I have dealt with this case in Earth: The Lost Contacts but here is a data dump for those interested. Note the entity appearance to those described in the video (previous post).
May 10, 2008, marks the 30th anniversary of one of the most amazing close encounters that ever took place in Poland as well as in history of encounters with UFO beings.
On that day a simple farmer from Emilcin village in Lublin area met with extraordinary humanoids that then took him onto their craft. The anniversary is also an remarkable occasion to pay a tribute to primary investigators of the case as well as his main protagonist, the late Mr. Wolski. 30 years after the incident it still remains actual with all the questions still opened to debate.
Although it may seem that all the possible steps in this case were done, we would like to present an unique relation of Mr. Wolski who in his own words speaks about the most strange incident in his whole life that made this modest man famous in the whole country and undoubtedly changed his life.
Jan Wolski died in 1990. His story became very popular and was often covered, for example in a book “Zdarzenie w Emilcinie” (“Incident in Emilcin”) of late Zbigniew Blania-Bolnar who researched this case and contained the results and his opinions in the aforementioned book. The Emilcin incident was also deeply researched by late Kazimierz Bzwoski and others.
WOLSKI’S ENCOUNTER BEGAN
History of Jan Wolski began when he drove his horse cart in early hours on May 10th 1978. At some moment he was approached by two short, green-faced humanoid entities dressed in one-part suits. The beings soon jumped on Wolski’s cart talking amongst themselves in strange language. When the cart with Wolski and two passengers neared to a forest clearing, the man saw an strange aerial object hovering in the air. Soon he was taken onboard… It is worth to say that the unidentified object passengers left some tracks on the ground while the strange craft was seen by other inhabitants of the Emilcin – the village that still holds one of the most intriguing riddles of UFO cases in Poland.
Photograph-A journalist of “Kurier Warszawski” talking to Wolski in 1981
The rest of his story with all the details is contained in the interview performed with him by Mr. Henryk Pomorski, who met with Wolski two months after his close encounter.
THE INTERVIEW
NPN received this unique material from Mrs. Sylwia Weremczuk – a granddaughter of the interview author, Mr. Henryk Pomorski. The conversation with Jan Wolski was recorded in Emilcin in July 1978 – two months after the close encounter when Wolski’s memories were still very vivid. Mr. Henryk Pomorski along with Krystyna Adamczyk began questioning the abductee who in his own simple language described them his extraordinary history that took place on the 10th day of May. Tape with the interview for long time remained in private archive.
TRANSCRIPT OF AN INTERVIEW WITH MR. JAN WOLSKI
by: Henryk Pomorski & Krystyna Adamczyk
HP: … Opole Lubelskie Commune. We talk to Mr. Jan Wolski, age…
JW: 71 [seventy one]
HP: Who has for us lots of interesting things to say… You met some extraterrestrial people. Can you say us how did it happen?
JW: I cannot directly state for sure that they were extraterrestrials because they were similar to us thought tiny, delicate, of small height – about 150 cm. [5 f.]
HP: How did it happened that you met them?
JW: Well… I was driving from Kokoszyce, from that side. In fact I was returning from Dabrowa village but the encounter with them occurred on this side of Kokoszyce, on a field belonging to me.
HP: When did you see them for the first time?
JW: I noticed them as two people heading toward my cart… Those people [the beings] hadn’t noticed me before. When they saw me they began looking at me and then they gradually began slowing down their walk more and more. When I drove closer to them, they divided on both sides (one went in one direction and the second one on the opposite one) and I drove in between them while they in the meantime jumped onto the moving cart.
HP: They sat next to you, didn’t they?
JW: Yes… However, not directly next to me but behind me (the second one also) while I was sitting in the center. Their legs were hanging down. [Mr. Wolski neither didn’t scorn them nor escaped since similar mode of traveling was some kind of tradition and it would be a discourtesy to drive them off and. Moreover, he didn’t know then who they were in fact.]
HP: Can you describe their outer appearance?
JW: They looked in this way: black outfits covering their foreheads and from here to here and to chin, and here they were green.
HP: What about their faces?
JW: They had green faces and palms as well, from here. It was in this way.
HP: In which language they spoke? Did they say anything to you?
Photograph-Place of the beings encounter in 2007
JW: They spoke in some language (huh) but I’m amazed that they could understand each other since they spoke like that “…a petete petete te…”. Their words were short and fast and I don’t know how they can understand one another. [The beings were communicating with Mr. Wolski by gestures, both while they were with him on the ground and onboard their aerial craft. It is contrary to many reports about UFO passengers reports where witnesses said about some type of mental communication.]
HP: What about the further journey? What happened next?
JW: They were driving ahead for some time and then ordered me to stop – they didn’t spoke in words but expressed it with hands to stop. So I understood it and began urging the horse to stop but he [one of the beings] caught the reins and pulled back urging the horse to stop (It was afraid of the craft.). And when it stopped they got off the cart – in the same way as they previously got on and they gave me a sign with hands to go with them. I tied my horse, then got off and went after them toward that machine. There was a tiny elevator of some kind for two people to hold – maybe it couldn’t carry two large people but surely could delicate ones… And then he went forth and set his foot onto this craft, I followed him and it soon lifted up rapidly – in front of that craft door. And the whole craft could be about 4 m. above the ground, maybe 4.5 m. [ca: 13 – 15 f.]
HP: The craft was hovering in the air, wasn’t it? Please, describe the way it moved and how looked like?
JW: It was a purely white craft – from outside.
HP: And what about it’s size and shape?
JW: It could be 4.5 maybe to 5 m. [14 – 15 f.] in height and it was as long as a bus, so it looked in that way. I haven’t seen any… [unclear but the craft was void of any outer features as lights, joints etc.] [Jan Wolski on other occasion mentioned that there were 4 “barrels” on the craft corners with “drills” (as Wolski said). Those black drill-like objects seemed to be made of black material and were rotating around its axis with great speed although without creating any disturbances in the air. They generate the hum Wolski mentioned.]
HP: And it was hovering in the air, wasn’t it? When you stand on the platform along with him the tiny elevator brought you swiftly to the interior of the craft…?
JW: No, no, no… (It carried us to place) by the craft entrance… [Not inside.] The elevator was on the same height as the entrance to the craft… Not from the bottom but by side.
HP: You found himself inside… What could you see there?
JW: Inside I could see only several crows – those our black birds…
HP: Black ones, as our ravens or rooks…
JW: So they were lying under the wall, not that one with the entrance but on the opposite side. To my opinion they seemed to be paralyzed – they were moving with their wings, legs and heads but weren’t moving around.
HP: Ok… You have encountered two beings [on the ground]. Were there any other inside?
JW: Inside of the craft there were also two ones. When we got onboard, there were another two inside.
HP: Were there any other appliances onboard? Maybe some gauges or some other things for sleeping or sitting…
Photograph-Depiction of Alien Craft
Jan Wolski by the UFO craft (image from Z. Blania-Bolnar book “Z archiwum X. Akta ufologiczne”). There are various representations of the craft seen by Wolski concerning the four poles on the corners
JW: There were only some benches onboard… From 8 to 10 – I couldn’t remember. Benches of some kind for one man to sit.
HP: What then happened with you?
JW: They ordered me to dress down…
HP: By gesticulation?
JW: Yes, they showed me to dress down. When I was half-naked, to my waist – and maybe not fully because when I was undressing I removed my jacket, then a blouse with 4 buttons… And when I began to undo two upper ones, the being that was on the elevator with me undid the two ones from the bottom. When I was undressing the fourth being appeared – that one who remained on the ground. […] Well, when I was partially undressed (to my waist) and stood in place I received an order to undress completely. So I took off my shoes. One of the present beings then appeared in front of me with an appliance in a form of two dishes combined in its hand. He neared “the saucers” to my front, then revolved me holding my arm slightly. Then he raised my arm up and began to doing something at my side with those plates… then from behind and on the other side. Then he showed me to dress up. After this order I began to dress up and look around but there were neither windows nor lights visible.
HP: Maybe they had some food products with them?
JW: I couldn’t see anything. [Break]. (They have something that might be food) in form of icicles. They were crumbling it into small chips and insert them into their mouth. He pointed with his finger on the thing in an icicle shape and ask me – not by words but gesticulating – could I eat it.
HP: They wanted to treat you with it…
JW: Yes, they wanted to treat me with it. But it was somewhat strange for me and I showed with my head move that I wouldn’t eat that thing.
HP: They ordered you to dress up after scanning you… What was the color inside of the craft: white, green, black… ?
JW: It seemed black inside. It was in the same color as their outfits – black although with some grayish tint.
HP: Can you describe the outer appearance of the craft?
JW: It was transparently white, as polished aluminum.
HP: You have said that the beings wore black outfits and had greenish faces. What with their eyes and other face features?
JW: They had slightly slanted eyes… They cheekbones were protruding. Once I saw Chinese men and they [the beings] slightly reminded them. But Chinese seemed to more massive and taller… Then he showed me to dress up so I did it and I was about to went off the craft as the being said. When I was about to do it, I turned back and took my cap off saying to them: “Goodbye”. All of them took a bow. Then I took a step ahead and found myself on the ground. And that’s all. [Jan Wolski also used to term the beings as “monsters”.]
HP: What about the altitude the craft was hovering?
JW: Approximately 5 m. [16 f.], maybe 4 or 4.5 m. I’m not sure. It was hard to establish it then…
HP: You then rushed to home and told your family members and neighbors to go there to inspect it…
Photograph-Jan Wolski’s house in 2007
JW: Yes, it’s true. When I arrived home I quickly entered inside but my son’s weren’t there, only my wife… I asked her: “Where are the boys?”. She replied that they are somewhere outside. I quickly ran off the house. My wife asked: “What happened?” I replied: “Nothing”. “Maybe something is wrong with the mare?” – she asked.
Then I ran outside and saw my sons coming from the barn side. I called them saying: “Go quickly on the field and you will see some craft in the air”. I even described it as a “car” in the air, something out of ordinary.
So they ran to alarm one and another neighbor and then together rushed toward the field. My third son appeared afterwards and I said to him: “You also should go and see it”. After a while I joined to them because of curiosity. But when I arrived at the spot along with my sons there were nothing in the air – only grass trodden down covered with dew and paths coming in all directions… When I saw that it disappeared I turned back and returned home. The rest remained at the site checking the footprints etc. Soon two other men joined them. They were inspecting the prints, saw some foot… [As it turned out, the area was full of strange footprints.
There were also clues indicating that soil samples might be taken. The footprints were nearly rectangular in shape although soon they were trodden down by local inhabitants and law enforcement officers.]
HP: Were those prints left by people of the craft visible?
JW: Yes, they were. Boys checked them out and one of them compared the footprint of the being to his feet… I don’t know whether it was smaller or bigger (than his feet).
HP: Because of this very interesting event you surely have many visitors that want to get to know about the case. I’ve heard that you had been visited by our scientist, Mr. Blania from Lodz, an ufologist. What is his opinion in this matter?
JW: He thinks, after all of my descriptions and all of the incident, after answers to questions about the craft whirring, hum…
HP: But the craft wasn’t whirring as a car engine for example?
JW: No, but it was a rumble of some kind. Something like: “…zzzzz…”. I answered him [Mr. Blania] and I don’t know who said them that some kid from the village also could hear some noise, a loud hum. So they went to Popiolek family, since he was a son of Popiolek. He [boy Adam Popiolek] said to Mr. Blania that he saw some craft in the air, some balloon (he explained) or car – according to his descriptions.
He ran into the house and yelled to his mother: “Mummy, come here because it could destroy our house because there is a craft in the air”. The woman went outside but returned after a while to his cooking duties and she hasn’t seen the craft.
HP: What is the boy’s name?
JW: Popiolek. [Adam was about 5-year-old in time of incident. After some time it turned out that many other inhabitants of Emilcin witnessed the sighting of UFO object but they didn’t want to talk about it. Many also remembered hearing loud bagns.]
HP: He’s is from here? He lives in Emilcin?
JW: Yes.
HP: The craft inside was dark or enlightened? There were no windows in its hull?
JW: No, there were no windows. The light was coming inside only by the door of the craft since it was in the daylight.
HP: What about the door?
JW: The door weren’t closing as ours but were rolling as some piece of cloth, in that way. Krystyna Adamczyk: Is any other face features of the being were visible, as brows, teeth?
JW: There were no brows visible… I don’t know what they had in fact – some make up or masks. They only got slanted eyes. I could see some white in their eye corners. And their teeth were also white in color… That’s all about them. KA: Have you witnessed the craft disappearance while your retreat from that place?
JW: I haven’t seen anything. I could only observe the craft only in a distance of 15 m. because it then hid behind some bushes. I was in hurry to reach home and inform my sons about the incident… That’s all about it… KA: Can you describe the process when you was treated with the icicle-form food? Were there any sounds when they began to crush it into smaller pieces?
JW: There were no crushing sounds. This food was crushing as hardened dough, without any sounds. KA: Was it a terrifying experience or something of utmost importance for you?
JW: Just a bit [terrifying], but I’m not very timorous man at all… so I wasn’t very scared. KA: Who they were according to your opinion? Who those people are? Are they of terrestrial or of extraterrestrial origin?
JW: I can’t say anything about it and I’m not orientated in similar matters since I’m not a scientist of some kind but a simple farmer. Therefore, I don’t know. I noticed that they were small, of the same height and all of them rather snappy in nature. But I don’t know anything about their origin. KA: You have mentioned that they were in some costumes and have greenish faces. Were there any other specific details making they different from us?
JW: I noticed then one thing, i.e. around the each one finger there was a thin and tiny fin [he means webbed hands ]. But I don’t know the number of their fingers since I didn’t count, just saw them. And on their upper necks, in place where hair began, they have something resembling lumps. It was round and protruding but I don’t know about it’s nature – whether it was a anatomical part of them or they had something hidden them. KA: Did you notice any brews or hair covering their bodies?
JW: I didn’t notice any hair since their whole body was covered with the suit that also obscured part of their foreheads. But they had no brows I think… They were completely dressed in it – the same one-pieced suit covered their legs and heads. They had no shoes. KA: Can you say us finally when the incident took place?
JW: It was on 10th day of May, before 8 a.m., because when I returned and my wife looked at the clock it was about 7:50 a.m. KA: The day it occurred was…
JW: 10th May [wondering]… It was in Wednesday…
HP: We recorded this conversation with Mr. Jan Wolski from Emilcin on July the 6th 1978. With Mr. Wolski talked: Henryk Pomorski and Krystyna Adamczyk. Thank you Mr. Wolski and see you soon!
JW: You welcome!
HP: Goodbye!
JW: Goodbye!
WOLSKI LEGACY
Everyone who is acknowledged with Jan Wolski case may say that the man had no reasons to create such a story that also for him remained a lifelong riddle. Today, after 30 years of this incident we still have many questions concerning the Wolski’s story that became for him both burden and blessing. Of course there were many attempts to debunk Wolski’s story, blaming him for confusing a helicopter and its occupants with UFO craft. The Emilcin case isn’t limited to his story since there are many other clues concerning various mysterious events.
One of the most intriguing occurred in the place of landing in 1981. It was reported by aforementioned K. Bzowski. A group of TV workers preparing a broadcast for TVP2 station perform there an experiment with a pendulum. A group of people gathered in a circle and soon the experiment began. Unexpectedly the pendulum (along with 60 cm long string) disappeared in thin air what was witnessed by more than 10 people. They began looking for the object in the ground but they failed. The incident is still without answer.
For Wolski himself, his growing popularity became a serious problem:
“Do you know what people then talked about me? They called me an alcoholic or said that it was a mere dream! The worst although were the trips that began coming here. Sometimes there were up to 14 coaches with tourist at once. They harassed me and didn’t let to work. And trampled my meadow…”
It is therefore worth to commemorate the Jan Wolski and the researchers involved in this case that is now often covered and misinterpreted by some UFO organizations that in fact has no inkling about its importance, making cheap show in place, where a man who didn’t seek attention, met with great mystery.
Listening his voice relating in simple words a story that for many people seems completely out-of-ordinary allows us to draw in our minds a scenario that backed with words of modest man transform in a vivid and real remembrance of events from 1978.
source & references:
by: P.Cielebiaś, NPN www.npn.org.pl
Strangers in the Forest
One May morning in 1978, a 71-yr-old farmer encountered a truly unique UFO and its crew in woodland near the village of Emilcin, Poland.
Jan Wolski was driving his horse and cart along a forest track when he noticed two short figures walking up ahead. Bizarrely, they were bounding up and down “like divers on the seabed”. As he drew alongside them, they jumped on to his cart and motioned to him to drive on.
The beings were 5 feet tall and looked almost (but not quite) human. They wore black hooded jumpsuits that left only their faces and hands exposed. They had greenish-brown skin, webbed hands, and larger than average eyes. They spoke to each other in a rapid incomprehensible language.
As Wolski drove into a clearing he heard a loud humming sound “like bumble-bees in flight”. Then he saw a peculiar UFO hovering overhead. It was rectangular in shape and the size of “a small bus”. At each corner was a large rapidly spinning corkscrew attached to a bracket.
A platform descended from the craft and the beings stepped on to it. They gestured to Wolski to join them. Thinking that they seemed friendly enough, the old man complied.
Inside the craft
Two more beings were waiting inside the craft. The interior was devoid of furnishings or equipment apart from some seats fastened to the walls. The only source of light was the daylight that filtered in through the open entrance. Bizarrely, a dozen crows were sitting quite motionless on the floor.
The entities motioned to Wolski to remove his clothes. One of them passed a pair of vibrating discs over his body while the others examined his garments. While they were doing so, he noticed an acrid odour like burning sulphur.
The beings allowed Wolski to put his clothes back on, then escorted him back to the entrance. He bowed and said goodbye, and they smilingly returned the bow. Then he descended to the ground on the platform and climbed back on to his cart.
The horse immediately galloped away in a panic, so Wolski did not see the craft depart. However, a child in the village later reported seeing a “little house” that sailed overhead and shot upwards with a sound like thunder.
A psychologist who examined Wolski declared him to be an honest man of sound mind. Wolski told investigators that he thought the entities had been foreigners (probably oriental) wearing heavy make-up or masks. As unlikely as it seems, perhaps we should at least consider this theory before reaching for more exotic explanations.
Culture.PL
A Tale Out Of This World:
Alien Abduction
& The Communist Regime
In May 1978, a 71-year-old peasant from the small village of Emilcin in eastern Poland began telling a story about how he met aliens and was taken onto their spacecraft. He never renounced it. Even today, there are people who seem to believe in his fairy tale, which is possibly the most famous account of a Polish close encounter with extra-terrestrials…
Every year in May, UFO believers from across the country meet in Emilcin, a small village in eastern Poland, to commemorate the anniversary of an extra-terrestrial visit to these parts. In 2005, a monument was put up in the town, reminiscent of the famous monolith from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. The believers gather around it, phrases like ‘I can feel the energy!’ or ‘Something unexplainable is going on!’ are thrown about. Significant enough to garner international attention, the monument in question has been described by the American online magazine Atlas Obscura with the following words:
A memorial (…) consisting of a metal cube balanced on top of a rock. It commemorates the most famous alleged UFO abduction case in Polish history, that of Jan Wolski, which was said to have taken place on May 10, 1978.
The description is only slightly inaccurate – when it uses the word ‘abduction’. After all, according to Wolski he wasn’t kidnapped but was simply invited to visit a mysterious vehicle, which he did of his own volition…
Step into my big white car
At the time of the so-called ‘Emilcin incident’, Wolski, a simple peasant, was 71 years old. This is how it all went down, according to an account he gave in the 1978 documentary film Odwiedziny, Czyli u Progu Tajemnicy (editor’s translation: A Visit, or on the Threshold of Mystery), made shortly after the UFO’s alleged appearance.
On the morning of that memorable day, Wolski was driving his wagon through the woods near Emilcin when he noticed two figures up ahead. As he was driving by, the two hopped onto his wagon and started to chatter in some strange, unknown language. Unabashed, Wolski kept driving. This is how he remembers it:
They were talking in thin voices, unknown to me (..). I didn’t understand any of it. All in all, I drove out from behind these bushes and there’s this, well, some car hovering in the air. Now that made me wonder, that a car can hang in the air and float up and down by half a metre or so...
The mysterious craft was as big as a medium-sized bus, entirely white and equipped with elements that whirled and buzzed. Fortunately, there was a lift leading to it. Wolski got in and as he rose up out of the lift, one of the beings waved its hand inviting him to step inside. Even though the strangers had green skin, finned fingers, and were wearing tight black overalls, Wolski accepted the invitation. The minimalist interior featured nothing but a few benches and bare walls. Inside, his new green-skinned companions convinced Wolski to get undressed and then proceeded to examine him using a pair of little plates. After he put his clothes back on, the strangers were kind enough to offer him a bite of a strange honey-like food but Wolski wasn’t hungry. On his way out he said ‘Goodbye!’ and nodded and the well-behaved beings nodded back.
So, as you can see, the whole affair was more like a tea party combined with a medical exam rather than an abduction…
An absolutely real, authentic experience
Despite its undeniable silliness, the story is possibly the most famous account of a Polish ‘close encounter of the fourth kind’ (yes, fourth, that’s how UFO experts dubbed it). We owe this largely to Zdzisław Blania, a so-called ufologist from the city of Łódź who came to Emilcin shortly after 10th May to investigate the alleged incident – or more precisely, to propagate it for his own benefit.
Up to that time, Blania, a well-read and intelligent man, had been publishing articles about UFOs in the Polish press, however nothing that caused a major sensation. When he learned about Wolski’s claims, he rushed to Emilcin and took serious efforts to present the story as credible. For example, he got a psychologist to confirm that Wolski was actually sane and that he wasn’t lying. Blania also managed to present another witness of the UFO’s appearance, a 6-year-old boy who said that he saw the bus-like craft flying over the village (today we know that the boy’s account had been manipulated by Blania).
The media quickly picked up the story. Blania was the foremost expert on the subject so he was giving interviews left and right and quickly gaining publicity. For example, the 6th June 1978 issue of the Kurier Polski newspaper quotes him saying the following about Wolski:
I don’t believe that the witness could’ve given the details of the appearance or demeanor of the beings using only his imagination. He describes, for example, how their suits looked even though this information never appeared in Polish publications on UFOs (…). So I believe this is an account of an absolutely real, authentic experience.
Blania kept profiting from the story for years. As late as 1996, he published the book Zdarzenie w Emilcinie (editor’s translation: The Emilcin Incident) devoted to Wolski’s tale.
A place on another planet
The ufologist managed not only to personally gain from the Emilcin incident, but also considerably helped in transforming it into a nationwide affair (even an international one, as time has shown!).
For years, the story of the purported alien visit, beefed up by his quasi-objective inquiry, prompted people from all over Poland to action. It was tasty enough, for example, to be covered by national television under the communist regime, which aired the aforementioned documentary Odwiedziny, Czyli u Progu Tajemnicy in the autumn of 1978. It played a major part during the 1985 Ufological Congress held in the city of Lublin, near Emilcin, an event that included a lecture by Wolski. It was analysed by dozens of self-proclaimed researchers who dug ever deeper into the elderly man’s story giving rise to a number of theories as to what actually happened. It even inspired the noted illsutrator Grzegorz Rosiński, behind the immensely popular Thorgal comic books, to create a comic strip titled Przybysze (editor’s translation: Incomers) which was first published in 1980 in the magazine Relax. Łukasz Garlicki, a noted Polish actor and comic-book lover has the following to say about this work of graphic art:
When I was maybe four or five, I read that comic in Relax magazine and it really made a big impression on me. Later I’d keep thinking about that story, especially on a trip to the Tatra Mountains with my grandfather. I remember I’d go up Mount Gubałówka on my own and run down to where we stayed, scared all the time that somewhere along the way, in the woods, I’d meet aliens looking just like the ones Wolski met. I think that the comic’s setting in the Polish countryside had a lot to do with that.
What resonated with the young Łukasz probably also resonated with the rest of the public – having our own, ‘Polish’ aliens must have seemed quite exciting. Especially that Roswell was so far beyond the Iron Curtain that it almost seemed completely inaccessible, like a place… on another planet. Eventually, at the turn of the 1980s, the story of the Emilcin incident became more or less general knowledge.
The police, a communist script & drugs
Interestingly, those grown-ups that chose to believe in aliens visiting Emilcin didn’t at all mind that the police had ruled out any extra-terrestrial activity in the area. Due to the commotion caused by Wolski’s revelations shortly after the purported event, law enforcement was called into the village to investigate and found no evidence whatsoever to back the quirky tale. The police concluded that Wolski probably dreamt the whole thing up in his sleep.
Nevertheless, it’s hard to determine what’s the exact origin of Wolski’s fairy tale, especially that the main actors behind it all have already passed away: Wolski in 1991, Blania in 2003. Some say that Wolski was a storyteller and that he liked the attention that came with his UFO narrative. He would show people around the site where he allegedly saw the alien bus-craft for years to come. Others say that he was somehow drugged and hallucinated the incident. In another version of events the whole affair was scripted by the communist regime to direct public attention away from the economy, badly slumping at the time.
The latter theory, although intriguing, lacks tangible evidence, apart maybe from the domino effect Wolski’s tale had on the mainstream TV, radio and press. Under the communist regime these weren’t, by today’s standards, independent and one could argue they repeated the story surprisingly eagerly, even if it was a magnet for audiences. But still the holy grail of conspiracy lovers, the involvement of secret services, has yet to find its way into this story.
The truth will make us wonder
A very comprehensive analysis of the Emilcin incident and its aftermath was given by Bartosz Rdułtowski in his 2013 book Tajne Operacje PRL i UFO (editor’s translation: The Polish People's Republic’s Secret Ops and UFOs). The author was determined enough to go and purchase Blania’s archives from the ufologist’s sister and go through them. Thanks to him we now know that the Emilcin boy’s statement had been manipulated. But even after conducting what looks like the most extensive research into the case date, and after looking into all the various theories about the event, the author states that there is no definite answer to the big question: ‘what actually happened?’
Rdułtowski's explanation is a hypothesis that the whole Emilcin thing stems from… a prank one ufologist tried to pull on another.
It is now time to introduce Witold Wawrzonek, a ufologist like Blania, but from Lublin. The author of Tajne Operacje PRL i UFO claims that about a month before the alleged Emilcin incident, the two gentlemen made a bet: Blania said he would have someone hypnotise Wawrzonek to remember things that never actually happened, while the latter claimed that wouldn’t be possible. Eventually, after a session during which the hypnotiser Lech Stefański managed to put Wawrzonek in a trance-like state, the Lublin ufologist woke up remembering some mumbo jumbo. Naturally, he didn’t feel all that happy about it and decided he wanted to get back at Blania.
That is why Wawrzonek, a hypnosis practitioner himself, hypnotised the 71-year-old Wolski, planting the memory of the Emilcin incident in his brain. He simply wanted to trick Blania into believing a false story, the falseness of which Wawrzonek would reveal at the right moment, making a fool out of his antagonist. But after Wawrzonek informed Blania about the Emilcin incident, the latter worked so swiftly and efficiently on establishing it as a credible UFO encounter, that before Wawrzonek knew it, the fairy tale was already immune to any debunking among UFO believers. So it seems that Wawrzonek’s meticulous intrigue was gone, substituted by a myth about Emilcin aliens that just won't go away.
Sounds like one hell of a theory, but this explanation may just be a little bit too much in line with the inscription on the Emilcin memorial, which says ‘The truth will make us wonder’, to be entirely convincing…
https://web.archive.org/web/20181015185651/https://www.ufocasebook.com/2008/wolski.html
Abductee Jan Wolski Interviewed-30th Anniversary of Emilcin Abduction
Photograph-Village of Emilcin
May 10, 2008, marks the 30th anniversary of one of the most amazing close encounters that ever took place in Poland as well as in history of encounters with UFO beings.
On that day a simple farmer from Emilcin village in Lublin area met with extraordinary humanoids that then took him onto their craft. The anniversary is also an remarkable occasion to pay a tribute to primary investigators of the case as well as his main protagonist, the late Mr. Wolski. 30 years after the incident it still remains actual with all the questions still opened to debate.
Although it may seem that all the possible steps in this case were done, we would like to present an unique relation of Mr. Wolski who in his own words speaks about the most strange incident in his whole life that made this modest man famous in the whole country and undoubtedly changed his life.
Jan Wolski died in 1990. His story became very popular and was often covered, for example in a book “Zdarzenie w Emilcinie” (“Incident in Emilcin”) of late Zbigniew Blania-Bolnar who researched this case and contained the results and his opinions in the aforementioned book. The Emilcin incident was also deeply researched by late Kazimierz Bzwoski and others.
WOLSKI’S ENCOUNTER BEGAN
History of Jan Wolski began when he drove his horse cart in early hours on May 10th 1978. At some moment he was approached by two short, green-faced humanoid entities dressed in one-part suits. The beings soon jumped on Wolski’s cart talking amongst themselves in strange language. When the cart with Wolski and two passengers neared to a forest clearing, the man saw an strange aerial object hovering in the air. Soon he was taken onboard… It is worth to say that the unidentified object passengers left some tracks on the ground while the strange craft was seen by other inhabitants of the Emilcin – the village that still holds one of the most intriguing riddles of UFO cases in Poland.
Photograph-A journalist of “Kurier Warszawski” talking to Wolski in 1981
The rest of his story with all the details is contained in the interview performed with him by Mr. Henryk Pomorski, who met with Wolski two months after his close encounter.
THE INTERVIEW
NPN received this unique material from Mrs. Sylwia Weremczuk – a granddaughter of the interview author, Mr. Henryk Pomorski. The conversation with Jan Wolski was recorded in Emilcin in July 1978 – two months after the close encounter when Wolski’s memories were still very vivid. Mr. Henryk Pomorski along with Krystyna Adamczyk began questioning the abductee who in his own simple language described them his extraordinary history that took place on the 10th day of May. Tape with the interview for long time remained in private archive.
TRANSCRIPT OF AN INTERVIEW WITH MR. JAN WOLSKI
by: Henryk Pomorski & Krystyna Adamczyk
HP: ... Opole Lubelskie Commune. We talk to Mr. Jan Wolski, age...
JW: 71 [seventy one]
HP: Who has for us lots of interesting things to say… You met some extraterrestrial people. Can you say us how did it happen?
JW: I cannot directly state for sure that they were extraterrestrials because they were similar to us thought tiny, delicate, of small height - about 150 cm. [5 f.]
HP: How did it happened that you met them?
JW: Well… I was driving from Komaszyce, from that side. In fact I was returning from Dabrowa village but the encounter with them occurred on this side of Komaszyce, on a field belonging to me.
HP: When did you see them for the first time?
JW: I noticed them as two people heading toward my cart... Those people [the beings] hadn't noticed me before. When they saw me they began looking at me and then they gradually began slowing down their walk more and more. When I drove closer to them, they divided on both sides (one went in one direction and the second one on the opposite one) and I drove in between them while they in the meantime jumped onto the moving cart.
HP: They sat next to you, didn’t they?
JW: Yes… However, not directly next to me but behind me (the second one also) while I was sitting in the center. Their legs were hanging down. [Mr. Wolski neither didn’t scorn them nor escaped since similar mode of traveling was some kind of tradition and it would be a discourtesy to drive them off and. Moreover, he didn’t know then who they were in fact.]
HP: Can you describe their outer appearance?
JW: They looked in this way: black outfits covering their foreheads and from here to here and to chin, and here they were green.
HP: What about their faces?
JW: They had green faces and palms as well, from here. It was in this way.
HP: In which language they spoke? Did they say anything to you?
Photograph-Place of the beings encounter in 2007
JW: They spoke in some language (huh) but I’m amazed that they could understand each other since they spoke like that “…a petete petete te…”. Their words were short and fast and I don’t know how they can understand one another. [The beings were communicating with Mr. Wolski by gestures, both while they were with him on the ground and onboard their aerial craft. It is contrary to many reports about UFO passengers reports where witnesses said about some type of mental communication.]
HP: What about the further journey? What happened next?
JW: They were driving ahead for some time and then ordered me to stop – they didn’t spoke in words but expressed it with hands to stop. So I understood it and began urging the horse to stop but he [one of the beings] caught the reins and pulled back urging the horse to stop (It was afraid of the craft.). And when it stopped they got off the cart – in the same way as they previously got on and they gave me a sign with hands to go with them. I tied my horse, then got off and went after them toward that machine. There was a tiny elevator of some kind for two people to hold – maybe it couldn’t carry two large people but surely could delicate ones… And then he went forth and set his foot onto this craft, I followed him and it soon lifted up rapidly – in front of that craft door. And the whole craft could be about 4 m. above the ground, maybe 4.5 m. [ca: 13 – 15 f.]
HP: The craft was hovering in the air, wasn’t it? Please, describe the way it moved and how looked like?
JW: It was a purely white craft – from outside.
HP: And what about it’s size and shape?
JW: It could be 4.5 maybe to 5 m. [14 – 15 f.] in height and it was as long as a bus, so it looked in that way. I haven’t seen any… [unclear but the craft was void of any outer features as lights, joints etc.] [Jan Wolski on other occasion mentioned that there were 4 “barrels” on the craft corners with “drills” (as Wolski said). Those black drill-like objects seemed to be made of black material and were rotating around its axis with great speed although without creating any disturbances in the air. They generate the hum Wolski mentioned.]
HP: And it was hovering in the air, wasn’t it? When you stand on the platform along with him the tiny elevator brought you swiftly to the interior of the craft…?
JW: No, no, no… (It carried us to place) by the craft entrance… [Not inside.] The elevator was on the same height as the entrance to the craft… Not from the bottom but by side.
HP: You found himself inside… What could you see there?
JW: Inside I could see only several crows – those our black birds…
HP: Black ones, as our ravens or rooks…
JW: So they were lying under the wall, not that one with the entrance but on the opposite side. To my opinion they seemed to be paralyzed – they were moving with their wings, legs and heads but weren’t moving around.
HP: Ok... You have encountered two beings [on the ground]. Were there any other inside?
JW: Inside of the craft there were also two ones. When we got onboard, there were another two inside.
HP: Were there any other appliances onboard? Maybe some gauges or some other things for sleeping or sitting…
Photograph-Depiction of Alien Craft
Jan Wolski by the UFO craft (image from Z. Blania-Bolnar book “Z archiwum X. Akta ufologiczne”). There are various representations of the craft seen by Wolski concerning the four poles on the corners
JW: There were only some benches onboard… From 8 to 10 - I couldn’t remember. Benches of some kind for one man to sit.
HP: What then happened with you?
JW: They ordered me to dress down…
HP: By gesticulation?
JW: Yes, they showed me to dress down. When I was half-naked, to my waist – and maybe not fully because when I was undressing I removed my jacket, then a blouse with 4 buttons… And when I began to undo two upper ones, the being that was on the elevator with me undid the two ones from the bottom. When I was undressing the fourth being appeared – that one who remained on the ground. […] Well, when I was partially undressed (to my waist) and stood in place I received an order to undress completely. So I took off my shoes. One of the present beings then appeared in front of me with an appliance in a form of two dishes combined in its hand. He neared “the saucers” to my front, then revolved me holding my arm slightly. Then he raised my arm up and began to doing something at my side with those plates… then from behind and on the other side. Then he showed me to dress up. After this order I began to dress up and look around but there were neither windows nor lights visible.
HP: Maybe they had some food products with them?
JW: I couldn’t see anything. [Break]. (They have something that might be food) in form of icicles. They were crumbling it into small chips and insert them into their mouth. He pointed with his finger on the thing in an icicle shape and ask me – not by words but gesticulating – could I eat it.
HP: They wanted to treat you with it…
JW: Yes, they wanted to treat me with it. But it was somewhat strange for me and I showed with my head move that I wouldn’t eat that thing.
HP: They ordered you to dress up after scanning you… What was the color inside of the craft: white, green, black… ?
JW: It seemed black inside. It was in the same color as their outfits – black although with some grayish tint.
HP: Can you describe the outer appearance of the craft?
JW: It was transparently white, as polished aluminum.
HP: You have said that the beings wore black outfits and had greenish faces. What with their eyes and other face features?
JW: They had slightly slanted eyes… They cheekbones were protruding. Once I saw Chinese men and they [the beings] slightly reminded them. But Chinese seemed to more massive and taller… Then he showed me to dress up so I did it and I was about to went off the craft as the being said. When I was about to do it, I turned back and took my cap off saying to them: “Goodbye”. All of them took a bow. Then I took a step ahead and found myself on the ground. And that’s all. [Jan Wolski also used to term the beings as “monsters”.]
HP: What about the altitude the craft was hovering?
JW: Approximately 5 m. [16 f.], maybe 4 or 4.5 m. I’m not sure. It was hard to establish it then…
HP: You then rushed to home and told your family members and neighbors to go there to inspect it…
Photograph-Jan Wolski’s house in 2007
JW: Yes, it’s true. When I arrived home I quickly entered inside but my son’s weren’t there, only my wife… I asked her: “Where are the boys?”. She replied that they are somewhere outside. I quickly ran off the house. My wife asked: “What happened?” I replied: “Nothing”. “Maybe something is wrong with the mare?” – she asked.
Then I ran outside and saw my sons coming from the barn side. I called them saying: “Go quickly on the field and you will see some craft in the air”. I even described it as a “car” in the air, something out of ordinary.
So they ran to alarm one and another neighbor and then together rushed toward the field. My third son appeared afterwards and I said to him: “You also should go and see it”. After a while I joined to them because of curiosity. But when I arrived at the spot along with my sons there were nothing in the air – only grass trodden down covered with dew and paths coming in all directions… When I saw that it disappeared I turned back and returned home. The rest remained at the site checking the footprints etc. Soon two other men joined them. They were inspecting the prints, saw some foot… [As it turned out, the area was full of strange footprints.
There were also clues indicating that soil samples might be taken. The footprints were nearly rectangular in shape although soon they were trodden down by local inhabitants and law enforcement officers.]
HP: Were those prints left by people of the craft visible?
JW: Yes, they were. Boys checked them out and one of them compared the footprint of the being to his feet… I don’t know whether it was smaller or bigger (than his feet).
HP: Because of this very interesting event you surely have many visitors that want to get to know about the case. I’ve heard that you had been visited by our scientist, Mr. Blania from Lodz, an ufologist. What is his opinion in this matter?
JW: He thinks, after all of my descriptions and all of the incident, after answers to questions about the craft whirring, hum…
HP: But the craft wasn’t whirring as a car engine for example?
JW: No, but it was a rumble of some kind. Something like: “…zzzzz…”. I answered him [Mr. Blania] and I don’t know who said them that some kid from the village also could hear some noise, a loud hum. So they went to Popiolek family, since he was a son of Popiolek. He [boy Adam Popiolek] said to Mr. Blania that he saw some craft in the air, some balloon (he explained) or car – according to his descriptions.
He ran into the house and yelled to his mother: “Mummy, come here because it could destroy our house because there is a craft in the air”. The woman went outside but returned after a while to his cooking duties and she hasn’t seen the craft.
HP: What is the boy’s name?
JW: Popiolek. [Adam was about 5-year-old in time of incident. After some time it turned out that many other inhabitants of Emilcin witnessed the sighting of UFO object but they didn’t want to talk about it. Many also remembered hearing loud bagns.]
HP: He’s is from here? He lives in Emilcin?
JW: Yes.
HP: The craft inside was dark or enlightened? There were no windows in its hull?
JW: No, there were no windows. The light was coming inside only by the door of the craft since it was in the daylight.
HP: What about the door?
JW: The door weren’t closing as ours but were rolling as some piece of cloth, in that way. Krystyna Adamczyk: Is any other face features of the being were visible, as brows, teeth?
JW: There were no brows visible… I don’t know what they had in fact – some make up or masks. They only got slanted eyes. I could see some white in their eye corners. And their teeth were also white in color… That’s all about them. KA: Have you witnessed the craft disappearance while your retreat from that place?
JW: I haven’t seen anything. I could only observe the craft only in a distance of 15 m. because it then hid behind some bushes. I was in hurry to reach home and inform my sons about the incident… That’s all about it… KA: Can you describe the process when you was treated with the icicle-form food? Were there any sounds when they began to crush it into smaller pieces?
JW: There were no crushing sounds. This food was crushing as hardened dough, without any sounds. KA: Was it a terrifying experience or something of utmost importance for you?
JW: Just a bit [terrifying], but I’m not very timorous man at all… so I wasn’t very scared. KA: Who they were according to your opinion? Who those people are? Are they of terrestrial or of extraterrestrial origin?
JW: I can’t say anything about it and I’m not orientated in similar matters since I’m not a scientist of some kind but a simple farmer. Therefore, I don’t know. I noticed that they were small, of the same height and all of them rather snappy in nature. But I don’t know anything about their origin. KA: You have mentioned that they were in some costumes and have greenish faces. Were there any other specific details making they different from us?
JW: I noticed then one thing, i.e. around the each one finger there was a thin and tiny fin [he means webbed hands ]. But I don’t know the number of their fingers since I didn’t count, just saw them. And on their upper necks, in place where hair began, they have something resembling lumps. It was round and protruding but I don’t know about it’s nature – whether it was a anatomical part of them or they had something hidden them. KA: Did you notice any brews or hair covering their bodies?
JW: I didn’t notice any hair since their whole body was covered with the suit that also obscured part of their foreheads. But they had no brows I think… They were completely dressed in it – the same one-pieced suit covered their legs and heads. They had no shoes. KA: Can you say us finally when the incident took place?
JW: It was on 10th day of May, before 8 a.m., because when I returned and my wife looked at the clock it was about 7:50 a.m. KA: The day it occurred was…
JW: 10th May [wondering]… It was in Wednesday…
HP: We recorded this conversation with Mr. Jan Wolski from Emilcin on July the 6th 1978. With Mr. Wolski talked: Henryk Pomorski and Krystyna Adamczyk. Thank you Mr. Wolski and see you soon!
JW: You welcome!
HP: Goodbye!
JW: Goodbye!
WOLSKI LEGACY
Everyone who is acknowledged with Jan Wolski case may say that the man had no reasons to create such a story that also for him remained a life-long riddle. Today, after 30 years of this incident we still have many questions concerning the Wolski’s story that became for him both burden and blessing. Of course there were many attempts to debunk Wolski’s story, blaming him for confusing a helicopter and its occupants with UFO craft. The Emilcin case isn’t limited to his story since there are many other clues concerning various mysterious events.
One of the most intriguing occurred in the place of landing in 1981. It was reported by aforementioned K. Bzowski. A group of TV workers preparing a broadcast for TVP2 station perform there an experiment with a pendulum. A group of people gathered in a circle and soon the experiment began. Unexpectedly the pendulum (along with 60 cm long string) disappeared in thin air what was witnessed by more than 10 people. They began looking for the object in the ground but they failed. The incident is still without answer.
For Wolski himself, his growing popularity became a serious problem:
“Do you know what people then talked about me? They called me an alcoholic or said that it was a mere dream! The worst although were the trips that began coming here. Sometimes there were up to 14 coaches with tourist at once. They harassed me and didn’t let to work. And trampled my meadow…”
It is therefore worth to commemorate the Jan Wolski and the researchers involved in this case that is now often covered and misinterpreted by some UFO organizations that in fact has no inkling about its importance, making cheap show in place, where a man who didn’t seek attention, met with great mystery.
Listening his voice relating in simple words a story that for many people seems completely out-of-ordinary allows us to draw in our minds a scenario that backed with words of modest man transform in a vivid and real remembrance of events from 1978.
source & references:
www.npn.org.pl
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There is another interesting post by Marcus Lowth from 2018
Jan Wolski And The Emilcin Alien Encounter
https://www.ufoinsight.com/aliens/encounters/jan-wolski-emilcin-alien-encounter
Not only is the encounter of Jan Wolski in Emilcin in May 1978 Poland’s most famous alien abduction case, it is the first record of such an incident taking place on Polish soil. Although at the time the Wolski account received very little attention, particularly from media platforms outside of Poland, it has quietly proved to be one of the most interesting and even important on record. Not least because of Poland’s isolation from much of the western world at the time. Although still under Soviet control, Poland was the first country of the “communist world” to allow “civilian UFO movements” including for academics and scholars.
Jan Wolski with a picture of the UFO location
Poland’s full liberation from the grip of the Soviet Union, however, was still over a decade away. When it came, so did attention to Wolski’s account. Jan Wolski, who was 71-years-old at the time of the incident, would die only months after the fall of the Berlin Wall on 8th January 1990. He had, however, given an extensive interview to two UFO investigators, Henryk Pomorski and Krystyna Amadczyk back in July 1978. The interview would remain private for a considerable time. It is, though, from this interview that the majority of what we know of the incident stems from.
The Emilcin Alien Encounter would divide the UFO community over the years following the Internet helping in distributing it far and wide. Some point to several details that mirror other such cases, and in turn Poland’s annexed position from the world as proof of it being a genuine account. Others cite the outlandish nature of the claims – themselves in the middle of a global UFO wave of sightings – and the fact that Wolski himself was the only witness to the events that it is likely untrue.
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The Woodland Near Emilcin, Poland
As 8 am loomed on the morning of 10th May 1978, Jan Wolski was driving his horse-drawn cart through the woodland near Emilcin. He would suddenly notice two strange figures in the distance ahead of him. It wasn’t long before he was almost upon them. As he went to pass, the two strange creatures “hopped onto his wagon”, sitting down slightly behind him. Each was about five-feet tall and each adorned a “black outfit” which covered all but their face. Their faces (and any other skin such as their hands) was a distinct shade of green. All the while they were speaking to each other. However, it was in a language unfamiliar to Wolski, who would describe it as lots of “short and fast” words.
He would state in a little-known Polish documentary in 1978 that, “They were talking in thin voices, unknown to me. I didn’t understand any of it!”
Not sensing any danger and not knowing what he would do even if he did, Wolski continued forward. The whole scene was as smooth as if he had been expecting to pick the two strange figures there all along. Then, as the woodland cleared somewhat, another fascinating sight would greet him.
“I drove out from behind these bushes and there’s this, well, some car hovering in the air!” he would state several months after the incident. The object, an oblong shape “like a bus” and glowing white, hovered around a meter from the ground. At each corner were “barrels with black vertical rods running through them”. Each of the rods would continually rotate while also emitting various colors.
A Shining Seamless Object
He became aware of a humming sound which appeared to emanate from the object. The closer he got to the craft, the more intense the buzzing became, like angry “bumblebees”. This last point is interesting, not only due to how often a sound of “buzzing” is reported. Many reports often go on to state this buzzing increases when the witness approaches. Furthermore, many witnesses use the exact same phrase of “bees” or “bumblebees” to describe this apparently unique noise.
Another detail offered by Wolski often found in other reports was the distinct lack of seams on the object. As if the entire thing was made from one piece of material. As he departed from his cart and walked towards the shining, smooth object, a “lift” emerged from the side of the craft. It appeared to be held in place by thin cables. One of the figures would step on to the lift and then turn and gesture to Wolski to follow. He did so and, as shown by the two figures, he took hold of one of the cables. Almost as soon as he did, the surface rose at considerable speed.
The next thing, Wolski could see was an entrance beckoning to him to go inside.
A Large Room With Black Walls
One of the green-skinned creatures would enter the craft first. Wolski followed and found himself inside a rectangular room with black walls. When he touched them, they had the feel of glass but seemed much stronger and denser. There were several seats against the walls, each held in place with similar cables that held the lift.
Wolski could see no lighting inside and assumed the daylight from outside lit the room. Two more of the hooded humanoid creatures stood inside the room. Each was dressed in the same “rubber-like” one-piece suit as the two who had jumped on his cart moments earlier. He noticed how there were no fasteners or belts anywhere on these strange suits. He also noticed how the creature’s legs were larger than they should be for their frame. And how a “lump” was visible on their backs under the one-piece suits. Their eyes were also larger than normal and “appeared to lack any whites”.
He further noticed what appeared to be several “paralyzed birds” on the floor of the room. Wolski wasn’t sure if they were crows or rooks. He knew they were still alive as he could see movement in their wings, heads, legs, and eyes. Despite this, however, they remained still and on their sides on the ground.
Regardless of his surroundings and the surreal nature of the unfolding encounter, Wolski still felt no fear. He wasn’t sure if that was his own demeanor or some influence of the creatures around him. He looked up and could see their attention was on him.
Artist’s impression of the strange green skinned entity
Grey Disc-Shaped Devices
His hosts then indicated that Wolski should undress which he began to do. As he did so, he noticed one of the figures in front of him approaching. In its hands were two “grey disc-shaped objects”. It appeared to Wolski that some kind of “suction pads” attached these discs to the creature’s hands. He could hear a humming sound and see the discs themselves vibrating.
As the figure holding the discs stood in front of him, two of the other creatures turned him as if he were posing for a mugshot. In turns, they would expose his back and front, and both sides of his body to the devices. Wolski was not told what the devices were or what the purpose of the procedure was. What is interesting is other such encounters sometimes speak of similar objects that would appear to be X-ray devices.
Following the procedure, a smell of “burning Sulphur” suddenly hit him. It was something that he would claim remained with him for several days such was the strength of the aroma. Again, this is a small detail often given by abductees as an afterthought. It would certainly appear to be a detail of importance.
Then, just like that, the figures would lead him back to the entrance and gesture for him to step back on the lift. He bowed to them in goodbye as he did so, a gesture they returned. The lift then lowered him down and he stepped onto the ground.
Footprints But No Craft!
Once he reached his cart where his horse stood patiently, he turned around to face the craft. Two of the creatures were stood at the entrance watching him. He climbed on board and continued home.
Once there he entered the house excitedly looking for his two sons. His wife informed him they were out on the field. He would locate them and direct them to head to the clearing in the woodland and they would “see an object in the sky” in that direction. A neighbor would hear the exchange and would join the two young men in their search.
By the time Wolski had arrived back to the scene, the craft was gone, and none of the makeshift search team had witnessed anything. They did, however, discover numerous “rectangular footprints” and evidence that “soil sampling” had taken place. It would also come to light that a young boy had also seen a similar object over the woods around the same time as Wolski’s encounter. Over the years several people have stepped forward to state they too saw a strange object in the sky that morning. Only Jan Wolski, it would seem, encountered the entities up close.
The area itself soon became overrun by interested onlookers and even police. Needless to say, they would trample the footprints beyond any recognition. No molds or photographs exist of them. This is perhaps important. As we will look at in a moment, Wolski would face accusations of being part of a hoax or imagining the event. If we assume for one moment that was the case, then why would he bother to mention the footprints if he would then allow them to be trampled before obtaining “proof” of them?
Other Encounters Of “Green-Skinned” Entities
While many would deem the account outlandish, there are other similar encounters of green-skinned creatures on record.
The 1957 Kentucky Goblins Encounter, for example, featured an all-night stand-off between two families and “glowing, green entities”. The account is one of Kentucky’s most famous incidents in a state that has several to choose from.
Even George Washington, prior to the famous battle of Valley Forge in 1777, would claim to have received visitations from “green-skinned warriors”. Furthermore, these visitors would advise him of British battle positions and where to position his own troops. They would also show him a future vision of the United States.
Even as far back as the mid-1100s there is an account of “green children” in the village of Woolpit in England. While there is nothing to indicate this encounter – if indeed there is any truth to it – was of an extraterrestrial nature, it often surfaces in UFO circles. And it is certainly not beyond the realm of possibility that should two green-skinned extraterrestrials have sought refuge in a small community at such a time, they might well be perceived as children.
Initially, it would appear that Jan Wolski’s 1978 encounter would soon be of interest to UFO enthusiasts only. Then, things changed somewhat. Suddenly, the Polish authorities (then loyal to the Soviet Union) would take an interest in the case.
Monument where the Emilcin encounter took place
Purposeful Discrediting?
According to a report at the time, a local school teacher, after conducting a lecture with school children in an attempt to calm their nerves about “Martians landing”, would become frustrated that they would “not accept the work of good Soviet scientists”. Ultimately, he informed the “Citizen Militia” – the local police – claiming he couldn’t allow the contemplation of “unscientific ideas”.
The local police would interview Wolski, as well as several of the children at the local school. According to their findings, “The grandfather fell asleep and dreamed everything!” Wolski, perhaps already weary of the “peasant existence” under Soviet control was more than resentful with their purposely mocking-like findings.
Many others doubt the incident also, however. Some believe it is simply too outlandish, while others have looked to prove a hoax for financial gain, even suggesting that UFO researcher, Zbigniew Blania-Bolnar, knew Jan Wolski prior to the incident, through his son. There is no real evidence for this, however, and we should treat the claims with the same trepidation as the sighting itself.
On the other hand, many details have since cropped up in many numerous unconnected accounts worldwide. Wolski himself would suffer continued ridicule, including accusations of alcoholism.
Regardless of the truth of the incident, in 2005, twenty-five years after his death, came the erecting of a statue at the spot of the encounter. On it is the inscription, “On 10 May 1978 in Emilcin a UFO Object landed. The truth will astonish us in the future”.
Despite the amount of documented detail, there is still debate as to the authenticity of the Emilcin incident. Perhaps through other accounts, we will eventually know that truth authenticity one way or the other.
From the site UFO Via
Poland: Close encounter of third kind in Emilcin What happened on 10th May 1978 in the village of Emilcin in south-eastern Poland? Click here to portuguese version By Nautilus Foudation* Warsaw – Poland To UFOVIA - Brazil
Wolski shows the ilustration oh the being.
Jan Wolski [pronounced Vol-ski] (born 29th May 1907, died 8th January 1990) – was a farmer from the south-eastern Polish village of Emilcin. As to his education, he only attended three years of a primary school. Then he took private lessons for one year, and finally took two more years at a school in the neighboring village of Zosin. He was married and had four children.
On 10th May 1978 he was coming back home on his cart, pulled by a mare he had, from a neighboring village. He had taken his mare there to mated with a local stallion.
The main road was asphalt-paved, and too hard for the mare, which was not shoed. So he turned to a siding, and then into a forest path which was also a shortcut to his house. Eventually he got into thickets, that touched and scratched his face.
Jan Wolski.
When he got out of the thickets, he noticed two beings walking along the path. The beings jumped over a stretch of mud. One of them did not do it not quite well it and left a peculiar print (shoe?) on the mud. Wolski passed by the beings, while they kept themselves on both sides of the track. Suddenly they jumped into Wolski’s cart. He then noticed their characteristic features: greenish faces, slanting eyes, a slit instead of mouth, black uniforms (slightly similar to those of scuba divers), and little “fins” between their fingers. They also had high-pitched voices and proceeded to talk to each other in an extremely fast speech, and in a language unknown to Wolski. First, the farmer thought they were Chinese who – for some reason – had their faces painted in green.
When Wolski and his cart, with the two beings inside, arrived to a clearing, he saw an object hovering to the right. It was almost motionless, except for a slight movement up and down. It was metallic and reminded Wolski of a bus, had a form of a cubicle with some “whirls” on the corners. It was entirely silent and had no joints at all on its surface. In a more technical description it could be said that the craft’s appearance was a composed geometrical solid.
The base was like a parallelepiped, topped by a cambered surface, perhaps a cylindrical longitudinal section. The parallelepiped part had brackets adjusted to each of its vertical corners right in between. Yet those brackets were not perfectly cylindrical, having a barrel-like appearance. From those brackets emerged up and down, long poles, similar to a drill thread, spinning all the time.Also in a more technical language,they had the shape of very long conical volute. Their extension above and under each bracket was about 1,5m, having a maximum diameter of about 30cm.
Reconstituction of the UFO.
Wolski was “invited” to get into the object. A door, which before was not visible at all, opened on the object’s side. Down came a kind of a “lift” similar to a platform, supported by four “cords”, also bringing another crew member who came from the inside of the craft. However, one of the strange beings remained on the ground, while Wolski and one being of the initial “duo” embarked on the platform with the third crew member. The “lift” went up very quickly.
The inside of the craft was all graphite-black. No lighting, no switches, no displays or any device like that. It was as homogenous (without any seams, joints etc.) as the outside. The only piece of equipment Wolski noticed were “benches” protruding from the walls of the object.
One of the beings held some kind of sticks and every now and then inserted them into tiny holes in one of the walls and manipulated them. Another being started to eat something which looked like icicles, but was soft as a cake. The being offered one of the “icicles” to Wolski but he refused. On one of the corners of craft Wolski noticed a pile of black birds (rooks or crows). They were alive, as they were moving, but they could not fly or even walk.
Another description of strange vehicle.
Using gestures, the beings inside the craft told him to strip naked. When he did it, as he was told to, they performed some measurements on him, using devices which reminded two small plates or saucers joined together. They touched Wolski’s body all around and clasping the “saucers” together the way one plays castanets. What evoked beings’ interest most was Wolski’s leather belt.
Once the examination was over, they “told” him to wear his clothes back on. He smiled and bowed to them, for he felt no fear. The beings made a kind of grimace, apparently trying to smile back (on their way) and also bowed back. Then Wolski and one of the beings stepped back on the platform, which immediately whizzed down, stopping some 50 cm above the ground.
Wolski rushed home very quickly, excited to tell his family and friends about what happened. When one of his sons (plus a neighbor) ran towards the clearing, the object was no longer there. What remained was an area of grass which for many years would not grow at all – at exactly the spot where the object was hovering above the ground. Later, vegetation grew there again, but yellowish in color. This area is still visible up to this day, although is no longer very distinct.
Being tipology.
This is the kind of report, where people like Wolski would look as the sole protagonist. However an surprisingly he wasn’t. Other people from the neighborhood encountered either the beings, or their craft, or both, but in different circumstances. In fact, two children from the village of Emilcin, Adam and Agnieszka Popiołek [pronounced Poh-pyo-weck] saw a strange “bus” going up and above their barn. He also saw a “pilot” through a craft’s “window”. The boy told his mother about it. By her turn, his mother was home and heard a strange bang. Once the boy told his sighting to his mom about what, he and his sister went to the backyard to play and didn’t not tell a word about it to anybody else.
Some time after, the boy’s mother heard about Wolski’s “abduction” by strange beings, through a neighbor. Adam had not discussed his observation with anybody else. This lasted until the boy’s father came back home. Then Adam told his observation to his father, but he didn’t pay much of his attention, for he was in a hurry, needing to leave immediately.
In the meantime Mrs Popiołek told her sister about what she had heard from her neighbor. Adam did not participate of this conversation. Later, Adam’s father came back home again and asked the boy about further details of his observation. The latter told his father everything he had seen and made a sketch of the craft.
Another witness seems to have seen the same (or identical) craft, although the place and time were different. Henryk Marciniak [pronounced Mar-tchee-nyack] saw an object in a small town called Golina (mid-western Poland) on 27th September 1978.
In the afternoon of that day he went to collect mushrooms on a clearing. Suddenly he saw an unusual craft. With some delay, he eventually took his motorcycle and rode towards the strange object. In a matter of instants he saw an open doorway (which was not there before) and two beings stood on both sides of Marciniak, and he extended his hand in a welcome gesture. The aliens got interested in Marciniak’s motorcycle and by using gestures asked him to take a ride. Meanwhile a buzzing sound came from inside the craft, and the beings slowly come back to the object which then goes up and disappears.
The Jan Wolski's Memorial by Nautilus Foundation.
It’s not the end of the Emilcin events.
· The owner of a farm in Emilcin, some 200 metres away from the clearing heard an unusual noise! · Two men, driving from Warsaw to Opole Lubelskie, saw a strange object in the sky · Tadeusz Baranowski, an artist who made sketches during research in Emilcin, has found feathers of black birds – strangely cut!
The whole event was thoroughly researched by the then famous ufologist, Zbigniew Blania-Bolnar, who passed away in 2003. He and his team of researchers, many and from different professional areas (psychiatrist, psychologist, biologist, hypnotist, physician, physicist etc.) – possibly conducted one of the best-documented researches regarding the matter.
During the research it was absolutely excluded that Wolski could have made the whole story up or that he only dreamed of it. While a mystery remains about what and who Wolski actually did see, it was proven beyond any doubt that what he described was really what he saw and experienced. The results of the research were documented in a book Zdarzenie w Emilcinie (An Event In Emilcin). Earlier the story was related in a comic strip in the-then famous comic magazine “Relax” no. 27/1978 in a story called “Visitors” drawn by Grzegorz Ros.
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