Alternate Perceptions Magazine, June 2025
The Saucer Files
By Rick Hilberg
Advent of The Flying Saucers - 1957 May 11, 1957 - "Little Men" Attack Man in Amiens, France - a Hungarian refugee claimed he was nearly attacked by "four little men dressed in gray " who landed in a flying saucer. His story was backed by six Beaucourt-sur- Ancre residents and gendarmes who investigated tracks on a road and said they found lumps of a black, lava-like substance. Michel Fekete, 29, said that after midnight as he was cycling home he was "dazzled by a strange projectile, and four little men came towards me in a threatening manner."
November 4, 1957 - "Flying Egg" Stops Cars in New Mexico - An electronics engineer reported seeing a UFO on an isolated desert highway near Alamogordo that afternoon. James Stokes, an engineer in an upper air research project at the Air Force missile development center, said ten automobiles were stopped that afternoon on U. S. Highway 54, between White Sands Proving Grounds and the Air Force missile development center when the flying object appeared.
Earlier in the day, officials at White Sands said two Army patrols reported seeing a similar object or objects on November 3rd. Similar reports also came on November 3rd. from Levelland, Texas.
Stokes, in a taped interview for Terry Clark, news director at KALG radio, reported that the object approached from the northeast over the Sacramento Mountains. He said the first indication that something was out of the ordinary was a gradual fading of the radio in his car.
Then, he said, the car engine died, and he noticed that several other cars on the highway had stopped. Stokes said he noticed that the occupants were getting out of their cars and pointing to the sky. "Looking up," Stokes said in the interview, "I saw a light-colored, egg-shaped object making a shallow dive across the sky to the northeast.
"Then it wheeled and made a pass at the highway, across the road not more than two miles ahead.
It then moved away toward the Organ Mountains near White Sands Proving Grounds to the southwest.
"As it passed at its closest point, I could feel a kind of heat wave, but there was no sound.
"It had no visible portholes and there was no vapor trail, smoke or flame visible.
"When I got back to my car and checked the engine, I found it intact, but the battery was steaming, but started with no trouble."
November 6, 1957 - Illinois Troopers Sight "Brilliant" Flying Object - Two experienced Illinois state troopers reported seeing a "brilliant flying object" near Danville that night and followed it for about 15 miles. The officers, Calvin Showers and John Matulis, said they were unable to notify headquarters during the chase because their patrol radio went mysteriously dead.
The radio returned to good working order after their encounter.
Lieutenant John Henry, Urbana state police district, said officers described the object as brilliant white when they first spotted it. It then changed during the chase to an amber color and then to bright orange. The object, brighter and larger than a star, was described as "traveling at a terrific rate of speed." They were unable to say how high it was in altitude or how large it actually was. The officers in the state police car sighted the object while responding to reports of it being spotted by residents north of Danville.
Henry said he had not believed in UFO reports before but added: "These are two experienced, trusted policemen and their reports are very reliable."
Earlier, Lieutenant Henry said, a farmer near Longview reported a "flying saucer" had landed in one of his fields. The only thing found by state police investigators was a ball of twisted metal.
November 6, 1957 - Casper, Wyoming Couple Encounter UFO, EM Effects - Two Casper residents told authorities they saw a round, shiny flying object similar to others reported from other parts of the United States. Shirley Moyer and Hugh Pulju, a member of a seismograph crew, said they were driving on a country road ten miles north of Casper when the strange object appeared 250 feet ahead of their car.
"I've been scared,” Miss Moyer said, "but that thing had me petrified."
The two witnesses described the object as being as big as a house with two pointed peaks. Miss Moyer said it "glowed like aluminum."
The car engine died, Pulju said, and acted sluggish after he restarted it and turned around to drive away from the thing. They reported that the engine began to run normally after they drove back to a main highway but that they could still see the glowing UFO from the highway.
Pulju said he had seen nothing like the object before and added, "It shouldn't have been there."
