1977: Youth reports UFOs with ‘greenish creatures’

THINK ABOUTIT SIGHTING REPORT

Date: January 19, 1977

Sighting Time: 6:30 a.m.

Day/Night: Morning

Location: Harrah, Washington

Urban or Rural: Rural

No. of Entity(‘s): 4

Entity Type:  Hybrid Human|Robot?

Entity Description: greenish creatures about three feet tall, who rotated on a base instead of having feet

Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter III) Close observation with animate beings associated with the object.

Duration:

No. of Object(s):  two

Size of Object(s): about 10 feet

Distance to Object(s):

Shape of Object(s):

Color of Object(s): steely, were brilliantly lighted inside, had “straight stairs” (much like a ramp), and a door that opened in “two parts, like a cross” to reveal the interior which contained two chairs with very tail bases.

Number of Witnesses: 1

Source: Toppenish Review (Toppenish, WA), Jan. 26, 1977

Summary: Nine-year-old Jose Cantu of Harrah woke his mother up at about 6:30 a.m. asking her to explain the little “man” he saw outside. According to the boy, he had seen two greenish creatures about three feet tall, who rotated on a base instead of having feet, and two “steely” crafts in which 2 other creatures were sitting.

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Jose’s drawing of the creature he reported seeing. (credit: Toppenish Review)

Harrah youth reports UFOs with ‘greenish creatures’

By Frances Story

Martha Cantu of Harrah said if her son ever tells her again to “come and look,” she’ll be sure to do it.

Last Wednesday when her agitated nine-year-old son Jose woke his mother up at about 6:30 a.m. asking her to explain the little “man” he saw outside she discounted his story and settled down to catch up on the sleep she’d lost the night before with a fussy baby.

Jose, who had been in the middle of preparing his breakfast, wasn’t put off so easily. He went outside to check for himself— and came back with an amazing story. He told his mother he had seen two greenish creatures about three feet tall, who rotated on a base instead of having feet, and two “steely” crafts in which 2 other creatures were sitting. He claimed that one craft rested in the back yard and the other on a flat section of the roof of the house. He told her he had hidden behind a washing machine stored outside next to a shed.

From that vantage point, he said he saw the two creatures join the other two in the crafts. He added that the crafts were brilliantly lighted inside, had “straight stairs” (much like a ramp), and a door that opened in “two parts, like a cross” to reveal the interior which contained two chairs with very tail bases. Jose said the craft in the yard rose from the ground and disappeared into something that resembled a cloud, steam, or smoke.

When she heard the story, Jose’s mother did what any mother might do in the same circumstances. She sent him to school.

At the Harrah Grade School, Jose repeated the story to Diane Gomez, an aide. “Jose is a serious boy. He’s not one that tells stories or lies. What he told me, I took very seriously,” Gomez said.

At 10:10, recess time, Gomez and another aide accompanied Jose to his home. There he showed them the places where he said the two creatures had been standing. In one location, where Jose said one creature had rotated on his base, Gomez said she saw two round marks in the gravel. At another place, where the creatures allegedly stood, there were two sets of three indentations.

After Mrs. Cantu spoke to the teacher’s aides and they had returned to school with Jose, she called her neighbor, Irene Sanchez, to come to her home. Sanchez said they examined the back yard and found in the long grass a circular impression about 10 feet in diameter in which the grass in the middle was whirled up, and also observed the marks the aides had seen. The circle was easily visible from the window of the house next door, Gomez said and added that her brother, who lives there, had seen it from that distance. The circle was still clearly visible when Mr. Cantu arrived home that evening from work, he said.

On Thursday afternoon, when Bill Vogel of Toppenish and David Akers of Seattle, who is affiliated with the Center for UFO Studies, visited the Cantu home, the perfectly shaped circle and “footsteps” were still discernible. Akers examined the area with a Geiger counter and got no reaction.

On Saturday when this reporter visited the Cantu home only one set of “foot” marks could still be seen and only a faint trace of the circle remained.

Because the Cantu family is more at home with the Spanish language, this reporter took along a skeptical translator. After he questioned Jose, who answered his questions seriously and respectfully but asked to be allowed to return to his play, the skeptic concluded that “I believe he saw what he said he saw.”

Vogel said he and Akers thought that Jose had “definitely” had an experience with a UFO.

If Jose did, he is in good company.