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The UFO occupants reported in the 1950s and early 1960s in the UK were mostly the long-haired 'blond Nordics' of the contactee stories, with synthetic one-piece clothes and very high foreheads. (Except the time Mothman showed up instead.)

Meanwhile France, ever-novel, was having its famous 1954 wave of 'hairy little man' reports.

'One of the things that commend a number of these accounts to me is the strangeness and often the very pointlessness of the activities of the reported creatures. I feel that a hoaxer would be more inclined to give the story a beginning and an end.'

-- Charles Bowen, editor

Antonio Villas Boas' contact narrative again. (I'm sure it's only so heavily anthologised because it reads like some saucy Kirk fantasy from the pages of 'Playboy'.) Boas is, once again, represented as some salt-of-the-earth Hispanic dimwit whose lack of 'urban sophistication' precludes his inventing such a fantastic lie outright; in fact, his family was pretty decently set-up, and Boas was studying Law via mail.

'According to a Reuter report from Lima on August 7th, 1965, the authorities in that capital had recently arrested a band of dangerous cat-burglars [.] They had been masquerading as "Martians" and, taking advantage of the current fantastic wave of flying saucer reports in Lima, had fitted themselves out with "space-suits", and had perpetrated a series of bold armed robberies and attacks against householders.'