11 November 1974 17:30
Mount Cross, Tennessee, USA
No such place. Domed disc lands in gully. Hunter sees door open, small humanoid with large head, gray scaly skin, slit-like eyes emerged, walked around, got back in. Broken branches, scorch marks.
An object was observed. Ground traces were found. One orange domed disc, around 100 feet away, was observed by one male witness at a mountain (Lodnar). One grey being was seen.
Billy Joe Lodnar, driving up Mt. Cross for a weekend of hunting, saw a blinking orange cigar shaped object pass over his truck and then turn back toward him. (The UFO, or another, had previously been seen by the pilot of a Marine A-4C Skyhawk flying from Beaufort, South Carolina, who radioed that it was flying "just off his wingtip.") Lodnar got out of his truck with his rifle in had, and saw the object land in a clearing; he now saw that it was lens shaped with a central dome. He inched his way toward the gully where the object had settled until he was 300 feet away and somewhat above. He saw a door open on the side and a small, stocky humanoid with a large head on a "skeletal" body emerged, walking down a ramp. Its skin was gray and appeared scaly; the eyes were slit-like. As it walked around near the object, Lodnar trained his gun on it, but did not fire. The being re-entered the UFO, where another one appeared in the doorway to pull it inside. Then the object took off silently. In a later investigation on site, broken branches and scorch marks were found.
Hynek rating: CE3: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Entity reports)
Vallee rating: CE3: Entities have been observed on the UFO.
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