1948, date unknown — three cases: the El Paso, Texas roadside angelic being, the Garganta la Olla, Spain goat-footed being, and the Amecameca, Mexico La Llorona account. thinkaboutitdocs.com.
1948: Unknown Date UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive
This catch-all page holds 1948 cases carrying no specific month. One entry checked out as likely connected to an already-documented case: the Garganta la Olla, Spain account of a goat-footed being fleeing a witness before a fireball departs closely mirrors this archive’s November 1947 entry from the identical named location, involving goat herder José “Pancho” Campo. Another entry, from Amecameca, Mexico, is explicitly identified in its own source material as an encounter with “La Llorona,” a specific and well-known figure in Mexican folklore, and is treated here accordingly rather than as a UFO-adjacent account.
Date: 1948
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
Time: Unknown
Summary: Undocumented — entry preserved a period photograph reference with no accompanying case detail.
Source: Undocumented
Date: 1948
Location: El Paso, Texas
Time: Unknown
Summary: A doctor riding home on horseback found his horse suddenly stop, head erect and nostrils wide, its body quivering and eyes wide as though seeing something not yet visible to its rider. The horse began whining strangely as a being appeared on the road ahead — described as beautiful, human-like, youthful, with golden hair, penetrating blue eyes, celestial green garments, and a soft golden aura. The being kept pace silently alongside the horse as it resumed walking. The doctor briefly closed his eyes and offered thanks for the experience; when he opened them again, the being had vanished.
Source: Brad Steiger, Encounters of the Angelic Kind
Date: 1948
Location: Swastika, Ontario, Canada
Time: Unknown
Summary: Mr. Galbraith observed a disc-like object land, with an entity emerging to collect vegetation samples; the object transmitted a “force field” that pushed the witness to the ground. On a later occasion, the same witness again observed an object on the ground, with three entities outside it who smiled at him. Separately, a police patrol saw a light in nearby woods but could not approach due to what they described as an “invisible wall.”
Source: Jacques Vallée, Passport to Magonia
Date: 1948: Dreamy Draw Area, Arizona, UFO Crash
Editorial note: Already flagged elsewhere on this archive (October 1948 page) as sharing significant narrative overlap with the July 1947 Paradise Valley, Arizona case previously traced to the Frank Scully hoax lineage. See that entry for the full context.
Date: 1948
Location: Near Campo Grande, Brazil
Time: Morning
Summary: Ottaviano A. Souza Bueno, strolling near a creek, saw a round, luminous object descend silently onto the bank of the stream. Three short entities emerged, moving with extremely rapid motions, and used a tube-like instrument to bore perfectly square holes into the ground while collecting soil samples. After the object departed, the witness examined the holes and took a sample for analysis; results indicated 61% silica, 19% aluminum, 11% magnesium, and 9% iron and other trace elements.
Source: Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 4, No. 1
Date: 1948
Location: Greenock, Scotland
Time: Noon
Summary: 9-year-old Linda, walking home with a school friend during the dinner break, heard a humming sound and looked up to see four objects — two saucer-shaped, two elongated cigar-shaped — hovering low, almost at roof height. The saucers had windows around their circumference separated by upright flashing bars; the cigars had windows only at the front. Excited, the girls jumped and waved; Linda recalled figures waving back, though too distant to describe. She felt the objects were deliberately watching them. One cigar-shaped object, which had hung back, suddenly swooped down, and immediately all four objects rose and disappeared through the clouds.
Source: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland
Date: 1948
Location: Bremerton, Washington
Time: Afternoon
Summary: Virginia Staples, hanging laundry in the large basement of her apartment complex — a space with numerous holes in the walls, rumored locally to connect to a passage toward the water — felt she was being watched and turned to see a roughly 5-foot-tall, bright orange entity with thin, spider-like legs and constantly moving antennae standing in one of the wall openings. As it began moving toward her, she fled the basement and moved out of the apartment that same day.
Source: Strange Magazine
Date: 1948 (see editorial note — likely related to a previously documented case)
Location: Garganta la Olla, Spain
Time: Night
Summary: During a powerful storm, a shepherd staying in his cabin heard voices outside; opening the door, he found a short man he invited inside, who entered without speaking. The witness later noticed the being had goat-like feet or hooves. Frightened, he screamed, causing the being to flee; running outside himself, the witness saw a fireball-like object shoot up into the sky at high speed.
Source: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal
Editorial note: This account shares its exact location and central motifs — a goat-footed humanoid, a witness’s fear-driven confrontation, and a fireball departure — with this archive’s November 1947 Garganta la Olla, Cáceres, Spain entry, involving goat herder José “Pancho” Campo. Differences in specific witness detail (a shepherd sheltering from a storm versus a herder encountering the being outdoors) leave it unclear whether these represent the same event misdated a year apart, two related local legends, or genuinely separate incidents. Retained as a separate entry per current editorial direction, with this cross-reference noted.
Date: 1948
Location: Miami Beach, Florida
Time: Night
Summary: The witness, in bed, reported three tall, golden-haired, golden-skinned men appearing and asking her to accompany them; she refused, and they departed but returned on many later occasions, conversing with her via mental telepathy. They identified themselves as belonging to a race called “the Kuran.”
Source: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery
Source Status: INSUFFICIENT DATA — single witness, sourced through a scholarly compilation of abduction narratives rather than a primary field investigation; carries standard contactee-genre elements (an idealized humanoid appearance, telepathic communication, a named alien affiliation, repeated ongoing contact).
Date: 1948
Location: Monmouth, Wales
Time: Night
Summary: Local residents saw a strange, man-like, leaping figure in a shimmering outfit jump over a stream near Watery Lane. Witnesses described the figure as solid-looking and substantial. No further information is preserved.
Source: Thomas Slemen, Mysterious & Bizarre People
Date: 1948
Location: Gravataí, Brazil
Time: Night
Summary: The witness saw a humanoid roughly 1.2 meters tall, wearing silvery coveralls and boots. No further information is preserved.
Source: Antonio Faleiro, Brazil
Date: 1948
Location: Amecameca, Mexico
Time: Night
Summary: 10-year-old Gloria Rosa Pérez and her grandmother, walking home alone on a quiet street after a funeral, turned to see a woman dressed entirely in white with long, unruly black hair, appearing to glide toward them just above the ground. Terrified, they hurried away and saw the woman stop beside a large tree and begin making loud screaming sounds before vanishing in plain sight.
Source: Manuel Carballal, Mundo Misterioso; the account is itself explicitly attributed to “La Llorona”
Source Status: The account is explicitly identified in its own source as an encounter with La Llorona, a specific, widely recognized figure in Mexican and broader Hispanic folklore (a weeping woman associated with lost children and streets at night). This entry is best understood as documented regional folklore consistent with this archive’s high-strangeness scope, not as a UFO or extraterrestrial entity report.
Date: 1948
Location: Great Yarmouth, England
Time: Night
Summary: 8-year-old Sidney Brighton, waking suddenly in the middle of the night, saw the heads and shoulders of six or seven figures closely grouped at the foot of his bed, all facing toward him, seeming to float with the rest of their bodies not visible. Two of the figures, in the middle, appeared to be speaking into each other’s ears while staring straight ahead. Frightened, he tried to wake his elder brother, but even a sharp nudge had no effect. He covered his face with the sheets, then felt compelled to look again; the figures were still present, and one raised a hand toward his face in a dart-throwing motion. The group then moved slightly left and began spinning until they blurred and disappeared.
Source: UFO Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 1
Editorial note: The account’s specific features — a sudden nighttime awakening, an inability to rouse a nearby sleeper, and immobile floating figures at the foot of the bed — are consistent with the general pattern described in the broader literature on hypnagogic/sleep-related perceptual experiences, a pattern this archive notes for context without diagnosing the individual witness or asserting a specific explanation for this particular account.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1948, Unknown Date — A Legend Correctly Labeled, and a Possible Duplicate
Two corrections anchor this revision. The Amecameca, Mexico account is retained but reframed honestly: its own source material explicitly names the figure as La Llorona, a specific and well-established figure in Mexican folklore, and this archive documents it as such rather than implying an alien or unexplained-phenomenon interpretation the source itself doesn’t make. Separately, the Garganta la Olla, Spain entry on this page shares its exact location and central motifs with this archive’s already-documented November 1947 case from the same village — cross-referenced here rather than presented as an unrelated, independent incident.
“He had penetrating blue eyes…the being did not speak as it kept pace with the horse.”
Brad Steiger, Encounters of the Angelic Kind, describing the 1948 El Paso, Texas roadside encounter.
