Lewiston, CA being encounter — August 1, 1978

A brief account near Lewiston, California, concerns the twelve-year-old son of a local doctor and an unusual humanoid seen near an isolated mine in 1978. Hatch and several later catalogues place it on August 1. Patrick Gross’s comparison of Vallée’s book instead gives April 1, a material date discrepancy that cannot be settled by repeating the derivative August entry. The surviving mention is notably sparse. It establishes neither a secure appearance nor a height, clothing, facial features, speech or action. No associated craft was reported. Hatch’s reference to a small humanoid or grey and an upset witness should not become a detailed portrait of a familiar alien type. The doctor’s son is the reported observer; the doctor is not thereby an additional eyewitness. Gross identifies Vallée’s Confrontations as the first certain published source he could locate and notes the lack of an underlying witness statement or investigation. He raises an April Fool possibility, which is an interpretation rather than a retrieved confession. Proximity to the separate Jane Chapin/Redding account supplies no independent corroboration. The plate therefore shows a representative boy and a distant indistinct humanlike form in an approximate mining landscape, labelled with the uncertain date and limited information. It includes no spacecraft or invented encounter sequence.