by Charles Lear
According to an article headlined “Humanoid Encounters in Malaysia,” written by West Malaysia MUFON Representative Ahmad Jamaludin and published in the November 1979 MUFON UFO Journal, in 1970 four boys in Johore Bahru told their headmaster that while on their way to school, they saw some six-inch creatures and a small UFO. News got around school and a search ensued. The only thing found to possibly back up the boys’ story was a burnt patch on the ground, but this report was the first of several throughout the decade of small UFOs and associated creatures ranging from 3 inches to six inches.
Jamaludin lists seven cases along with their dates, localities, and descriptions. He makes note of the fact that five of the reports came from school children in which the encounters were said to have taken place on school premises. According to him, the creatures were described as wearing one-piece suits and being “equipped with a type of ray gun.” Some had large heads with round eyes, and some of the three-inch creatures had antennas. He mentions that there were “three more probable encounters with tiny humanoids, but unfortunately the origins of the incidents cannot be traced.” With that in mind, it should be noted that Jamaludin fails to cite any of his sources or give any of the witnesses’ names.