Section F · Experiencers · abductees, contactees and entity witnesses
Donald Shrum
Bow hunter, Tahoe National Forest, California · one of the most detailed close encounters in the Blue Book file (1964)
Biography
Separated from his group at nightfall, he climbed a tree to sleep safely and lit flares believing a zigzagging light was a helicopter. What followed is among the strangest in the Blue Book file: he described two humanoids and a third robotic-looking figure with red eyes that besieged him for hours at the foot of the tree and exhaled a vapor that knocked him unconscious. He kept a coherent account for decades without building a career on it. It is, at the same time, a test case for the limits of single-witness testimony: there is no external corroboration.
Why they're here · 2 pieces
- 1964
Report to Project Blue Book
One of the program's most detailed third-kind encounters
- 1964
Account sustained without variation for decades
Consistency over time, with no public exploitation of the episode
Sources
- Project Blue Book · Cisco Grove (1964) — File from the USAF program.
Form they described (1)
Associated cases (1)
Biography summarized from public sources, classified by section (A-F).