Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – GROTESQUE GOBLINS
It was shortly before noon on 24 November 1978. Sixty-one-year-old Angelo D’Ambros, of Gallio, in the northeastern Italian province of Vicenza, was gathering firewood near Gastagh. Suddenly, he noticed two ghastly-looking creatures watching him, suspended in the air some 40 centimetres above the ground.
One of the creatures was about 1.2 metres in height, the other a little shorter. ‘They were extremely thin, and had a yellowish skin that was stretched so tightly that he could see great veins standing out on the head and hands of the bigger creature,’ reported Antonio Chiumiento.
Their heads were large and elongated, like pears, smooth and bald, with enormous ears that rose straight up and ended in a point. They had great white eyes, sunken and without eyelids, set above a nose of pronounced dimensions which almost reached down beyond the lower lip, the latter being pretty fleshy, and large mouths displaying, at their extremities, two long, pointed ‘tusks’. From immediately below the knee right up to the neck, the two creatures appeared to be clad in dark, very closely-fitting overalls, which also covered the arms as far as the wrists, leaving the hands and the rest of the legs and the feet uncovered. The hands and feet were of a remarkable size and out of proportion to the rest of the body, with extremely long fingers and long nails.
As though gliding, the smaller of the creatures began moving back and forth rapidly, to either side of D’Ambros, without moving its long feet. After shouting for help at the top of his voice, the witness asked them who they were and what they wanted of him, to which the smaller creature responded unintelligibly, though it was clear what they wanted — D’Ambros’s machete. A struggle ensued, with the witness fending off the taller creature, who repeatedly grabbed hold of the machete. On two occasions, D’Ambros felt an electric shock go up his arm. Managing to get hold of a large branch he had cut, the witness threatened the grotesque goblins with it, whereupon they scurried off.
D’Ambros chased them to a nearby clearing, where their saucer was parked. goblins’ long hands closing a sort of trap-door, located in the dome, and a few seconds later the disc took off at an angle, silently and at phenomenal speed, emitting a burst of red ‘flame’.
These goblins resemble in some respects the creatures who terrorized the Sutton family near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1955 (see pp. 174-5), though in that case, aggressive behaviour was not displayed. Again, it is the wide variety of entities and craft types and configurations, though of the same basic kinds, that will be surprising to first-time as well as to expert readers.