Case file · Close encounter
Prémanon robot encounter
On 27 September 1954, children of the Romand farm at Prémanon (Jura) reported a silvery rectangular 'robot' on legs; 12-year-old Raymond threw stones at it and was knocked down.
1954 CE · 46.46, 6.03 · status: account
The account
Gendarmes who came two days later recorded a circle of flattened grass about 3.5–4 m across, four triangular holes and a scraped fir mast, though rain had blurred the traces.
The sceptical view
Some Swiss papers called it a hoax at the time; the witnesses were children and the traces were inconclusive.