Israel.Kadima · four women report silver-suited giants

In the spring of 1993, in the agricultural moshav of Kadima, near Netanya, several women described encounters with a non-human entity. Between April and July, according to journalist Barry Chamish, four women in their late thirties (three in the Kadima area and one in Rishon Letzion) described encounters with bald, round-faced giants over seven feet tall, more than 2.1 meters, in silvery suits. The first was Tsiporet Carmel: in the early morning of April 20, according to Chamish, she saw by her house something she took for a silo and, some ten yards away, a seven-foot being in metallic overalls with its head covered by something like a beekeeper's hat; where she had seen the craft a 4.5-meter circle appeared. Another, Shosh Yahud, the village treasurer, said that one night in May she woke to see beside her bed a being about seven feet tall, round-faced and in silvery overalls, who assured her he meant no harm and left through the wall; the next morning she saw a 4.5-meter circle from her window.

Chamish later summed up that, since 1993, that small area had seen five highly documented encounters with tall beings, at least fifteen landing circles imbued with a red cadmium-based liquid and hundreds of craft sightings.

According to Chamish, in each case a landing circle with odd metals and oils appeared nearby. An object allegedly landed near Kadima on March 30, 1993 and, on returning the next day, left metal shards which, again according to him, Tel Aviv University found to be of unknown origin. According to a summary of his article in Flying Saucer Review, Chamish quotes Dr. Fuhner, of the biochemical department of the Geological Institute of Israel: on May 27, 1993 he received a 2.7-gram sample, and two tests showed it to be elemental silicon, "a substance not found on this planet". The red liquid in the circles, Chamish writes, was tested by the National Biological Laboratory in Ness Tziona, which found it composed mostly of cadmium. Chamish adds that other samples tested 99.35% pure silicon at the University of Manchester. The large 18-meter circle with that fluid and shiny shards that is often cited is not from 1993: Chamish visited it after another landing in Kadima in January 1995.

Chamish acknowledges that Israeli ufologists were divided over the silicon because there was a prankster loose in Kadima, and that many feared he had planted it in the circles. He rejects the suspicion by citing W. C. Levengood and John Burke, who confirmed the earlier results and, he says, proved that this silicon would be far too expensive for a hoaxer. Apart from Chamish's quotation, no chain of custody is on record tying the sample analyzed by the Geological Institute to a specific circle.

The police and military response usually linked to the case belongs, in Chamish's own account, to another episode: in January 1995, in the village of Yatzitz, the local security chief said he saw a three-meter giant and called the police, who found deep tracks by the house; army trackers, thinking of an infiltration, followed 8.5 kilometers of tracks. The sources consulted record no police deployment in Kadima in 1993.

Kadima combines an account of tall beings with landing circles and sample analyses, but almost everything comes from a single author, Chamish. The Geological Institute of Israel's analysis, the only one from a state institution, is known only through his quotation. The later tests at Manchester and by Levengood and Burke are also reported by him.

No source consulted proposes what happened in the encounters, and there is no skeptical, police or academic analysis of the case.