Bâlea Lake, Romania: Soldiers see tall dark figure, sergeant knocked down by hot blast

Around midnight two cable car technicians at the Bâlea Lake resort, Romania, were awakened by a red light visible through dense fog, apparently coming from an object some 30 feet outside their window; the light then disappeared. At the same time, at a barracks on the site where soldiers were assigned work duties, Cpl. Ioan Dörr went outside for water and saw a dark, motionless silhouette only a few feet away for at least 5 minutes. The next evening at 11:45 p.m. Sgt. Ion Radu noticed a dark figure about 8 feet tall moving slowly on a mound about 65 feet away; after the soldiers found the window shutters forced open and threw stones at it, Radu approached to within 4 feet and raised a club, but felt a hot blast and fell backward into the snow, remaining unconscious for about 10 minutes, while two soldiers with him were briefly paralyzed. Five soldiers saw a "wreath of lights" where the figure had stood, others heard scratching at the shutters, and the next morning four parallel scratches about 4 inches apart were found; the soldiers spent the following night at a nearby resort. The account was published by Boczor Iosif in Fate in 1994. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.