Warrenton, Virginia: Trucker fires at figure, blacks out, later reports abduction

At 11:15 p.m. on 28 August 1979, Harry Joe Turner was driving a 1974 Kenworth tractor-trailer loaded with mustard and ketchup on US Highway 17 two miles from Warrenton, Virginia, when his CB radio gave out a rising noise, something grabbed his left shoulder, and he saw a large object looming over his cab and heard two thumps. Although travelling at 70 mph, he saw a figure standing outside; when it threw open the door, he fired eight rounds from his .32 automatic pistol with no effect and then blacked out. He awoke at 3:00 a.m. in the passenger seat at his destination, a Fredericksburg warehouse: the odometer showed only 17 miles instead of 80, yet 114 gallons of fuel had been used, the top of the CB antenna was melted, part of the AM/FM antenna was broken off, and a filmy substance covered the truck. Confused and with eyes oversensitive to light, he later woke in a Winchester hospital with a broken blood vessel in his left eye and began to recall his truck being lifted into a UFO piloted by two humanlike figures in white, one named Alpha La Zoo Loo, and a trip to a planet beyond Alpha Centauri. On 3 September, after taking valium, he was arrested for speeding, believing aliens were chasing him, and continued to suffer anxiety attacks. Allan Hendry and Fred Whiting of the Center for UFO Studies were unable to corroborate his story, and the two antennas appeared to have been deliberately altered. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.