Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: CATMAN AND ROBOT
During the Second World War, Walter Marino Rizzi served as an aircraft mechanic and as an interpreter for the Italian and German air forces. Later, he worked as a sales representative for a car firm in Bolzano, Italy, his territory including the Dolomite Mountains in the South Tyrol. At midnight one Saturday in July 1968, having spent the evening with a Dutch girlfriend in San Cassiano, he set off by car via the Gardena and Sella Passes to Campitello, where his aunt managed the Sport Hotel. Here he planned to spend the night. ‘The weather was not very good, and I seldom saw a star in the sky,’ Rizzi begins in his own report, an English version of which he gave to Lou Zinsstag in 1980. ‘There were always dense fog-banks, and more than once I had to stop because I couldn’t see the road. So I decided to stop at the first possible place and sleep in the car.’ After driving through the Grödner Pass, he found a suitable spot — a sand-dump beside the road — and settled down in his car for the night.
At around 01.00, he awoke with a start. There was a strong smell of burning.
Thinking that his Fiat 600 was about to catch fire, owing probably to a short-circuit, he checked the engine but found everything in order. While walking around the car, however, he noticed below him on the opposite side of the road, about 500 metres away, a powerful light shining through a gap in the fog. ‘It looked like an illuminated hotel terrace,’ Rizzi continued, ‘but there are no hotels around there — nothing at all. I knew the place very well and had passed that way hundreds of times. Then, in a moment of clear visibility, I saw an enormous object bathed in a strange white light. ‘A slope went down from the edge of the road, and, taking the torch, I descended and made my way towards the plateau where this huge object was.
As I approached, I could see it more and more clearly, the fog becoming less thick. My heart was thumping painfully. I was not afraid (I have never been afraid of anything), but terribly excited.’
The ‘saucer’ was a beautiful silver colour, about 70 to 80 metres in diameter, resting on three legs about two metres from the ground. The legs were about two metres in diameter at the base. Everything was bathed in a fleecy white light and there was an intense smell of burning. As soon as I got within three metres of the disc I felt suddenly blocked, as if my body weighed 1,000 kilos; I was unable to move and had great difficulty in breathing The glass dome on top was brightly lit and I saw two ‘beings’ looking down.
On the right side of the disc was a [cylindrical] robot, about 2.5 metres tall, with three ‘legs’ and four ‘arms’, holding the outside of the disc and turning it round. A circular ‘trap-door’ opened in the underside of the disc, giving out a violet and orange light, and someone emerged, dressed in a close-fitting suit and a glass helmet. The figure seemed to be about five feet four inches tall. ‘He’ approached to within a little more than a metre from me and raised his right hand.
I cannot describe my feelings when I looked at that creature with [its] beautiful eyes: it was a strange, gentle sensation; I felt as free and light as a feather, and was perfectly calm . . . As his head and neck were free beneath the glass helmet, which was a round globe reaching the shoulders (with two flat tubes leading upwards from behind), I was able to see him very clearly.