Case description
One evening in September 1979, Mirosław Goralski and Krzysztof Kobus were putting away garden tools in an allotment or enclosed garden at Sztum, Poland. The surviving secondary sources disagree on whether the date was September 20 or September 21 and place the time at about 21:00 to 21:10. Both possibilities remain visible rather than being forced into a false precision.
As the men worked, an unfamiliar object reportedly descended into the enclosure with a high-pitched sound. Each viewed it from a somewhat different position and later described its shape differently. The source material available for this pass does not justify selecting one outline as authoritative.
An intense light and dense white fog enveloped the garden. Both witnesses said they felt as though they were rising rapidly. The account does not supply a continuous outside view of their bodies or a measured altitude; the sensation and apparent elevation are therefore retained as reported experience rather than established flight.
Kobus remembered a soft support beneath him and colours that changed around him. He also described thoughts or impressions entering his mind. Goralski reported communication with presences he could not see, a view of the town below and scenes involving people in historical clothing. The accessible summaries do not identify the speakers, explain the historical imagery or provide verbatim dialogue.
Neither man supplied a stable visual description of an occupant. The beings sometimes attached to later retellings must not be invented for the Atlas portrait. Likewise, the available digest does not establish a conventional metallic cabin, examination room, medical procedure or journey to another planet.
The episode ended with both men feeling a short drop and finding themselves back in the garden. Goralski reportedly arrived home around 21:30. The short interval provides part of the chronology, but no independently synchronized watches, physiological records or secured physical traces were identified in this pass.
The secondary digest attributes the account to Emilia Popik in MUFON UFO Journal number 150 and mentions psychological testing. The underlying test records were not examined, so the Atlas does not claim that they validated the event. Larry Hatch's chronology supplies the competing September 20 date and a slightly different time.
The source disagreement may reflect reporting, translation or catalogue transmission rather than two events. The two Atlas listings associated with Sztum probably concern the same account, but any formal record merge should retain their separate source identifiers and date assertions.
CE4 reflects the reported involuntary elevation or transport-like experience. It does not establish that the men entered a machine, left the garden or encountered visible nonhuman occupants. The distinction matters because the most unusual remembered scenes lack the continuous external evidence needed to determine what occurred.
The portrait reconstructs the last shared external setting that can be depicted without invention: the two adult witnesses in the garden, surrounded by bright light and white fog, with an indistinct dark mass above and their boots only slightly above the soil. It is an illustrative reconstruction of the secondary report, not documentary evidence.