On September 10, 1954 at 10:30PM, 34-year-old Marius Dewilde went outside of his home in Quarouble, France to investigate why his dog was barking. He noticed a dark shape on a nearby railroad track, and coming towards him from the object were two strange beings about three-feet high and dressed in "diving suits."

Dewilde rushed towards the small beings to try and capture one, when unexpectedly, a bright, green light spouted from the dark object and dazzled him. The man instinctively closed his eyes and tried to run away, but his legs refused to move. Suddenly, Dewilde found he could move again and discovered that both the strange creatures and the dark craft had vanished.

In an article written by Vallee entitled, "The pattern behind the UFO landings," Vallee researched two hundred UFO and occupant sightings out of thousands reported in 1954. Out of the two hundred cases, one hundred and eighteen involved UFOs that had landed. From these one hundred and eighteen reports, forty-two involved descriptions of the "pilots" of these crafts. The descriptions always involved beings which were near-human in appearance, sometimes absolutely human.

The "human" operators were always said to be of "European type" with few variations. In at least eight instances the creatures were described as dwarfs whose faces and bodies were covered with hair.

THE SPACE BROTHERS

The mid fifties saw the emergence of the "contactees," people who claimed that the UFO pilots deliberately sought contact with them. Possibly the most famous of the fifties contactees was George Adamski. Adamski reported in several popular books that he had been approached by beings from planets in our own solar system. These Venusians and Martians were all described as human in appearance, tall, blue-eyed and with long beautiful hair. These "angels from other planets" were concerned with Earths war like ways, and preached against the use of Atomic weapons.

Others soon followed with their stories of contacts with the "Space Brothers." People like New Jersey's Howard Menger, who wrote the definitive contactee book, "From Outer Space to You." Menger's space people looked and acted the same as Adamski's Brothers from space. They even flew around in the same kind of flying saucers.

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