Case file · Abduction
Carl Higdon in the Medicine Bow
On 25 October 1974 Rawlins oil worker Carl Higdon, hunting elk in the Medicine Bow National Forest of Wyoming, said his bullet stopped in mid-air and a tall figure took him aboard a craft; he was found hours later, disoriented, with his truck miles from where he left it.
1974 CE · 41.54, -107.05 · status: claim
The account
He was treated at the Rawlins hospital and worked with University of Wyoming psychologist Leo Sprinkle, who regressed him under hypnosis.
The sceptical view
There is no corroborating witness to the encounter itself; much of the detail emerged under hypnosis.