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Location: Mahachkala, Dagestan Republic, North Caucasus, Russia - Spring 1990 - MidnightThe witness, M, characterized as a sober minded and respected individual after returning home saw a strange bright green coin-like circle hovering in the air above the refrigerator. At first he thought it was a portable flashlight accidentally left switched on by his wife, but when he asked her, she denied that. M looked again at the green coin-sized light and noticed that it seemed to be increasing in size, and becoming more intense. Suddenly the object began to move in the air, it made circular movements and it began flying around the witness in a complicated trajectory. The witness felt heat coming from the light and also heard a whistling sound.The green light then expanded more and transformed into a human-like head. The witness thought that he was going crazy and turned his face to the wall and began praying to Allah. However when he looked back over his shoulder, the image was still there, despite his prayers. The image had now transformed itself into a humanoid shape, with arms, legs and a body that was totally covered with dense fur, like an ape. The humanoid appeared to be a cyclopean with only one eye in the middle of the forehead which emanated a red beam of light, like that of a flashlight. The neck was absent and its head was set squarely on a pair of powerful shoulders. The entity's height was more than 2 meters and it was very muscular. The intruder began floating in midair just above the floor moving forward towards where M's children were sleeping. M. hurried and rushed ahead of the entity towards his children, covering them with his body.At this point he began to pray again asking Allah to save him and his children from the hairy monster. The creature floated towards the bed and covered M and his children briefly picked them up and then dropped them back down immediately on the bed, without harming them. The creature then stepped back as M still covered his children, his body now facing the strange entity. The entity stood motionless at some distance from the bed. The humanoid did not make any threatening moves. Trembling in horror M hid his head under the bed sheets and continued praying in earnest. Soon the doors creaked and there was a loud slamming sound, this awoke M's wife, which confirmed her husband's story, emphasizing that he had never experienced any hallucinations. After the encounter he always worried about the creature returning and abducting him and the children. In due time the family moved into another apartment.**********Location: Stillwater, Nevada - June 1994 - eveningThe witness and his wife were driving under a slight rain in an isolated area when they saw what appeared to be an accident off to the side of the road. It looked like an accident because there were lots of flashing lights around the site. Curious the witness slowed down to see if he could help and as they came closer they saw what they thought was an ambulance but it turned up to be an object resembling a large soda can lying on it's side and resting on three "legs." It was a weird, sort of creamy color, but with a bright red halo around it. Flashing lights could be seen around the object.As they watched fascinated, his wife suddenly let out a blood-curling scream the witness turned around and saw two "aliens" coming towards the car. These were described as bug-like, with their heads looking like preying mantises. They had humanoid-looking bodies, however, and wore bluish gray jumpsuits. The terrified witness, who was armed with a gun, pulled it out and fired two shots towards the road in front of the figures. This must have startled the humanoids, which suddenly ran back to their landed cylinder shaped object. At this point the witness began speeding away from the area, looking back he saw additional similar appearing humanoids standing around the craft, about 9 or 10 of them. They did not see the object depart.**********Location: Belas Knap, Cotswolds, England - February 1998 - afternoonPaula Copestake, her husband Phillip, and 8-year-old son Edward were visiting the Neolithic site in a crisp clear afternoon. While Mr. Copestake was busying himself taking photographs of the forecourt area, Paula Copestake climbed to the top of the mound in order to take in the panoramic view and to enjoy the solitude. She was therefore disappointed to see a group of people moving towards the site from the northwest, across and adjacent field.At first sight there seemed to be about five people, one smaller in front and the others in two pairs, walking quickly towards Belas Knap along the field boundary which forms part of the Cotswold Way. They faced forward and were all dressed alike in dark, grayish black clothes with pale, oval, translucent faces beneath pointed hoods. They were only a few hundred yards away. Her son briefly distracted her, and when she looked back again she was startled by the emergence of more figures in the group. She told her husband that “hundreds” of people were coming and she impatiently told him to hurry because there seemed to be at least a dozen of them walking purposefully towards their location. They seemed to emerge from the dark shadows of the overhanging evergreen trees and bushes along the boundary between the two nearby fields.Every figure was hooded and they still followed the smaller figure at the front. She assumed that the lead figure must have been a child of about 12 because he was half the height of the others. She could not see any part of their bodies below knee level so she thought they must have been walking through long pale dead grass that obscured their lower limbs. They walked closely along the hedge line in silence, never turning to their companions but all walking at a vigorous pace, so she was surprised to see that they appeared to be in the same position as before in the field. They did not appear to have made any progress in reaching the long barrow, despite their fairly rapid pace. They appeared to walk down a slope and up again as if going down into a ditch and up the other side.Annoyed at the intrusion the witness took one final look at them and then deliberately turned her back and walked to the other end of the mound. Disturbingly, they had seemed to be even further away than ever although still moving as purposefully toward them. She then joined her son and husband who had finished his activities as he climbed up to mound to look he was surprised to see no one at all.**********Location: Thetis Lake, British Columbia, Canada - 8/19/1972The two boys, namely, Robin Flewellyn and Gordon Pike, were standing next to the recreation center on Thetis Lake when they saw a scaly creature emerge from the lake and move unto the shoreline. It was, as they had described, roughly triangle shaped, with dark, large, bulging fish-like eyes and mouth, and a razor-sharp spike on the top of its head. Its weight is estimated to be 120 lbs, and measures around 5 feet tall, and 5 feet wide. The two teens were terrified at the sight of the huge scaly amphibious monster and they ran for their lives.With its sporting webbed extremities, the creature chased the two teenagers until a few distance from the lake. The voracious predator was able to catch up with one of the young men, lacerating his hand with its razor-pointed head.The two lads, still filled with terror after narrowly escaping the grisly creature, rushed to the nearest Royal Canadian Mountain Police station and told the officers about the incident on Thetis Lake. They showed them the cut that was claimed to have been caused by the razor-sharp fin of the lake monster. The authorities felt sincerity on the story of the two boys, hence they immediately launched a manhunt, or should I better say, “monsterhunt”, on the said lake. However, nothing turned up during that time of investigation.The case was almost taken for granted until four days after, August 23 of the same year, at around 3:30 in the afternoon, Russell Van Nice and Mike Gold claimed to have seen the same creature from the opposite side of the Thetis Lake. But unlike the report of the two teens that were pursued by the creature, this time, it only emerged from the lake, looked around, and submerged itself back into the water.Gold and Nice described the monster-faced creature as having a human-like body, of at least 5 feet tall. It has silver-colored scaly skin, a sharp point protruding on its head, and very big ears and horrifying eyes.