The Little Electric Humanoid From Albany Ohio

The little electric humanoid from Albany Ohio, classic case study from the October 1973 wave:

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Location. Albany, Ohio

Date: October 16 1973 Time: 1930
Mary Geddis aged 21, was returning home from an evening class. The first thing she noticed when she pulled into the driveway was a tall “thing” of ghost-like appearance, about 1000 feet away, standing or floating about 50 feet from the ground. It was like “a person with a close-fitting sheet draped over, and was about four feet tall and thin. A head and body shape could be distinguished, but the body was straight, without any limbs. She watched it for a few seconds, and then, on looking out of the open window on the passenger side of the car, towards the road, she saw a bright white light. It appeared to be ‘jotting around…”
“It was like it was looking. It would look here and then it would look over here, over here—like that. But then when it came over here it came straight, like I drew it. When it saw me it kind of wanted to see what I was all about…it was just like it was staring at me, and it kept coming closer and closer, then hovering and coming closer…and I got scared and kind of turned away and tried not to pay any attention to it and it moved back.
“It went away back over the field…it went directly to the side and then directly back. It went behind a telephone pole that blocked off some of its lights and from there it just went back across the field, away from me. Then it faded a little and then it was gone.” At closest approach, the light came within 200 feet of Miss Geddis. The ghost-like object was seen only for a few seconds, but the second object was sighted over a period of three to four minutes. She estimated its diameter as 20 feet, and it was only 25-30 feet from the ground when seen at closest proximity. When she got out of the car, Mary Geddis says she had a weird feeling of a “presence,” as if something were near, invisible. In fact she was scared of walking over to the trailer. She was still standing by the car when Joe Ben-Israel (a friend she was living with in the trailer) returned later. While they were preparing supper, their neighbors, Chuck and Rhonda, came home and said they had seen something strange in the sky. Joe went outside to talk with the neighbors, leaving the trailer door open. Just then, what Mary called a little “aqua-ish” thing looked around the corner of the door.
“It was like the electric man they have on the Co-ops signs. It just looked at me. It didn’t try to say anything to me. It just stared for a few seconds; probably ten seconds…It sort of had a face. It had what looked like spiky things at the top and sides of the head.” The creature was about two and a half feet tall, with stumpy arms, but no legs were distinguished…”You couldn’t see through it, but I felt I could almost see through it if I looked at it more.” Mary later described him as an “energy form”.
“He had eyes and mouth. I’m not sure about the nose, but I think he had a nose, because he didn’t look strange to me in his face—except for the spikes and the color.” “This looks like a monster, the way I’ve drawn it. But it didn’t look like a monster; it looked like a friendly little thing. Only it had these spikes all over it. It didn’t try to hurt me or anything it was just looking, like it was peeking around the corner at first, and then it was just kind of standing there looking at me. It didn’t move clear in front of the door. It must have had a hand at or behind the door…I got the distinct impression that he wasn’t sure about whether he should be there or not. He was kind of timid…Its eyes didn’t blink. Nothing moved. It just kind of disappeared back behind the door. I went after it and looked behind the door and didn’t see anything anymore. It was gone.” Mary Geddis was asked if she had received any psychic impressions, and what she thought when she saw the creature. What did she think it was?
“I don’t know, I was just shocked that it was there. It just looked at me and I didn’t think about it very much until afterwards. Then I went outside and said, “Ohh! Something looked at me!’” But I didn’t feel anything while it was looking at me. It just looked at me like it was seeing what I was. And I was just looking at it the same way, seeing what it was.” Afterwards she thought about the white “creature” and the UFO she had seen. She thought also about the other UFOs that were seen that night—things hovering, but never coming close, although in the distance they could be seen coming down to earth. The sky was clear during the evening that Mary Geddis had her strange experiences. Joe Ben-Israel related what he saw that night.
“We saw in a couple of places in the sky objects that didn’t seem to make any noise. They were close enough so that it they were planes, you could hear them. They seemed to be going at a faster rate than planes usually travel.”

Humcat 1973-36
Source: Webb in 1973 the Year of the Humanoids & George M. Eberhart in FSR Type: D