Albert Rosales humanoid sighting reports 1000-2007

HC addendum

Source: Thomas Slemen, Mysterious & Bizarre People

Type: E

10.

Location. Gravatai, Brazil

Date: 1948

Time: night

The witness saw a humanoid about 1.20 m in height, wearing silvery coveralls and boots. No other information available.
HC addendum

Source: Antonio Faleiro, Brazil

Type: E

11.

Location. Ameca-Ameca, Mexico

Date: 1948

Time: night

10-year old Gloria Rosa Perez and her grandmother were returning home from a funeral and were alone on a lonely street when both suddenly turned around the see a woman totally dress in white with long black unruly hair that appeared to be gliding towards them just above the ground. Terrified, the witnesses hurried away and saw the woman stop next to a large tree and began making loud screaming sounds. It suddenly vanished in plain sight. (Attributed to have been “La Llorona”)
HC addendum

Source: Manuel Carballal, Mundo Misterioso

Type: E

12.

Location. Great Yarmouth, England

Date: 1948

Time: night

8-year old Sidney Brighton was suddenly awakened in the middle of the night. He looked to the bottom of the bed and there he saw the heads and shoulders of six or seven people, closely grouped together, all facing in his direction. The figures seemed to be floating and he could not see the rest of their bodies. The witness was frightened as the figures stared straight ahead; two in the middle looked directly at him and seemed to be speaking into each other’s ears. He tried to wake up his elder brother, but no even a sharp nudge had any effect. He covered his face with the sheets, but after awhile felt compelled to look again. They were still there, only this time one of them raised a hand to his face and made a motion rather like a dart-throwing action. Then they all grouped together, moved slightly to the left and began spinning around and around until they became a blur and disappeared.
HC addendum

Source: UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1

Type: E

13.

Location. Tenejapa Yucatan, Mexico

Date: 1948

Time: various

It was reported by the Tzeltal Indians that there were many sightings of a creature called the “ikal” and several people apparently tried to fight it with machetes. One man also saw a small sphere following him from about five ft. After many attempts he finally hit it with his machete and it disintegrated, leaving only an ash-like substance. Locals had been paralyzed by the little beings that were thought to live in caves. The strange little beings are believed to be from another world and some have been seen flying with some kind of rocket like thing attached to the back. With this rocket they are said to occasionally to have carried off people. Some are described as black and hairy. Another man, apparently inebriated encountered one of the short hairy creatures that jumped all around him and kept tickling him. He tried to hit it with a stick, but couldn’t. Finally he was exhausted and fell to the ground. The creature left soon after.
HC addendum

Source: Brian Aubeck, Return to Magonia, quoting anthropologist Brian Stross Type E?

14.

Location. Chehalis Washington

Date: January 6 1948

Time: 1500

Mrs Bernice Zaikowski, hearing a “sizzling and whizzing,” sound, looked up to see a “birdman” 200 ft above her barn. She saw “a man equipped with long silver wings fastened over the shoulders with a strap” ascend rapidly, hover, bank, then fly on. “He flew in an upright position and appeared to be manipulating controls strapped to his chest.” The wings did not flap; they retracted close to his body during ascent, and then were extended to hover & proceed in level flight. Mrs Zaikowski said 5 other adult witnesses and a number of children had also seen the birdman.
Humcat 1948-5

Source: Humcat quoting Newspaper source, & John Keel

Type: E

15.

Location. Straits of Malacca, near Sumatra, Indonesia

Date: February 1948

Time: afternoon?

A series of distress calls were sent out by the Dutch freighter Ourang Medan in the Straits of Malacca, “All officers including captain dead, lying in chartroom and on bridge, probably whole crew dead�” This chilling message, accompanied by a spate of desperate SOS calls, was followed by indecipherable Morse code�then a final message just two stark words, “I die.” Boarding parties found the dead radio operator, his hand on the Morse key, eyes wide open. The entire crew even the ship’s dog were discovered in the same terrified posture, all dead. According to a frequently mentioned document, called ‘The Proceedings of the Merchant Marine Council” the crew were found “teeth bared, with their upturned faces to the sun, staring, as if in fear�” Following this grim discovery, a fire broke out in the ship’s hold. The boarding parties were forced to abandon her. Shortly after, a violent explosion described in some accounts as so violent the vessel “lifted herself from the water” and she quickly sank.
HC addendum

Source: http://www.neswa.org.au/Library quoting Fortean Times September 1999

Type: F?

Comments: Always an intriguing tale, if true was it death from above?

16.

Location. Berridale Tasmania Australia

Date: February 1948

Time: midnight

Two witnesses standing on their back garden sighted a bright round object hovering low above them. Sitting on the edge of the object were several small green colored humanoids that appeared to be making a weird singing like sound.
HC addition # 38

Source: Keith Roberts, TUFOIC

Type: A

17.

Location. Circleville, Ohio

Date: February 1 1948

Time: early morning

Farmer B. Stevens woke up early in the morning to go check the farm animals, on his way to the cattle shed he spotted a metallic saucer-shaped object hovering low above one of the barns. Stevens immediately realized that the object was real and solid and that it measured about 60 feet in diameter and was about 10 to 12 feet thick. The center seemed to be shaped like a dome, which gave off a brilliant orange light. The dome was transparent, because when the object inclined slightly he was able to see a silhouette of a man-like figure inside. The occupant of the saucer seemed to be concentrating his glance on the several barns on the farm. Stevens thought that it was because he had a green lighting one of the barns. Soon the dome darkened and Stevens could no longer see the occupant. The object then flipped over and shot away at high speed.
HC addendum

Source: Michael David Hall, “UFOs a Century of Sightings” 1999

Type: A

18.

Location. London England

Date: February 5 1948

Time: afternoon

During a hypnotic like trance, the witness was caught up in a suction force & drawn aboard a conical shaped object. She entered a round room with controls and dials, also holes along the sides. The room was cold and its air difficult to breathe. She observed the occupants unseen by them. The tall man from a previous encounter was present, also small non-human creatures, described as egg shaped but with legs and webbed feet and large eyes. These beings placed some sort of material in holes in the object and she caught fragments of a conversation about a base in the stratosphere.
HC addition # 2261

Source: N S W Chibbett, FSR Special Issue # 3

Type: F or G?

19.

Location. Socorro, New Mexico

Date: March 1948

Time: unknown

Another craft came down in this vicinity that was much like the Aztec craft according to an ex-army private. The craft had multiple compartments, a central shaft or pole, a conveyor walk and the outer shell of the craft was transparent from inside the craft. There is no mention of occupants. No other information.
HC addendum

Source: Burlington UFO News Crash list

Type: H

20.

Location. Near Naftalan, Azerbaijan, Caucasus (USSR)

Date: March 10-13 1948

Time: various

Local resident Peter Grigorievich Bykavorov reportedly saw a landed disc-shaped object and humanoids near the Geran railway station. The witness noticed three “men of strange appearance” near the landed disc-shaped object. Their was of a very interesting structure, it was cone shaped on top, gray in color but the tip of the cone was white, the bottom of the cone was also white. On top of the cone there was something resembling rubber or plastic. The inside of the ship, its framework, was cylindrical in shape, made out of numerous tube-like structures. The door was positioned in the center of the cylinder. The three men seemed to “freeze in place” (suspended animation) every time the witness looked at them. The humanoids were dressed in tight-fitting overalls, which clearly outlined their musculature. Under their helmets they had yellowish caps. Their hair was short, bristling, sticking straight up. All three of the humanoids looked young, no more than 30 years of age. Their faces were clean shaven without wrinkles. They never spoke a word with the witness. And amazingly the local chief of the diesel electric power plant apparently communicated with the aliens, the aliens requested a favor from him, and he went to a local food store and purchased several foodstuffs for the aliens. Bykavorov watched all this in amazement from a distance. Apparently at first the aliens had tried to visit the store, but after creating a stir in the store they had to leave. So after that failed attempt they asked the chief to do it for them instead. Unfortunately due to the distance additional details were not established. The humanoids generally stayed away from everybody, and remained close to their landed craft. When some of the locals attempted to approach the object the humanoids boarded their craft and flew towards the nearby mountains. According to the witnesses the craft “flew very fast”. However they returned in the evening as it got dark. At that time the aliens switched on a light, very bright similar to an ox-eye, about 5 meters long, of yellow and red in color. Near the craft the aliens constructed a bonfire that seemed to burn very hot and was same shape as the bottom of their craft, the whole afternoon the aliens had been very busy occupied by some work. Bykavorov who kept a close eye on their activities felt fear but eventually was able to establish telepathic communication with the alien crew. At times he would receive orders from the aliens to come close but he could not remember most of the details. Bykavorov was summoned on several occasions by the aliens outside during the night. The second time he watched a large metallic cone-shaped craft that remained on the ground for two days (!). The next day he saw a huge burst of flame but no smoke, rise from the ground. Bykavorov did not see the aliens again after that. Incredibly it is reported that several unknown items were left behind by the aliens and these were picked up by the operators of a local hostel (nothing is known as to what happened to the items). Bykavorov only spoke about the incident 30 years later. It must be remembered that during Stalin’s times it was prohibited to speak about UFOs in the USSR, and the witness only spoke about the incident in the late 90’s.
HC addendum

Source: “NLO” Magazine, St Petersburg # 14, January 26 1999

Type: C

21.

Location. Aztec, New Mexico

Date: March 25 1948

Time: unknown

A disk crashed to earth on this date after having been detected by three separate radar units in the southwest, one of which was said to have disrupted the craft’s control mechanism. The area of impact was calculated by triangulation and this information was immediately relayed to Air Defense Command and Gen. George C Marshall, then Secretary of State, who allegedly contacted the MJ-12 group as well as the interplanetary Phenomenon unit (IPU) of the Army Counterintelligence Directorate. The IPU operated out of Camp Hale Colorado, at this time. The source claims that its main function was to collect and deliver disabled or crashed disks to certain specified secret locations. The craft was recovered within hours by the IPU scout team about 12 miles northeast of Aztec. All those involved in the recovery were sworn to an above top-secret oath. The IPU convoy used a route to the site that avoided main roads, and on arrival roadblocks were set up at strategic points within two miles of the recovery area. The owner of a ranch and his family were allegedly held incommunicado and told never to discuss the matter. Equipment hauling trucks were camouflaged to look like oil drilling rigs during the operation. A team of scientists arrived at the site a little later than the IPU and began dissecting the disk. They entered the craft one by one, entry having been gained via a fractured porthole. The portholes themselves looked metallic and only appeared translucent on close inspection. Inside the craft they found two humanoids, about two feet in height, slumped over an instrument panel charred deep brown. Another 12 bodies lay sprawled on the floor in chamber within the cabin, making a total of 14 bodies. An instrument panel supposedly had several pushbuttons and levers with hieroglyphic type symbols, as well as symbols illuminated on small display screens. Scientists discovered that the controls panels had drawers, which rolled out, but no wiring could be detected. A book composed of parchment like leaves with the texture of plastic also contained the strange hieroglyphs---similar to Sanskrit. Meanwhile another small group of scientists and military personnel examined the craft and were eventually able to dismantle it when several interlocking key devices were found which opened up seams at specific points. Three days later the segments were loaded onto three trucks, together with the bodies, and covered with a tarpaulin marked “Explosives.” According to the report the bodies were described as averaging 42 inches in length. The facial features strongly resembled “mongoloid Orientals” in appearance, which disproportionately large heads, large “slant” eyes, small noses and mouths. The average weight was about 40 pounds. The torsos were very small and thin, with very thin necks. The arms were long and slender, reaching the knees, with hands containing long and slender fingers with webbing between them. There was no digestive or gastrointestinal tract, no alimentary or intestinal canal, and no rectal point. No reproductive organs were apparent. Instead of blood there was a colorless liquid with no red cells, which smelled similar to ozone.
HC addendum

Source: Steinman, UFO Crash at Aztec, and other sources

Type: H

22.

Location. San Martino in Pensilis Italy

Date: April 3 1948

Time: 0635A

Guiseppe Langiano, a bus driver, and the stationmaster, Bavota, saw a luminous orange object hovering about 10 meters above the ground at Fara Di Gigno, emitting a beam of very bright white light. It was an inverted bowl shape, surmounted by a transparent looking “upside down cup,” diameter 10-15 meters. From this floated down to the ground “a sort of big puppet about 1.5 meters in height, dressed in a stiff, metallic looking one piece garment and wearing heavy metallic gauntlets; he had two round holes in place of eyes.” When the witness ran toward it, this figure re-entered the UFO, which took off.
Humcat 1948-6

Source: UFO in Italia

Type: B

23.

Location. Longview Washington

Date: April 7 1948

Time: 1500

Mrs Viola Johnson & James Pittman, laundry employees, saw “3 men in dark drab flying suits flying through the air---about 250 ft high, circling the city, going about as fast as a freight train. I couldn’t see any motors or propellers on them, but I could hear motors like airplane motors, but not as loud. They had some kind of apparatus on their sides which looked like guns.” The flying men were gone before others could get outside, but “other residents reported hearing plane motors and seeing three planes circle at a high altitude.”
Humcat 1948-7

Source: Humcat quoting News INS story

Type: E

24.

Location. Near Remedios, Las Villas, Cuba

Date: April 14 1948

Time: midnight

On all Friday all Saints Days, Jose Espinoza got up early in order to arrange some sugar cane carts, which he had left in the fields in order to work on them later. Ignoring his mother’s his mother’s pleas not to go out on such a Holy day because the “Devil himself was out doing his work on this day” Jose headed out to the carts. Soon after climbing on the first cart he began his labors, suddenly he noticed standing on the last cart (there were four carts) a little man, only about one foot and a half in height, fiery red in color, emitting sparks from “horn like protrusions and a tail”. The little man noticed the stunned Jose and produced a small ball of fire which he flung at Jose, he repeated this several times; rolling several balls of fire at Jose, each ball was bigger than the last. Jose barely managed to avoid the fiery spheres, and could not further react to the situation. Finally he reacted and screamed with all his might, “this is the devil!”, and quickly jumped from the cart, running towards his house without stopping.
HC addendum

Source: [e-mail] quoting Samuel Feijo “Mitologia Cubana”

Type: E

Comments: Whatever entity Jose encountered he associated it with the devil and this probably caused a deviation on the description of the humanoid.

25.

Location. Near Phoenix Arizona

Date: May 1948

Time: 2200

Dorothy Longfoot, her husband and he dog had pulled off to the side of the road in order to get some much needed rest. They pulled into the desert about five feet from the road. As her husband was preparing the tent, her dog suddenly pressed against her leg and gave a growl. She looked up to see what made him growl. Standing about 50 feet away was a huge humanoid figure. She did not feel threatened by it, but did feel that it was looking at her. She began walking towards it, accompanied by her dog that was still growling. It seemed gorilla like but despite the moonlight she could not see any features. She heard her husband yell out to stop and, she turned her head and felt the dog relax, she turned back and the creature had vanished. There was nothing within miles for such a huge creature to hide behind, it simply dematerialized. Soon her husband packed up and left the area.
HC addition # 3927

Source: Strange Magazine

Type: E

26.

Location. Wasserbillig Germany

Date: May 25 1948

Time: night

A young German named Hans Klotzbach was aboard a coal train heading towards Luxembourg. During the night, just before the train reached the frontier station of Wasserbillig, Klotzbach leapt onto the embankment, sustaining terrible injuries to both legs. Unable to walk and losing blood, he fainted. When he recovered consciousness, he found himself inside a flying saucer, in a cabin bathed in opal bluish light. A voice spoke in German, making prophecies about world calamities. It said they had found him and felt compassion for him. He fell asleep and came to four days later, lying in a small wood about 10 km from where he had been. His shoes were full of dried blood, but his legs had been totally healed.
Humcat 1948-8

Source: Gordon Creighton, FSR Vol. 15 # 5

Type: G

27.

Location. Moscow Russia

Date: end of May 1948

Time: early morning

A 13-year old boy named S.B. Shembel suddenly awoke from a push; it was already dawn as he opened his eyes and saw the figure of a humanoid entity with round white eyes standing at the opened door of his bedroom. The figure stood in gloomy semi-darkness. The witness saw no pupils in the humanoid’s eyes, but the distinctly felt that the humanoid was staring directly at him. The intruder’s body was completely covered by dense dark hair and somehow seemed flat to the witness (like a projection?). Terrified, the witness kicked his legs toward the humanoid causing his blanket to rise upwards and momentarily cover the humanoid from sight. When the blanket came down again the humanoid figure had vanished. The terrified witness hid under the covers for sometime and later closed the door his bedroom.
HC addendum

Source: “NLO” Magazine Saint Petersburg # 39, September 23 2002

Type: E

28.

Location. Hemer Sauerland Germany

Date: Summer 1948

Time: morning

A shepherd was guarding his flock of sheep in an isolated grassy area when suddenly the animals scattered in a panic. He heard a rushing sound and saw a large metallic domed object emerge from what appeared to be an artificial fog and land nearby. The witness approached the object and touched it; he felt a strong electrical shock and was knocked unconscious. The witness later woke up and found himself on a different field surrounded by several short entities, described as having large heads, large slanted almond shaped eyes, narrow mouths and small noses, they had bulging foreheads with short stubby hair. They all had boxes on their chests with tubes protruding from it. At times they appeared to grasp the tubes and breath into it. The beings gesticulated and spoke among themselves in an unknown language. Nearby sat the object still encased in a mist. Next to the craft stood five other humanoids that began collecting soil samples and placing them into large containers. Finally all the humanoids re-entered the object, which took off at high speed emitting a loud whining sound. Burnt spots were found at the scene where the object was said to have landed.
HC addition # 883

Source: Illobrand Von Ludwiger, Mufon 1993 Symposium Proceedings

Type: B or G?

29.

Location. Stavropol region, North Caucasus, Russia

Date: summer 1948

Time: noon-1300

V.Z., a local boy and resident of an area “hutor” (small village) was taken along with his older sister and a neighbor girl from the collective farm to the fields since it was their turn to graze/pasture the cows. Around mid-day the cows went to sleep after eating their share of grass, the girls and the small boy also sat to rest on the grass after eating their lunch. Soon the boy’s sister and the other girl decided to tan themselves on the grass and they sent the boy to rest on the other side of the hill. He walked there laid under a brush and fell asleep. Soon he was awakened by the sound of a piercing/penetrating whistle, but not loud, and then V.Z. saw a silver-colored object resembling a huge upside down plate. The object landed not far from the witness on three landing props and became silent. V.Z. later regretted not running away immediately, but stayed there, very scared but curious at the same time. After some time a door on the “saucer” opened and three humanoid entities walked out of it. They were very thin and tall, wearing silver suits. V.Z. stood transfixed or paralyzed to the same spot. The aliens approached him, took his hand and led him into the landed craft. At first they appeared in a very narrow and small corridor. The aliens closed a door and then a second one and took the boy into a small room along the narrow corridor. Half of the room was occupied by 4 cages made out of metallic rods. In one of these cages the boy saw a bear, in the second one---a woman and in the third---three men of Caucasian appearance, and in the fourth---a man of Slavic descent. The boy was then placed together with the last man, in the same cage. V.Z. recollected and comprehended all of this only later, because at the time he was seized with horror. Even dozens of years later, V.Z. could not describe his state. He couldn’t neither scream nor resist, he was in a trance-like state, his will to resist had been totally neutralized. As soon as the boy and aliens entered the room, the bear began dashing around the cage and growling, and the woman began screaming in hysterics. She was undressed, naked, her hair disheveled, her eyes fixed in a wild stare and she was foaming at the mouth. The three Caucasian men knelt down and began to pray loudly in an unknown language (evidently in Arabic). The Slavic man attempted to calm the boy, bringing the boy to his senses and distracting him from the horrible things around him. As the boy realized later he had been taken onboard an alien spaceship, and the spacecraft then began to move. And a most horrible thing occurred. The aliens took out an “operation table” from the wall, and put one of the Caucasian men on it. The man seemed totally helpless and did not resist. The Slavic man then pulled the boy close to him and began talking to him, distracting his attention and calming him down. The boy remembered that the tall thin aliens were now dissecting the body of the Caucasian man on the operation table, and there was not even a folding screen to cover this gory and bloody event from the witness. Then the aliens collected all the pieces of the unfortunate man and placed them in a box, washed out the blood and left the room. The man who was in the cage with V.Z. asked the boy his name, his place of origin and his nickname. About himself he told the young boy that he was from the Urals and that he was a mining engineer, his name was probably Alexander. Then he began to talk to the woman but she seemed not to react and the other two remaining men also remained silent. Then the man said to V.Z., “We will fight the bad men, together, you and me, OK?” Some time later the man V.Z. called “Uncle Sasha” brought him to the edge of the cage and told him to attempt to squeeze out of the cage. The boy was scared but the man convinced him and with great difficulty the boy managed to crawl out of the cage. Then Uncle Sasha told V.Z. to press a button, but the boy couldn’t reach it, since the button was positioned high, much higher than the boy’s height. The man then found a solution, he undressed, tied up all his clothing into a bundle and gave it to the boy so he could stand on it and reach the button on the wall. After several attempts the boy finally succeeded in pressing the button. The lock on the cage then clicked and the man walked out of the cage. He then dressed, walked toward the cage where the other two men were and again tried to talk to them, but they never reacted. “Sasha” then searched the room trying to find something to defend himself with, but he couldn’t find anything. V.Z. and “Sasha” then walked to other rooms in the craft after finding the buttons that could open the doors, and only in three rooms did they find the aliens which were sleeping (!). In an upper room (cockpit) near the control panel, they saw another alien who was also dozing by the control panel. Searching the craft for any source of weapon as the alien crew slept Sasha failed to find anything remotely resembling a weapon. The witnesses then succeeded in opening another door, which apparently led to the “engine” room. They descended into this room but failed to find anything useful and then returned to the corridor where they began to open other doors on the corridor. There were several such doors positioned in different places. Finally they opened the largest door and found a metallic box with a stripe set up on metallic struts. Sasha then moved the boy to a safe distance and threw the metallic box on to some of the terminals. Immediately sparks appeared, smoke came out of the box and a crackling sound was heard. Moments later what sounded like alarms signals also went off. Three of the aliens then awoke rushed out of their rooms, they threw themselves on Sasha and threw the boy aside, and he sat on the floor watching the scuffle. Sasha struggled with two of the aliens as the third one ran into a room. The third alien came back seconds later carrying what appeared to be a metallic rod of some kind, he touched the struggling Sasha with the road and immediately he was paralyzed. The boy and the man were then put back into the cage, moments later one alien left the room but two others stayed behind. These two aliens began to communicate with Sasha asking him who he was and how he was able to “resist” so well. The humanoids were curious as to why the other “creatures” they had captured were in such a low level of development. Sasha explained to them that the other three humans in the cages were of very low level of education and the female had probably gone insane from fear. As for V.Z. Sasha pointed out that he was a smart human but lacked “technique”, he then pointed out that the last creature in the other case was not human at all but a “bear” or animal without any human emotions or intellect. In response the aliens told him that they aim was to study the surrounding space (space exploration). They had always considered the population of earth as being in a very low level of development. But when earthlings began testing atomic bombs in 1945 they became interested and decided to conduct in depth studies of the human civilization. They told Sasha, “To waste radioactive material for explosions was madness. These materials could be used for other needs and they (the aliens) had those materials in very low quantity and were very valuable to them. They used the radioactive materials to obtain energy which they used in various branches of science and technique and also for space travel.” It became evident to Sasha and V.Z. that these aliens basic aim was to find and extract radioactive material from other planets, and their secondary aim was to study other space civilizations. Then the aliens invited Sasha to accompany them to their main ship (mothership) and then to their home planet. He agreed but put forward the following conditions, the aliens were to release all of their human captives onboard the craft. The extraterrestrials at first rejected this condition but Sasha assured them that anyway no one would believe them and their visit would remain a secret. The aliens trusted Sasha and agreed to his condition. The aliens seemed in a hurry since they were intending to depart in a preliminary calculated route. V.Z. does not know where the aliens dropped off the other 3 remaining humans but Sasha insisted that the aliens deposit V.Z. at the same location he was picked up from. He asked V.Z. to remember his name and address. When the aliens freed the boy the time was already morning, before they did however the aliens insisted in giving V.Z. an injection which they said he needed to survive since he had been exposed to “radiation” in their engine room (the environment inside the craft was evidently very radioactive). The aliens led the boy out of the craft injected him and then he blacked out. Later V.Z. awoke from voices, and he noticed a chain of people walking through a field searching for him. His mother then ran to him and asked him where he had been, but V.Z. felt a strong headache was trembling with fever and was very thirsty. He was then brought home to bed. V.Z. was ill for a long time and felt a metallic taste in his mouth and his skin couldn’t be exposed to bright sunrays. However he wasn’t taken to a hospital and was “cured” using home remedies. When he tried to tell people what had happened V.Z. was mostly ignored and distracted. Gradually he recovered but could not go out in the sun for a long time after that. Soon V.Z. told his story to his sister and she told his mother. He wanted to write a letter detailing what had occurred to him but his mother said no since “it might getting in trouble with the militia”.