A child, a black dual-domed craft, and a benevolent "Nordic" on the West Texas plains, Summer 1947 — a contactee narrative reported five decades later and assessed a tall tale.
THINK ABOUTIT ABDUCTION REPORT
1947: Near Lubbock, Texas Encounter
A five-year-old boy stands alone in a flat Texas field at night as a 72-foot black disc with domes top and bottom drops to hover a foot above the ground, humming a soft musical note inside a dancing ring of mist. A door implodes inward, and a tall man with platinum hair, deep blue eyes, a white bodysuit and a thin gold belt calls him aboard — by name, without moving his lips. So begins one of the most elaborate contactee narratives in the early record: a tour past thirty working crewmen, a near-light-speed flight to a mother ship at the edge of the solar system, a golden-aura ritual, a metal headset feeding “future” knowledge into the boy’s mind, and a promise that he would remember none of it. The trouble is not that the story is strange. The trouble is that the boy didn’t tell it until he was nearly sixty — by which time Percy Galloway was selling booklets and videos about his alien friend “Kobel,” an eight-foot Pleiadian who speaks a thousand languages, at New Age conferences for fifteen dollars a lecture.
Date: Summer 1947 (as claimed)
Sighting Time: Night
Day/Night: Night
Location: Near Lubbock / Wilson County, Texas (the two are ~350 miles apart — unresolved conflict in the source)
Urban or Rural: Rural (described variously as open field / grandparent’s peanut field)
No. of Entity(‘s): Numerous (one principal “Nordic” contact; ~30 crew; dozens aboard the mother ship; 15–20 ritual participants)
Entity Type: Tall human-looking “Nordic” (contactee type)
Entity Description: A tall man with platinum/silver-gray hair, very deep blue eyes, dressed in white tights and a thin gold belt, radiating a benevolent feeling of love; communicated telepathically (“telemetrics”). In later accounts named “Kobel,” described as 8 feet tall, from “the Pleiadian star system,” speaking 1,000 languages.
Hynek Classification: None valid. The live page’s CE-V is rejected (pre-modern and, per archive standard, generally). The case is an assessed contactee fabrication and carries no Hynek encounter classification. (Note: external catalogs UFODNA list it CE4/Vallée CE4; we do not adopt that.)
Duration: ~4 hours (“four Earth hours,” per Galloway); UFODNA lists 240 minutes
No. of Object(s): 1 (small craft) plus a “mother ship”
Description of the Object(s): Circular craft, ~72 ft diameter, domes on top and bottom, black matte finish, soft musical tone, fog-like mist around its circumference; interior described as cave-like halls in sourceless white light, a control center, a transparency effect, an acceleration-protection room with greenish-blue light.
Shape of Object(s): Circular / dual-domed disc
Size of Object(s): ~72 ft diameter (UFODNA gives ~80 ft)
Color of Object(s): Black matte
Distance to Object(s): ~200 ft initially; approached to within ~20 ft of the entity
Height & Speed: Hovered ~1 ft above ground; claimed near-light-speed travel; returned via blue beam from ~500 ft
Number of Witnesses: 1 (Percy Galloway), age 5 at the claimed event, ~60 when promoting it
Special Features/Characteristics: Telepathy (“telemetrics”); transparency of the hull; near-light-speed flight; mother ship at the solar system’s edge; golden-aura ritual; food (white chips/crackers, blue liquid); a two-triangle headset transmitting “medical data and formulas”; deliberate memory suppression; claimed lifelong ongoing contact (up to 12 visits/year); a named alien, “Kobel”; religious/New Age teachings (God as a non-intervening teacher at the center of the universe; Jesus as an alien messenger)
Case Status: Explained (contactee fabrication / tall tale)
Source: Albert Rosales, “Humanoid Encounters — International Catalogue — 1947” (2009), pp. 29–30, repeating an HC addendum credited to “Percy Galloway, UFO Gossip” and “Minnie Baxter for MUFON” (both unverifiable). Checkable primary sources: Andy Butcher, “Aliens Among Us,” Charisma, March 31, 2001; Rhoda A. Pickett, “Conference Visitor Says He Spent Time Aboard Alien Craft,” al.com (Mobile Register), November 10, 2001. Catalogued as URECAT-001769 (Patrick Gross), evaluation: “contactee tall tale,” certainty: certain.
Summary/Description: Percy Galloway claimed that at age five, in the summer of 1947 near Lubbock, Texas, a 72-ft black dual-domed disc landed and a tall platinum-haired “Nordic” being took him aboard for a roughly four-hour journey involving telepathy, near-light-speed flight to a mother ship, a ritual, and a knowledge-transfer headset, after which he was returned by a blue beam and told he would not remember. He first promoted the account in the early 2000s as a New Age lecturer and vendor (the “Cosmic Connections” business), claiming ongoing contact with an 8-ft Pleiadian named “Kobel” and conveying New Age religious teachings. Researcher Patrick Gross catalogues it (URECAT-001769) as a contactee tall tale with certain explanation.
Related Cases: 1947 Bahamut/Kokchetav, Kazakhstan contactee narrative (genre cousin, also reclassified from CE-V); broader 1950s contactee movement (Adamski, Bethurum, Menger); Albert K. Bender / men-in-black lore
DETAILED REPORT
The narrative, as catalogued by Albert Rosales in his 2009 “Humanoid Encounters” volume, describes a textbook contactee experience. Percy Galloway, said to have been five years old in the summer of 1947, reportedly saw a light he first took for a comet make a sharp turn and descend to hover a foot above the ground about 200 feet away — a circular, black-matte craft some 72 feet across with domes on top and bottom, emitting a musical tone and ringed by a dancing mist. A brilliant light burst forth; a square door imploded inward; and a tall, platinum-haired, blue-eyed man in white tights and a gold belt called the boy aboard by name, communicating telepathically by means he called “telemetrics.” What follows is an extended cosmic tour: a cave-like corridor in sourceless white light, a room of thirty working crewmen, a control center where the hull turned transparent to reveal Earth “the size of a baseball,” a near-light-speed flight, an acceleration-protection room bathed in greenish-blue light, and arrival at a stationary mother ship at the edge of the solar system. There Galloway claims he witnessed a golden-aura ritual among fifteen or twenty white-clad participants, was fed white chips and a blue liquid, and was fitted with a two-triangle headset that flooded his mind with “medical data and formulas” — knowledge he was told he would not remember. He was then returned to Earth in a blue beam.
The decisive issue is provenance, and it is fatal to the case as evidence. By Galloway’s own account, the aliens instructed him not to speak of the experience until he was older “as people would not understand” — a built-in explanation for why no contemporaneous 1947 record exists. The story surfaces only in the early 2000s, when Galloway, a former machinist then around sixty, was running “Cosmic Connections,” a traveling business selling UFO-related videos and self-published booklets, and lecturing at paid New Age conferences (the Journeys Beyond Conference in Mobile, Alabama, $15 a lecture, is documented in the November 2001 al.com report). By then the single 1947 episode had expanded into a full contactee mythology: lifelong ongoing contact, sometimes a dozen visits a year; a befriended eight-foot Pleiadian named “Kobel” who speaks a thousand languages; a confederation of “good aliens” working to prevent World War III since the atom bomb of 1947, with a “safe planet” held in reserve for humanity; and a body of New Age-Christian syncretic teaching in which God is a non-intervening teacher at the center of the universe and Jesus was an alien messenger whom people wrongly “put on a pedestal.”
The corroboration is nil and the internal record is contradictory. There are no photographs, no second witness, and no physical trace. The two checkable contemporary sources (the Charisma and al.com articles) document not the 1947 event but Galloway’s later career as a conference contactee; the catalog-level attributions (“UFO Gossip,” “Minnie Baxter for MUFON”) are unverifiable. A separate database entry (UFODNA) garbles the case beyond reconciliation — a grandparent’s peanut field, an ~80-foot disc, a 50-year-old male witness, a 240-minute duration — inconsistencies that, far from corroborating, indicate an unstable, untethered story. Patrick Gross’s URECAT file (001769) assesses the case as a “contactee tall tale” with explanation certainty rated “certain,” and notes Rosales’ own source-reliability score of 5 against a high-strangeness index of 9. Every line of analysis converges on the same conclusion.
RESEARCHER’S NOTES
The Cosmic Connection — Lubbock 1947 and the Anatomy of a Late-Born Contactee Tale
Classification Assessment (Correction Required): The live page’s CE-V must be removed — both because CE-V is rejected for the pre-modern record under archive standard and because an assessed fabrication carries no valid Hynek encounter classification at all. External catalogs (UFODNA) rate it CE4/CE4; we explicitly do not adopt that, as the abduction framing presupposes the authenticity the evidence denies. The correct log is “Contactee — no valid classification,” with Case Status Explained.
Source Chain Assessment (PROBLEMATIC, Resolved to Explained): The case sits at the bottom of the hierarchy. The originating account is single-witness, self-promoted, and first told roughly five decades after the claimed event by a man whose livelihood was selling that account. The HC-addendum sources Rosales repeats (“UFO Gossip,” “Minnie Baxter/MUFON”) are unverifiable. The only checkable primary materials are two 2001 press pieces documenting Galloway’s conference activity, not the event. Patrick Gross’s URECAT-001769 closes the matter with an explicit “certain” assessment. This is one of the rare entries where the explanation is positively established rather than merely plausible.
Pattern Context — A Textbook Contactee Profile: Every diagnostic marker of the classic contactee genre is present: a benevolent, beautiful “Nordic” alien; telepathic “love”; a cosmic joyride; a benign confederation opposing malevolent aliens; atomic-age salvation anxiety with a reserve “safe planet”; and a syncretic New Age-Christian theology. The expansion from a single childhood episode into lifelong contact, a named space-brother, and a commercial lecture identity mirrors the arcs of Adamski, Bethurum, and Menger. The “told to stay silent until older” device is itself a recurring contactee mechanism for explaining the absence of early evidence. The case’s value to the archive is precisely as a clean specimen of this genre’s structure.
Physical Evidence and Evidentiary Weight: None — no photo, no trace, no second witness, and a documentary record that contradicts itself across catalogs on location, craft size, witness age, and duration. The weight of evidence points entirely to fabrication, consistent with Gross’s certain assessment. Retained for study as a documented contactee tall tale, not as evidence of the phenomenon.
The Lubbock/Wilson County “encounter” is not a sighting that failed to be corroborated; it is a contactee performance with a documented commercial life. The single witness first told it near sixty, sold it as videos and booklets, grew it into a lifelong friendship with an eight-foot Pleiadian, and wrapped it in New Age scripture — and the only verifiable records are newspaper accounts of him doing exactly that on the conference circuit. The archive removes the inadmissible CE-V, declines the external CE-IV ratings, populates the real sourcing (Rosales 2009; the 2001 Charisma and al.com articles; URECAT-001769), and assigns Case Status: Explained (contactee tall tale). It stays in the record as a clean, instructive example of how a contactee narrative is built and marketed — preserved, labeled, and not mistaken for evidence.
