Hamburg entity encounter — June 1914

The Hamburg account is set at approximately 4 a.m. during June 1914. Gustav Herwagen reportedly opened his house door and saw a shining, cigar-shaped object in a nearby field. Its windows were illuminated. Four or five small figures, estimated at about 1.2 metres tall, were gathered beside it in light-coloured clothing. A supplementary catalogue description also mentions tin-like helmets. Herwagen was said to have approached the group. When the figures became aware of him, they hurried aboard the object. A door closed, and the craft rose vertically without an audible sound. The surviving narrative contains no conversation, physical contact, taking aboard or description of the interior beyond the luminous windows. It therefore concerns an alleged observation and departure, rather than an abduction claim. The critical chronological limitation is the reporting delay: Vallée’s Passport to Magonia, case 39, cites an April 1962 issue of UFO Nachrichten, nearly 48 years after the supposed event. Later books largely repeat that same account rather than adding independent contemporary evidence. The imported ledger contains the impossible date June 31; only June 1914 is defensible from the accessible source trail. No 1914 newspaper report, signed contemporary statement or technical investigation has been established here, and the witness’s precise location and likeness remain unknown.