Close Encounter Files

Complete archive · 06 files

The Files

Every encounter reconstructed from the witness record. Every story carried to its end.

A giant praying-mantis being in a lab coat looms over a young airman, a grey being in a red headscarf lowering her sunglasses, an older man holding up an X-ray of a metal square in his leg, and a black triangle over the trees. Illustration.Case File 006
1977
Devil's Den State Park, Arkansas
Terry Lovelace

Devil's Den

Aliens put metal in his leg in 1977. Forty years later, they came back for it.

A seven-foot being with lizard skin and a mouth full of teeth grips the shoulder of a terrified man pressed against his bedroom wall. Illustration.Case File 005
1950
Northwest Alabama
Ted Rice

Light Worker

His spirit guide had lizard skin. Forty years later, he found out who had been teaching him.

A tall black being with red eyes and long round-tipped fingers looms over a terrified woman in a misty field at night.Case File 004
1993
Narre Warren North, Victoria, Australia
Kelly Cahill

I Am Her Father

An hour and a half gone. A triangle burned under her navel. And three strangers saw it too.

A grey being holds a glowing sphere above a woman lying on a table inside a domed chamber.Case File 003
1967
South Ashburnham, Massachusetts
Betty Andreasson

Measured for Light

1967. Four beings froze her family and measured her for light.

Two women stand on a dark Texas road beside their car, caught in a beam of light from above.Case File 002
1973 onward
A hillside, 1973 · Austin, Texas
Sarah · Lynne

They Went Willingly

She went aboard every night by choice. Then they came back for her.

A thin grey being with long fingers leans over a baby's crib under a red light.Case File 001
1976–1992
Christmas, Florida · West Plains, Missouri
Bill · Dan and Joyce Ahrens

The End of the Story

They stood over the crib. What stopped them was kept off the record.