THINK ABOUTIT ABDUCTION REPORT

1952: Waltham, Massachusetts — A Child Witness’s Account

Playing alone in a field near her Waltham, Massachusetts home, an 11-year-old girl says she was confronted by a short, large-eyed figure in a dark, skin-tight diving suit — and later found herself inside a room, undergoing an examination with a device she could only compare to an X-ray machine.

This is one of the more sparsely documented cases in this archive’s 1952 record, and one of the youngest witnesses on file. It’s preserved here as recorded, with the limits of its sourcing stated plainly rather than filled in with invented detail.

Date: 1952 (exact date not recorded)

Sighting Time: Afternoon

Day/Night: Day

Location: Waltham, Massachusetts

Urban or Rural: Rural

No. of Entity(‘s): 1

Entity Type: Small humanoid

Entity Description: Short in stature, with large, slanted eyes, wearing a dark, skin-tight diving-suit-like garment

Hynek Classification: CE-IV (Close Encounter of the Fourth Kind) — abduction of the witness or other direct contact

Duration: Not recorded

No. of Object(s): Not recorded; the witness described being taken to a room, but no craft is directly described in the surviving account

Size of Object(s): Not recorded

Distance to Object(s): Not recorded

Shape of Object(s): Not recorded

Color of Object(s): Not recorded

Number of Witnesses: 1 (an 11-year-old girl, name not recorded)

Special Features/Characteristics: The witness recalled being confronted by the entity while playing alone in a field, then being taken inside a room where she was examined with a device she described as resembling an X-ray probe. She has reported vision problems dating from the time of the encounter, per the account as recorded.

Case Status: Insufficient Data — a single, unnamed, then-child witness account preserved only through a UFO newsletter clipping service, with significant gaps in the surviving record (no description of any craft, no exact date, no account of how the witness returned home) and no independent corroboration on record.

Source: UFONS (UFO Newsclipping Service) #227

Summary/Description: Sometime in 1952, an 11-year-old girl was playing alone in a field near her Waltham, Massachusetts home in the afternoon when she was confronted by a short humanoid entity with large, slanted eyes, wearing a dark, skin-tight, diving-suit-like garment. She recalled being taken to a room where she was examined by a device resembling an X-ray probe. She has reported vision problems since the encounter.

Related Cases: Not Applicable

Detailed Report

The Waltham case is one of the more thinly documented entries in this archive’s 1952 record, and it’s worth being direct about exactly how much is, and isn’t, known. The surviving account gives no name for the witness, no specific date, no description of any craft, and no account of the encounter’s end or how she returned home. What survives is a compact sequence: a confrontation in an open field, transport to an enclosed room, an examination with an unfamiliar medical-seeming device, and a reported lasting effect on her vision. The source is UFONS, a period newsletter compiling submitted UFO reports, rather than a named field investigator’s case file — meaning the account reaches this archive at one remove from whatever original report or interview it was drawn from.

Given the witness’s age at the time and the sparse surviving detail, this archive treats the account with particular caution: it is presented here exactly as recorded, without speculation about what mechanism might explain the described device, the entity’s appearance, or the reported vision effect, and without embellishing the missing details (the craft, the return home) that the original source simply does not supply.

RESEARCHER’S NOTES

Waltham, Massachusetts — 1952 and a Sparse Child-Witness Record

A young witness and an especially thin documentary trail: No name, no exact date, and no described craft survive in the record — this is among the least-documented cases in this archive’s 1952 collection, and its gaps are stated directly rather than filled in.
A secondhand source, not a field investigation: UFONS compiled submitted reports rather than conducting original field interviews, meaning this account is preserved at one remove from its original telling.
A reported lasting effect, presented without interpretation: The account includes a claim of ongoing vision problems since the encounter; this archive states that claim as part of the record without offering any explanation for it.
No second witness or physical evidence: As with many single-witness 1952 accounts, nothing beyond the witness’s own recollection survives to independently test the case against.

What’s preserved of this case is deliberately modest: a field, a room, a device, and a memory that has stayed with one witness since childhood — recorded here without adding anything the original source didn’t itself provide.