I had gone to pick up a friend who called me at approx. 1230am sept 27th to rescue her from a domestic violence situation out on an old logging road(there are a few homes out on this road as well) named jones ridge road here in grass valley. i found her sitting on road it complete darkness. i picked her up and continued down jones ridge top try and reach the other end that comes out close to my home.About 2 miles down jones ridge i high centered my car and busted a fuel line and all my gas drained out and we were now stuck in middle of deep forest in complete blackness in the middle of nowhere. i began trying to patch the fuel line...I did not have anything to do this with so i tried to "macguyver" it with a maxi-pad, string and a zip-tie (ya that happened)so i was on my back on the ground attempting this repair and the first thing i noticed was there was zero noises coming from the woods. no crickets, frogs, crunching leaves...Nothing ! if you know the forest..That does not happen...Ever ! when i noticed there were no sounds coming from the woods i pulled my head out from under my car looking straight up. that's when i saw the first two of them. they were straight up above us very high up...I'd say about 3,000 - 4,000 ft hovering and moving slightly back and forth and up and down but maintaining their position. i was immediately excited and stood up covered in red clay dust from the ground.I called to gavin my friend to come out of the car and look she did so and became very upset and started to cry and become hysterical...I hugged her and gave her my best not "all aliens are bad" speech.. she began screaming.."we have to get out of here they are going to abduct me !" i told her to please keep her voice down and that we couldn't leave because of the busted fuel line. she calmed down a bit and that's when we saw the others. i counted 12 of them to our immediate north in the woods at varying distance form 20 yards to maybe 60 yards. they were all in the woods about 10ft from the ground to maybe 30ft from the ground. they looked to be searching for something in the woods. they were "c" shaped turned sideways (up and down)grey metallic with 2 lights. one on the top end of the "c" and one on the bottom of the "c". they were each a little larger than a vw bug approximately. i asked gavin to hand me the mag light because i wanted to blink it at the two hovering to see if i could get a response (big mistake) gavin objected and began to cry again..I should have listened. she handed me the light and i began slowly flashing the two bosses (what they seemed to be ) above us. the blinking provided no response so i held the beam steady on one of them..Thats when things got a bit "hairy." when the solid beam hit the one craft it stopped moving completely as well as the one next to it a stood completely still in the sky. while i was looking up gavin began to scream ..."oh my god...Oh my god they're coming !!" i looked down and over to where she was pointing into the woods. all !2 of the craft in the woods had stopped their search and were rushing down the hill weaving in and out of the trees directly for us. thinking that the light had upset the "bosses" i quickly shut it off. the lights that were coming toward us all froze at once. holding in place as if awaiting orders. the froze for approximately a minute then turned around and continued their search of the woods. we watched them for about a half hour. i tried to film them with my phone but kept getting an error message that the phone was malfunctioning. that reminds me when i was on my way out jones ridge to get gavin i had my stereo on running on a flash drive and it kept going in and out with static. i thought this very strange because it wasn't the radio it was a flash drive and not dependent on a signal. i got the patch to hold and had enough gas in the lines to start the car. we left the lights to their business and headed down the road. we got 3 or 4 miles wj=hen the gas ran out and we slept in the car in the middle of the road until the next morning when my buddy jeff came out with gas and a proper patch.The next night i was online and saw to my amazement that our lights were part of a huge squadron like group that featured was on mainstream media nbc kcra channel 3 sacramento at 7:56 the same night of our encounter just earlier. they were spotted above rocklin/roseville in a huge "c" formation heading east right towards gavin & me. i took a picture of the nbc report along with a couple of the road with my car broke down on it from the next morning. i have always wondered how i would react to something like this...And to my satisfaction i had absolutely no fear in me ..Just wonder and amazement. i would be happy to take you out to the exact spot if you would like to search for evidence. thank you for your time...Andrew david bell. (530)798-0524 peace.