Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: OF ROBOTS AND HUMANOIDS
Encounters with human-type beings accompanied by apparent robots have been reported all over the world. One of the most intriguing such cases occurred in the Cisco Grove area of Placer County, near the Loch Laven lakes of Northern California, in September 1964. A thorough investigation was conducted by Ted Bloecher and Paul Cerny, whose report I summarize here.
During a hunting trip on 4 September, 28-year-old Donald Smythe became separated from his companions. For protection, he decided to spend the night in a tree on a mountain ridge. After about two hours, he noticed a light moving in a ziz-zag manner. Believing it might be a helicopter, he climbed down and lit three fires on large rocks to attract attention. The light made no noise. It made a sweeping half-circle around the witness, moving over a canyon on the south side of the ridge. In addition to the bright light, Smythe could see three illuminated rectangular ‘panels’, which remained motionless for four or five minutes. From one of these panels came a flash, and a dark object of some sort, with a flashing light on top of what looked like a dome, came down, appeared to move around the witness, then landed. Shortly afterwards, Smythe heard sounds of something ‘crashing through the brush’ on the mountainside.
A few minutes later, two ‘humanoid’ figures emerged, one followed by the other, dressed in ‘some kind of light-coloured, silver or whitish-looking uniform, with puffs around the sleeves and joints’, wearing a kind of hood and with what appeared to be large, dark eyes (see Fig. 17). The beings came and stood under Smythe’s tree.
Not long afterwards, more noises were heard in the brush. A ‘robot-like’ being, about five feet in height, with glowing reddish-orange eyes, dressed in a kind of metallic uniform, approached the tree. Moving in a less articulated manner than the others, it scattered the embers of the fire with its arms, then returned to the foot of the tree. As the humanoids watched, the robot emitted a puff of odourless white vapour from its mechanical-looking mouth, rendering the witness unconscious for a few minutes.
On coming back to his senses, Smythe, alarmed, began to set fire to some match books, then his hat, and threw them at the robot. The latter backed off, together with the humanoids, but they all returned once the fire had died down.
This process was repeated for several hours. In desperation, the witness shot three arrows at the robot, causing a flash of light, but no apparent damage, each time. For further security, Smythe tied himself to the top of the tree with his belt. At one stage of the night, the robot was joined by another, similar entity.
Again, a puff of gaseous vapour was directed at Smythe, who once more blacked out for a short period. The two humanoids then tried to climb the tree, but Smythe managed to keep them at bay by shaking the tree violently. The first robot continued emitting puffs of vapour, with the same effect on the witness. ‘And I tried all kind of goofy things, you know; just tried to distract them,’ Smythe recounted. ‘I tried yelling and making all kinds of noises . . . They didn’t seem to hear, [though] when I would shout, these two in human form would look up . . . All I could see was a black patch of face, and the eyes. I couldn’t make out any features of the face.’
Finally, at dawn, following further harrowing events and the sounds and temporary appearance of at least one more white-clad humanoid, both robots and humanoids departed in a ‘cloud of fog’.