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Rigdon abduction report — October 1976

CE4United States1976-10-01

Rigdon, Indiana, United States

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Rigdon, Indiana — October 1976. Contextual illustration of a confidential two-witness disc report.
Rigdon, Indiana — October 1976. Contextual illustration of a confidential two-witness disc report.

Case description

Two witnesses at Rigdon, Indiana, reported seeing a disc-shaped object during October 1976. The public account gives the month and year, without an exact day, local time or precise site within the community. The incident was reported as an abduction experience. Its disclosed synopsis does not describe how the encounter began, whether both people reported being taken, the object's occupants or any remembered onboard events. It also supplies no duration or detailed return sequence. NICAP's 1976 chronology identifies the underlying material as a confidential report in the MUFON Indiana files associated with Francis Ridge. The witnesses' names and fuller statements were not included in that public listing. The surviving public account therefore ends with the two-witness disc observation and the associated abduction report.

Recorded details

Witnesses
2
Craft description
Disc observed.
Entity description
Abduction report. Two witnesses. Disc observed. Confidential report. (MUFON Indiana, Ridge files)
Coordinate precision
LOCALITY_APPROXIMATE
Date precision
MONTH_ONLY

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