Eyewitness Description






Something really weird happened at the beginning of last class. Here is a combination of your individual descriptions.

We are looking for a Caucasian, Asian, or Hispanic female man with pale tanned dark skin and dark brown blonde hair aged 19 to 40 years, height from 5'0" to 6'0", weighing anywhere between 100 and 230 pounds on their small frame. (Is there anyone in the room this does NOT describe?)

It wore a rainbow-colored fleece blanket, robe, pancho, cloth, or beach towel with long stripes of yellow, red, and green. On its head it had a weird helmet-like hat, pasta strainer, colander, vegetable steamer, pan, or silver metal bowl with little things protruding like antennae that had yellow balls on top. There were wires, metal things, confetti, yellow tape or ribbons, or green hair hanging from the hat.

It was wearing light jeans or dark pants, possibly pajamas, and had either white or black tennis shoes. Swimming goggles or sunglasses covered its eyes which could not be seen because of the blanket. There was a wire or scarf around its neck and it was smiling.

It came from the back of the room, walked down the stairs hunched over, and either left something (possibly late homework) on the table or removed a piece of paper or a yellow molecule stick and ball model with its gloved hand through which could be seen its white skin. It spun around to look at the class then left through the front door after eight seconds.

Two students saw nothing at all. One saw me talking to Professor Elaine Ply before class and assumed she dressed up in costume for us. WRONG!


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.