Case · UFO Afrinews No 10, August 1994
Carl Higdon's bent bullet vanishes (editorial example)
1974 ยท not stated in text; bullet held by Dr Leo Sprinkle, United States
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Hind's second instance of evidence that slips away. While out hunting, Carl Higdon had fired at elk and the bullet came back bent; it ended up with Dr Leo Sprinkle, who put it in a box and sealed the box with tape. A few days later, opening the box to show a ballistics expert, Sprinkle found the bullet gone. Hind points out that imagination is no answer here, because several people had seen the bent bullet and watched the box being sealed. She sets it beside the Villas Boas box and the vanished slip of paper from the 1988 Johannesburg abduction as examples of how the physical proof investigators need keeps disappearing. Neither the date nor the place of the hunting encounter is given in the text.
What Hind made of it
Hind notes that imagination is hardly applicable since several witnesses saw the bullet and the sealing of the box.
In their words
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he was astonished to find that the bullet had disappeared.
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Imagination, or what? Hardly applicable to Dr Sprinkle, as there were several witnesses to the reality of the bent bullet
Cross references
- Dr Leo Sprinkle's conference, University of Wyoming, Laramie, 1993 (editorial, spread 03)