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1955: Colorado: A Five-Year-Old’s Nine Hours of Missing Time

A five-year-old Colorado boy went out to bring the cows home for evening milking on April 16, 1955 — and vanished for nine hours. His grandfather, searching in a panic, saw a flash and a bright object lifting off at high speed, then found the boy standing on the road holding his cowboy boots, with only fragmentary memories of two figures, a doorway, and warmth from a landed object. Told by his grandfather to keep quiet about what happened, the account survives as a spare but internally consistent missing-time case.

Date: April 16, 1955

Sighting Time: 4:30 PM (initial encounter); witness recovered at approximately 1:30 AM the following morning

Day/Night: Day (initial encounter); night (recovery)

Location: Colorado (exact location not given)

Urban or Rural: Rural (family farm)

No. of Entity(‘s): 2

Entity Type: Humanoid

Entity Description: Two human-appearing figures; one wore a blue shirt and white pants and extended a hand to the witness, leading him to a doorway on the side of the landed object. No further physical description survives, consistent with the witness’s age and the fragmentary nature of his recall.

Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter, Third Kind) with missing-time / possible abduction characteristics

Duration: Approximately 9 hours of missing time between the initial encounter and the witness’s recovery

No. of Object(s): 1

Description of the Object(s): A large, white, oval-shaped object that landed silently on a farm road, radiating heat despite feeling cool to the touch; had a doorway on its side

Shape/Size/Color of Object(s): Oval-shaped, large, white in color

Distance to Object(s): Direct contact — the witness approached and touched the object before being led inside

Height & Speed: Object was landed/stationary during the witness’s approach; departed at high speed, observed by the grandfather as a flash followed by a bright object lifting off

Number of Witnesses: 1 direct witness (unnamed, then 5 years old), plus his grandfather as a secondary witness to the object’s departure (flash and high-speed liftoff, not the landing or interior events)

Special Features/Characteristics: The object radiated warmth while feeling cool to the touch; the witness reported no fear despite the unusual circumstances; approximately 9 hours of missing time, with only brief, fragmentary memory flashes surviving from the interval; the grandfather’s independent secondary observation (flash, high-speed departure) corroborates that something unusual occurred, without corroborating the interior account itself

Case Status: MUFON case database entry; no named witness in the surviving record; internally consistent but not independently corroborated beyond the grandfather’s partial secondary observation

Source: mufoncms.com

Summary/Description: A 5-year-old boy in Colorado was bringing cows home for evening milking on April 16, 1955 when a large, white, oval object landed silently on the road ahead of him, radiating warmth. Feeling no fear, he approached and touched the object, which felt cool despite the heat. His next memory was of two figures approaching him; one, wearing a blue shirt and white pants, extended a hand and led him to a doorway on the object’s side. His next memory after that was standing on the road holding his cowboy boots as his grandfather ran to him — it was roughly 1:30 AM, about nine hours after the initial encounter. The grandfather, who had been searching for him, reported seeing a flash and then a bright object lifting off at high speed shortly before finding the boy. The grandfather told him to keep quiet about what had happened. The witness retains only brief memory flashes of the missing interval.

Related Cases: None identified

Detailed Report

At 4:30 PM on April 16, 1955, a five-year-old boy was out in the fields on his family’s Colorado farm, tasked with bringing the cows home for his father to milk while his brothers and grandfather fed the rest of the livestock — an entirely ordinary chore, ended in an entirely extraordinary way. Near the farm, a very large, white, oval-shaped object landed silently on the road directly in front of him. The witness recalled feeling warmth radiating from the object despite its silence and stillness.

Notably, the account specifies that he felt no fear at any point — a detail sometimes reported in accounts involving young children, and one worth noting without over-interpreting. He approached the object and touched it; it felt cool to the touch, despite the warmth he had sensed radiating from it moments before.

His next clear memory was of two human-appearing figures approaching and standing in front of him. One, wearing a blue shirt and white pants, extended a hand toward him and led him to a doorway on the side of the landed object. What happened after he passed through that doorway is not preserved in any detail — the witness’s next memory is discontinuous, jumping forward to himself standing on the road, cowboy boots in hand, as his grandfather ran toward him asking where he had been. It was 1:30 AM — roughly nine hours after the object had first landed.

He attempted to tell his grandfather what had happened, but was told to keep quiet about the whole matter. His grandfather did, however, share his own partial observation: while searching for the boy, he had seen a flash of light, followed by a bright object lifting off the ground and departing at high speed. Running to the location of that flash, he found the boy standing in the road, holding his boots. Beyond the doorway and the brief exchange with the two figures, the witness retains only scattered memory flashes of the missing nine hours — no sustained narrative of what occurred inside the object survives.

RESEARCHER’S NOTES

The Colorado Case — 1955 and an Early Missing-Time Account

A Genuine Missing-Time Structure. Nine hours of unaccounted time, bookended by a clear “before” (the landed object, the approach, the doorway) and a clear “after” (standing on the road at 1:30 AM), with only fragments in between, is a structurally classic missing-time account — notable for how early it sits in the timeline of such reports, well before the term or pattern became widely recognized in later UFO literature.
Independent Partial Corroboration. The grandfather’s account of a flash and a high-speed departing object is a genuinely useful secondary data point — it doesn’t corroborate what happened inside the craft, but it does independently confirm that something unusual and observable occurred at the location and time in question, rather than resting solely on a young child’s later recollection.
The Instruction to Stay Quiet. The grandfather’s direction to keep the story quiet is a recurring pattern in family-witnessed high-strangeness accounts of this era, and likely explains why the case surfaces only through a later MUFON submission rather than any contemporaneous 1955 report.
An Unnamed Witness. Unlike several other April 1955 entries, no name survives for either the primary witness or his grandfather, limiting independent verification; the case rests entirely on the internal consistency of the account as submitted to MUFON.

The Colorado case is a spare but coherent missing-time account, strengthened somewhat by the grandfather’s independent partial observation and weakened by the lack of any named witness or contemporaneous documentation. It is preserved here as a genuine, if unverifiable, entry in the broader pattern of 1950s missing-time reports.