- A 17-year old motorist traveling south of Manchester,
IN, around 7:30 PM on Jan. 24 claims to have encountered an un- usual "figure"
in the roadway. The story was fIrst related by his uncle.
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- I spoke with the primary witness by telephone on Jan.
26 [2004]. The witness lives in Manchester, and is a senior at South Dearborn
High School. He lives at home with his mother and father. His name will
not be used in this report.
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- While driving his black Chevrolet Cavalier, a 1999 two-door
model, south- bound along North Hogan Road, near Manchester, a "figure"
was spotted in the headlights of the automobile, crouched down near a puddle
of water.
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- After passing the frail-looking figure, the driver looked
into his rear view mirror and again observed-illuminated by the taillights
of his car-what he described as a tall, abnormal figure that moved strangely
with pointed joints that "buckled out." He estimated the figure
stood around 6 feet, seven inches.
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- "It had protruding joints and moved very strangely,"
said the witness, who described the figure as dark gray or black and "pencil
thin." It stood up and took several steps toward the woods.
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- The "figure" definitely walked on two legs,
and was thought, somehow, to be a male, although no clothing was noted.
No face or eyes could be seen, but the wit- ness had the impression that
it was looking straight at him. It was immediately thought not to be a
human being.
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- The duration of the sighting was possibly within the
3 to 4 second range. The driver continued on for a small distance and finally
put on his brakes, coming to a stop at an estimated two-minute "walking
distance" from the sighting location.
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- He looked back to further observe the entity. At that
point, a second car came into view and approached from the opposite direction,
passed the witness, and then seemed to make an evasive maneuver about where
he thought the figure would be. Then the car turned around at that spot
and pulled behind the witness.
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- He said it was an elderly couple in the car, both in
their late 60s or early 70s, and both with gray hair. The driver, who wore
glasses, said: "Boy, did you see something back there? I'll tell you
right now, that was no person."
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- The passenger in the silver two-door Cavalier, an elderly
female, said: "It was no human being. It was no man." The elderly
couple were reportedly "spooked," but offered to follow the fIrst
witness the remainder of the trip down North Hogan Road, clearly in the
opposite direction of their intended destination.
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- With the elderly couple following behind him, the 17-year
old continued to a friend's house, where he called his mother, telling
her of the encounter and advising her to lock her doors (his residence
is less than three miles from the sighting location). He then called his
uncle.
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- The witness was said to become increasingly hysterical,
and within an hour was describing the figure as "an alien."
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- When asked by his uncle if there could be any alternative
explanation, the witness said that there was a chance it could have been
an "improperly dressed elderly person, that could have been wandering
naked and lost (temperatures in the 20s) in the area without a coat."
But he still described the "figure" as a "dark, shadowy
figure" and "super anorexic"
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- The uncle, Jerry Schedel, was contacted within an hour
of the sighting, traveled to the area with his wife some 90 minutes later,
and did not see anything. The ground was also covered with around four
inches of snow.
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- Submitted by 'Steven'
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- From MUFON UFO Journal - March 2004 - Page18
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