Location: Brush Creek, California.

Date: June 20th, 1953.

"Titanium miner John Q. Black (48), who worked at nearby Brush Creek, was in the woods when he looked at the junction of Marble and Jordan creeks, where he saw a small person, like a boy fishing. He paid no attention until he got within 12 meters of the being, who was dipping water in a basket. Nearby was a strange machine. The little figure wore green trousers, a jacket and tie, strange shoes that seemed to fit his feet like gloves and a green cap over his black hair. The being was broad shouldered, appeared strong but had a very pale complexion “like someone who had never been out in the sun much” and walked in a stiff manner as if suffering from cramps. The bucket that the little man was carrying was shiny, metallic with flared sides. As Black crept closer, he cracked a dry twig, alerting the being who returned quickly to his craft. This resembled two soup bowls stuck together forming a bivalve shape. No rivets or seams were visible on its shiny metallic surface. It was about 2.5 meter in diameter, 1.4 meters thick at the center and was resting on a cylinder from which spikes jutted at intervals, up which the occupant climbed, maneuvering through an opening. As he entered the craft, it rocked, the base was drawn in, and, after hovering for a few seconds, took off at 45 degrees, with a hissing sound, sliding sideways through the trees. A window had been visible in the craft but it did not afford a view of the interior. Black and his partner, John J. Van Allan, had seen unusual aerial objects on some five occasions previously and on May 20th Black had seen a saucer shaped machine hovering over a sandbar 45 meters away, taking off and flying along the creek making a hissing sound."

Source: Wallace Kunkel for Fate and Paul Spade.