NUFORC Sighting 37423

Occurred: 1967-09-22 22:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2004-06-06 12:58 Pacific
Duration: ~1hr
No of observers: 0

Location: Albuquerque, NM, USA

Shape: Unknown

A property search and a "close encounter" with unknowns?

Mr. Davenport, I am a 52 year old man. I'm not sure this fits in this arena, and it has taken me more than 35 years to come to grips with this; Sitting in my apartment at my parents watching the news, I heard my dogs barking a lot more than usual for the badgers that ran around my area. Then they stopped all at once. I remember feeling my hair raise up and stay there, like a static generator was next to me. I got out of bed and went outside to see what was going on and saw nothing unusual. Coming back inside, I went to bed watching the news. Less than a minute after I laid down, a voice (somewhat mechanical sounding) said; "I want you to come with me." OK. I'm scared now. There were a lot of strange things happening in this time and I was thinking I was being sought out by some cult or something.

I got up and went into my closet and got my .38 pistol and went back outside. I still saw nothing different. The voice again said: "I want you to come with me." This time it was less mechanical sounding and more gravely. My dogs still weren't barking, but they wouldn't come with me around the property (~5 acres). My bitch aussie growled at the next shed and wouldn't come closer than about 25 feet. The voice came up again saying the same things and still the gravely voice.

I went to the apartment and closed and locked the door and called my dad in the next house. He told me I was dreaming but would meet me outside and check the place out. We checked the house, the shrubs around the property and the sheds. We found nothing. The dogs STILL wouldn't come with us to the sheds, but were playful and jumping round us until we got to that shed. There was nothing in it that we hadn't put there.

There were some barefoot prints in the dusty ground about the place. They did not look like human prints, and didn't look like any animal I had hunted or seen. They weren't very clear because it was real dry and quite fine silted soil.

There were some strange sounds like a high pitched whistle that came and went as my dad and I were moving from the shrubs to the sheds. But we didn't see anything.

I have no memory of anything after that. Not going back into the house, not getting back into bed or saying good night to my dad. He has no memory of anything beyond our checking the sheds.

More than an hour passed from the time I went outside the first time and the time I came back inside.. The news was over and Johnny Carson was on TV when I came back. This property inspection normally took about five minutes to do.

NUFORC Note:

Time and date are approximate. PD

Posted 2004-06-18