Windham, Ohio, summer 1952 — a lone witness encounters the being who called himself Tamarak.
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1952: The Windham, Ohio Encounter — Telepathic Contact with Tamarak
Alone on a rural Ohio road just after midnight, a driver says his headlights caught a silvery, cloud-textured egg settling to the ground — and that a three-foot being who called himself Tamarak stepped out asking, telepathically, for help getting his ship aloft again.
Date: Summer 1952
Sighting Time: 12:15 a.m.
Day/Night: Night
Location: Windham, Ohio
Urban or Rural: Rural
No. of Entity(‘s): 1
Entity Type: Small humanoid, self-identified as “Tamarak”
Entity Description: Approximately 3 feet tall, initially mistaken for a child; light green complexion and silvery clothing
Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter of the Third Kind) — close observation with an animate being associated with the object
Duration: Not recorded in the surviving account
No. of Object(s): 1
Size of Object(s): 8 feet wide, 4 feet thick
Distance to Object(s): First seen roughly 12 feet above the ground, close enough to be caught directly in the witness’s headlights; the being subsequently approached to within a few feet
Shape of Object(s): Egg-shaped
Color of Object(s): Silvery, described by the witness as “cloud-like”
Number of Witnesses: 1 (anonymous)
Special Features/Characteristics: Telepathic communication; the being asked the witness for help “putting their ship aloft,” and in the exchange that followed the witness asked for a formula for rust-proof steel and says he was given one, including the unfamiliar term “Unimic”; the being gave his name and claimed an origin on “the eighth or tenth planet from your source of energy”; departure was reported as near-instantaneous.
Case Status: Insufficient Data — a single, uncorroborated witness account with no physical evidence, no named formula ever independently verified or published, and no second witness on record
Source: V. Tarlton for MUFON
Summary/Description: Driving a rural road near Windham, Ohio just after midnight in the summer of 1952, an anonymous witness says his headlights illuminated a silvery, cloud-textured, egg-shaped object roughly 8 feet wide and 4 feet thick, hovering about 12 feet above the ground. The object sank to the ground and a three-foot being emerged, which the witness at first mistook for a child. Approaching on foot, he found himself a few feet from a light-green-complexioned being in silvery clothing, who communicated telepathically, asking for help “putting their ship aloft.” In the exchange that followed, the witness asked for a formula for rust-proof steel and reported receiving one — for what he described as ordinary rim steel, but including the term “Unimic.” The being identified himself as Tamarak, claiming to be from “the eighth or tenth planet from your source of energy.” The witness was then told to return to his car, and the object departed out of sight within seconds.
Related Cases: Not Applicable
Detailed Report
The Windham case survives in the record as a single MUFON-filed account, credited to investigator V. Tarlton, with no named witness and no second party present to corroborate any part of the encounter. What’s on file is nonetheless specific: a precise time (0015), a described object size (8 by 4 feet), an entity height (3 feet), and a claimed exchange of technical information — a formula for rust-resistant steel, given in return for the witness’s help “putting their ship aloft.”
The case fits squarely within a well-documented pattern in early-1950s American ufology sometimes called the “contactee” era, in which lone witnesses reported friendly, communicative encounters with small humanoid beings, often bearing invented-sounding names and offering some form of privileged knowledge or technology in exchange for minor assistance. The specific detail of a coined technical term — “Unimic,” attached to an otherwise ordinary steel formula — is characteristic of this genre, and no metallurgical formula by that name has ever surfaced or been independently verified in the seven decades since.
Nothing in the surviving file indicates the witness’s formula, if written down at the time, was preserved, tested, or shared with any steel industry contact — a detail that, if the encounter happened as described, would be a striking gap given the value such information would have held in 1952.
RESEARCHER’S NOTES
The Windham, Ohio Case — 1952 and the Single-Witness “Exchange of Information” Pattern
- Single, uncorroborated witness: No second party was present, and the witness remains anonymous in the surviving MUFON file — the case rests entirely on one person’s account, filed after the fact through an investigator rather than in a contemporaneous report.
- A named formula that never surfaced: If a genuine rust-proof steel formula had been handed to a member of the public in 1952, its absence from any subsequent record — metallurgical, patent, or otherwise — is itself a notable gap, not a detail this archive can resolve.
- Fits a recognizable contactee-era template: A friendly, telepathic, small humanoid; a named entity; a claimed planetary origin; and a transactional exchange of assistance for knowledge are all recurring motifs in early-1950s contact narratives, making this case easier to place in a broader pattern than to verify on its own terms.
- No physical evidence of any kind: No landing-site photograph, no soil disturbance record, no independent sighting nearby — the account stands purely as testimony.
Seven decades on, Windham remains exactly what its file has always shown: one man’s word, one unverifiable formula, and a name — Tamarak — that has never appeared anywhere else in the record before or since.
“The being gave his name as Tamarak and said he was from the eighth or tenth planet from your source of energy.”
— Witness account, filed via V. Tarlton for MUFON
