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Gary Wilcox

NY dairy farmer, 1964 humanoid contact case (Tioga City) · US
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Gary T. Wilcox was a dairy farmer who experienced a highly unusual UAP encounter in Tioga City, New York, on the same day as the famous Socorro landing in April 1964. He reported approaching a shiny, egg-shaped craft in his field and interacting with two small, hooded humanoid entities carrying trays. Wilcox's key contribution is his detailed account of the entities conversing with him in English, questioning him about terrestrial agricultural techniques and fertilizer.[10, 2

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Gary T. Wilcox was a dairy farmer who experienced a highly unusual UAP encounter in Tioga City, New York, on the same day as the famous Socorro landing in April 1964. He reported approaching a shiny, egg-shaped craft in his field and interacting with two small, hooded humanoid entities carrying trays. Wilcox's key contribution is his detailed account of the entities conversing with him in English, questioning him about terrestrial agricultural techniques and fertilizer. He reported that the beings explained they were gathering samples from the environment. The incident remains a classic, high-strangeness occupant encounter closely studied by prominent researchers like Jacques Vallée.

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