Case file · Close encounter
José Parra and the rock-loading dwarfs, Valencia
On 19 December 1954 jockey José Parra, 18, said he saw six small humanoids loading rocks into a hovering disc near Valencia and was paralysed by a violet ray.
1954 CE · 10.16, -68.00 · status: account
The account
The report came at the height of the late-1954 Venezuelan 'hairy dwarf' wave and appeared in the APRO Bulletin of January 1955.
The sceptical view
Single witness; the catalog cannot choose between a real event and a hoax.