Clarksville, Ark being encounter — October 12, 1973

Several people reportedly saw a ghostlike bearded figure near McLean Hall at the College of the Ozarks in Clarksville, Arkansas, on the night of 12 October 1973. The imported ledger gives about 22:00, while the recovered catalogue digest preserves only the broader nighttime setting. INTCAT traces the item through UFO Register 5, part 1, case 694, to the Cleveland Press of 17 October 1973. The description is exceptionally brief. It supplies a beard and an apparition-like appearance but does not identify the witnesses, explain their exact positions, or give a detailed sequence of movements. There is no recovered statement establishing the figure's height, clothing, facial structure, duration of visibility or method of disappearance. Consequently the illustration uses a distant bearded humanlike form and an illustrative campus setting rather than a newly designed extraterrestrial body. Despite its later inclusion among humanoid records, this account explicitly contains no accompanying UFO. Nothing recovered supports a landed craft, contact with its occupants, missing time, physical effects or an abduction. Its value is as a traceable press-derived report of an odd figure, with substantial limits on reconstruction.