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UFO case file · UFO-16251

Near Hobbs, NM abduction report — September 1974

CE4United States1974-09

NEAR HOBBS, NM, New Mexico, United States

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Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Near Hobbs, NM abduction report — September 1974
Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Near Hobbs, NM abduction report — September 1974

Case description

A report indexed near Hobbs, New Mexico, during September 1974 describes several people observing a very large saucer-shaped object descending toward a truck. The source summary gives at least four observers. According to that account, the object drew a man and the truck upward and inside it. The entry concludes that neither the man nor the vehicle was seen again. It does not identify the missing person or the observers, give the truck's registration, or provide a subsequent account from the participant. The reported disappearance is preserved as the ending supplied by the source. No interior scene, occupant appearance, examination or return journey is described. The bibliography points to Leonard Stringfield's Situation Red; the short digest does not establish the precise location or later course of any search.

Recorded details

Craft description
Craft / Vehicle
Coordinate precision
SOURCE_APPROXIMATE
Date precision
MONTH_ONLY

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The witnesses and missing farmer remain unnamed; no registration or subsequent participant account is supplied. The film repeats Stringfield’s reported disappearance without independently establishing it or a later search outcome.

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