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UFO|UAP & ENTITY ENCOUNTER REPORT

1954: The Hemmingford, Quebec Encounter — Gabriel Coupal

Thirteen-year-old Gabriel Coupal watched a nine-foot luminous ball land, go black, and open a door onto a big man in skintight black rubber carrying what looked like a machine gun. He and his friends ran their horse straight for the house. What followed was over an hour of a family watching a “soap bubble” of a craft drift between their yard and the horse barn, three men circling it in the moonlight, and a mother placing a call to fetch a witness who’d arrive just in time to watch it lift off glowing orange — leaving a thirty-foot ring of flattened grass as the only proof anyone would need that something had actually been there.

Date: August 7, 1954

Sighting Time: 19:30 (7:30 p.m.), continuing an hour or more

Day/Night: Evening into night

Location: Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada

Urban or Rural: Rural

No. of Entity(‘s): At least 4 (1 seen initially exiting the craft; 3 later seen walking around it near the barn)

Entity Type: Humanoid

Entity Description: A big, tall man with large round eyes, dressed entirely in skintight black rubber-like material except for his uncovered head, carrying an object resembling a machine gun

Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter, Third Kind — entity present, no direct communication or abduction)

Duration: An hour or more

No. of Object(s): 1

Description of the Object(s): A luminous ball that turned black after landing, with a door; later described as resembling a soap bubble in moonlight, with a black cable trailing a square object hanging from it

Shape/Size/Color of Object(s): Spherical, approximately 9 ft in diameter; luminous white on landing, turning black shortly after, later glowing orange on departure

Distance to Object(s): Landed approximately 150 ft from the initial witnesses; later relocated to near the family’s horse barn

Height & Speed: Departed at the encounter’s end, rising and glowing orange

Number of Witnesses: Gabriel Coupal (13) and his companions initially; expanded to additional family members, including his mother, and 3 more people who arrived after being telephoned

Special Features/Characteristics: A buzzing sound “like a bee” accompanied the object; after the boys fled toward the house, the object rose and passed close by them before landing again near the horse barn; three men were seen walking around the object once it had relocated; Mrs. Coupal telephoned into Hemmingford to summon additional witnesses, and when three people arrived, the object took off, glowing orange; a 30-ft circle of flattened grass was found at the site where the object had rested

Case Status: Unresolved — a multi-witness account spanning over an hour, with an independent physical trace (flattened grass) documented at the site afterward

Source: Dr. Adolph Dittmar, CSI (Civilian Saucer Investigation)

Summary/Description: At 7:30 p.m. on August 7, 1954, 13-year-old Gabriel Coupal saw a nine-foot luminous ball land roughly 150 ft away near Hemmingford, Quebec, turning black shortly afterward. A door opened and a large man, dressed entirely in skintight black rubber except for his head and carrying an object resembling a machine gun, emerged. A buzzing sound accompanied the scene. The boys fled on horseback toward the house; the object rose, passed close by them, and landed again near the family’s horse barn, where three men were seen walking around it in the moonlight, the craft itself resembling a soap bubble with a black cable and square object hanging from it. Mrs. Coupal telephoned for additional witnesses; when three people arrived from Hemmingford, the object took off, glowing orange. It had been present for an hour or more, and a 30-ft circle of flattened grass was found where it had rested.

Related Cases: None known

Detailed Report

Gabriel Coupal was thirteen years old on the evening of August 7, 1954, near Hemmingford, Quebec, when he saw a luminous, roughly nine-foot ball descend and land about a hundred and fifty feet away. Almost as soon as it touched down, its glow gave way to black. A door opened.

What stepped out was, by Gabriel’s account, a big, tall man with large, round eyes, dressed head to toe in skintight black rubber-like material — everything but his head covered. He carried something that looked, unmistakably to the boy, like a machine gun. A buzzing sound, like a bee, filled the air.

The figure began approaching. Gabriel and his companions didn’t wait to find out what he wanted — they turned their horse and rode hard for the house. Behind them, the object lifted off, passing close enough by the fleeing boys to register clearly, before setting back down near the family’s horse barn.

By the time the family gathered to watch from a safer distance, the scene had changed again. In the moonlight, the object now looked, to those watching, “like a soap bubble” — a black cable trailing from it, with a square object hanging at its end. Three men could be seen walking around the craft.

Mrs. Coupal, taking the situation seriously enough to want independent corroboration, went to the telephone and called into Hemmingford for others to come see for themselves. Three people made the trip. Just as they arrived, the object took off — glowing orange as it rose and departed. All told, it had remained in the area for an hour or more.

What was left behind, once everyone had a chance to look, needed no one’s testimony to be believed: a thirty-foot circle of grass, flattened exactly where the object had rested.

RESEARCHER’S NOTES

Hemmingford — 1954 and a Case That Kept Gathering Witnesses

• An expanding witness pool during the event itself: Unlike most sightings, where the witness list is fixed by who happened to be present at the start, this case grew in real time — Mrs. Coupal’s decision to phone for additional observers, and the fact that the object was still present when they arrived, is a notable, deliberate attempt to seek corroboration mid-event.
• A physical trace independent of any single witness’s account: The thirty-foot flattened-grass circle is this case’s strongest evidentiary anchor — a mark on the land that existed regardless of who saw what, and that in principle could have been examined by anyone who visited the site afterward.
• An entity carrying what looked like a weapon: Unlike most humanoid descriptions in this archive, this entity is explicitly armed in appearance, per the witness’s account — a detail that shaped the boys’ immediate flight response and distinguishes the case’s tone from more passive entity encounters.
• The object’s dramatic color changes: Luminous white on landing, black shortly after, and orange on departure describes a level of visual transformation beyond a simple glowing light — a specific, memorable sequence rather than a single static description.
• A young primary witness with adult corroboration: While Gabriel was the first and closest witness, the involvement of his mother and additional adult observers who arrived later lends the overall account a broader base than a single child’s testimony alone.

This case combines a real physical trace, a deliberately expanded witness pool gathered during the event itself, and an unusually extended duration — over an hour — giving it more corroborative weight than many single-moment sightings in this archive. It remains unresolved, with the entity’s identity, purpose, and the object’s nature never established beyond what the Coupal family and their neighbors observed that evening.

“A big tall man with big round eyes… dressed all in skintight black rubber except for his head, and carrying a ‘machine gun.'”
— Dr. Adolph Dittmar, CSI, on Gabriel Coupal’s account, August 7, 1954