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The '''Close encounter of Cussac''' is the name given to claims of a [[close encounter]] with [[extraterrestrial life|alien]] beings by a young brother and sister in [[Cussac, Cantal]], [[France]]. On Aug. 29, 1967, a 13-year-old boy and his 9-year-old sister told local police they were watching cows in a field and saw "four small black beings about 47 inches tall" who appeared to rise in the air and enter "a round spaceship, about 15 feet in diameter" that was hovering over the field. The police noted "sulfur odor and the dried grass" at the place where the sphere was alleged to have taken off. The children's story is one of the reports of [[UFO]] sightings investigated by the French government made public in a mass release of documents in March 2007 which received so many hits on its first day that the site crashed.<ref name=WashPost>{{cite news|last1=Moore|first1=Molly|title=French Get a Look at Nation's UFO Files|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032202132.html|accessdate=16 September 2014|agency=Washington Post Foreign Service|publisher=The Washington Post|date=March 23, 2007}}</ref> |
The '''Close encounter of Cussac''' is the name given to claims of a [[close encounter]] with [[extraterrestrial life|alien]] beings by a young brother and sister in [[Cussac, Cantal]], [[France]].<ref>{{citation|title=The Skeptical Inquirer|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=m6FWAAAAYAAJ|year=2009|publisher=Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.|quote=Cussac (August 29, 1967) — a "close encounter of the third kind" that became as famous in France as the one in Kelly–Hopkinsville in the United States}}</ref> On Aug. 29, 1967, a 13-year-old boy and his 9-year-old sister told local police they were watching cows in a field and saw "four small black beings about 47 inches tall" who appeared to rise in the air and enter "a round spaceship, about 15 feet in diameter" that was hovering over the field. The police noted "sulfur odor and the dried grass" at the place where the sphere was alleged to have taken off. The children's story is one of the reports of [[UFO]] sightings investigated by the French government made public in a mass release of documents in March 2007 which received so many hits on its first day that the site crashed.<ref name=WashPost>{{cite news|last1=Moore|first1=Molly|title=French Get a Look at Nation's UFO Files|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032202132.html|accessdate=16 September 2014|agency=Washington Post Foreign Service|publisher=The Washington Post|date=March 23, 2007}}</ref> |
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The Close encounter of Cussac is the name given to claims of a close encounter with alien beings by a young brother and sister in Cussac, Cantal, France.[1] On Aug. 29, 1967, a 13-year-old boy and his 9-year-old sister told local police they were watching cows in a field and saw "four small black beings about 47 inches tall" who appeared to rise in the air and enter "a round spaceship, about 15 feet in diameter" that was hovering over the field. The police noted "sulfur odor and the dried grass" at the place where the sphere was alleged to have taken off. The children's story is one of the reports of UFO sightings investigated by the French government made public in a mass release of documents in March 2007 which received so many hits on its first day that the site crashed.[2]
See also
References
- ^ The Skeptical Inquirer, Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal., 2009,
Cussac (August 29, 1967) — a "close encounter of the third kind" that became as famous in France as the one in Kelly–Hopkinsville in the United States
- ^ Moore, Molly (March 23, 2007). "French Get a Look at Nation's UFO Files". The Washington Post. Washington Post Foreign Service. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
Further reading
- Report on the Scientific Council - GEPAN, t. 4, National Centre for Space Studies, 140, June 1978 No. 68.
- Thierry Pinvidic, "Witnesses to a" legend ": a case of UFO sighting 'in' Communications', No. 52, October 1990, p. 311-335.
- Thierry Pinvidic, "A classic that has a hard time" in Pinvindic Thiery (ed). 'UFO: towards an anthropology of contemporary myth', Editions Heimdal, Paris, 1993, p. 199-209.
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