A disc-shaped craft reportedly landed near Clare, South Australia in 1967, with a hairy, dwarf-like being seen emerging and disappearing into the ground.
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1967 Clare, South Australia: The Hairy Dwarf Landing Report
Somewhere in South Australia in 1967, a disc-shaped craft reportedly landed, and a hairy, dwarf-like being was seen jumping out before disappearing into the ground. That’s the entire surviving account. It’s one of the sparsest entries in this archive, and even the researcher who catalogued it marked it with a question mark.
Date: 1967 (no further date detail documented)
Sighting Time: Not documented
Day/Night: Not documented
Location: Near Clare, South Australia, Australia (originally recorded as “Clare South, Australia” — corrected here; see Editor’s Note)
Urban or Rural: Rural
No. of Entity(‘s): 1
Entity Type: Hairy, dwarf-like being
Entity Description: Not documented beyond “hairy dwarf-like”; no further detail on size, coloring, clothing, or facial features survives in the source record
Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter III) — retained per the source material; a landed craft with an associated animate being observed at close range fits this classification, though the near-total absence of supporting detail limits confidence in any classification
Duration: Not documented
No. of Object(s): 1
Description of the Object(s): A disc-shaped craft, reported to have landed; no further structural or behavioral detail documented
Shape of Object(s): Disc
Size of Object(s): Not documented
Color of Object(s): Not documented
Distance to Object(s): Not documented
Height & Speed: Not documented
Number of Witnesses: Not documented
Special Features/Characteristics: The being was reported to disappear into the ground after emerging from the landed craft — an unusual detail with no further explanation offered in the source record; the original cataloguer marked this account with a question mark, indicating uncertainty even at the point of compilation
Case Status: Insufficient Data — a single, extremely brief secondhand account with no named witness, no date detail beyond the year, and explicit uncertainty flagged by the original compiler
Source: Keith Basterfield (compiler); also catalogued as HC addition #1306, Type B
Summary/Description: A disc-shaped craft reportedly landed near Clare, South Australia in 1967, and a hairy, dwarf-like being was seen emerging from it before disappearing into the ground. No further information survives.
Related Cases: None documented
Detailed Report
The entire surviving record of this case consists of a single sentence: that a disc-shaped craft was reported to have landed near Clare, South Australia at some point in 1967, and that a hairy, dwarf-like being was seen jumping out of it before disappearing into the ground. No witness is named, no time of day is given, and no further description of the being, the craft, or the surrounding circumstances has survived in any available source. The case was catalogued by Australian researcher Keith Basterfield, whose own notation included a question mark alongside the entry — indicating that even the compiler regarded the account with some uncertainty at the time it was recorded.
Researcher’s Notes
The Clare, South Australia Report — 1967 and a Case That Is Almost Entirely a Single Sentence
- This is about as thin as a case in this archive gets. No witness name, no time, no description beyond “hairy dwarf-like,” and no corroborating detail of any kind survives. There is nothing here to independently verify or investigate further — this page presents the record as it exists, not as a confirmed event.
- The location correction is straightforward but worth stating clearly. “Clare South, Australia” isn’t a real place; Clare, South Australia is a well-documented town in the state’s Mid North wine-growing region. This reads as a simple dropped comma rather than any deeper ambiguity about the location.
- Even the original compiler flagged uncertainty. The question mark included alongside this entry in Basterfield’s own catalogue is a useful reminder that not every case in a serious researcher’s collection is being presented as equally credible — some are preserved simply as part of the historical record of what was reported, with appropriate reservation attached from the start.
- The “disappearing into the ground” detail is distinctive but unexplained. This is an unusual departure method compared to most humanoid entity reports, which typically describe beings re-boarding a craft or simply vanishing. No further context survives to explain whether this meant a burrow, a tunnel, or something else entirely.
This case is preserved here largely as a matter of record-keeping completeness — a single, sparse, uncertain report from 1967 that nonetheless found its way into the serious catalogues of Australian ufology, question mark and all.
Reported as “a hairy dwarf like being,” seen jumping from a landed disc and disappearing into the ground
— 1967
