2008 Woodie Awards
Three weird looking monsters in their transparent ship
By: Aaron Sakulich
Issue date: 5/4/07 Section: Ed-Op
Originally published: 5/4/07 at 3:03 AM EST
Last update: 5/4/07 at 2:09 PM EST
Originally published: 5/4/07 at 3:03 AM EST
Last update: 5/4/07 at 2:09 PM EST
Everyone knows what space aliens look like. They're small, they've got big, light bulb-shaped heads with big, black, almond-shaped eyes. Incorrect! UFO abductees report a fairly wide variation in the shapes, sizes, colors and configurations of monsters from beyond the stars. I have my personal favorites: the school supply space mummy that abducted Sandy Larson, the octopus keg monsters that kidnapped Antonio La Rubia and in first place, the little raisin-headed jetpack creatures that scared a pair of drunks in Ririe, Idaho. Those little guys beat out a lot of contenders, and here are just three more of them.
Luce Fontain, a farmer on Reunion Island near Madagascar, was gathering grass for his rabbits when he came across something abnormal: a flying saucer containing a pair of marshmallow men.
He described the ship as a saucer sitting on top of a glass goblet, with another upside-down goblet on the top. It floated roughly five feet off the ground and had a dark blue center surrounding a large window. The marshmallow men stood about three feet tall and wore overalls and helmets that partially obscured their faces.
One of them turned towards Fontain, and then, with a blinding flash of light, the spaceship disappeared. There was no trace evidence of the spaceship on the ground nearby, though reports indicate that there was some "radiation" both in the area and on Fontain's clothes.
Considering Fontain was 25 meters away from an object five meters in diameter, floating two meters off the ground, it seems odd that there's only radiation underneath it and on his clothes, but nowhere else. Though, compared with a pair of marshmallow monsters from beyond the moon, I suppose it's not too bizarre. There's a long history of space people being reported wearing what looks like diving equipment, which comes to us directly from early science fiction that envisioned outer space as an enormous ocean (thanks, jerks), but this type of Michelin Man outfit is a one of a kind.
Luce Fontain, a farmer on Reunion Island near Madagascar, was gathering grass for his rabbits when he came across something abnormal: a flying saucer containing a pair of marshmallow men.
He described the ship as a saucer sitting on top of a glass goblet, with another upside-down goblet on the top. It floated roughly five feet off the ground and had a dark blue center surrounding a large window. The marshmallow men stood about three feet tall and wore overalls and helmets that partially obscured their faces.
One of them turned towards Fontain, and then, with a blinding flash of light, the spaceship disappeared. There was no trace evidence of the spaceship on the ground nearby, though reports indicate that there was some "radiation" both in the area and on Fontain's clothes.
Considering Fontain was 25 meters away from an object five meters in diameter, floating two meters off the ground, it seems odd that there's only radiation underneath it and on his clothes, but nowhere else. Though, compared with a pair of marshmallow monsters from beyond the moon, I suppose it's not too bizarre. There's a long history of space people being reported wearing what looks like diving equipment, which comes to us directly from early science fiction that envisioned outer space as an enormous ocean (thanks, jerks), but this type of Michelin Man outfit is a one of a kind.
William Riggs
posted 5/04/07 @ 10:49 AM EST
A great percentage of the reports from around the world seem to border on the extreme of strangness. A lot of the reports make it hard to think that the stories are not someones mental delusion, and are dismissed. (Continued…)