On October 17, 1973, at around 10:00 p.m., Falkville, Alabama police chief Jeff Greenhaw received a call from a woman reporting that a UFO had landed in a field outside town. Greenhaw drove to the area with his Polaroid camera. He found no UFO, but while searching a rural road encountered a human-shaped metallic figure standing ahead of him. He went on to take four Polaroid photographs of the figure.