phone signal indicating a text message so she picked up the phone and looked at the screen opening the message. The next thing she knew she looked up and the cars were gone, there was no text message on the phone and it was over 1 hour later. She also had a strong recollection of having had a long conversation with an alien being, tall and aqua blue in color. She was lying down at the time and viewing ‘her’ from chin upwards as she was above her head. The alien had large oval black eyes, and no nose to speak of, no real lips but a mouth. The alien ‘spoke’ to the witness without moving her lips and they discussed how the world needed to be saved, how peace was important right now, it was so important that she should make this happen in some way, that it was her ‘job’. She asked for more ‘tools’ to help her achieve this end and was told that they would see what could be done.
One of the stranger parts of this conversation was that she addressed the female alien in a word she didn’t understand but she knew it meant both commander and mother, she felt she knew her and that she was in charge though she also held status where ever they were. The witness ‘was at no means at the bottom of the pecking order but in a position to give orders if necessary.’ At no time was she afraid and was comfortable at all times. The only thing that worried her was the pressing matter of bringing peace to this planet before it was too late. She doesn’t know when ‘too late’ is, but she knows things that perhaps she had no real way of knowing. Some months ago she had an argument with a friend about why America could possibly get anything out of invading Afghanistan, to which she replied, ‘for the resources of course’ her friend insisted there was nothing there to be had. However just over a month later the news reported that gold, silver and lithium etc had been found abundantly in Afghanistan.
After finding herself an hour late in meeting her client and actually still assuming her car clock must have been wrong even though she knew it hadn’t been wrong when she last looked. When the witness arrived at her client’s home and began the ‘sessions’ she saw her client gasp as both realized that her pants were soaked in a thick red blood. She was shocked and felt a little disoriented. She then drove straight home and told her partner, his sister and daughter who were a little alarmed and surprised but offered no real comfort . The bleeding stopped the next day and nothing like that has ever happened since.
HC addendum
Source: direct from the witness (email on file)
Type: G
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Date: April 17 2010
Time: evening
A woman was driving her ex and his son back home from a birthday dinner at a favorite restaurant and was coming along a two lane stretch of road when ahead of them they saw what appeared to look like a large white ball that had moved out onto the highway directly from a cemetery above. She said it began coming towards them as if it were trying to collide with the vehicle and the closer they got to this thing they had a better look at it. She described it as appearing to be half-animal, reptile, half-human with human limbs. It had two arms and two legs and was crawling on its belly. She hoped that the creature would exit the highway and into the woods to prevent getting hit but it just continued moving directly at them and the vehicle. She slammed on her brakes to avoid hitting it and at that point the creature went from to ‘spinning’ like a tornado right before it made contact with the front of the vehicle.
Then she said it went beneath the radiator and vanished. She, her ex and his son were all quite shaken and terrified and said that whatever the creature was it wasn’t anything from this world. She continued describing it as having two human arms and legs, mid body alligator or reptile and white as snow. It crawled on its stomach like reptile. He ex stated that during the encounter it felt like time had stood still. Everything just slowed down. All three of them agreed that they had a very eerie feeling of something very evil present before they encountered this thing.
HC addendum
Source: Phantoms and Monsters Blog 9-17-2011
Type: E
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Location. Ocean City, Maryland
Date: May 29 2010
Time: night
Excited to be in Ocean City the witness was outside on a deck on the first floor of a three floor condo building having a smoke, looking at the stars and watching the people across the street party on their 3rd floor deck. He was looking at the Orion Constellation and saw a falling star start from the left of Orion’s belt and continue through the bottom part of the constellation. The falling star was incredibly bright and it seemed like it took forever for it to finally burn out.
The people across the street left and went to the beach, so he went inside and got another smoke before he went to bed. He thinks it was about 15 minutes since seeing the falling star when he went back outside sat down and noticed a figure sitting at the patio table on the 2nd floor of the condo building across the street. He found it very strange because no one was occupying that unit. He was staring in disbelief how the strange figure looked. It was sitting at the table like a human would; with its left arm resting on the table and it appeared that his legs were crossed (for some reason the witness felt it was a male). The figure was tall, big, muscular, with a shadow/black like appearance and no visible features. The head was elongated and it was very large. The witness couldn’t believe he just sat there and stared since he feels he should had screamed and ran inside but somehow he didn’t. He could tell it knew that the he was there, but the witness eventually got up and left because it made no movement and he grew scared of what would happen. As he closed the sliding glass door after going inside the figure was still there.
That morning at daylight, he attempted to determine what could have made that figure on the deck but there was nothing on the deck but a table and 4 chairs.
HC addendum
Source: MUFON CMS
Type: E?
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Location. New York City, New York
Date: June 2010
Time: late night
The witness (involved in other incidents) woke up in the middle of the night and was paralyzed. She was able to move her eyes and hear her surroundings, but could not for the life of her move her body. She heard a commotion on the left side of the bedroom and as she turned her eyes towards that direction, she saw two small gray creatures communicating to each other. Not believing what she was seeing she began to panic when a third smaller gray came through the window with what seemed to be a mask in his hand. She began to scream but no sound came out her mouth, it was as she was screaming in her mind. As the gray humanoid approached her with the mask she felt a ringing/siren noise in her head and she apparently blacked out since she doesn’t remember seeing the gray humanoids depart. As soon as they left she was again able to move her body.
HC addendum
Source: http://www.alienufotruth.com/sleep-paralysis-and-encounter/
Type: E
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Location. Mertztown, Pennsylvania
Date: Summer 2010
Time: evening
A father and son were parked on the side of the road in a heavily wooded area when a winged ‘monster’ casually glided up the road. It looked big enough to carry a full grown man away with no effort. When the wing flew over the hood of the car, they both instantly ducked down. The creature had a round human sized head with no beak and huge bat-like wings, the body was 5-6 ft in length easy, wing span was 25-30 ft easy, no feathers, bat-like skin, jet black, and a 4-5 ft skinny rat-like tail that stuck straight out. This creature didn’t flying like a bird it glided about 10 ft off the ground at a very slow speed. After 50 to 75 ft of gliding, it took one huge flap of the wings, never changing elevation and glided up the road until it disappeared into the woods. The adult witness is convinced that this creature lives ‘underground’ probably near some hot springs since it has no feathers.
HC addendum
Source: Phantoms and Monsters blog
Type: E
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Location. England, exact location not given
Date: July 2010
Time: evening
The witness was sitting in his room typing on his computer when he noticed a black object outside. He didn’t think anything of it because he thought it was a bird, then he looked past his screen and there it was again. Since he had be talking about UFOs earlier that day he thought to get his camera and he waited for the object and it passed by the window again but because it was going at a good speed he couldn’t get his camera focused on the object. It came around one more time and by this time he had opened his window to see if he could get a better look and then it flew off. He noted that there was no sound coming from the object.
Later that night he kept wondering what the object was and as he was laying in bed he suddenly got a ‘transmission-like’ vision of these four unknown beings standing over him, he couldn’t see any facial expressions but he looked over to his arm and they had a long silver-like needle scratching into the skin. He couldn’t move or feel anything. He looked back and above him was a huge round light. He has never been able to forget it and had never told anyone.
The witness added that after the black object had circled the house several times, it then shot off. He did take a photograph but it was not very good. It was that same night, as he lay in bed unable to sleep, that he first got the image of a light and then saw the beings. He couldn’t see their faces but they were tall. He compared them to doctors and it was as if they were taking a blood test; they had a long very thin thing like a needle that touched his vein. Then the beings just disappeared. Throughout the experience he found he couldn’t move; it was as if he were paralyzed. In the morning he noticed a narrow red line where they had scratched the skin. He has a feeling that they will come again, which scares him.
HC addendum
Source: Yorkshire UFO Society, http://ufophenomenon.weebly.com/black-ufo-alien-bedroom-visitors.html
Type: D?
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Location. Minocqua, Wisconsin
Date: July 2010
Time: late night
The witness and her husband purchased a small lake home located about 50 feet from a gorgeous lake. The day of the move, she led first with one of the rental trucks loaded, her husband and children would be following the next day with the last of their items.
She pulled into their new home around 22:00 that night; she was too tired to start unloading anything. She went in and dropped her purse on the floor and curled up in one chair that was in the entire home. She distinctly remembers leaving on a kitchen light above the sink and turning off all the other lights in the house. The house had been vacant for almost two years and was completely empty except for her and her chair. She fell asleep quickly and the next thing she recalls was waking abruptly and she was in complete blackness. She sat for a second getting her bearings. She wondered why the lights were off, when night falls here you cannot see a foot in front of your face. There are no street lights or neighbors to shed light of any source. That’s when she saw a soft white glow---it was about five feet in front of her and about three feet off the floor. She remembers feeling no fear, but confusion, wondering what it was. It started to move vertically across the room, it turned slightly and that’s when she saw what she described as a left shoulder and arm. It looked like an X-ray image. The arm was bent at the elbow and it was moving with the white glow. That’s when things started to click in her head; she realized that it must have been some kind of apparition.
She just rolled off the side of the chair and flew to the kitchen and flicked on the light. Once the light went on it was gone. She knew she had left the kitchen light on; why it was off, she doesn’t know. There was no blow fuse or burned out bulb. After that night she started seeing out of the corner of her eye movement coming down the hall the way to the family room. This was happening several times a week. No other family member was seeing this. One night she was watching television and saw the movement again. This time she saw looking straight at it, this tiny marble sized ball of light float down the hall. The light was only a few inches off the floor. It vanished as it entered the family room. She has also photographed large floating orbs of light.
HC addendum
Source: Your True Tales---May 2011
Type: E?
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Date: July 2010
Time: 03:00 a.m.
The main witness was on his way home from Chester, West Virginia with his girlfriend. They were on RT 68 between East Liverpool, Ohio and Midland, Pennsylvania along the Ohio River. The time was around 3 am and a thing that looked like a black angel flew in front of his truck, it was about 6 ft tall and was so close that they both ducked. Whatever it was it came from the river side of the road. The witness wanted to report the event to the police but his girlfriend refused, pointing out that “they will think we are crazy”.
HC addendum
Source: Phantoms and Monsters May 22, 2011
Type: E
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Location. Near Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 2010
Time: evening
The witness was visiting his friend at her summer house and as her parents went out shopping and she napped in the bedroom he was playing ‘Play station’ when all of a sudden he caught movement out of the hook of his eyes through the big window, right next to the television. He was stunned to see a pale-white, medium size creature that ran by into the bushes. He then decided to go outside to check. The first few minutes, there was nothing, by ‘nothing’ he meant no ambient noise like birds whistling, etc. He ‘regrettably’ moved towards the bushes, where he began hearing a sound, like a growling of some sort.
He was a good ten feet away from the bushes when he saw the most hideous thing jump out of the bushes. A pale, bald, naked man, with pitch-black eyes stood right in front of him. He was in shock and couldn’t move at all. The creature had pointy ears and teeth. It did not have a nose, but two holes in the center of its face (similar to Voldemort from Harry Potter). It was growling, almost like a dog. Then it disappeared into thin air. Then the witness thinks that he passed out, he next heard the sound of his friend’s parent’s car. He got up and went inside. He didn’t tell them what had occurred.
HC addendum
Source: http://paranormal.about.com/od/demonsandexorcism/a/tales_11_06_09t.htm
Type: E
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Location. Edge of the Universe Ridge, Fullerton, California
Date: July 2 2010
Time: 23:00
Three friends had decided to take a walk up the area known as the ‘Fullerton Trails’ and “medicate” (they were all medical cannabis patients) at the top of the ridge, as the view is spectacular. There is another higher ridge known as the End of the World, located not too far away, but it was late at night and it was hard to see, so they decided against walking up it. The layout of the ridge consists of a trail the entrance of which is located in the middle of a residential street, nestled between two houses. There is a short walk with a trail surrounded by trees on one side and a fence on the other.
They got to the top of the ridge with little trouble, but noticed an extremely foul smell, like something had died and was rotting. They figured it was some animal, but they never came across a corpse. Anyhow they got to their destination and began to ‘medicate’.
As they admired the view and discussed how cool the ambience of the night and the desert scenery below them was they heard something rustling in the bushes behind them. They figured it was an animal and continued their business. They kept hearing noises coming from the bushes, and they grew steadily more unnerved until they decided to leave. The way back was a little bit harder than they way up. The main witness kept urging his friends to hurry as he was in the back and had a strange feeling of unease. They got back to the entrance and hurried back to the car. They began joking around that something was coming for them, when suddenly the witness in the back seat said, ‘Start the car---now!’ The tone of his voice made them look back and they saw what he was looking at. About 15 feet away, standing next to the trash cans at the entrance they had just come from, was a tall hooded figure. They couldn’t see its face; it seemed shrouded. The driver took off in a hurry. Apparently the witness in the backseat had seen the figure slink out of the darkness. It stared at them as they left.
HC addendum
Source: Your True Tales---August 2011
Type: E
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Location. St Petersburg, Florida
Date: July 26 (or 27) 2010
Time: around midnight
The witness had gone to bed around midnight, his wife and young cousin were sleeping in separate rooms on this particular night. He arose (not sure of time) and went outside to smoke a cigarette. When he went outside he at once noticed a bright triangular shaped object of pyramid shape with 3 lights running down the side hovering right above him. He said that the object was bigger than the house. He then noticed a bright flash. The next thing he recalls was being in a bright room with a light shining in his eyes. He could see four shadowy figures, but couldn’t make out any features. He noticed a tube in his navel and in his penis. He was covered in some sort of “goo” and he had a type of gas mask on. He kept hearing a voice saying “he is coming to.” The next thing that he recalls is waking up in his bed at 3:03 a.m. He said that he knew that he got up because the door was unlocked and partially open. He locked the door before he went to bed. Therefore he was emphatic that he did not have a lucid dream. He had a real experience. He said that upon awakening at 3:03 a.m. he went to the bathroom to check for marks on his body, he noticed none. However, the next day he experienced severe diarrhea and urinary track abnormalities. The story gets better as the next day he was talking to a friend. The friend was out driving at around 4 am (a little later than his encounter) and noticed a bright object that looked like “a burrito” in the direction where the witness lived. His friend snapped a photo of the object with his cell phone. Another person riding a motorcycle also saw the object.
HC addendum
Source: http://www.ufosnw.com/sighting reports/2010
Type: G
NOTE: I want to thank Albert Rosales for forwarding his collection of humanoid encounters and for his commitment and diligence to the study of this phenomenon...Lon
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