Alor Islands — Police Chief's Armed Encounter with Six Unknown Entities

In July 1959, the remote island of Alor in the East Nusa Tenggara province of eastern Indonesia — accessible only by sea and largely isolated from the Indonesian mainland — was visited by six unknown entities over a period of approximately one week. Initial reports reached local authorities through village channels; among the reported incidents, a six-year-old child was said to have briefly disappeared and returned in a confused state.

The senior law enforcement officer for the Alor Islands, Regional Police Chief Alwi Alnadad, received the reports and treated them as a potential security matter requiring direct investigation. Alnadad personally led an armed investigation team to the site where the entities had been reported — a decision that placed a senior, named, professional law enforcement officer at the center of the encounter record.

When the six entities appeared at close range, Alnadad and his officers opened fire. The engagement used a submachine gun and multiple rifles. No hits were recorded despite point-blank range. No blood was found at the scene. No bodies were recovered. Spent bullets were recovered from trees behind the position where the entities had stood — their trajectories confirmed that the officers had aimed and fired directly at the beings rather than into the air.

The beings were described consistently across multiple witnesses. They stood approximately 1.8 meters (six feet) in height. Their skin was described as having a reddish hue. Their hair was silver-white and wavy; some individuals had beards. They wore what were described as dark blue, high-collared uniforms with belts. Gray cylindrical objects — described as tool-like rather than weapon-like — were attached to their belts. They wore black military-style boots. At no point during the encounter was any craft described or observed in the immediate vicinity, though the broader region had experienced anomalous aerial activity.

The entities vanished immediately when the officers ceased fire. No trace of their presence was found beyond the spent rounds in the trees.

The incident was not publicly disclosed for seventeen years. In 1976, the by-then-retired Police Chief Alwi Alnadad recounted the events in detail to Jacob Salatun, founding head of LAPAN (Lembaga Penerbangan dan Antariksa Nasional, Indonesia's national space agency). Salatun, who took an institutional interest in documenting Indonesian UAP cases, published Alnadad's account in his 1982 book "UFO, Salah Satu Masalah Dunia Masa Kini" (UFO: One of Today's World Problems), providing the case with its primary published source. The long delay between incident and disclosure — and the retired officer's willingness to go on record with a named account — is consistent with a genuine experience rather than a fabricated story, though no independent corroboration of Alnadad's account has emerged in the available record.