Case description
One evening in September 1979, Mirosław Goralski and Krzysztof Kobus were reportedly finishing work in a garden enclosure at Sztum, Poland. They were putting away ordinary tools at about 21:00 when an unfamiliar object descended toward the property.
The two men did not describe its shape in the same way. That disagreement may reflect their different positions, the darkness, glare or the object's movement, but the evidence does not justify forcing their observations into a single precise design. Both accounts center instead on a high-pitched sound, brilliant illumination and a dense white fog that surrounded them.
As the light intensified, Goralski and Kobus said they felt as though they were rising rapidly. The fuller secondary account does not describe them walking through a door or seeing visible occupants. Their ordinary garden surroundings gave way to unusual sensations and impressions rather than a clearly documented physical cabin sequence.
Kobus recalled a soft support beneath him, changing colours and impressions entering his mind. Goralski reported communication with unseen entities, a view of Sztum below and scenes of people dressed in historical clothing. The source does not establish whether these were external displays, mental imagery, altered-state experiences or later recollection.
Both men then felt a short downward drop and found themselves back in the garden. Goralski reportedly arrived home around 21:30. The accessible account does not provide an authenticated timepiece comparison, physical trace, medical examination or independent observation of their apparent ascent and return.
The examined digest attributes the story to Emilia Popik in issue 150 of the MUFON UFO Journal and mentions psychological testing. The actual testing records were not available for this dossier, so the Atlas does not repeat any claimed result as if independently confirmed.
The event date remains disputed. The fuller Popik-derived version gives September 21 at around 21:00, while the Hatch catalogue gives September 20 at 21:10. The Atlas retains both dates in the source notes and uses September 1979 in the public title. A second Atlas listing appears to describe the same incident and should be linked as a duplicate rather than assigned a second invented portrait.
CE4 reflects the men's claimed involuntary elevation or transport experience. It does not establish that their bodies left the garden, that a physical craft carried them or that the perceived historical scenes represented real travel. The case remains a two-witness report with a named publication trail and unresolved source gaps.
The portrait reconstructs the best-supported shared moment: exactly two men amid garden tools, brilliant light and white fog as their feet begin to lift from the ground. The object remains partly obscured because their shape descriptions differed, and no entities or interior scenes are invented. It is an illustrative reconstruction, not evidence.