The North Bergen Soil Diggers

Small figures in hooded suits climbed down from a lit craft over a playing field in North Hudson Park, according to George O'Barski, and scooped soil into bags with spoon-like tools. Within minutes they were back aboard and the craft was gone. O'Barski ran a liquor store. He was driving through the park at around a quarter to three on the morning of 12 January 1975 when his car radio began to distort. The archive's tellings describe a pancake-shaped craft about thirty feet across and say he was frozen with fear. They dress the figures in snowsuits where the record has white suits, and the record counts about ten.

What is on the record

The case was investigated by Budd Hopkins and was his first published case, in The Village Voice in 1976. Hopkins found a doorman at the Stonehenge building nearby and other local witnesses who had seen a lit object. That is the important limit. The tellings present the doorman and a nearby family as corroborating the landing. The record says they saw only the lit object and not the figures. O'Barski remains the only witness to the beings.

The tellings also report burn rings found later by children and broken panes in the Stonehenge's glass front. Those details reach the archive only through the tellings, and the archive holds nothing that examines them. There was no official involvement. Sceptical re-examinations dispute the case, among them one by Moseley. No one has confessed to a hoax.

Why it sits where it does

This case grades L3 on three resolved claimants from two videos on one channel. Two of the three are the unnamed doorman and the unnamed family, and they saw a light and not the event that makes the case. The tier reflects corroboration of a lit object over the park. It does not reach the figures. What O'Barski saw on the field is not resolved here.