On This Day in Weird, September 4...
1964: Several friends are bow hunting near Cisco Grove in
Placer County, California, when 28-year-old Donald Shrum becomes separated from
his friends. Failing to find them by nightfall, Shrum climbs a tree to sleep
and resume his search at dawn, but a white airborne light distracts him. First
suspecting a helicopter, he descends and lights flares to draw the pilot's
attention, but the object proves to be a UFO. Scrambling back into the tree,
Shrum watches three UFO occupants—two "humanoid-types" and an
apparent robot—the latter of whom expels a nauseating white vapor that renders
Shrum unconscious. He revives soon after and spends the rest of the knight
warding off his attackers with arrows, some of which strike sparks after
hitting the "robot." A second soon arrives, gassing him unconscious
again, and so the siege continues until dawn, when he wakes for the last time
to find his tormentors gone. Sadly for Shrum, no other human witness saw his
alleged epic battle with the saucer man.
A book elaborating on Shrum's case
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