UFO sightings in France

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This is a list of alleged sightings of unidentified flying objects or UFOs in France.

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1952

October 17, 1952, Oloron-Sainte-Marie. Many people saw a cigar-shaped UFO accompanied by 30 disc-shaped objects. These smaller UFOs dropped a white siliceous cotton which covered tree branches and roofs. [3] [4] Some French skeptics thought that the UFOs were an optical phenomenon caused by the refraction of the sun's rays and the siliceous cotton was caused by a migration of field spiders. [5]

1954

1965

Depiction of one of the beings seen in Valensole, according to the book La nouvelle vague des soucoupes volantes. Valensole humanoid.png
Depiction of one of the beings seen in Valensole, according to the book La nouvelle vague des soucoupes volantes.

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1976

1978

1981

1982

See also

References

  1. De Grandine et Tonitruis pp. 8-10: "Plerosque autem vidimus et audivimus tanta dementia obrutos, tanta stultitia alienatos, ut credant et dicant quandam esse regionem, quæ dicatur Magonia, ex qua naves veniant in nubibus, in quibus fruges, quæ grandinibus decidunt, et tempestatibus pereunt, vehantur in eamdem regionem, ipsis videlicet nautis aëreis dantibus pretia tempestariis, et accipientibus frumenta vel ceteras fruges. Ex his item tam profunda stultitia excoecatis, ut haec posse fieri credant, vidimus plures in quodam conventu hominum exhibere vinctos quatuor homines, tres viros, et unam feminam, quasi qui de ipsis navibus ceciderint :; quos scilicet per aliquot dies in vinculis detentos, tandem collecto conventu hominum exhibuerunt, ut dixi, in nostra præsentia, tanquam lapidandos. Sed tamen vincente veritate, post multam ratiocinationem, ipsi qui eos exhibuerant, secundum propheticum illud confusi sunt, sicut confunditur fur quando deprehenditur". (Translation: "However, we saw and heard many who were afflicted with such great folly and such great delusion that they believed and said that there was a region called Magonia, from which ships come in the clouds, in which the fruits that are lost through hail and storms are transported to the same region, the aeronauts paying prizes to the weather witches and receiving the grain or other fruits. Deluded by this folly so profound, we saw many in a human assembly present four people, three men and a woman, as prisoners who were supposed to have fallen from these ships. These kept them in bonds for several days, and finally, as I said, brought them forward in our presence to be stoned to death. But the truth prevailed, and after much discussion those who had presented them were put to shame according to the prophetic word, just as a thief is put to shame when he is caught.")
  2. Marrs, Jim (1997). Alien Agenda . HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. p.  61. ISBN   0-06-018642-9.
  3. Des ovnis à Oloron, le scoop date du 1952, La République des Pyrénées, archive
  4. l’Observation d’Oloron-Sainte-Marie
  5. The “angel hair” affair in Oloron 1952, the MD’s explanation
  6. Denzler, Brenda (2001), The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs, University of California Press, pp. 39–, ISBN   978-0-520-93027-8
  7. Narváez, Peter (1997), The Good People: New Fairylore Essays, University Press of Kentucky, pp. 484–, ISBN   0-8131-0939-6
  8. 1 2 3 Estimates of Optical Power Output in Six Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects by Jacques F. Vallée
  9. Rossoni, D., Maillot, E., & Déguillaume, E. (2007). Les ovnis du CNES – 30 ans d’études officielles. www.book-e-book.com. (extracts from the book) Archived 3 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine . Critical skeptical investigations of GEPAN's work.
  10. Figuet, M. (Ed.) (1995). L’affaire de Trans-en-Provence. Dompierre-les-Ormes, SERPAN.
  11. "Note technique du Gepan –Enquete 86/06 -"L'amarante"". Archived from the original on 2016-07-02. Retrieved 2016-11-08.