On October 17, 1973, Jeff Greenhow, 26, police chief of Falkville, Alabama, was already going to bed with his wife when he received an emergency call at 10 p.m. This call forever changed his later life.
The call was from the remaining anonymous woman, who literally went into hysterics. She screamed that she saw a large UFO land near the city in a field that belonged to the farmer Bobby Summerford.
To someone else, the challenge would most likely have seemed a hoax, but Greenhow took it seriously. He immediately got dressed, took his revolver and captured including a Polaroid, as he wanted to photograph a UFO.
Then, as quickly as possible, in his truck, he drove to the indicated Summerford field. When Greenhow arrived at the scene, he got out of the truck and walked around the entire field and surrounding area. And … found nothing unusual. The annoyed man returned to his car, thinking that he was just being joked.
But before going home, he still decided to make another circle around the field. And this time he again found nothing strange. Then Greenhoe turned onto a dirt road to leave the field, and here he came face to face with an unknown object, barely driving about 100 yards (90 m) along the road.
Greenhow later described this object as a humanoid (humanoid) figure who was standing on the side of the road about 22 meters from a policeman's truck that stopped. Greenhow got out of the car and walked up to a figure, which at first did not even consider an alien, but thought that someone from the local was in trouble and was voting on the road, asking for help.
But the closer Greenhow came to this man, the stranger he seemed to him. Greenhow called out to the man "Are you an alien?", But he did not answer. When there was only a couple of meters between them, Greenhow finally realized what was embarrassing in the shape of the figure. The man was dressed in an odd-looking metal suit made of a material that reminded him of thick aluminum foil.
Subsequently, examining the photographs of this creature made by Greenhow on his Polaroid, many ufologists noted that the figure of the creature looks very awkward, as if a child or chimpanzee was dressed up in a costume.
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Greenhow himself did not seem to pay attention to the features of the constitution of the creature, he was more interested in his costume.
“It looked like the helmet and neck section of the suit were fastened together and formed one piece. The suit itself was very shiny as mercury and smooth as glass. I looked at him from different angles and he seemed to be of different colors everywhere. I asked him if he flew on a UFO, but he was silent and for all the time that I saw him, not a single sound came from him."
Then Greenhow noticed that an antenna was sticking out from the top and that the creature was moving, but its movements were mechanical, like a machine. It was then that Greenhow finally realized that he had encountered something supernatural and in shock ran to his car and managed to take four pictures with his Polaroid.
The photos turned out to be rather hazy, and over the years they darkened even more. They only show a figure in a suit that looks like a spacesuit, against a completely dark background. Greenhow wanted to take more photos, but from the clicks of the apparatus, the "alien" was suddenly excited and quickly ran away across the field. His speed at the same time was such that Greenhow realized that this was definitely not a person, people do not run so fast.
Greenhow noted that the creature fled towards the village of Lacon, which was 3 miles from Falkville, and then he got into his truck and set off after the alien in pursuit.
According to him, he squeezed everything out of his truck, but even at a speed of 35 miles per hour, he could not reach the running creature and soon lost sight of him. At the same time, the creature, according to him, not only ran, but also made big jumps, "violating all the laws of gravity."
"He moved in an extremely bizarre style, it seemed that he had strong steel springs at his feet that could throw him three meters in the air."
For some time Greenhow was chasing the alien, but then he could not stand such a frantic pace, lost control of his truck and drove into a ditch. At that moment, he saw the creature for the last time, as it disappears into the darkness.
When Greenhow told about everything to his fellow police officers the next day and showed the photo, his story was greeted with ridicule and skepticism, and the pictures did not correct the degree of trust.
In subsequent years, Greenhow's whole life went downhill because of this incident, he was ridiculed, his wife filed for divorce, and his house burned down (or was set on fire). But these events gave the adherents of conspiracy theories a new fact of what happens to those who speak openly about UFO sightings and encounters with aliens.
It was only later that Greenhow's story and his photographs began to be carefully studied by ufologists. Some of them believe that the "man in foil" was a robotic scout for extraterrestrial landing craft, while skeptics argue that this was all a deception to Greenhow and his unknown accomplice.
