Encounter record / 1979
August 28, 1979. Harry Joe Turner was hauling ketchup and mustard south on U.S. Route 17, out of Winchester, Virginia. A voice came over the CB. Then the truck lights blinked. The radio screeched. A beam of thick white light settled over the rig, and Turner said it felt like the whole truck was being vacuumed up. Something gripped his shoulder like steel. He fired his pistol eight times. The gun seemed to move right through the thing. He woke in a Fredericksburg warehouse lot. His watch said 11:17 p.m. The warehouse clock said 3:00 a.m. The truck showed only 17 miles.
Harry Joe Turner was 28, a long-haul trucker from Winchester, Virginia. On the night of August 28, 1979, he pulled out in a 1974 Kenworth loaded with ketchup and mustard. The run was 80 miles south on U.S. Route 17 to Fredericksburg. He carried a .32-caliber pistol with eight hollow-point rounds.