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Sa a FE Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9 ™ He was dwarf-size and looked as though he’d weigh no more than 35 pounds, but his body was hard as steel and covered with stiff hairs; his eyes glowed in the dark and his arms tapered to claws, and carried enough strength to bounce a full grown man 15 feet with a single push of his hand. The man who was bounced, was a sturdy Venezuelan who, in the early morning hours of November 28, 1954 was on his way from Caracas to Petare with his assistant to pur- chase produce. They stopped their truck to investigate a luminous sphere, ten feet in diameter, that hovered a few feet from the ground ahead of them. The hairy little person who ap- proached them should have been easy to overpower and take to the police. Such goings-on deserved official investi- gation. But when the produce merchant prepared to take the little man in, he became involved in a scuffle of unim- agined proportions. The helper, who at first was inclined to go to his employ- er’s assistance, changed his mind when he saw two other tiny creatures come out from the bushes, carrying rocks, and enter the illuminated sphere through a side opening. The helper ran for police, leaving his employer alone with the creatures. In his effort to escape, the produce merchant drew a knife. It glanced off the hard, hairy little body as though he'd struck steel and in the next instant he was blinded by a stream of light from a small tube directed into his face by one of the other small creatures. Unarmed, disabled and outmanned, the man sank to the ground in a frenzy of fright and the sphere took off in a great blast of speed. When help arrived, the man was given medical treatment for a long red gash in his side and subjected to extensive police questioning, but found to be completely sober and visibly upset by his experience. Pure fiction, you say, stemming from the possible sighting of some easily explained natural phenomenon that, in the eerie predawn hours, played havoc with the imaginations of two Venezuelan working men. But hold, the above ‘account which is reported in detail in Coral Lorenzen’s Flying Saucers (Signet) does not stop there. A few days later, one of the doctors who had examined the victim, reported that he actually had witnessed the in- cident. He had been making a night call when he came upon the stopped truck and saw the fantastic skirmish. Not wanting to get involved in undesirable publicity, he drove off and even at the time he revealed this information he re- fused to permit use of his name. But the incident was brought to the attention of American authorities and the doctor was invited to Washington, D.C. to give his first hand account. Nor was this the. only instance of an encounter with “lit- tle hairy creatures” in that area. Less than a month later, two young rabbit hunters were set upon by four tiny manlike creatures. One of the hunters tried to fend off the assailants with his shotgun, but the weapon burst apart with the blow “as though it had struck rock.” The youths, scratched, bruised and close to hysteria, were questioned by police and by psychiatrists who found them to be “sane, responsible” and “badly frightened by something very unusual.” A few days later, another man was set upon by a small, hairy person in the woods of the Ministry of Agriculture’s Exposition Park. Two friends of his, one a member of the National Guard, heard his screams and came upon him un- conscious on the ground just as a hairy little man leaped into a shiny disc like craft that then took off with a deafen- ing buzz. Authorities found all thrée men to be extremely frightened and the actual victim in a state of shock with severe gashes on his side and back that looked like claw — marks. In Coral Lorenzen’s Flying Saucers, this account is mentioned as “one of the first believable accounts of contact with occupants of UFOs.” Less believable, but more fascinating, is the story of a 23-year old Brazilian farmer, whose experience was investi- gated in depth by APRO representative Dr. Olavos Fontes, and presented in detail in Flying Saucers (Signet). This man was “kidnaped” right off his own tractor in a freshly plowed field and taken aboard a “torpedo-shaped” ship that was a glowing red until it settled to the ground on three metal protrusions. Then it went dark. The “kidnap- ers” were little creatures in striped grey suits and strange helmets from which tubes ran from top to back. The farmer, once inside what appeared to be a metal craft lighted from the ceiling, was bathed in a thick, clear liquid. Then two tubes were placed against his chin and blood was drawn off into a vessel. The experience made him nauseous and he was placed on a bed in a room from which a greyish vapor exuded through tiny holes in the wall. It was here he was visited by a blonde woman, short, well-formed and complete with all features except a mouth which was only a slit, no lips. Within short order, she had seduced him twice. Then — she left and the farmer was given his clothes and taken on a conducted tour of the “ship,” through what appeared to be a control room. He tried to snatch up a small box he found there as proof of his experience, but it was taken from him and he was released from the ship. He found that the wires had been detached from the tractor battery, though once replaced, the machine ran all right. The farmer, however, didn’t function so well the first several days after his experience. He was restless, couldn’t sleep; his body itched and purple sores broke out in various places. Dr. Fontes interviewed this young man at a time when sores were still visible on the man’s body and the bruise marks, reportedly left by the tubes inserted to draw blood, could still be seen on his chin. Dr. Fontes found him to be a “healthy, normal man with no obvious psychological prob- lems,” (The APRO Bulletin, July-August 1966). The man was reluctant to discuss the seduction but did mention that. the sound made by all of the creatures was a “growling noise,” and “at.times he was “repelled by the sounds the woman made.” Dr. Fontes’ complete report was sent to APRO in 1958 and has since been incorporated in Coral Lorenzen’s Flying Saucers in a far more detailed and extensive account. Any- one familiar with the report and with the published experi- ences of Barney and Betty Hill, of New Hampshire (re- ferred to in another part of this magazine) cannot help but be struck by the resemblances, as was Mrs. Lorenzen, in the two recollections, there are references to the “slit-like continued on next page Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9 13 we