The Luminous Humanoid of Vivoorde w/ Zelia Edgar

Summary

In December 1973, a 28-year-old man in Vilvoorde, Belgium, got up at 2 a.m. and saw a small glowing humanoid in a sparkling green suit and domed helmet 'vacuuming' a pile of yard debris in his garden. The being walked straight up and over a 10-foot wall like a cartoon character before a saucer-shaped craft rose from behind it and shot off into the stars, after which the unbothered witness made himself a snack and went back to bed. Host Zelia Edgar explores the case's recurring patterns, including luminous eyes, mysterious metallic noises, and repeat witnesses, and proposes that the entity may be Low Countries household-spirit folklore dressed up in UFO imagery.

Key takeaways

• 1The witness, known only as 'Monsieur VM,' had his encounter around 2 a.m. in December 1973 in a walled garden that backed onto a convent of Ursuline nuns.
• 2The roughly 4-foot entity wore a sparkling green suit with a transparent dome helmet connected by a tube to a haversack, had a glowing red box on its belt, pointed ears, and yellow oval eyes that went dark when it blinked.
• 3After VM flashed his flashlight at it twice, the being made a V sign, then walked up and over a 10-foot wall while still 'vacuuming.'
• 4The departing craft had an orange top, a wine-colored underside with blue, yellow and red lights, sparks around its rim, and an emblem of a black circle crossed by a yellow lightning bolt.
• 5VM was a repeat witness: in August 1973 he and relatives saw a red rectangular object with four portholes on the sea at Westende, and in April 1974 a 'second moon' made their car engine fail.
• 6Investigators from the Belgian Society for the Study of Spatial Phenomena (SOBEPS) found no traces and no other witnesses, including the nun on gate duty that night. Edgar compares the entity to the Cabra Diaz 'jetpack imp' and to the Grimm fairy tale 'The Elves and the Shoemaker.'

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