UFO case file · UFO-5251
Rigdon abduction report — October 1976
Rigdon, Indiana, United States
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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
Sources and further reading
- NICAP database JSON — sequential record preserving Rigdon October 1976 abstract
- NICAP database listing by date — source index PDF
- NICAP — The 1976 UFO Chronology, October 1976 date unknown, Rigdon, Indiana; MUFON Indiana/Ridge files
- NICAP NSID database listing by city — Rigdon, Indiana, date code 761000