Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: THE REPAIRS BEGIN
The men seemed to be working with tools ‘like a man would use to work on a piece of machinery that had gone bad, or [on] a motor,’ Mary continued. ‘They took something out from underneath the center of their vehicle and let it down, gently, with their hands.’ Sometime prior to this, another vehicle was seen to land on the crest of the ridge, just above the first one.
Four or five more ‘men’ joined the ones who were working on the ground. It was just after [the first crew] had removed whatever they took out of the center of it, which seemed to be like a motor or a power supply . . . The four or five other ‘men’ joined them and they also began to work. I could see ‘men’ standing in the foreground, down the hill a little way. I could see them cutting long — what looked like — heavy cable, because it arced, or fell in a loop as they were holding it between them. They were cutting it in exact lengths and they worked quite hard at doing this . . . the cable appeared to be dark, and they used it in fixing this piece of machinery.
It was by now 01.15. The men left the motor or power source directly underneath where they took it from and set to work on it. ‘And while I watched them work, and cut and struggle,’ said Mary, ‘they were walking around, were sitting or half-lying down, leaning on an elbow, and kneeling. There were about ten or twelve men in total — I couldn’t be absolutely sure, because they were coming and going, and bringing things and taking things back to the vehicles. I couldn’t see the figures without the binoculars . . .
Frightened, Mary’s mother-in-law wondered whether she should call the police or some government agency. ‘Well, I hate to,’ Mary responded. ‘You know, if we call someone, they’re going to come up here with guns and firearms and bother them, and they just want to get that thing fixed and get away.’
I’m sure they saw me after that car decided it would go away . . . My mother- in-law [also] felt that we were watched. She said, ‘I am sure that they realized that we did not call the authorities, that we weren’t going to, and wouldn’t.’
At exactly four-thirty by our kitchen clock, the ‘men’ got down in a team and there were nine of them — there were some behind, a group of three, that were evenly spaced around this piece of machinery, and there was a line of six ‘men’ behind them; they seemed to be holding something, or seemed to be ready with something . . . Then, all together, they picked this thing up and moved it directly upwards and tried to fit it into the bottom of this vehicle. It went right up, maybe eight inches, and then it seemed to go off at an angle.
You could see the bottom, like a plate, or like the bottom of a motor [which] was tilted, instead of being level. As they tried to get it in, they were turning it, too, like screwing a screw in; they turned it a little, and it went back a little bit, but it wouldn’t go up there the way it should.
They got it up into the vehicle, I think, except for the last three, maybe four, inches of it, and it was just off, it wouldn’t fit, it wouldn’t go . . . so then they carefully retraced everything they had done and set the thing back down on the ground again. They worked on it another ten minutes, and then they tried it again, the same method, and it wouldn’t go . . . They retraced their steps again and put it back down on the ground and worked on it another ten minutes. These ‘men’ that had been cutting cable, cut something else that was like cable, only it seemed to be a little lighter, and they cut shorter pieces.
They worked, and they were hurrying . . .
This attempt also failed. Finally the men took out the piece of machinery, set it on the ground and worked on it yet again, for about three minutes. ‘And they very carefully picked the thing up and it went back in.