CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF VARIOUS KINDS
Within this series, see part 1, I will glean from Martin Kottmeyer’s articles “Varicose Brains, Part 1: Entering a Grey Area,” “Varicose Brains, Part 2: Heading Towards the Future” and “Varicose Brains, Part 3: Headhunt,” Magonia. I will attempt to keep things somewhat chronologically. Following I will relate some of the details specifically relevant to the large headed small bodies grey alien archetype in general.
In that regard, many of the images I collected and posted as the original Fifty Shades of Grey article (see slide show of images at the end of this article).
1950 AD
Time magazine reported on the Rosenwald Foundation UFO crash according to which the aliens were “three-ft tall and a bit primitive, even monkey-like in appearance.”
The Los Angeles Mirror published Ray L. Dimmick’s “‘Flying Saucer’ Crash in Mexico Told by L.A. Man” which reported on “a pigmy-sized man, about 25 inches tall…The tiny visitor reputedly had a large head and a very small body.”
Kenneth Arnold, “flying saucer” (as the news reported them) witness, was asked about such phenomena, his reply was as follows:
I don’t scoff at reports that “little men” have fled from alleged crack-ups of flying saucers in Mexico and southern California…Who am I to say that no such men exist? My mind is always open to anything. I haven’t seen any of the tiny men myself. But I have letters from persons who have seen them. And they’re serious, too.
“Early tales towing the little man line include an Oxford, England account of a…‘…flying saucer…with lots of little men with ginger hair inside having tea’” as Martin Kottmeyer quotes and elaborates upon Loren Gross’ UFOs: A History: 1950: April-July, p. 2.
June 1950 Talk of the Times Dr. E.W. Kay’s model saucer that appeared in the press on January 11, 1950. The other is of two agents holding up a small humanoid with proportions somewhat like a small monkey.
The caption reads, “As one silver capsule broke: the first Mars man was captured! Eyewitness G-man, McKenerich, from Phoenix (Arizona), reports ‘I was astounded by the importance of this great moment. For the first time I was seeing a being from another world. At the same time I was equally amazed by the desperation of this Aluminum Man. His body was covered with a shiny metal foil.’ The observatory in Phoenix, Arizona, presumes that this is for protection from cosmic rays.”
As chronicled in Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack (Ace Star, 1967/1954), p. 261, 1952 AD has Joe Roher relating his experience with “A little man…The little saucer men have a smaller bony structure than earth men…” and a report of “a little fellow three feet tall.”
In 1954 AD, Dorothy Kilgallen asserted that a British official of Cabinet rank related to her an experience with “small men – probably under four feet tall.”
1958 AD, psychoanalyst and occultist Carl Jung noted “According to the rumour, the occupants are about three feet high and look like human beings or, conversely, are utterly unlike us. Other reports speak of giants 15 feet high.”
1958 AD, Edmund Rucker reports a being with “bulging eyes and domed foreheads.”
I cannot seem to find it but it is related that a San Diego newsweekly Point photo by David Shantz depicts “27 inch Men” as he related witnessing a flying saucer landing the inhabitant of which were “several tiny men…They appeared luminous and ghost-like.”
This relates to aliens known as “Etherians” that are said to be “great godlike creatures 9 to 10 feet tall. They live 200 to 300 years. They reproduce like humans. They can think themselves down to 27 inches to facilitate manoeuvrability of the craft, but they can think themselves to the size of mountains.”
In 1953 AD we got the Edward Watters photo of an alien or rather, just a “shaved monkey” hoax.
It is noted that “A case in Vallee’s Magonia catalogue places 1.5 meter men with oversized heads near Tonnere, France as early as September 4, 1953” and that this is “a backdated tale, a common threat.”
1954 AD, Marius DeWilde encountered two humanoid figures “about 80 cm to 1 metre” thus, just over three feet. They appear to have been wearing some sort of helmet as when he pointed his flashlight at them it reflected off of their heads.
UFOlogist Aimé Michel reported the following about this case, “very short, probably less than three and a half feet tall, but very wide in the shoulders, and the helmets protecting the heads looked enormous. I could see their legs, small in proportion to their height.”
Martin Kottmeyer references Harold T. Wilkins’ “Flying Saucers Uncensored” (Pyramid, 1967/1955 AD, p. 53-4):
The story was widely disseminated. One newspaper, speaking of George Pal’s War of the Worlds film then playing nearby wrote, “Marius DeWilde saw a big head protected by some kind of glass helmet.” In the Paris paper Soir, it was rendered, “Both were little beings with enormous heads.”
Kottmeyer also references Jacques Bonabot’s “Dossier Quarouble 1954” Bulletin du GESAG, #72, Jun 1983 AD which quotes DeWilde thusly, “on the contrary to what some of your colleagues have written, they did not have a big head.”
1954 AD, Franz Hoge reports “3½ foot tall – peculiarly shaped creatures with “thick-set bodies, oversized head, and delicate legs.”
1954 AD, Aimé Michel’s “The Humanoids,” pp. 44-45, case #111 reports on Francois Panero and Jean Olivier who reported a “1.20 meters tall” being, “His head was large with respect to the rest of his body, and he had enormous eyes.” Life magazine printed “A photo of a chalk outline of the Toulouse Martian drawn” by Panero and Olivier “with caption reading “Dumpy little space man they saw land in luminous sphere on basketball court near Toulouse.”
The very next month, Life published “Astral Adventurers” which reported on “little men of many colours” and “a little whiskered man”:
Two photos show men with hands set about a yard above the ground. The caption reads “Martian Men’s Height is shown by two bakers. Pierre Lucas of Loctudy was going to a well when, he said, orange ball fell from the sky. Suddenly a small bearded figure with one eye in middle of forehead tapped him on shoulder. Serge Pochet of Marcoing was approached by two small shadows.”
1955 AD, “a very strange dwarfish being resembling a gorilla” was reported.
1959 AD, William B. Gill reported “small manlike creatures…the outline of normal human beings.”
Here you can find various images of grey aliens taken, mostly, from sci fi/fantasy books, comics and movies which subsequently inform pop-occulture.
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