THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP|ENTITY SIGHTING REPORT

1983: Glastonbury, Connecticut CE3

In 1983 or 1984, a three- or four-year-old boy sleeping in the bottom bunk of his shared bedroom in a Glastonbury, Connecticut apartment watched the ceiling dissolve into a starry sky. A disc-shaped object descended through the opening and stopped overhead. Three small beings appeared at the right side of his bed — short, gray-skinned, wearing uniforms with rows of colored button-like controls on the chest. When the child asked who they were, one of them answered telepathically: “We are the Gogos.” The child, operating on pure toddler curiosity, reached out and poked one of the colored buttons. The being reacted with immediate offense, swung its arm, and the child was knocked back into his pillows without physical contact. The beings vanished, the craft ascended as a “plum” shape, the ceiling reformed, and the child fell instantly asleep. He has thought about it for over thirty years and still cannot find any reference to an entity group called “the Gogos” anywhere in the UFO literature.

Date: May 5, 1983 (approximate; witness estimates 1983–1984 based on apartment residence confirmed with mother)

Sighting Time: 2:00 AM

Day/Night: Night

Location: Glastonbury, Connecticut

Urban or Rural: Suburban / Residential (apartment)

No. of Entity(‘s): 3

Entity Type: Gray-type humanoid

Entity Description: Three short beings consistent with “Gray” descriptions. Wearing uniforms with three or four colored button-like controls on the chest in the position of a shirt pocket. Communicated telepathically. Self-identified as “the Gogos.” Reacted with visible displeasure to unsolicited physical contact. One being swung its arm toward the witness’s face — the arm did not make contact, but the witness was knocked backward as if struck.

Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter III) — Close observation of an object with animate beings associated with it.

Duration: Short (minutes; ended when witness fell immediately asleep after beings departed)

No. of Object(s): 1

Height & Speed: Descended through dissolved ceiling to hover directly above the witness’s bed. Ascended vertically upon departure.

Size of Object(s): Room-sized (covered the opening where the ceiling had been, directly above the bed area)

Distance to Object(s): Directly overhead — within the room

Shape of Object(s): Disc-shaped (described as resembling a “pizza” during descent; appeared “plum”-shaped during ascent)

Color of Object(s): Multi-colored during descent (“pizza” appearance suggesting segmented or complex surface); darker rounded profile during ascent (“plum”)

Number of Witnesses: 1

Special Features/Characteristics: Ceiling appeared to dissolve, revealing a starry sky through which the craft descended. Beings appeared at bedside without observed entry. Telepathic communication. Forced physical repulsion without contact (being swung arm without touching witness, but witness was knocked backward). Ceiling reformed after craft departed. Witness fell immediately into involuntary sleep after encounter.

Source: MUFON

Case Status: Insufficient Data

Summary/Description: In approximately 1983–1984, a 3-to-4-year-old boy in a Glastonbury, Connecticut apartment was awakened at approximately 2:00 AM. The ceiling appeared to dissolve, revealing a starry sky. A disc-shaped object descended through the opening and hovered above his bed. Three short Gray-type beings in uniforms with colored chest controls appeared at the right side of his bunk bed. One communicated telepathically, identifying the group as “the Gogos.” The child reached out and pressed one of the colored buttons on a being’s uniform, provoking an angry reaction — the being swung its arm, and the child was knocked backward without physical contact. The beings vanished, the craft ascended, the ceiling reformed, and the child fell immediately asleep. The witness, now an adult, submitted the account to MUFON. No hypnotic regression has been conducted.

Detailed Report

The witness, 36 years old at the time of reporting, recalls an event from when he was approximately three or four years old — placing it in 1983 or 1984. He confirmed the timeframe by asking his mother about the apartment they lived in during that period. The witness states that he has always had vivid long-term memory and can recall conversations and environmental details from age three.

On the night in question, the witness was sleeping in the bottom bunk of a bunk bed shared with his older brother in their Glastonbury, Connecticut apartment. He woke in the middle of the night and realized the household was asleep. Looking up and to the right, he perceived the ceiling dissolving, giving way to a view of a starry night sky. Through this opening, a disc-shaped object descended — the witness, having few reference points at that age, compared its initial appearance to a pizza due to its segmented, multi-colored surface. The object stopped and hovered, blocking the starry sky above the opening.

Three small beings then appeared at the right side of his bed (the left side was flush against the wall). They stood side by side, staring at the witness. He was not afraid and was excited that someone was there while his family slept. He sat up, looked them over, and asked aloud who they were and why they were in his room. Without speaking audibly, one of them communicated telepathically: “We are the Gogos.” The witness recalls a few additional telepathic statements but cannot remember their content.

The beings were short, consistent with standard Gray descriptions. They wore uniforms with three or four colored controls on the chest, in the position where a shirt pocket would be. These resembled pressable buttons. The child, curious, reached out and poked one of the buttons on one of the beings.

The being reacted with immediate displeasure. The witness sensed strong offense at the unsolicited physical contact. The being swung its arm toward the witness’s face. The arm did not make physical contact, but the witness was knocked backward into his pillows as if struck. The beings then turned away and vanished. The ceiling dissolved again, the craft — now appearing plum-shaped as it ascended — departed upward, and the ceiling reformed. The witness fell immediately asleep.

The following morning, the witness repeatedly asked his older brother if he had seen “the Gogos” who came to their room. The brother had no knowledge of the event. The witness notes that his brother has since passed away and cannot be asked for further recollection.

The witness has researched the term “Gogos” extensively and found no references in the UFO/entity literature — only the 1980s band and an Ethiopian legend. He has connected the timing of his experience to the Hudson Valley Flap (1982–1986), which involved extensive sighting activity across New York and Connecticut during this period.

Researcher’s Notes

The Toddler, the Buttons, and the Problem of Memory

Source Assessment: This account was submitted to MUFON by a 36-year-old adult recalling an event from age 3–4 — a gap of approximately 32–33 years. The witness has not undergone hypnotic regression and acknowledges that this is his first attempt at sharing the experience beyond a small circle of friends and family. No formal investigation is documented. The account rests entirely on a single adult’s vivid childhood memory.
Childhood Memory Reliability: Memories from age 3–4 are at the outer limit of what developmental psychology considers reliably retrievable. Vivid childhood memories — particularly emotionally charged ones — can persist across decades, but they are also susceptible to narrative smoothing, confabulation, and unconscious incorporation of later-acquired information. The witness explicitly identifies himself as having “very vivid long-term memory,” which may be accurate or may reflect a belief about his own recall that influences reconstruction. The core imagery — ceiling dissolving, beings at the bedside, telepathic communication, forced repulsion — is consistent with both genuine anomalous experience and elements commonly encountered in hypnagogic/hypnopompic states, night terrors, or sleep paralysis episodes, all of which are more common in young children.
The “Gogos” Name: The self-identification “We are the Gogos” is an unusual detail. The witness’s inability to locate this name in any UFO literature is itself notable — it is either a genuinely novel element (which would resist explanation as cultural contamination) or a childhood confabulation/mishearing preserved into adulthood. The fact that the name resembles nonsense syllables a toddler might generate or mishear is worth noting, but it is not dispositive in either direction.
Hudson Valley Flap Context: The witness correctly identifies the temporal overlap between his experience (1983–1984) and the Hudson Valley UFO Flap, which produced hundreds of sighting reports across New York’s Westchester and Putnam Counties and Connecticut’s Fairfield and Litchfield Counties between 1982 and 1986. Glastonbury is in Hartford County — east of the primary Hudson Valley sighting zone — but the flap was not geographically confined. The witness’s attempt to connect his experience to a documented wave is reasonable but unverifiable.
Classification Rationale: CE-III is technically supportable — the account describes animate beings associated with a craft. However, the evidentiary weight of a single adult’s uncorroborated memory from age 3–4 is inherently limited. The craft description (ceiling dissolving, disc descending through the opening, ceiling reforming) has a dreamlike quality that does not exclude but also does not confirm physical reality. Status is Insufficient Data.

This case sits in a category that the archive encounters regularly: an account that is too specific and too strange to dismiss, but too thin and too old to verify. The witness is sincere, his recollection is vivid, and the “Gogos” detail resists easy explanation as cultural contamination. But a three-year-old’s memory of an event that happened while everyone else in the house was asleep, recalled without regression more than three decades later, cannot carry the weight of an Unexplained classification. The brother who might have offered even negative corroboration is gone. The file stays open.