1947 Brooklyn

Location: Brooklyn, New York.
Date: 1947.
Time: 1:00 p.m.

The location was in an area located on Lafayette Avenue and
Cumberland Street overshadowed by the Dimes Savings Bank
Building, which had at its apex a huge clock face, actually four clocks
in all facing to the four cardinal points of the compass. The time was
around noon as indicated by the Bank Clock’s face on a Saturday
when the two 14-year old witnesses, Frank and Dinky, arrived at the
spot. None of the other usual crowd showed up, maybe due to other
pursuits or chores at home.
They went into Joe’s Candy store located on Cumberland Street
and Lafayette Avenue, ordered their usual cherry cokes and tuna
fish sandwiches on toast and were browsing through the magazine
racks much to Joe’s consternation. When the newspaper truck
arrived outside with its blaring horn and screeching tires, it was the
reliable delivery of the New York Times.
At the sound of the horn, Joe asked them to stack the
newspapers in the store up against the magazine racks. Joe left
them for a few minutes to run an outside errand and when he
returned, he seemed perplexed about something. Frank asked him,
“What’s the matter?” Joe said, “If you guys want to see something
very unusual just go outside and look up at the Williamsburg Bank.”
Dinky and Frank thought that perhaps the clocks had gone haywire,
so they went outside and looked up. What they both saw took them
completely by surprise.
Above the Bank Clock and somewhat more to their side, they
saw 13 objects about 100 feet above the height of the Bank Clock. It
looked like a military formation of three groups of shiny silver flying
saucers. The three groups of 13 silver saucers each, totaling 39,
were arranged in respective diamond formations. It appeared as if all
the saucers were providing protection for a saucer that was located
within the center of their groups.
All the saucers were hovering as if they were on a sightseeing
tour with a focus on the Bank Clock. There was a slight oscillation to
their hovering maneuver and sometimes one of the craft would start
to oscillate rather wildly, but would soon recover into a stable hover.
Both Dinky and Frank were totally amazed by the display. Frank
wondered what they come from and Dinky said that it was probably
some sort of secret weapon. However Frank told Dinky that he did
not think they were Army weapons and expressed his belief that they
were probably spaceships.
The saucers were quite larger with a bright silver color. They
were perhaps at least forty feet across and had a height of at least
fifteen to twenty feet. About one quarter of the upper body protruded
above the rest of the ship, which was encircled with large, clear
portholes. The saucer at the center of the three formations, maybe
the “command ship,” detached itself and took up a position on the
Staten Island side of the Clock (east) and then moved again to the
Brooklyn Navy Yard side of the Clock and hovered there for several
minutes. Then Dinky yelled, that they were probably here on Earth to
check if “we had finally destroyed ourselves and wait till they visit
Japan and Europe, when they see that destruction they won’t think
we are so civilized.”
Then the command saucer moved again and positioned itself on
their side of the Clock west, in a somewhat tilted position. The tilt
favored their total view of the saucer. There were large circular
portholes around the circumference of the craft. The difference now
was that they could see what looked like people inside as if they
were seated beside each porthole. They both started to wave at the
people and they in turn waved back at them. Suddenly more people
came into view as if leaning over the ones seated by the portholes to
look at the witnesses and waved. The boys paid more attention to
the seated people and both became aware that what they were
seeing was not normal.
At one porthole there appeared a very buxom young lady who
was wearing a black and white floral designed dress. The strange
thing about her was that she had reptilian eyes (vertical pupils) but
was normal in every other way. Dinky thought that she looked nice,
but somehow she frightened him. At another porthole was a military
man wearing a garrison type hat and officer’s dress coat with
Captain’s bar on his epaulettes. He was also wearing a khaki
neckties and shirt. He had black hair, as did the young lady. The
military male was also sporting a thin black mustache.
At yet another porthole, there was an elderly balding gentleman
in what appeared to be a dark blue suit and red necktie. His face
was a waxen deep red and bluish color. Dinky said, “That guy looks
like a refugee from a mortuary.” Frank agreed with that, too, and
asked Dinky “what the heck were they seeing.” Two other portholes
exhibited a very mature woman in a black dress with what appeared
to be a lot of jewelry. She also appeared waxen like the older balding
gentleman. The mature woman’s hair appeared to be dyed a light
bluish color, something they had not seen in that era. In between
waves at them, she was busily primping her hair with both hands.
The next porthole person really frightened Frank. He was a
gentleman in a gray suit and dark necktie with a light blue shirt, but
his head was skeletal. In other words it was a skull. He turned his
head more to his left and it appeared that the right half was covered
in concrete cement, greenish in color. Both youngsters verified with
each other what they were seeing, so they knew they were not
hallucinating. They began to voice some wild speculations as to the
origin of the ships.
Then strangely the passengers at the portholes were replaced by
young-looking blond girls. Their blond hair was tied up in tight buns,
some at the sides, and others on the rear of their heads. The blond
girls were all attired in military khaki shirts opened at the neck and
were waving at the boys.
They were not prepared for the next event. It looked like the
whole side of a saucer opened up as if we were viewing a 3-
dimensional picture or in-depth movie screen. This was the only way
that Frank could describe it. Both could now see within the confines
of the saucer. They observed operators or technicians of some sort
all seated to the right at an oval console.
All the operators appeared to be busy making adjustments on
the console, turning dials or controls, very intent at what they were
doing. It seems that the boys were into the first steps of thought
transference, although unaided by an audible communications. The
people in the 3-D scene were all attired in uniforms. They looked like
Government issued khakis. The blond man seated closest to their
view had on a khaki shirt with epaulettes and khaki trousers tucked
into black boots. He even wore a khaki belt. There were four
operators at the console. Three were young men in their early
twenties with blond hair neatly cut and combed straight back.
A girl seated at the far end of the console was attired in the same
type of khaki uniform, except that she had auburn-colored hair tightly
knotted in a bun at the back of her head. That was not the fashion of
the 1940s; maybe more like the 1930s or earlier. The console
operators all seemed to be conversing, leaning back and forth to
check each other out for whatever type of adjustments were
necessary. Frank told Dinky that he didn’t think they were U.S.
military. Dinky added that they were probably one of the few people
at the time that had seen something like this. Frank wanted to ask
questions but it seemed that he could only converse with Dinky.
Then on the left side of the interior of the ship, both observed a
very tall man standing against the left wall facing them. Along his
right side there was what appeared to be a large chalkboard
mounted on the wall. The man was at least seven feet tall or more.
His hair looked very short, curly, blond, trimmed very neatly high in
the front and tapered off to the back of his head. He was attired like
the other males with his pants neatly tucked into his black boots. The
boots did not show any laces. In comparison to the others, his belt
was black, wide leather with a plain, rectangular brass buckle. Both
boys thought that he must be the commander of the ships.
Then they saw an equally tall woman who was standing in front
of the blackboard in a position that did not obstruct their view of her
male counterpart. She was attired in the same type of khaki shirt,
opened at the throat. She sported an ankle-length chestnut colored
full skirt. She had auburn-colored hair, except that it was full, hanging
down to her shoulders. She also had on a black leather belt exactly
the same as the Commander’s. In her left hand she held what
looked like several white paper sheets. With her right hand she was
making some type of inscription upon the blackboard with simple
chalk.
The script was unrecognizable to the boys, other than the fact
that she was writing backwards, starting at the right upper side and
continuing down to the bottom of the board. She would then again
start at the top and work down moving right to the left across the
page Oriental style; Dinky stated that it reminded him of
hieroglyphics at the Museum of Natural History over in New York
City. The script was not exactly the same as the Egyptians but it also
did not look like Chinese or Japanese that they had seen in
newsreels during the war.
The tall male appeared to be in his early thirties and while she
wrote, he looked over at the console operators and appeared to say
something to them. The operators immediately responded by making
adjustments on their consoles. The tall woman then turned and
walked in the direction of the operators at the consoles. Her walk
was athletic with long, determined strides.
It was at this time that they became aware of what type of foot
gear she was wearing. They were black boots that fit like a glove
with a sensible low and wide heel. The upper part of the boot was
well above her ankle. She was quite beautiful in her outfit. In fact it
did appear that all the uniformed personnel were quite handsome in
appearance. The console operators appeared to be much more
slender and shorter than the Commander and the woman, who was
perhaps second in command.
The tall woman seemed to be engrossed in making notes upon the
papers that she held. She would return back to the blackboard and
inscribe additional script upon it. They also noted that at times she
would appear to make a mistake with her chalk and would use the
edge of her right hand to erase her mistake; quite a human method,
they thought.
At one point the Commander went over to the console operators,
leaned over them as if to be correcting or making adjustments
himself. He was so tall, had a big chest and shoulders with a slim
waist, and move like an athlete. Then to the left side of the ship, it
appeared that the civilians that they had seen before were now lined
up single file.
One of the male operators was standing facing them with his
back up against a large hatch-type door. He had in his hand what
looked like a plain old martini glass that contained a clear liquid. First
in line was the balding, older gentleman. He was given the glass and
it looked like he was ordered to drink its contents and he promptly
obeyed. When he finished, the blond male turned and opened the
hatch from which emitted the most intense bright, white light that the
boys had ever seen. The older man entered and the hatch was
closed.
Each civilian in turn went through the same ceremony, even the
man with the skeletal skull. They don’t know how he accomplished
the drink, but he poured it in his skull. It went fast until it became the
Captain’s turn. They could see his full length now. He was wearing
what the military of that era called “Pink’s;” light-colored pants that
were almost khaki. His jacket was of a color that looked like maybe a
dark green, perhaps more olive green. He was wearing what was
known as a Sam Brown belt, thin and coming across his right
shoulder and chest connected to a typical wide garrison belt. The
whole ensemble was a brown color. He seemed to be arguing with
the tall blond male and it appeared that the Captain was not going to
drink the liquid in the glass.
He would raise his left hand palm up, seemingly pushing the
proffered glass away from him. The blond male departed and at this
point the Captain turned around, looked at the boys, smiled and just
shook his head back and forth as if commenting on the blond male.
Then the Commander appeared and seemed to argue with the
Captain, shaking his finger in the Captain’s face. The Captain
seemed to be clenching and unclenching his fist. He appeared to
stick his finger in the Commander’s chest to emphasize something
and it looked like the two were shouting at each other.
The boys were waiting, half expecting the Captain to punch the
Commander, as the Captain was also pretty large in stature. It
appeared that the Captain definitely did not want to drink the liquid
and leave. Eventually the Commander got the Captain calmed down.
The Commander reached behind a small cubicle located to the right
of the hatch, which they had not noticed before. The Commander
produced a glass that contained the clear liquid and offered it to the
Captain. This time, the Captain accepted putting the glass to his
mouth and drank the contents.
The hatch was then opened up by the Commander and the
Captain stepped into the intense bright light. It appeared to the boys
that when a person walked into the chamber, they would take
several steps up to a small platform, stand there momentarily
grasping each side of the handrails. Then each person turned left,
looking downward, and appeared to be somewhat hesitant before
beginning to descend a stairwell, which was not visible to them other
than the fact that the that the individual was descending.
Frank turned to Dinky and asked, “What the heck are we looking
at? Some kind of communion ceremony? A resurrection? Where did
those people disappear to? Was that a symbol of a purgatory, a hell?
Perhaps a resurrection? Or were they simply being cremated?”
When the hatch was opened they could almost experience the
intense heat that came with the brilliance of the light.
Then their attention went back to the blackboard area of the ship
in which both the Commander and his female counterpart were
standing facing them. Dinky pointed at his chest and back at the ship
and said, “Take me!” The woman pointed at Dinky and then at the
floor of the ship, Dinky yelled, “Yes!” Then she went to the
blackboard inscribed more characters upon it and said something to
the Commander. He in turn hung his head down and made a
negative reply by shaking his head. Dinky now pointed to Frank and
Frank made the same gesture that he wanted to board ship. The
woman seemed to shrug her shoulders, moved back to the
blackboard, consulted her paper notes and wrote more on the board.
She then spoke to the Commander. He again shook his head in
the negative. They both seemed to converse for some length of time
in which the Commander kept shaking his head in the negative.
Then the woman smiled at the boys and waved what seemed to be a
goodbye. This was the only time that both witnesses actually had
some sort of definite communications.
Suddenly the vision of the interior of the ship vanished. They
were now looking at the ship hovering in the sky. The Commander’s
ship moved to the center rear of the other three ships in its
formation. Then the whole fleet of 39 saucers moved very slowly
away from the Bank Clock and continued towards the north in the
direction of Coney Island on the Atlantic Ocean and disappeared
from view.
Dinky and Frank were left standing on the corner in front of Mr.
Katz’s Deli directly across the street from Joe Gilly’s candy store.
They both noted the clock on the Bank showed 1800. Dinky said that
it meant that they had been out there looking at the craft for five
hours. They went inside the store and Joe asked them where they
have been, since he had been looking for them for quite a while.
 Later a reporter for the Brooklyn News arrived and confirmed that
they had been getting calls about strange objects in the sky all
afternoon. However the boys refused to elaborate on what they’d
seen. Others in the area had also apparently seen the crafts. For
some reason Dinky told Frank to go the Confession and tell a priest
what he had seen. The priest told Frank that what he had seen were
“disciples of the Devil that have plagued mankind and misdirected
him down through the ages.” That information really scared Frank
and both him and Dinky kept the secret of what they had seen for
years.

HC addendum.
Source: Linda Moulton Howe, ‘Highly Strange Missing Time in 1947,’
Earthfiles.com
Type: A or G?
Comments: The witnesses never did go through hypnotic regression,
possibly a bizarre abduction scenario.