Case description
Beryl Hickey’s Mandurah story was reported more than fifty years after the alleged event. Bill Chalker records that, in 1982, a sixty-seven-year-old woman contacted the Perth UFO Research Group after seeing a picture of the film character E.T. She recalled being fifteen in about 1930, reading with her parents in a simple hut on Greary Road near the Mandurah estuary. A hurricane lamp lit the room, the door stood partly open, and it was approximately eight in the evening.
She said a small pink creature walked inside. It was roughly sixty centimetres tall, hairless and shiny, with large ears, bulbous film-covered eyes, a narrow mouth, small hands and large feet. She remembered a relatively straight, slender body rather than a rounded torso. Her father, frightened and interpreting it in religious terms, reportedly scooped it up with a prawning net and put it outside. It made a repeated squeaking sound. The family did not see it again and went to bed afraid.
The surviving narrative is a retrospective personal account, not a contemporaneous 1930 investigation or preserved specimen. The later E.T. comparison concerned its eyes and should not replace her other descriptions with a movie likeness. No craft, light in the sky or abduction accompanied the episode. The imported physiological-effects classification does not document an injury. The illustration keeps the family, lamp, net and reported creature together, adding plain clothing for a fully clothed, nonviolent depiction rather than claiming garments were described.
