URECAT - UFO Related Entities Catalog

URECAT is a formal catalog of UFO related entities sightings reports with the goal of providing quality information for accurate studies of the topic. Additional information, corrections and reviews are welcome at patrick.gross@inbox.com, please state if you wish to be credited for your contribution or not. The main page of the URECAT catalog is here.

AUGUST 24, 1974, LEXINGTON, ALABAMA, USA, A COUPLE AND THEIR DAUGHTER:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

Apparently, one Stanley Ingram reported that near Lexington, Alabama, USA, on August 24, 1974, at 10:30 p.m., a couple and their 10-year old daughter were driving down a long grade when the lights of their vehicle went out and the motor stalled. The husband braked the car to a stop and the lights came back on.

At that time they saw, immediately to the right along the road "between the front door and the front of the hood," a figure standing by the road; about the size of a man, to the wife "it didn't look like a man, it was just something blue." They both experienced a tingling sensation "all over, like being shocked by an electric mixer or something." They drove on, but the husband wanted to go back to see what it was; his wife loudly demurred.

Basic information table:

Case number:	URECAT-000256
Date of event:	August 24, 1974
Earliest report of event:	1977?
Delay of report:	Day, years.
Witness reported via:	Not known.
First alleged record by:	Ufology catalogue or other.
First certain record by:	Ufology catalogue.
First alleged record type:	Ufology catalogue or other.
First certain record type:	Ufology catalogue.
This file created on:	July 31, 2007
This file last updated on:	July 31, 2007
Country of event:	USA
State/Department:	Alabama
Type of location:	road or path from inside car.
Lighting conditions:	Night
UFO observed:	No
UFO arrival observed:	No
UFO departure observed:	No
UFO/Entity Relation:	Uncertain
Witnesses numbers:	2 or 3
Witnesses ages:	Adults and 10
Witnesses types:	A couple and their daughter.
Photograph(s):	No.
Witnesses drawing:	No.
Witnesses-approved drawing:	No.

Number of entities:	1
Type of entities:	Other
Entities height:	Normal
Entities outfit type:	None visible.
Entities outfit color:	Blue.
Entities skin color:	Blue.
Entities body:	Not like a man, only something blue.
Entities head:	Not reported.
Entities eyes:	Not reported.
Entities mouth:	Not reported.
Entities nose:	Not reported.
Entities feet:	Not reported.
Entities arms:	Not reported.
Entities fingers:	Not reported.
Entities fingers number:	Not reported.
Entities hair:	Not reported.
Entities voice:	None heard.
Entities actions:	Was near the road.
Entities/witness interactions:	None.
Witness(es) reactions:	Observed, went.
Witness(es) feelings:	Frightened, curious.
Witness(es) interpretation:	Not reported.
Explanation category:	Possible confusion.
Explanation certainty:	Low.

Narratives:

[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:

Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that near Lexington, Alabama, on August 24, 1974, at 10:30 p.m., a couple and their 10-year old daughter were driving down a long grade when their lights went out and their motor stalled; the husband braked the car to a stop and the lights came back on.

Albert Rosales indicates that the source is Stanley Ingram.

Points to consider:

If one sticks to the testimony, all that occurred there is that something blue was seen near a road.

It seems to have frightened the wife, and there was a problem with the car, but the bottom line remains simply that something blue was seen near a road, which hardly makes for a high reliability or high strangeness case.

List of issues:

Id:	Topic:	Severity:	Date noted:	Raised by:	Noted by:	Description:	Proposal:	Status:
1	Data	Severe	July 31, 2007	Patrick Gross	Patrick Gross	No primary source available.	Help needed.	Opened.
2	Ufology	Severe	July 31, 2007	Patrick Gross	Patrick Gross	Low strangeness, no UFO, observation by night with no details.	Help needed.	Opened.

Evaluation:

Possible confusion.

Sources references:

* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.

[---] ? Stanley Ingram.
[---] ? "HUMCAT", compiled by David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, USA, circa 1977.
[ar1] * "1974 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2001, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1974.shtml

Document history:

Authoring

Main Author:	Patrick Gross
Contributors:	None
Reviewers:	None
Editor:	Patrick Gross

Changes history

Version:	Created/Changed By:	Date:	Change Description:
0.1	Patrick Gross	July 31, 2007	Creation, [ar1].
1.0	Patrick Gross	July 31, 2007	First published.

This page was last updated on July 31, 2007