◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
The Higdon Elk Hunt
On 25 October 1974 an elk hunter in the Medicine Bow National Forest of Wyoming said his bullet drifted out of the barrel and fell short, and that a human-like being took him aboard a craft and flew him to another planet. A sheriff's search party found him disoriented that night. This is the record of what Carl Higdon reported, not a verdict on where he went.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- The Higdon Elk Hunt is a reported UAP case in Medicine Bow National Forest near Rawlins, Wyoming, USA, 25 October 1974.
- Wyoming elk hunter Carl Higdon said that in October 1974 a being calling itself Ausso flew him 163,000 light-years to another planet and back.
- Carl Higdon said that when he fired at a bull elk in the Medicine Bow National Forest his bullet left the barrel in slow motion and landed about fifty feet away, deformed.
- A Carbon County sheriff's search party found Carl Higdon disoriented that night, with his truck in a spot it could not have been driven to, and he was examined at the hospital in Rawlins.
- Carl Higdon later said tuberculosis spots on his lungs and his kidney stones had cleared after the 1974 encounter.
- Sceptics suggest Carl Higdon had a disorientation or fugue episode, and no physical evidence from the case has been accepted as proof.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 2 distinct sources and 3 distinct claimants on its resolved list.
- The archive grades it L3 · MULTI-SOURCE — multiple independent sources attest to it.
Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-03; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.
EVENT DATE
25 October 1974
LOCATION
Medicine Bow National Forest near Rawlins, Wyoming · USA
COORDS
41.79°N 107.24°W
INDEPENDENCE
L3 · MULTI-SOURCE
SOURCES
2 distinct
CLAIMANTS
3
STATUS
Multi-source testimony
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-03 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
