Us701 4 Mile(s) North / Tabor City, NC being encounter — September 20, 1973

The catalogue groups several reports from 20–25 September 1973 around U.S. 701, north of Tabor City, North Carolina. The fuller humanoid summaries concern Sidney and members of the Williamson family, with another observer identified as Mr. Nealey. They describe repeated nighttime appearances, rather than a single well-documented encounter involving every witness and every reported phenomenon simultaneously. At least one figure was estimated at seven to eight feet tall, with a gray face, conspicuous red eyes, long hair, pointed ears and a hooked nose. It reportedly wore a brown shirt, dark trousers, a small cap and a metal medallion on the chest. The accounts mention a limp and an apparently missing hand, along with claims that it left no footprints and could leap extraordinary distances. A later appearance was associated with gunfire and Rose Williamson's arrest, according to INTCAT's source trail. David Webb's 1973 Year of the Humanoids cites contemporary local reporting, including the Tabor City Tribune and The Robesonian. The imported entry also groups an aerial light or UFO with later tall-figure sightings, but the consulted fuller creature account does not demonstrate a vehicle, boarding or physical link. The medallion's alleged role in communication or disappearance is an interpretation within the story, not a verified device function.