November 1918, Fontainebleau, Quebec — witnesses reported multiple two-foot-tall green humanoid figures in fitted uniforms near a wooded area at nightfall.
THINK ABOUTIT ENTITY ENCOUNTER REPORT
The 1918 Fontainebleau, Quebec Green Humanoid Encounter
At nightfall in November 1918, near a wooded area outside Fontainebleau, Quebec, multiple witnesses reported seeing several small, green-colored humanoid figures — no more than two feet tall — standing at the tree line, wearing what looked like fitted uniforms or suits. No craft was ever reported alongside them. It’s one of the earliest documented sightings in North America of a body type — short, green, uniformed — that would recur across the continent’s entity reports for the next six decades.
Date: November 1918
Sighting Time: Beginning of night
Day/Night: Dusk/early night
Location: Fontainebleau, Quebec, Canada
Urban or Rural: Rural (near wooded area)
No. of Entity(s): Multiple, unspecified exact count
Entity Type: Short green humanoid figures, no associated craft
Entity Description: Approximately two feet tall, green-colored, wearing what appeared to be fitted uniforms or suits
Hynek Classification: N/A — entity encounter, no associated craft
Duration: Undocumented
No. of Object(s): 0 (no craft reported)
Description/Shape/Size/Color of Object(s): N/A
Distance to Object(s): N/A
Height & Speed: N/A
Number of Witnesses: Multiple, unspecified exact count
Special Features/Characteristics: Figures were positioned at the edge of a wooded tree line; clothing appeared deliberately fitted rather than makeshift or natural covering
Case Status: Insufficient Data
Source: UFO research cataloguing; original primary source not yet identified
Summary/Description: Multiple witnesses near a wooded area at Fontainebleau, Quebec reported several short, green-colored humanoid figures wearing what appeared to be fitted uniforms or suits, standing near the tree line at nightfall. No craft was reported in connection with the sighting.
Related Cases: An early example of the short-green-humanoid body type that recurs across later 20th-century North American entity reports, notably including the well-documented 1955 Kelly-Hopkinsville, Kentucky case
DETAILED REPORT
The Fontainebleau case reaches this archive through UFO research cataloguing rather than a contemporary press account — the original source for the sighting has not yet been identified in this pass, which limits how much can be said about the exact circumstances of the observation, the number of witnesses involved, or how the sighting first came to be recorded.
What survives is a compact but distinctive description: multiple witnesses near a wooded area outside Fontainebleau, Quebec, at the beginning of night in November 1918, reported seeing several humanoid figures no more than two feet tall, colored green, standing at or near the tree line. The figures were described as wearing what appeared to be fitted uniforms or suits — clothing with enough structure to be noticed and described as such, rather than simply “covering” of an indeterminate kind.
No craft, light, or other aerial phenomenon is reported in connection with the sighting. This is, as far as the available record shows, a pure entity encounter — witnesses reported seeing the figures themselves, with no accompanying vehicle, landing, or departure event described.
RESEARCHER’S NOTES
Fontainebleau — An Early Data Point in a Recurring Body Type
- The short-green-humanoid morphology recurs with striking consistency across later North American reports: most famously in the 1955 Kelly-Hopkinsville, Kentucky case, but also across numerous other 20th-century sightings. A 1918 Quebec sighting predates all of these by decades, in an era with essentially no popular cultural vocabulary for this specific body type to draw from.
- The lack of an identified primary source is a real limitation: without a contemporary newspaper account or an original witness statement, this case rests entirely on later cataloguing, and the specific chain of transmission from the original 1918 event to its current documented form is not established in the sources reviewed for this page.
- The absence of any associated craft distinguishes this from most other entity cases in this archive’s record: nearly every other pre-war entity encounter documented on this site involves a craft, landing, or aerial phenomenon of some kind alongside the entities themselves. Fontainebleau’s entity-only structure — figures observed with no vehicle, arrival, or departure event — is comparatively unusual for the period.
- “Fitted uniforms or suits” is a specific enough detail to be worth taking at face value rather than dismissing as vague: witnesses distinguishing structured, purposeful-looking clothing from an animal’s natural coloring or texture suggests they perceived something they read as deliberately worn, not simply green-skinned.
Fontainebleau is a sparse case by documentation standards — no primary source located, no witness names preserved, no craft described — but a notable one by content, describing a body type and clothing detail that would recur across North American entity reports for the next several decades. It’s presented here as an early, thinly-documented data point in that longer pattern, not as a settled or well-verified case.
“Multiple short, approximately 2-foot-tall green-colored humanoid figures observed near woods; wore what appeared to be fitted uniforms or suits.”
— Account of the November 1918 Fontainebleau, Quebec encounter
