Raiding the Fridge

An Uninvited Guest

The March 27 1993 edition of the Fort Wayne News Sentinel carried a report of a close encounter so bizarre that few readers could have believed a word of it. The witness was a teenage girl named Emily Eck, and the encounter took place one rainy evening while she was babysitting a neighbour's young son.

Large eared pixie-like aliens feature on this 1928 pulp cover.

The first sign of trouble came when all the house lights went out and a bright light shone in through the front window. Then Emily heard a gentle knock at the door.

"I saw the door knob turn," she remembered. "The door opened and a little purple man entered."

The strange intruder was 4 feet tall with a "curvy nose" and "big circular ears".

The teenager was frozen to the spot, and could only watch helplessly as the entity "walked into the kitchen and got a Dr Pepper". Then, "as quickly as he had walked in, he walked out".

Once the little man had left, the house lights came back on and Emily was able to move again. She ran to the window just in time to see a flying saucer "take off towards space".

The Chap in the Hat

Another entity that seems to have walked straight out of a book by Dr Seuss appeared on London's Strudham Common in January 1967.

Ten-year-old Alex Butler was playing on the common with a group of friends when there was a flash of lighting. Then "a little blue man with a tall hat and a forked beard" popped out of thin air.

The little man was only 3 feet high but wore a 2-foot-tall hat. Attached to his belt was a small black box with buttons on it.

He vanished in a puff of yellow smoke, only to reappear at another spot muttering in "a foreign-sounding babble". He repeated the performance twice more before finally vanishing for good.

Seeing Things

The presence of young children in both these bizarre cases suggests that the UFO/alien phenomenon may shape itself by drawing upon the imagination of the percipient. Adult witnesses see entities who would be at home in the latest Hollywood blockbuster, while youngsters see beings that resemble cartoon characters come to life.

In either scenario, the true nature of the phenomenon remains hidden. Perhaps it is best that way...

Sources

Lynn Picknett: The Mammoth Book of UFOs, pp149-150.
John Spencer: The UFO Encyclopedia, pp59-60.