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UFO case file · UFO-5830

Sedona abduction report — April 1982

CE4United States1982-04-01

Sedona, Arizona, United States

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Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Sedona abduction report — April 1982
Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Sedona abduction report — April 1982

Case description

During April 1982, Nancy was camping in Fay Canyon near Sedona, Arizona, with her daughter and baby granddaughter. The catalogue also renders the canyon’s name as Fey Canyon. Their account placed a lighted disc near the campsite that night. A small figure reportedly entered the tent and took Nancy by the arm. The experience was described as involving all three members of the family being taken. In a later case retelling, Nancy recalled a voice or communication inside her head during the encounter, although the transition out of the tent and the subsequent sequence were only partly remembered. The family’s account was later discussed alongside other Sedona reports, including a separate object Nancy had described above her home in 1981. The tent encounter remains the 1982 event in this record. The source does not give a detailed return sequence, and the earlier home sighting is not substituted for what Nancy, her daughter and granddaughter reported at the campsite.

Recorded details

Craft description
That night she saw a lighted disk and a small entity entered the tent and grabbed her arm.
Entity description
That night she saw a lighted disk and a small entity entered the tent and grabbed her arm.
Coordinate precision
LOCALITY_APPROXIMATE
Date precision
MONTH_ONLY

Case videos and witness interviews

Top Twenty UFO Encounters in Arizona: Part Two

Watch video · Preston Dennett

The programme includes Nancy’s 1982 Fay Canyon camping account within a wider Arizona case collection. Film dates campsite event only as a year after the1981 home sighting; April1982 comes from underlying catalogue. No complete remembered transition, onboard or return sequence is established. Claims about molecular rearrangement are attributed communication in the retelling, not measured physical findings.

Sources and further reading

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