Forgotten Humanoid Encounters

This is just one of many thousands of incidents that have been catalogued in 
our history. There are probably also many that have not even been reported.

http://www.ufodigest.com/article/forgotten-humanoid-encounters


This most intriguing case goes back to the year 1973 and involves an 
anonymous truck driver from the city of Arecibo on Puerto Rico's northern 
shore. Researcher Sebasti�n Robiou interviewed this unidentified witness in 
January 1974, so the details were still fresh in the experiencer's mind.

The driver was on his way from San Juan to Arecibo, accompanied by an 
assistant, to make a routine delivery at a warehouse. At one point along 
Route 2, the old "military road" that links the cities of the northern 
coastline with Mayaguez on the west and Ponce on the south, the driver 
noticed a "weird star" larger than any of the planets. This unusual source 
of light appeared to be following his truck.

At 0400, the truck arrived at the warehouse behind the Arecibo Shopping 
Center, which was deserted at the time. Both men decided to unload the 
delivery truck themselves and sleep for a few hours before undertaking the 
trip back to San Juan. Just as they were drifting off to sleep, they heard 
the sound of approaching footsteps, and fearful of robbers, they inspected 
the surroundings before returning to their truck and finally getting much 
needed rest. Some time went by and the driver heard the footsteps again: he 
alerted his companion, who did not wake up this time. The driver decided to 
feign sleep and remained alert.

His watchfulness paid off, and to his amazement, he saw three "whitish 
figures" - according to the description given to Robiou - visible in the 
side view mirror on the passenger side. In his mind, he expected a 
confrontation with common criminals, not a brush with the unknown.

Still feigning sleep, he was able to see three strange beings peering into 
his truck through the passenger window, past his sleeping companion. This 
was the verbatim description of the incident: "They were identical to each 
other. They had close-fitting helmets on their heads, and a sort of crest 
projected from the front to the back. The beings were white in color, and 
normal but for a major detail - their noses were hooked like a parrot's 
beak!"

One may wonder how the driver managed to remain calm in the face of this 
strange visitation. But the fact is that he remained still, looking at the 
unknown visitors through slitted eyes, and describing their behavior. The 
humanoids spoke to each other with a sound reminiscent of the squeaking of 
bats, and were clad in outfits covered in what appeared to be scales, as far 
as he could see. After their cursory look at the interior of the cabin, the 
parrot-men walked away, chattering among themselves.

After making sure they were gone, the driver stirred his companion and 
started the truck. He drove back to San Juan at once, reaching the city of 
Bayam�n and dropping off the delivery truck at the company office. The 
driver returned home, and according to Sebastian Robiou, told his family 
that something very strange had happened to him. He immediately developed 
physical symptoms, including a high fever and headaches that afflicted him 
for two days (this brings to mind John Keel's observation in The Mothman 
Prophecies (p.231) that UFO witnesses often come down with physical symptoms 
after encounters-some of them even similar to those of gonorrhea). The 
witness described feeling a sensation of cranial pressure as he looked at 
the parrot-men. "I felt my head was going to explode."

The sensation of cranial pressure during an encounter with a non-human 
presence was also mentioned in another case that same year: the December 23, 
1973 CE-III involving a humanoid with hollow black eyesockets and a 
housewife hanging laundry in Puerto Rico's Barrio Lim�n in the city of 
Mayaguez. The case became famous as the first time that a hypnotic 
regression - carried out by Dr. Manuel Mendez del Toro -- was used on a UFO 
percipient on the island. The housewife chose to remain anonymous, but a 
transcript of the regression session was featured prominently in Sebasti�n 
Robiou's works and later works by other major Puerto Rican researchers. It 
was also featured prominently in Contactos Extraterrestres magazine (1981). 
The case was also discussed on the airwaves, having been featured on Orlando 
Rimax's Otros Mundos radio show in 1976.

The witness, as stated earlier, was outside her home hanging the laundry 
when she became aware of a flash in the sky: an object she would describe as 
a smooth, silver hoop lacking windows or doors, was suspended in the air, 
tilting from side to side. Not particularly interested in such matters, and 
with more chores on her list, the housewife returned indoors. Within the 
walls of her home, she was assaulted by an intense buzzing sound that rose 
incrementally to the point that she felt that her head was going to 
explode - the same description offered by the truck driver who encountered 
the Arecibo "parrot-men".

Compelled to walk toward one of the windows facing her back yard, the woman 
found herself staring at a human figure. Most of the details of her 
experience were recovered under hypnosis two years lager, including her 
description of "a tall humanoid figure with crossed arms, wearing a tight 
silver outfit, whose red face was the only part of the body not covered by 
the uniform." Lacking a nose or mouth, the entity's most prominent facial 
feature were the large, dark cavities where its eyes would have been.

Under Mendez del Toro's guidance, the anonymous housewife also remembered 
"crying and screaming in fear, the entity commanded her to calm down and to 
come to him. Adding to the high-strangeness quotient, the entity demanded 
that the terrified woman give him an object: a stone she used to mash 
vegetables. In terror - and the transcript of the hypnotic session 
demonstrates this clearly - the woman proferred the stone, with the 
unexpected result that the bizarre entity recoiled from it, ordering her 
"not to look at him".

What makes this bizarre 1973 case even stranger - as if it needed to be - is 
that the eyeless entity projected words into the witness's mind, words that 
she understood as "cerakia ovint" and which were subjected to interpretation 
in a variety of languages, ancient and modern, without any results. Research 
conducted in 1975 by William Santana of the defunct CEOVNI organization 
showed that other neighbors had heard the buzzing sound at the time, but 
hadn't seen the outlandish visitor from elsewhere.