Saw this earlier and honestly it's the detail about the missing time that gets me. Three hours is a long time to just... not account for. People dismiss these stories because "oh he probably just fell asleep in the field" but farmers don't just lose three hours in the middle of a working day, they've got livestock and routines and all sorts that would tell them something was off.
What I find interesting is Nebraska keeps coming up. There's a loose cluster of reports from that whole central plains area going back decades. Not saying that means anything definitive but it's worth noting.
Does anyone know if he reported any physical symptoms after? Nosebleeds, unusual fatigue, marks on the skin - that kind of thing tends to seperate the genuinely strange cases from the ones that have a mundane explanation. That detail would change how seriously I take this one.