Encounter record / 1954
December 1954. Night in the countryside near Carora, Venezuela. Two young hunters, Lorenzo Flores and Jesús Gómez, saw a round, glowing device hanging in the air about 80 centimetres above the ground. Fire poured from its underside. Then four small men came out of it. They were about a metre tall and covered in thick hair. They seized Gómez and tried to drag him toward the craft. Flores swung his unloaded shotgun. It struck something as hard as rock and broke in two. The beings let go and fled back to their machine. The boys ran, flagged down a truck, and reached the police with torn clothes, scratches and bruises.
Late 1954. Venezuela was in the grip of a flying saucer craze, and some of the strangest reports involved small, hairy beings of startling strength. On the night of November 28 to 29, truck drivers Gustavo González and José Ponce described a struggle with a hairy dwarf at Petare. A knife glanced off its body. Less than two weeks later, a second fight would be reported from Lara State.