An Alien at the Door

The Little Green Man

On the evening of November 6, 1957, John Trasco of Everittstown, New Jersey became involved in a bizarre fracas with a little green man. Trasco had stepped out on to his front porch to feed his dog, King, only to find himself confronted by a 3-foot-tall bug-eyed humanoid. It was dressed entirely in green, and sported a beret decorated with shiny silver buttons. It had a "putty-coloured" face and protuberant frog-like eyes. Behind it hovered a luminous egg-shaped craft, 9-12 feet long.

A leprechaun: the original little green man.

"We are peaceful people," announced the entity in a "sharp and scary" voice. "We don't want no trouble. We only want your dog!"

Trasco declined to grant the little humanoid's request. "Get the hell out of here!" he yelled at it. Then he tried to grab it, but the entity slipped out of his grasp (leaving a green powder on his hands) and escaped in its craft.

Trasco's wife seemed unimpressed by her spouse's spirited defence of their dog.

"I told John, we should have let them take King," she told local reporter Dick Harpster. "He's half-blind and so cross I don't know who else would ever want him!"

A Boy and his Dog

Coincidentally, a posse of humanoids had attempted to procure a dog earlier that same day in Dante, Tennessee. At 6:30am, 12-yr-old Everett Clark let his dog, Frisky, out of the house and noticed a long, translucent object "of no particular colour" sitting in a nearby field. The boy ignored it, thinking that he must be dreaming.

Twenty minutes later, he opened the door to call his dog back in and realised that the object was still there. A group of local dogs, including Frisky, had gathered around it, while two men and two women wearing "ordinary looking clothing" stood nearby "talking like German soldiers he had seen in movies".

One of the men made a grab for Frisky, who growled and backed away. He then tried to catch another dog but gave up when it bit his arm. One of the strangers beckoned Everett to come over, but the boy was too frightened to comply.

Evidently resigned to leaving empty-handed, the beings walked straight through the hull of their craft "as if it were glass" and flew away without a sound.

Extraordinary Coincidences

Laika - launched into orbit on November 3rd, 1957.

Ufologist Jacques Vallee remarks that it seems an "extraordinary coincidence " that not only did two dog-related incidents occur on the same day, but that "the name of the town (Everittstown) is similar to the name of the witness (Everett) in the Tennessee case".

It also seems extraordinarily coincidental that young Everett should happen to open his front door just as the entities were trying to catch his own dog. Like many other apparently accidental encounters, it seems almost as though the whole incident was staged for the benefit of the witness.

Perhaps Everett's father put it best. "I don't think he made it up," he said, "but I still don't believe it!"

Sources

Jacques Vallee: Dimensions, pp69-70.
Coral Lorenzen: Flying Saucers: The Invasion From Outer Space , pp102-103.
John Spencer: The UFO Encyclopedia, p296.
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