Thread: UFOnauts: The lost, Misplaced and Confiscated Evidence

Gravesend, Kent, England
Date: 1211
Time: unknown
During a Sunday mass it is said that the congregation saw an anchor descend and catch on a tombstone in the churchyard. The churchgoers rushed outside to see a strange “ship” in the sky, with people on board. One occupant of the vessel leaped over the side, but did not fall, “as if swimming in water” he made his way through the air toward the anchor. The people on the ground tried to capture him. The man then hurried up to the ship. His companions cut the anchor rope, and the ship then “sailed out of sight”. The local blacksmith made ornaments from the abandoned anchor to decorate the church lectern.

Cape Ann, Massachusetts
Date: Summer 1692
Time: night
Ebenezer Babson was returning home late one night when he saw two men step out of his house and dash into a cornfield. When he ran inside to check on his family’s welfare, his wife and children were nonplussed by his questions; no intruders had entered the house, they insisted. Babson grabbed a gun and went outside, where he spotted the two men bolting up from behind a log. As they escaped to a nearby swamp, one was overheard saying to the other, “The man of the house is now come; else we might have taken the house.” The family retreated to a military garrison not far away, and Babson then sneaked outside, where he encountered the two men again. The following day he came upon them a third time and they chased him into the garrison. Over the next week or two Babson, sometimes alone, sometimes in the company of others, had further encounters with mysterious strangers, suspected to be French-Canadian scouts in league with hostile Indians. On July 14 the entire garrison watched half a dozen of the strangers. A pursuit party, with Babson in the lead, got within gunshot range. Babson fired on them, and three fell to the ground, only to rise to their feet with no apparent signs of injury. As they fled one turned to fire on Babson; the bullet narrowly missed him and lodged in a tree, from which its intended victim subsequently retrieved it. Afew minutes later the garrison group trapped one of the strangers. Babson shot him, and the man dropped. But when Babson and his companions rushed to the spot, no one was there. Several days’ later two scouts from the garrison observed eleven of the strange men as they performed what looked like peculiar incantations. Richard Dolliver fired on them, causing them to scatter. As sightings continued, the strangers were accused of beating on barns, throwing stones, and other acts. Babson experienced one of the last sightings. Seeing three strangers, he dived behind a bush and waited in ambush---only to have his gun misfire. The strangers gave him a disdainful glance and walked on. Soon after that they were never seen again.

Waldoboro, Maine
Date: 1855
Time: unknown
A local man wrote a letter to a local publication describing how he chased and captured a “miniature human being” near this town. It was 18 inches in height, with limbs in perfect proportion. With the exception of his face, hands and feet, he was covered with hair of a jet-black hue. The man concluded his letter by inviting any interested parties to come by to view the “strange specimen” for themselves. Its not known what became of the little men.

Source: Phillip L Rife, America’s Nightmare Monsters


Assen Norway
Date: Summer 1869
Time: unknown
A man named Just encountered a small man, that wore brown clothing, without any buttons, and on its head he had a large hat. The small man claimed he was an angel and opened up his coat and a bright light shone from inside of it. Apparently the small man gave the witness a letter of “heavenly” origin.

Near Rosario Argentina
Date: October 1877
Time: unknown
A local chemist named Savarg was walking along a riverbed when he found a large rock like artifact black in color and of an oval shape. Convinced that it was a meteor, Savarg, and two geologists, Davis and Paxton decided to break it open. After six days of work they found some sort of white metallic compartment, covered with a metal plate. After removing the plate they found a second compartment where they found a coffin like object with a body inside. The being inside was described as hairless, a triangular shaped head, wrinkled skin, flattened face, no nose, a trunk like protuberance on its forehead, a very small mouth, with only fourteen teeth and two round holes where the eyes would had been. It had long thin arms with five fingered hands. In the “coffin” they also found a silver plate with inscriptions representing, the Sun, stars and planets. Nothing more is known of this alleged early recovery.
Source: Carlos Iurchuk, Stop Ovni Page


Galisteo Junction, New Mexico
Date: March 26 1880
Time: night
On a quiet Friday night three friends were taking a short walk when suddenly they heard voices, which seemed to be coming from the sky. The men looked up to see an object, “monstrous in size,” rapidly approaching from the west, flying so low that elegantly-drawn characters could be discerned on the outside of the peculiar vehicle. Inside, the occupants, about 10 or so that looked like ordinary human beings, were laughing and shouting in an unfamiliar language and the men on the ground also heard music coming from the craft. The craft itself was “fish-shaped”---like a cigar with a tail---and a huge “fan” or propeller drove it. As it passed overhead one of the occupants tossed some objects from the object. Soon thereafter the aerial machine ascended and sailed away toward the east at high speed. One of the items thrown down was a beautiful flower with a slip of fine silk paper containing characters, which reminded the men of designs they had seen on Japanese chests, which held tea.

Near Linn Grove Iowa
Date: April 15 1897
Time: morning
F. G. Ellis, James Evans, David Evans, Joe Croaskey & Benjamin Buland followed a large object as it landed about 4 miles north of Linn Grove. When they came within 700 yards of it, “it spread its four giant wings and rose toward the North.” Tow figures aboard, with unusually long whiskers, seemed to be trying to conceal themselves. “The occupants threw out 2 large boulders of unknown composition, which were taken into the village, & are now on exhibition.”

Merkel Texas
Date: April 25 1897
Time: evening
People returning from church noticed a heavy object being dragged along the ground by a rope from an airship, which had a bright front light like a locomotive, & several lighted windows. The object got caught on the railroad track; after 10 minutes a small man in a light blue sailor suit came down the rope and cut it free, then re-ascended as the craft sailed away. “The anchor is now on exhibition at the blacksmith shop of Elliot & Miller, and is attracting the attention of hundreds of people.”
I have always suspected that a great majority of these airship reports of crafts of secret inventor(s).
They spoke about 'condensed electricity' and often needed buckets of water...for their propulsion system?

Near Moscow, Russia
Date: 1904
Time: evening
After a powerful thunderstorm swept the area, peasants checking for damage discovered a strange corpse under a fallen tree. According to militia reports of the day “the creature was about one and a half meter in height, covered in dark gray clothing, on its head it wore a kind of a helmet with three short horns”. Instead of blood, from the corpse oozed a strange thick violet substance or liquid. When the body was freed from under the tree it was realized that it was apparently made out of metal, only its face was covered with rough brown skin. The mouth and nose were almost absent, whereas the eyes were unnaturally large and protruding. Incredibly the small creature weighed in at 80 kilograms. The bizarre “android” was shipped to a local more where it apparently disappeared.


2.5 miles W of Farmersville Texas
Date: early May 1914
Time: 1000A
Silbie J Latham, then 13 or 14, had gone to the fields with his two older brothers Sid and Clyde. Two dogs, Bob and Fox, accompanied them. They were "chopping cotton" when they heard the two dogs set up a "deathly howl." The three boys walked about 75 feet to a fencerow where the dogs had something cornered. Clyde got there first and turned to the other two and said, "Boys, there's something in there. It must be something kinda bad." Then he said, "Boys, it's a little man!" Silbie looked and saw a little man some 18 inches high, just standing still, staring toward the north. He was green all over and either naked or with a frogman's type outfit on, green in color. There was a hat with a wide brim on the back of his head, but it was all of one piece with the rest of the body. He said nothing and id not even acknowledge the dogs, by now worked up to a frenzy. Right after the three boys arrived the dogs finally attacked the being, literally tearing it limb from limb. "Blood and guts went everywhere. The blood was red and the guts looked like guts look. We were all just country as hell and didn't know what to do...the dogs just chewed him to pieces...after they killed him we just went back to hoeing." They told their folks but no one believe them; they went back to the site several times that day, but after that they never returned.

So why didn't they take what was left to have examined?

Puglia Italy
Date: 1915
Time: unknown
An undocumented report stating that several locals captured a "little green man." No other information.

So what did they do with him?

what a fascinating new topic sd ::

very unusual stories; great finds

Alwernia, Poland
Date: Summer 1916
Time: midnight
Soldier Boleslaw Lesniakiewicz had decided to spend the night at a ruined brickyard when around midnight a strange voice and the sounds of a little bell jingling woke him up. He got his rifle and stepped out of the brickyard. His horse was acting very uneasy. Suddenly he noticed a big, white dog like creature, which slowly came closer and closer. Overcome with fear he shot at the dog. At the same time a bright flash of blue-violet light illuminated him and he lost consciousness. When he woke up it was high noon. His horse was covered in strange foam. He suffered from strong headaches in the next two weeks.

Tuerin, Mongolia
Date: 1920
Time: early morning
Drug dealer and arms merchant John Spencer had escaped China on foot and was wandering in an exhausted state through murderous marshlands and nightmarish landscapes. Completely exhausted, tormented with hunger and racked by fever, he finally collapsed on the trail. Wandering Buddhist monks stumbled upon the near comatose American carried him to the Lamaist Monastery at Tuerin. Soon he regained his strength relatively quickly. The monks of the monastery were entertaining another guest from America at the time. This was scholar/businessman William Thompson, who had been at the monastery for some weeks, and who was known for his fascination with the religious beliefs of the Far East. It seems that, at his first contact with the recuperating John Spencer, Thompson must have spoken to him very enthusiastically about the monastery. For suddenly the one-time arms and drug dealer was very much interested in exploring his new surroundings, and nothing in the world could keep him in bed until he had made a complete recovery. A few days after the initial meeting,
Spencer was up and about very early in the morning. Poking around outside, tracing the wall of the Lamaist monastery, he came upon weathered steps leading down to a small metal door. Spencer was extremely curious by nature. He climbed down the few steps and gingerly opened the door.
He found himself in a spacious, brightly colored, twelve-sided room. The walls were decorated with drawings, which seemed to depict the constellations. He could recognize one of them. It was the constellation Taurus---under whose sign he had himself been born, and a representation of which he carried with him at all times, engraved on a medallion hanging around his neck. Spencer traced with his index finger one by one the outline of each drawing. As he came to the end of a drawing apparently depicting the Pleiades, the wall gave way beneath his finger and noiselessly opened into a corridor beyond. His curiosity got the better of him. He advanced a few steps into the gloom. He could make out a faint greenish glimmer, apparently coming from a distance. Before following the glimmer, he pushed a large boulder into the open doorway, so that nobody could surprise him from behind and the doorway would
remain open. He continued to make his way along the narrow, solidly constructed tunnel until he came to an intersection. Now he kept to the right at all times to avoid getting lost. After several minutes, Spencer reached the end of the tunnel. A large hall opened out before him, in which the ubiquitous green light shone more strongly and more dazzlingly than ever. The light was so intense that he could see, without difficulty, along the length of one wall, 25 to 30 enshrined coffins standing in a row. Spencer had the impression that the shrines were floating one or two feet above the floor, but he was not afterward to remember exactly. His main thoughts was of running mainly to the rich treasures which he thought must be in or around the shrines, and of which he wished to disburden this quaint underground place of worship. He set to work without delay, nothing happily in passing that the lids of the coffin were effortlessly easy to open. In the first three shrines he uncovered the corpses of monks who wore the same clothes as the monks he saw all around him in the monastery. In the fourth coffin lay a woman in men’s clothing; in the fifth a man whom he guessed was from India and who wore a red silk jacket.
The corpses showed no signs of decomposition. It seemed to him, as he advanced along the wall, that the coffins had been there for a longer and longer time. They all had one thing in common, however: a complete absence of the treasure, which this inveterate adventurer was, with increasing desperation, seeking to discover. He went through each coffin with great thoroughness. In the third to last, there lay, perfectly preserved and clothed in white linen, the body of a male; in the next to last coffin there rested the body of a female whose ethnic origins he couldn’t quite determine. He lifted the lid of the coffin in the very last shrine. He could not believe his eyes. He was gazing at a small creature dressed in clothing that shimmered as if made of silver. The head was silvery in color, with huge closed eyelids and a very short stub of a nose. The creature did not seem to have a mouth. When Spencer leaned forward to touch the corpse, the huge round eyes suddenly snapped open. A sharp green light blinded the would be plunderer. An immense, unaccountable terror seized Spencer. He slammed the coffin lid down. He flung himself away and ran screaming out of this gallery of the dead. Back in the main part of the monastery, he immediately sought out Thompson and related his experience to his fellow countryman. The next morning upon investigating the room, in which Spencer found the passageway, nothing was found. A few days later---just after he had left the monastery---John Spencer disappeared without a trace. He was never heard from again.


Source: Hartwig Hausdorf, The Chinese Roswell, also Peter Kolosimo “Timeless Earth”

Tuna, Sweden
Date: 1922
Time: evening
Rita Raninger (involved in other encounters) watched a metallic disc-shaped object on the ground at close range. Several man-like figures wearing tight-fitting dark frogmen’s suits were seen milling around the craft. It is said that after the object left metallic traces were found on the ground. No other information.

Flat Mesa, near Battle Mountain, Nevada
Date: 1925
Time: afternoon
Don Wood and another American landed in a two-seater plane on Flat Mesa in the Nevada desert. While walking about the top they noticed something coming in to land. It was round and flat like a saucer, and about 8 ft across, with a reddish underside. It skidded to a stop about 30 feet away. They walked up to it and found that it was an animal like nothing they had seen before. It had a mica-like body, but no visible eyes or legs. It was hurt, and as it breathed the top would rise and fall making a half-foot hole around it like a clam opening and closing. A hunk had been chewed out of one side of the rim, from which a metal looking froth issued. After a 20-minute rest, it started pulsating again, and grew very bright except where it was hurt. It tried to rise up, but sank back again. Suddenly the men saw a much larger animal, 30 ft across, approaching. It settled on the smaller one with 4 sucker-like tongues. Then it grew too dazzling to look at and both rose straight up and shot out of sight in a second, at an estimated speed of 1000 miles an hour. They left behind an awful stench. The frothy stuff the little creature had “bled” looked like fine aluminum wire, and there was more frothy, wiry stuff in a 30 ft circle where the big creature had been. This material finally melted in the sun.

If this report is true and honest...it is just plain wierd!

Loncura Chile
Date: January 20 1927
Time: evening
A lone witness encountered on a beach a landed cylinder shaped object that emitted a blue-violet light. Next to the object stood a human like figure wearing a silvery gray diver’s outfit. A second similar entity could be seen inside the object through an aperture. The being wore some type of headgear and visor that covered its facial features, but communicated with the witness in perfect Spanish. The entity gave the witness an unknown object as a gift, but this was left behind in the sand as the witness attempted to leave the area in his truck, since the high tide was coming in.

WHAT!!