The 1974 Carl Higdon Case: When an Elk Hunt Turned Extraterrestrial

What began as an ordinary elk hunt in the rugged southern Wyoming wilderness swiftly devolved into a nightmarish journey aboard a transparent craft, culminating in his disoriented return to Earth. Higdon’s experience, detailed in the 2017 self-published account Alien Abduction of the Wyoming Hunter by his wife Margery, and later explored by investigative researcher David Paulides, not only presents a classic UFO abduction narrative but also offers a disquieting glimpse into a potential overlap between extraterrestrial encounters and a subset of baffling missing persons cases. Carl Higdon, a 40-year-old oil driller from Riverton, Wyoming, found himself with an unexpected day…