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Encounter in the Catskills

 

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Location. Catskill Forest Preserve, New York
Date: November 8 1975 Time: night
Two young men, Vincent L, and John, were on a camping trip and were suddenly awakened by noises, close to their tent. Fearing the possibility of a scavenging bear, they went outside, flashlights in hand and noticed back in the woods what they thought at first was a large Airstream trailer. Jo…hn headed into the woods to get a closer look. He had gone barely a few yards when he realized that this was no ordinary camper trailer, it had as smooth, irregular shape, a mast at one end with some kind of spinning unit mounted to it, but most surprising of all, its entire surface appeared to be faintly luminous. Vincent, who was walking behind him, had the same startled reaction at the same time, they tramped back to their shelter and sat down, trying to convince one another that it could not be what they thought it was. “There is no such thing,” John said, “There’s no such thing.”
He was holding the flashlight, which had not been turned off, and in an idle swing to his left, illuminated a figure standing in the woods. The figure, which appeared to be looking at them, was tall and simple in outline, with two large dark “eyes” and a series of diagonal slashes or stripes on one cheek being the only interruptions in the clear un-detailed shape. Its surface was also faintly luminous. Thoroughly frightened, John swung the flashlight beam around and picked up three more of the creatures, one of which was apparently in a tree. They were absolutely silent and identical except that the number of “cheek stripes” varied. For moments John and Vincent believed these figures were some sort of apparition created by slide projectors, or something like it. It was only when the creatures approached to within 15 feet that they realized they were “more dimensions” than a mere flat, projected illusion would be.
A state of siege ensued. The figures approached and withdrew, approached and withdrew. They moved with incredible ease when one considered the dense undergrowth in the woods. No arms or legs could be discerned within their closed silhouettes, and most mysterious of all, each time the flashlight beam fell upon one of the figures it would stop, remaining immobile until the beam was removed. One three striped figure which hovered towards the back of the group seemed to control the others, when the light beam fell upon it; all the others were simultaneously immobilized. The two campers were convinced they were going to be kidnapped. Later, when Vincent recounted the nightmarish experience, he said, “I really thought I was going to die there.” Brandishing axes, they built up their campfire, realizing that in light and fire they had their only defensive weapon. Their car was parked nearby, perhaps 100 feet away, in a cement parking lot that serviced the picnic area, but both men were too afraid to leave the campfire to make a break for it. Four Duroflame logs had swollen the flames to dramatic proportions and after a short while the mysterious figures withdrew. John and Vincent had noticed earlier that one of the creatures, way over to their left, had been slowly approaching them accompanied by an apparently hovering flat object that John described as looking like a small wheel-less covered wagon, perhaps 30 inches wide by six feet long. It had several hoops running up across its width, and these hoops supported what looked like a transparent, plexi-glass type of cover. All of these descriptions both men insist are as accurate as they can remember, though they underline the fact that they were totally petrified during the encounter.
John and Vincent had transformed the various picnic tables and benches around them into a “kind of Alamo” in front of their tent. When the creatures withdrew back into the woods, Vincent threw their possessions into the tent, cut the ropes, and raced down to the car to start the engine. John remained under the picnic shelter at the fireside and prepared to photograph the creatures which had at this moment begun to return. Before he had raised the camera to his eye, Vincent shouted for him to put it down—“They’ll think it’s a weapon”—and John complied. Everything was now in the car and they were ready to flee. John dumped some water on the stack of flaming logs, the fire sputtered out, and at that moment the figures rushed towards the campsite. John went down the stairs “six at a time” to the parking lot below, but there was a problem with car’s engine. Vincent recalls that at first the motor almost died, then surged forward, “the wheels leaving rubber,” but John remembers “the battery going dead” and the car starting immediately. Moments later, John and Vincent raced out of the park, heading for home in a state approaching abject terror. John recalls a stretch of road marked by small, metal enclosed glass reflectors down the center strip. The moment their headlights picked up the row of glowing spots both men nearly cried out in panic, assuming that their luminous tormentors were still with them.
Several days later Vincent found several diagonal abrasions above one another on his back (found by his fiancé) which straddled his lower spine. The faint scar marks persist to this day. John’s case was even stranger. He noticed some days after the event a small “burning” mark near his navel. It slowly expanded downwards towards the groin, and was consistently painful, as the weeks passed two other similar marks developed in the same region. Eventually he consulted his doctor but without mentioning the incident at the campsite. By April 6 months after the encounter, the condition was sufficiently disturbing for the doctor to send John to the hospital for tests. However nothing was ever found to be the cause of the disturbing marks. John was released after 7 days and pronounced perfectly healthy. According to John following his encounter he experienced occasional episodes of absolute clairvoyance.

 

HC addendum
Source: Budd Hopkins, “Missing Time” & Ted Bloecher Type: G