Daytime sighting by six siesmographic workers in the Uinta Mountains witnessed in Uinta County, Wyoming

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I was 19 years old at that time. I had just gotten out of high school just six months before. I had just gotten a job with a seismographic company. My cousin also got on at the same company. We were given a holiday break in December and told we would relocate to a town 56 miles south of Diamondville called Evanston, Wyoming after the holidays. So after the holidays I, and my cousin relocated with them to Evanston. We worked togther on a crew of six men putting down and picking up seismic jugs. A van or and a helicopter would take to our work site from our base operation in Evanston every morrning and pick us up every night and take us back to Evanston. This went on day in and day out for about three weeks as we worked in the Uinta Mountains southeast of Evanston with out anything unusual happening. You would see the occasional mule deer or elk. On the morrning of the 15th of January our boss told us that he wanted the crew to go into the mountains and get some jugs we laid dow...