Donald Johnson indicates that on August 10, 1954 at 09:30 p.m., Gabriel Coupal, 13, and his younger siblings said they saw a brightly lighted object follow them to their farm in Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada. It landed, a figure exited and appeared to engage in some repair activity.
Mr. Coupal and his oldest son went to the field where the children had been playing and saw an orange object rise from the ground and speed off to the west.
Grass was flattened down over a 15-meter area with two tracks about five meters long.
Donald Johnson indicates that the sources are Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, page 237; the Huntingdon Gleaner for August 18, 1954; Fate, for March 1955, page 19; the Albany (NY) Times-Union for November 27, 1955.
In a different entry, he indicates that on August 7, 1954, at 07:30 p.m., Gabriel Coupal, 13, and another boy were out riding a horse when they saw a luminous, nine foot wide sphere land 150 feet away from them in Hemmingford, Quebec.
The sphere turned black after landing, a door opened, and "a big tall man with big round eyes" got out, dressed in a skintight black rubber diver suit that covered his entire body except the head. He carried what looked like a "machine gun" and there was a "buzz like a bee."
The man approached and the boys galloped their horse for the house, then the UFO rose, passed close by them, and landed again near the horse barn. It "had a black cable with a square thing hanging" from it. In the moonlight, this landed UFO looked "like a soap bubble," and three men were seen walking around it.
Mrs. Coupal phoned Hemmingford to get another witness, but when three more people arrived the object took off, glowing orange. It had been present for an hour or more, and there was a circle of flattened grass 30 feet in diameter where the object had rested.
Donald Johnson indicates that for the above, the sources are David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-42, citing newspaper clipping from Dr. Adolph Dittmar, Civilian Saucer Intelligence for August 17, 1954.
Patrick Gross:
Isn't it most unfortunate that a case which seems to have been published in several press articles, in which a taped interview of the witnesses was made, in which there seemed to be several, possibly independent witnesses involved, with a UFO and occupants apparently at close sight and lengthily see, and apparently landing traces that could have been investigated, has become nothing more that a few bits of an obviously incomplete and meager report, that even appears contradictory at times?
All I can hope now is that some Quebec ufologist gets inspired by this file and checks out newspaper archive, finds the witnesses or the relatives or the residents of the place and keeps me informed.
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In fact, Gross is correct in asking why no one bothered investigating this incident. However, he is obviously unaware that other CE3K events from 1947 to the early 1950s were either totally dismissed by flying saucer buffs or were labelled as "psychological" or "misidentification" or even "suspected hoax". The buffs actually took the word of authorities like the RCMP, RCAF who were not about to even consider such rubbish.
We have lost a lot of early reports because flying saucer enthusiasts and Ufologists decided they were unacceptable. It is still possible that the two boys are still alive and if anyone residing in Canada -Ufologist or not- can delve into this report it might still turn up some new material.
I should point out that one prominent Canadian Ufologist was still interested in a 1947 case I had dug up and reported on. He was "very keen" to find out more since the percipient -potentially- might still be alive. I sent him all the links and info and waited. After a month I enquired and he was going to look into it. After a year it was obvious that there was no intention to follow the data.
This web page has ceased to exist "Encounters with Aliens on this Day - August 7", web page compiled by Donald Johnson, circa 2005, at www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/August7.html
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