15 Jun 1971 - Alton, Illinois, USA
15 June 1971 20:55
Alton, Illinois, USA

Veteran: silver UFO hovered outside second-story porch. two humanoid occupants made telepathic contact. Gave him formula, invited him for ride, he refused to go. Witness committed to State Mental hospital. Explanation: Psych.

Close encounter with a craft and its occupants. One silver object, about 80 feet across, was observed by one male witness at a house (Wilkens, Tony).

Tony Wilkens, a young veteran, told Alton police that a 50-foot "velvet silver" UFO with radiating green lights hovered outside his second story back porch; two humanoid occupants of the craft "made contact" with him by mental telepathy; they gave him a formula that would provide "the universe at his fingerprints," which he wrote out for the police; they also invited him to take a ride in the object, but he refused.


Hynek rating: CE3: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Entity reports)
Vallee rating: CE4: The witness has been abducted.
Vallee reliability rating: 103: Report attributed to a known source of unknown or uncalibrated reliability; no site visit, or answer unknown; natural explanation requires major alteration of several parameters.
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