Case description
At about 3:30 p.m. on October 19, 1973, a Huntsville businesswoman was driving south on Interstate 75 north of Ashburn, Georgia, when she said her car lost engine power, brakes and power steering. She guided it onto the shoulder. The newspaper account called her Mrs. Robinson, a pseudonym, and placed the incident in daylight.
Looking through her closed driver's window, she reportedly saw a figure about four feet tall beside the car. Its pewter-colored covering appeared continuous with a dome or football-helmet-shaped head. Two rectangular slits were the only openings she described; the head moved in abrupt, mechanical-looking directions. After five or six minutes, it walked toward the rear of the car and disappeared from her view. No spacecraft was reported.
She said she raised the hood to attract assistance and saw smoke. A state trooper allegedly arrived roughly ninety minutes after the breakdown, and a wrecker later removed the car. Her story included an exceptionally hot engine and a hood said to be almost melting while its paint remained unaffected.
APRO's May–June 1974 bulletin reprinted Barry Casebolt's October 30 newspaper report under the heading Possible Hoax in Georgia. Its editors questioned how she had raised such a hot hood and noted her refusal of an APRO interview and the absence of identifiable trooper or mechanic testimony. They suspected fabrication; the recovered article does not document an admission or conclusive hoax proof.
