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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9 Similar allegations were denied again in 1957 when an incident of equally chilling proportions was reported along the Indiana-Kentucky border. This, too, involved a family who had gone out to investigate a glowing object that had set their dog to barking. They claim to have been confronted by a tiny creature under four feet high, dressed in an aluminum suit and pos- sessed of web-like hands. - Two male members of the family were said to have fired on the thing which fell back and ran off. Later the creature was said to have been seen clinging to the screen of a window in the home and glaring at the fright-numbed residents through wide-slit eyes. Again the men fired on it, driving it away. There was a third visit that night, and a third firing. This time the shots were heard to strike metal and there were confirming reports from people in the neighborhood who said they heard the shots and the “hits.” Whatever appeared at that home that night threw a para- lyzing fear into the tenants, as was attested to by the local police chief when the family appeared in the neighboring town that night to tell of its hair-raising experience. The Air Force sent investigators out for a brief interview with the victims and then was said to have dismissed the incident as without value to them. But local residents were aware, two weeks later, of a team of door-to-door peddlers who seemed more interested in the tale of the tin-suited visitors than they were in selling their products. A much more recent encounter with “humanoids” was reported in detail in The APRO Bulletin, March-April 1965. The experience deals with the Florida “landing” in- cident near Weeki-Wachi Springs and is one that is viewed with a skeptical eye by the directors of APRO for reasons they mention in their report. But with their commendable caution and researchists’ instinct for waiting until all of the answers are in, they announce that they are not yet closing the books on the case. Much of the following material was drawn from the ac- count appearing in the above mentioned issue of the APRO Bulletin. The meeting occurred about a mile and a half from the Weeki-Wachi Springs home of a 65-year-old Florida man who was out walking in the sand dunes that afternoon of March 2, 1965, when his attention was attracted to a strange space-ship some 150 feet away. While he was studying this most unusual saucer-like craft, a robot-like creature emerged from the brush, walked to within 15 feet of the man, pulled a rounded black object from his pocket and flashed it once, “like lightning at night.” Then ran off. The man, as one might expect, fled too. But in his haste he stumbled against a bush, knocking loose his glasses. When he bent to retrieve them, he lost his hat. While he was trying to recover these dropped articles, the “robot” re- appeared, placed the little black object against his chin again, flashed the light once more, then raced to the craft and took off at high speed. The “witness”, relieved that the visitor and his funny flying macine were gone, was curious by this time and went back to examine the spot where the “ship” had been. He found two folded sheets of paper of tissue texture which he pocketed for closer scrutiny. Then he went home to examine his experience under calmer conditions. He waited overnight to report the incident, claiming that he did not think he would be believed. But when finally he did appear in the office of a radio station in Brooksville, it was to give a remarkably detailed description of the robot he had seen. “Roughly five feet tall and clothed in a silver-gray, stiff- appearing suit atop which was a helmet much like a glass bowl inverted over its head and resting on its shoulders. The head inside was covered by dark material which covered the hair area. The ears, mouth and nose appeared normal, but the eyes were large and very wide set, with a “flat-area” between. The hands were covered by mittens which ap- peared to be very pliable and the same color as the suit.” The space-ship, shaped like a soap bubble, was of irri- descent cast with reddish-purple and greenish-blue predom- inating. Slats circled the airfoil and when the craft took off these opened and shut with a rumbling noise. The landing gear folded up into the belly of the ship. The ship moved in a vertical direction at high speed and was gone within 15 seconds. APRO’s Florida investigator was in touch with the man from Weeki-Wachi Springs soon after word of his experi- ence was made known. He extracted much information from the man that had not been released to the press and he was at first impressed with the witness’ seeming reliability and powers of observation. But the same afternoon that the man appeared at the radio station, Air Force personnel ar- rived from MacDill Field to scrutinize the scene and the subject and representatives from magazines and entertain- ment media moved in to see in what fashion this latest re- port on “humanoids” could best be exploited. More than a day had passed since the time of the en- counter; rains had washed out what physical evidence might have existed and it was reported that a lie-test had tended to discredit some of the man’s story. A carnival at- mosphere surrounded the section, attracting sightseers, pho- tographers, feature writers and souvenir hunters. Those who were there for the purpose of extracting facts, including a second APRO representative, came away with the impression that the whole thing was a hoax. Those who were there to milk the incident of its human interest value had a field day. The notes, hieroglyphics penned on tissue-thin paper, were turned over to the Air Force and it was later reported that simple deciphering had broken the code on 18 letters of the alphabet and that the notes were the work of an ama- teur. Analysis has established that the paper itself was made of commonly found fibers used extensively in the manufac- ture of certain tissues. The Air Force concluded that fur- ther analysis from that quarter would be an unnecessary expense and unrewarding procedure. From other sources it was learned that the man from Weeki-Wachi Springs had in some manner assimilated a Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9