The two strangers who visited a Los Angeles law office in February 1953, dented solid steel with a bare hand, and vanished before the FBI arrived.
THINK ABOUTIT ENTITY ENCOUNTER REPORT
1953: The Los Angeles Attorney’s Office Visitors
No craft was ever seen. No lights in the sky, no radar return, nothing overhead at all — just two impossibly tall strangers who walked into a Los Angeles attorney’s office one February afternoon in 1953, claimed to be experts at finding missing people, sank a bare hand half an inch into solid steel, and were gone by the time the FBI arrived.
Date: February 1953 (exact date not recorded)
Sighting Time: Afternoon
Day/Night: Day
Location: Los Angeles, California (a local attorney’s office)
Urban or Rural: Urban
No. of Entity(‘s): 2
Entity Type: Humanoid
Entity Description: Two men, both over 6’2″ tall, with bluish-green skin tone and unusually pointed ears, dressed in old, tattered clothing
Hynek Classification: CE-II (Close Encounter, Second Kind — physical trace/effect)
Duration: Not precisely recorded — long enough for a conversation and a demonstration, but the men had vanished by the time FBI agents arrived
No. of Object(s): 0 — no craft was observed or reported
Description of the Object(s): Not Applicable
Shape/Size/Color of Object(s): Not Applicable
Distance to Object(s): Not Applicable
Height & Speed: Not Applicable
Number of Witnesses: Multiple (office employees; exact count not recorded)
Special Features/Characteristics: One of the men pressed a bare hand into the top of a metallic filing cabinet, leaving a dent at least half an inch deep; both men claimed expertise in locating missing persons; both vanished before FBI agents summoned by the alarmed staff could arrive
Case Status: Unresolved — secondhand account with no named primary witness, but the physical trace (the dented cabinet) is a specific, falsifiable claim rather than a vague impression
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Harold T. Wilkins
Summary/Description: Two strange men, over 6’2″ tall, with bluish-green skin and pointed ears, visited a Los Angeles attorney’s office in tattered old clothing one February afternoon in 1953, claiming to be experts at locating missing persons. One man dented a metal cabinet half an inch deep with his bare hand. Unnerved employees called the FBI; by the time agents arrived, both men had vanished.
Related Cases: None known
Detailed Report
The account, as preserved by researcher Scott Corrales quoting the earlier work of Harold T. Wilkins, places the encounter in a Los Angeles attorney’s office sometime in February 1953. No exact date survives in the record.
Two men entered the office that afternoon. Both stood over six feet two inches tall — remarkable height for the era — and both had an unusual bluish-green cast to their skin along with noticeably pointed ears. Their clothing was old and tattered, an odd contrast to the confidence with which they conducted themselves. They told the office they were experts at locating missing persons, though the record doesn’t preserve what, if anything, they were specifically asked to find.
At some point during the visit, one of the men reached out and pressed a bare hand into the top of a metal filing cabinet, leaving a dent at least half an inch deep — an act of physical strength that had no ordinary explanation and that left behind something the office staff could see and touch after the men had gone. Unnerved by the visitors’ appearance and behavior, employees called the local FBI field office. By the time agents arrived, both men had vanished entirely.
No craft, light, or aerial phenomenon accompanies this account in any version — it stands as a pure entity encounter, structurally distinct from the saucer sightings that dominate this archive’s 1953 record.
RESEARCHER’S NOTES
The Los Angeles Visitors — 1953 and the “Men in Black”-Adjacent Pattern
- No craft, ever: Unlike almost every other entity case in this archive, there is no disc, no light, no landing — just two men who arrive, behave strangely, demonstrate something impossible, and disappear. That structure has more in common with later “Men in Black” folklore than with contactee or occupant narratives.
- A physical trace that isn’t ambiguous: A dented steel cabinet is either there or it isn’t — it’s a much more specific, checkable claim than “a light in the sky,” even though, decades later, there’s no way to verify it happened at all.
- Secondhand chain of custody: The account reaches this archive through Scott Corrales quoting Harold T. Wilkins, a well-known but not infallible early UFO-literature compiler — two layers removed from any named original witness or attorney’s office.
- The “expert in missing persons” claim: This detail is unexplained by anything else in the account — no missing person is named, no case is described as resolved or unresolved by the visit. It reads as either a genuinely strange non-sequitur or a garbled piece of a longer original story that didn’t survive intact.
- No named witnesses: Neither the attorney, the office staff, nor the responding FBI agents are identified by name in any surviving version of the account.
This is thin, secondhand testimony with no named primary source — by any conventional evidentiary standard, it’s one of the weakest cases in this archive. What keeps it worth preserving honestly rather than dismissing is the specificity of the physical detail (the dented cabinet) and the structural oddity of a pure entity visitation with no craft attached at all, a pattern that recurs unevenly across mid-century UFO literature and deserves to be recorded as reported, not smoothed into a more familiar shape.
“Unnerved by their strange behavior, employees called the local FBI office, but upon the arrival of the agents, the two enigmatic strangers had totally vanished.”
— Scott Corrales, quoting Harold T. Wilkins
