Recreation of the August 20, 1970 Bukit Mertajam follow-on encounter, in which two tiny, yellow-suited humanoids were found hiding in bushes the day after the Stowell School UFO landing.
THINK ABOUTIT ENTITY ENCOUNTER REPORT
August 20, 1970: The Bushland Encounter, Bukit Mertajam, Malaysia
The day after five uniformed miniature humanoids and their saucer made front-page news at Stowell Primary School, two more Bukit Mertajam boys went looking for the craft themselves and instead found two tiny, yellow-suited figures hiding in the bushes — one missing an arm, both armed with tiny guns — and that same evening, the son of a senior local police official stumbled on what may have been the same pair and was shot in the hand for his trouble.
This case is sourced only from paranormal-folklore wikis, not the contemporaneous newspaper coverage that documents the August 19 Stowell School incident. It is preserved here as a related but more weakly sourced follow-on report, not as equally verified.
Date: August 20, 1970 — the day after the Stowell Primary School incident
Sighting Time: Undocumented for the first encounter (daytime, boys searching the area); the second encounter is described only as occurring “that evening”
Day/Night: Both day and evening — two separate encounters on the same date
Location: Bukit Mertajam, Penang, Malaysia — the same area as the previous day’s Stowell Primary School landing; the boys went specifically to the spot where they had been told a UFO landed the day before
Urban or Rural: Semi-urban/scrubland — the same general Bukit Mertajam townscape as the Aerial Invasion case, consistent with brushy, undeveloped ground near the school
No. of Entity(‘s): 2, encountered by the first pair of boys hiding among bushes; the police official’s son’s evening encounter describes “two tiny figures,” very possibly the same pair rather than additional entities
Entity Type: Humanoids, approximately 3 inches tall
Entity Description: Two tiny humanoid figures found perched among bushes — one on a rock, the other on a tree branch — both dressed in yellow suits. One of the two was missing an arm and appeared to be holding a small gun. When boys attempted to catch them, both figures escaped. No craft or landed object was seen in connection with this specific encounter; the entities were found alone, with the saucer from the previous day already gone.
Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter III) as filed for the related Aerial Invasion case, though this specific sub-incident describes no associated craft at all — the entities were found alone in bushes, the craft from the day before having already departed. This is the same object-less CE-III mismatch flagged on several other pages in this archive.
Duration: Undocumented for both encounters
No. of Object(s): 0 directly observed in this incident — no craft was seen; only the entities themselves, without their saucer
Description of the Object(s): Not Applicable — no object present in this specific incident
Shape of Object(s): Not Applicable
Size of Object(s): Not Applicable
Color of Object(s): Not Applicable to a craft; the entities themselves wore yellow suits
Distance to Object(s): Not Applicable — no craft present; the entities were found at close range among bushes, one on a rock and one on a tree branch
Height & Speed: Not Applicable
Number of Witnesses: 3 total across the day — two unnamed boys in the first encounter, and the unnamed son of a high-ranking local police official in the second, evening encounter
Special Features/Characteristics: One entity was missing an arm and carried a small gun-like weapon. Both encounters ended with the entities escaping capture; in the evening encounter, the police official’s son was shot in the hand and received a small cut, echoing the laser-pistol detail from the previous day’s Stowell School incident. The identity of the “high-ranking local police official” is not given by name in the available sourcing.
Case Status: Insufficient Data — sourced only from paranormal-folklore compilation wikis, with no named witnesses, no contemporaneous press citation, and no independent corroboration located, in contrast to the newspaper-documented August 19 incident from the same wave
Source: Paranormal World Wiki (“Microterrestrials of Malaysia”) and ObscUrban Legend Wikia (“Bukit Microterrestrials”) — both carry near-identical text, suggesting a shared or mirrored origin; no primary citation (press or named investigator) has been identified for this specific sub-incident
Summary/Description: On the 20th of August 1970, two boys in Bukit Mertajam, Penang, Malaysia, went to the spot where they had been told a UFO landed the day before. They encountered two tiny humanoid figures perched among bushes — one on a rock, one on a tree branch — both wearing yellow suits. One of the two appeared to have only one arm and was holding a small object resembling a gun. The boys tried to catch the beings, but they escaped. That evening, the son of a high-ranking local police official was returning from school when he saw two tiny figures hiding in the bushes nearby. Like the earlier witnesses, he tried to capture them but was shot in the hand, receiving a small cut.
Related Cases: 1970: Aerial Invasion in Malaysia — the directly preceding incident from the same wave, one day earlier and at the same general location, and considerably better documented by contemporaneous press | 1969: The Little People of Malaysia
Detailed Report
This case picks up exactly where the better-documented August 19, 1970 Stowell Primary School incident leaves off, in the same Bukit Mertajam locality, the very next day. Two boys, having heard about the previous day’s landing, went to investigate the site themselves and instead found two tiny humanoid figures — not a craft — perched among nearby bushes, one resting on a rock and the other on a tree branch, both dressed in yellow rather than the blue-and-yellow uniforms described in the original landing account. One of the two figures was missing an arm and carried a small object resembling a gun; when the boys tried to catch them, both escaped. That same evening, a third young witness — described only as the son of a high-ranking local police official — separately encountered what may well have been the same pair of figures hiding in bushes nearby, and, following the same pattern as the boys before him, attempted to capture one and was shot in the hand, receiving a small cut. Unlike the Stowell School incident, no contemporaneous newspaper coverage has been located for this follow-on encounter; it survives only through paranormal-folklore compilation wikis that reproduce the same brief passage nearly verbatim, without a clearly identified original source, named witness, or investigating reporter.
RESEARCHER’S NOTES
The Bushland Encounter — Bukit Mertajam, August 20, 1970, and the Limits of a Wiki Source
- Classification Assessment: CE-III does not cleanly apply here despite being the natural label to inherit from the related August 19 case — no craft or object was ever seen in either of this day’s two encounters, only the entities themselves. This is the same “entity without an associated object” gap flagged elsewhere in this archive, and it applies more starkly here than in the original Stowell School incident.
- Source Chain Assessment: This is the weakest-sourced entry connected to the Bukit Mertajam wave. Unlike the August 19 incident, which is anchored by contemporaneous Straits Times coverage and a named school official’s on-record comment, this follow-on case is known only through paranormal-folklore wikis carrying near-identical wording, with no named witnesses, no identified original reporter, and no located press citation. It should be read as a plausible extension of a real local news event, not as independently verified in its own right.
- Evidentiary Weight: No photograph, sketch, or physical evidence is cited for this specific sub-incident (unlike the original Stowell School case, which involved illustrations from at least one witness). The recurring “small cut” detail across multiple witnesses in this wave is worth noting as an internally consistent motif, though it remains unverified by any medical or official record located here.
- Pattern and Comparative Context: A second wave of sightings the day after an initial landing, involving entities without their craft, fits a broader pattern in this archive’s Malaysian cases of extended, multi-day “flaps” following an initial incident — echoed in the Stowell School case’s own follow-up mornings, where boys returned to check on the (moved, then vanished) saucer. The specific detail of a one-armed entity is not repeated elsewhere in this archive’s Malaysian cases and stands out as unusual.
- Geographic and Historical Context: This incident occurred in the same Bukit Mertajam, Penang locality as the previous day’s landing, reinforcing that town’s brief but concentrated status as the epicenter of Malaysia’s August 1970 miniature-humanoid wave.
Where the August 19 Stowell School case has a genuine newspaper paper trail, this follow-on day survives only in secondhand folklore compilations — a real gap that shouldn’t be papered over just because the two stories share a town and a timeline. Taken at face value, it’s a natural continuation of the same brief local flap: curious boys, an official’s son, and two elusive figures who left only a small cut and an unresolved story behind. The case stands as Insufficient Data.
“Like all of the other witnesses, he tried to capture the beings but was shot in the hand, receiving a small cut.”
