Petare 'hairy dwarf' fight
Two Venezuelan truckers said they wrestled a small, hairy, clawed being beside a glowing sphere in a Caracas suburb, starting a wave of 'hairy dwarf' reports.
1954 CE · 10.48, -66.81 · status: claim
The account
In the early hours of 28–29 November 1954 Gustavo González and José Ponce told police in Petare that a luminous sphere blocked their road, and that when González grabbed one of several small hairy creatures it threw him off with great strength; a claw blow and a beam of light followed. A police report of the 'fight' was noted in the press, and similar reports from Venezuela and elsewhere followed for weeks.
The sceptical view
The account rests on the two men; no physical evidence was kept, and the story spread during a worldwide 1954 wave of saucer stories in which copycat reports were common.