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THI SAN ANTONIO 16, 1975 PAGE 11 BY A UFO BUBBLE Wyoming oilman tells the Star of his amazing 8-hour space trip ordeal 9 time was thrown off entirely we arrived at our destination. I consciously remember leaving the ship, but through its clear walls I could make out a giant tower with revolving lights all around its upper rim. anything. I could best compare it to the giant constructed for the Seattle Fair. this point my eyes began to water.

The light here whether it was artificial or natural hurt my pupils, and it became very uncomfortable for me to keep my eyelids wide open. These people told me that our sun affects them while on earth in the same After this, Higdon is hazy about what took place. His next conscious memory is of wandering around in the cold air, back on earth, in a state of hysterics. mind was cloudy. I seem to know my name or even where I was.

All I knew is that I was cold and terrified. I stumbled upon my truck, which I had earlier left parked in a clearing, before going off to hunt. Now it was stuck, smack dab in the middle of a mud bog. managed to struggle through the thick mire, eyes tearing, head reeling, in an effort to call for help on a band radio unit which I have mounted on the A PARTY consisting of Sheriff Ogburn and Deputy Sheriff Ed Tierney showed up a few minutes before midnight more than eight hours after the start of his experience to rescue the distraught Higdon. The vehicle had to be towed out of the bog.

Margery Higdon. Carl's wife, who joined the rescue team a short while later, told the Star what happened that night. I first saw Carl, he was obviously in a state of panic and unable to say a word. Only after I asked him if he got any elk, did he come alive and start looking out the windshield up at the sky. With this he began shouting: They took my His face looked so strange it scared me and I told one of the sheriff deputies to get his rifle and take it out of the pick-up and out of his reach.

sure what he would do. All the while, Carl kept telling me not to touch him. Finally, I put my coat around his shoulders, and we drove to the Carbon Country Memorial Hospital. the hospital, my husband kept talking wildly, making no sense: They took my elk where are the pills? the lights they hurt! the pick-up is gone they pointed the gun and The normal hospital lights were apparently so bright to Higdon that his eyes reddened, and began to cause him considerable pain. Scar puzzle nurse on Mrs.

Higdon continued folded a damp cloth and laid it over his eyes, because they were watering so profusely. the doctor arrived turned out the overhead A thorough examination showed no trace of alcohol or drugs in Higdon blood-stream. The biggest puzzle is the fact that X- rays taken of the chest indicated a lack of scar tissue on his lungs, which had been there in previous examinations. The attending physician. Dr Tongco.

remarked: like something out of a science fiction Supporting evidence for what might otherwise be a totally incredible story, came from Mr. and Mrs. Don James, who claim that they a flashing light for about 20 minutes changing from red to green to white, in a pulsating pattern, and moving in an arc of three feet at on the night of the episode. A LSO, the 7mm Magnum bullet which Higdon says came out of his gun is being rigorously examined by a team of investigators led by Dr. Walter Walker, a consultant in metallurgy to the Aerial RAISE SNEAK survived the purge He is Congressman Wayne llaysil)- who net only stayed in control but his House Administration Committee was given additional power now has the power to foan extra daily allowance to melY.

amount he wants without of the House bringing the ring anyone or vote. up lor a The Freshmen art to Congress but not new to They expect to be paid oft lor keeping Hays in the driver's seat. In recent months, there were also two above-board attempts to pass pay raises trom the iloor ot Congress, but most Senators and Congressmen were atraid to openly vote themselves a raise just Indore election, 'the November raid on the treasury was called' expense allowances." The reformers ate calling their backdoor tmaneing measure "housekeeping business Neither move atlccts the pay ol Senators A lew Congressmen are alarmed Kobert Bauman (H- Md i said: is a backdoor route to a congressional pay raise. 1 strongly object to Phenomena Research Organization of Tucson, Arizona. To the human eye, the bullet looks as if it were inside The Carbon County office found scientific explanation for the condition of the Normally, it was pointed out that the bullet would explode entirely, and would travel too fast for the human eye to see where it eventually fell explanation is that he was in some kind of which slowed everything down! Dr.

Sprinkle subsequently contacted Higdon and asked if he would be willing to undergo hypnosis in order to determine the validity. Higdon readily agree. Over a period of four hours, on two separate occasions, Higdon was put into a hypnotic state by Dr Sprinkle and asked to relive the episode in front of responsible witnesses. In a summary statement of his findings, the University of Wyoming professor acknowledges that Higdon has been most cooperative in extending the necessary time to have his story cross-examined. impression of Carl Higdon is that he is a man of integrity, with average education but with a keen sense of curiosity about the world around him; he is an outdoors man, and seems to have developed good skills of estimating size and distance.

although the sighting of a single UFO witness often is difficult to evaluate, the indirect evidence supports the tentative conclusion that Carl Higdon is reporting sincerely the events which he 7HILE under hypnosis, Higdon that others besides him have previously been contacted. Higdon even recalling seeing other earth people while he was on the planet. When asked why the space beings were traveling over vast light-years to reach the Earth, Higdon said he was told that they needed wild game and fish to use as food. Such a statement may offer, at long last, a solution for the disappearance of cattle and other livestock recently being reported across the United States..