Eyewitness Description






Something really weird happened at the beginning of class on Friday 5 September 2014. It happened without warning or comment. What was it?? Here is what happened based on the combined descriptions you gave.

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The following is a composite of eyewitness testimony from those present during the 5 September 2014 CFB/PHYS 3333 class(*).

Most of the witnesses who were describing something other than a professor described the following. Somebody came in via the back door, walked down the side of the room, stopped at the front table, then left via the front door, making no sound in the process. The visitor was a "person" (9 votes), man/male (4 votes) or female/woman/girl (31 votes). Age estimates ran from 18 to 40. Weight from "under 100 pounds" to 150. Height estimates were 4'9" to 5'11". One description was "tall and skinny." Only 12 observers attempted a race/ethnicity estimate. They were Caucasian/white (5), Asian (3), African or Hispanic (1), Hispanic (1), Indian/Middle East (2).

Clothing descriptions varied. The visitor wore a cape/cloak/robe (11) which might have been black (8), red (1), or purple (1). It could have been Harry Potter like (1). General appearance was a wizard/magician (11), witch (2), clown (1). The visitor was definitely disguised. The visitor carried "something" which might have been a marionette, green dragon puppet, orange puppet, staff, stick with glitter, bird cage, or a basket (only 9 reports). The hat was crazy, wacky, floppy, odd, many/funny-colored, big, or green. It had glowing balls, lights or a bear doll on top (3). The visitor was wearing white doggy slippers or fuzzy bunny shoes(5).

Estimates of the elapsed time ranged from 5 seconds to 3 minutes (8 reports). The visitor apparently grabbed something from the front table. it was "something (4), a "molecular structure" or cube with red balls (2 each), or a ball, metal toy with red balls, white structural thing, or structure (1 each).

Did anyone get a picture?

(*) The above is based on the eyewitness testimony of 45/57 students. 12/57 students observed nothing related to the events conducted by the suspect. A few of those 14 were clearly ogling their classmates. Cut it out. Stop staring. Act professional. It's like you've never seen people before.




Imagine yourself as a detective, lawyer, UFO researcher, or ghost researcher trying to figure out what happened. We really don't observe things as well as we think we do.






Composite Photo

Courtesy of Cpl. Melvin Douglas, sketch artist for DPD.