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UFO case file · UFO-5936

Framingham entity encounter — January 8, 1984

CE3United States1984-01-08

Framingham, Massachusetts, United States

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Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Framingham entity encounter — January 8, 1984
Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Framingham entity encounter — January 8, 1984

Case description

A Framingham bedroom encounter is catalogued for approximately 3 a.m. on January 8, 1984. The surviving NICAP summary says a woman observed a short humanoid beside her bed directing a beam toward her. She felt that the figure could read her thoughts. That impression is part of the experience she reported, rather than evidence of a demonstrated communication mechanism. After the figure left, she reportedly observed a small cylindrical object outside. It was estimated at three feet long and eighteen inches across and rose straight into the sky. The sequence links the indoor visitor and the cylinder by their timing, but does not describe the figure entering the object or establish that it was a vehicle large enough to carry a person. NICAP attributes the account to the August 1991 MUFON UFO Journal, seven years after the listed event. The accessible synopsis does not give the witness’s name, detailed facial anatomy, clothing, a measured duration or independent corroboration. It also supplies no documented taking aboard or hypnosis sequence. The illustration therefore keeps the figure indistinct and identifies its combined bedroom-and-window view as a compression of successive observations, rather than adding an examination or a detailed alien interior.

Recorded details

Local time
3:00 AM.
Craft description
When the being had left a three-foot long by 18" cylinder shot straight up into the sky outside. (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, August 1991).
Entity description
In the witness's bedroom a short humanoid pointed a beam at the witness in bed. When the being had left a three-foot long by 18" cylinder shot straight up into the sky outside. (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, August 1991).
Coordinate precision
LOCALITY_APPROXIMATE
Date precision
EXACT_DAY

Case videos and witness interviews

Beamed by a UFO: Ten True Cases

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This segment follows the male witness in MUFON’s August 1991 Log 910713E, rather than the conflicting female bedside wording in the NICAP synopsis. The original report describes a green beam apparently reflected into his right eye and a small cylinder seen outside afterward. The film omits the cylinder and estimates five minutes, compared with about two minutes in the journal. Perceived mind-reading and reported eye effects do not independently establish telepathy, an occupant’s identity or a medical cause.

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