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Today In UFO History - Hairy Dwarves in Venezuela
November 28, 1954 - Petare, Caracas, Venezuela
1/ 2:00 a.m. Meat merchants José Ponce and Gustavo Gonzáles are driving a panel truck along Calle Bella Vista in Petare, Caracas, Venezuela. They

2/find their way blocked by a 10-foot-wide, glowing ball hovering 6 feet above the street. When they get out to investigate, they are confronted by a dwarfish creature covered with stiff, bristly hair. Gonzáles grabs it, but it tosses him to one side. Two more dwarfs, gathering

3/dirt and rocks nearby, approach. Ponce sees them and runs to find a police station. Gonzáles recovers in time to see two of the entities climb through an opening in the UFO. The third comes toward him, claws extended, and Gonzáles tries to stab it in the shoulder with his knife

4/, but the blade glances off. One of the dwarfs inside the UFO points a tube at Gonzáles that emits a brilliant beam of energy. He is paralyzed and temporarily blinded but manages to stagger to the police station. A doctor at the emergency room at Esquina de Sálas hospital

5/treats an abrasion on Gonzáles’s left side. Other witnesses to a UFO in the area come forward. [Eberhart]

Sources:
"Ex-Wacoan in Venezuela Relates Saucer Saga There", Waco Herald-Tribune, of Waco, Texas, USA, on February 13, 1955;

Sources cont.:
Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 245, case # 344;
NICAP 1954 Chronology Page;
"FIRST HUManoid CATalog" (FIRSTHUMCAT), compiled by Luis R. Gonzalez Manso, Spain, circa 2005;
Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index 1954, p. 163, 55-144;

Sources cont.:
Alan Baker, "The Encyclopedia of Alien Encounters", Virgin Publishing, 1999, pg. 41-42;
Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–December, The Author, 1991, pp. 32–33;

Sources cont.:
Patrick Huyghe, The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials, 1996, pg.74-75;
APRO Bulletin v3n3 November 1954, pg.11;
"US Press Reps Visit Caracas", APRO Bulletin v3n5 April 1955, pg.1-3;
Kevin D. Randle, Faces of the visitors, 1999, pg.27-29;

Sources cont.:
Charles Bowen (Ed.), "The Pattern Behind the UFO Landings", chapter by Jacques Valle,"The Humanoids", Henry Regnery Co., 1969, pg.57;
Charles Bowen (Ed.), "Humanoids in South America", chapter by Gordon Creighton,"The Humanoids", Henry Regnery Co., 1969, pg.93-94;

Sources cont.:
Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs -- THE WHOLE STORY, 1969, pg.63,168-189;
Jim & Coral Lorenzen, FLYING SAUCER OCCUPANTS , 1967, pg. 103-104;
Jim & Coral Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, 1976, pg. 144-145;

Sources cont.:
Jim & Coral Lorenzen, The Great Flying Saucer Hoax -- The UFO Facts and Their Interpretation, 1962 , pg.52-54;
Jim & Coral Lorenzen, Flying Saucers, The Startling Evidence Of The Invasion From Outer Space, 1966, pg. 57-58;

Sources cont.:
Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, Henry Holt, 1955, pg.239-240;
Frank Edwards, "Flying Saucers, Serious Business", Bantam Books, 1966 , pg.100-102;

Patrick Gross, URECAT
NOVEMBER 29, 1954, PETARE, MIRANDA, VENEZUELA, GUSTAVO GONZALES AND JOSE PONCE
ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-11-29…

See also "In Venezuela -- Hairy Dwarves!" in APRO Bulletin, January 1955 issue for a wave of similar sightings at the time
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