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Mr. Lubanovic, added: "There was a man dressed like a diver in front of it." Four others Messrs.
Sechet, Villeneuve, Rougier, and Amiraut, a truck driver confirmed the details of the sighting.
It must be pointed out that the incident took place in a remote rural region. At the time the wave of
French reports was just beginning. But Gatay, who fought during the war with the Resistance and
was wounded in Luxembourg, stated that he was not used to flights of fancy. Following the
incident, he suffered from insomnia, strong headaches, and loss of appetite for a week. Ironically,
the eight men are still not convinced that the flying saucers were alien. They feel sure they are a
secret development by a terrestrial nation probably France.
In Jalapa, Mexico, early in September 1965, a hovering object was seen with luminous slits in its
circumference and a black-clad being, with eyes gleaming like cat's eyes, holding a shining metal
rod. The entity vanished suddenly while under observation in a Jalapa street by a local reporter, two
taxi drivers, and a bullfighter.
In the Carazinho, Brazil, case of July 26, 1965, five dwarfs dressed in dark uniforms and small
boots were seen. We are told that "one of them had in his right hand a brilliantly luminous object
like a wand."
There was a sudden flash of lightning about 1:45 P.M. on January 28, 1967, on Studham Common,
near Whipsnade Park Zoo, an isolated spot in the Chiltern Hills in England. Rain was falling and
the atmosphere was heavy, reports English researcher R. H. B. Winder, who investigated this case
for The Flying Saucer Review. Seven boys were on their way to school in the vicinity of the Dell a
shallow valley and an ideal spot for playing hide-and-seek. Alex Butler, age ten, was looking south
over the Dell when he saw clearly, in the open, "a little blue man with a tall hat and a beard."
Alex called his friend, and they ran toward the figure. They were about twenty yards away when it
"disappeared in a puff of smoke." The boys were very much surprised, naturally, but nothing in the
attitude of the strange figure had inspired fear or suggested threat, so they kept looking for the "little
blue man" and saw him again on the opposite side of the bushes from where he was first standing.
They went toward him. He vanished once more, reappearing at the bottom of the Dell. This time,
they heard voices in nearby bushes and became slightly afraid. The voices reminded them of
"foreign-sounding babble." Finally, they saw the man a fourth time before they were summoned to
school by the whistle.
Their teacher, Miss Newcomb, noticed how excited they were and, in spite of their warnings that
she would never believe them, immediately separated them and made each of the seven boys write
down his experience in his own words. The essays were then gathered into a book called The Little
Blue Man on Studham Common, which notes Winder, makes fascinating reading and no doubt "will
occupy an honored place in the archives of the Studham Village Primary School."
Investigation disclosed a number of local sightings among them two landings in the vicinity of the
spot within a few months of the January sighting. Naturally, the investigators were most interested
in hearing the boys themselves give details on the appearance of the creature. Winder reports:
They estimate the little man at 3 ft. tall (by comparison with themselves) with an additional
2 ft. accounted for by a hat or helmet best described as a tall brimless bowler, i.e., with a
rounded top. The blue color turned out to be a dim greyish-blue glow tending to obscure
outline and detail. They could, however, discern a line which was either a fringe of hair or
the lower edge of the hat, two round eyes, a small seemingly flat triangle in place of a nose,
and a one-piece vestment extending down to a broad black belt carrying a black box at the
front about six inches square. The arms appeared short and were held straight down close to
the side at all times. The legs and feet were indistinct.
As for the "puff of smoke," it apparently was a whirling cloud of yellowish-blue mist shot toward
the pursuers.
The Magic Casement
The Reverend Robert Kirk makes no bones about it: the elves did at one time occupy the land.
Today it is still a common belief in the north of Scotland that the sith or fairy people existed once, a
belief that survives in their title "Good Neighbors," although they could also be hostile to man:
While the Sith had no inborn antagonism towards human beings, and were occasionally
known to do good turns to their favourites, they were very quick to take offence, capricious
in their behavior and delighted in playing tricks on their mortal neighbors. These cantrips
had to be patiently endured, as resistance or hostility might lead to dreadful reprisals the
kidnapping of children or even adults. An attitude of passive friendliness on the human side
was therefore assumed to be eminently desirable.
Sir Walter Scott refers to this when Bailie Nicol Jarvie, in Rob Roy, tells his companion, as they
pass a fairy-hill near Aberfoyle:
They ca' them... Daoine Sith, which signifies, as I understand, men of peace: meaning
thereby to make their gudewill. And we may e'en as well ca' them that too, Mr. Osbaldistone,
for there's nae gude in speaking ill o' the laird within his ain bounds.
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