The Field Guide To Extraterrestrials (1997) by Patrick Huyghe

Author:Patrick Huyghe [Huyghe, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CLASS: Humanoid

DESCRIPTIVE INCIDENT

TYPE: Nonclassic

DATE: October 25, 1974

VARIANT: 3

LOCATION: Rawlins, Wyoming

DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC:

WITNESS: Carl Higdon

lack of hands

The witness, an oil driller in his early forties, was elk hunting on the northern boundary of the Medicine Bow National Forest when he spotted five elk and fired at the bull. But the bullet "went only about 50 feet and dropped" as if it had struck a wall. When Higdon heard a twig snap, he turned to see a humanlike figure in the shadow of a nearby tree.

The "man" was bowlegged, stood about six feet two and weighed about 180 pounds. He wore a black suit and black shoes. One belt crossed his breast; another his waist. The waist belt had a star at the buckle and a yellow emblem on an apronlike flap beneath it. His face was nearly human but was sloped and without a chin. The nose was flat, the brows were hairless, and the ears were not visible. His mouth showed but six teeth, three above and three below. The hair on his head was thin and stood up like straw. Higdon saw no hands on the "man," but his right arm ended in a cone-shaped device, which Higdon called a gun.

The "man" called himself Ausso and offered Higdon a packet of four pills. Ausso claimed they satisfied one's hunger for four days. Higdon took one, though ordinarily he never even took aspirin. Ausso then invited Higdon to come along and he accepted. When Ausso pointed his right arm, Higdon suddenly found himself inside a transparent cubicle, strapped to a chair and wearing a helmet. In the cubicle were four seats, a mirror, a control panel, another being like Ausso, and the five elk frozen still in a kind of cage behind him.

When Ausso pointed his arm at the controls, the cubicle began moving and Higdon saw Earth receding below him. Moments later they landed on a dark planet that Ausso said was 163,000 light years away. Outside the cubicle was a huge tower with a bright rotating light, making a sound like an electric razor. Standing in the nearby plaza were what looked like five humans in conversation—two blond teenage girls, one teenage boy, a slightly younger girl, and a gray-haired man of 40 or 50.

When Ausso pointed his arm again, Higdon found himself inside a room in the tower. A shieldlike device came out of the wall in front of Higdon for several minutes, then retracted. At the end of this examination, Ausso told Higdon he was not what they needed and would be taken back. Ausso returned Higdon's rifle regretfully and floated the remaining pills out of his pocket.

Higdon then found himself standing on a rocky slope back on Earth, where he fell and injured himself. About two and a half hours had passed. He found his truck in a place where the terrain was too rough for him to drive into or out of. He called for help on his CB. The rescue party found Higdon disoriented and confused, and his truck had to be towed out.

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