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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]

Testimony

The event takes place on the morning of August 29, 1967, in the village of Cussac, which then has 282 inhabitants in 70 houses. The town is located on a plateau, at 1045 m altitude. This morning, the weather is nice (clear sky) but a little cool (12 to 16 ° C) with a light breeze blowing from the west. In 2 valleys, 10 km from Cussac, there is morning fog.

François (13 1/2 years old) and his sister Anne-Marie (9 years old), accompanied by their dog Médor left since 8:00 to drive a dozen cows about 800 meters west of the village of Cussac, at a place called " Les Tuiles ", in a meadow located on the edge of the departmental road 57 (linking Les Ternes to Pont-Farin)

While watching the herd, they play cards sitting behind a wall of dry stones, backed by the departmental (to get the best morning sun). Thus, they can better monitor the animals. However, around 10:30, they are forced to stop their party because the cows are about to cross a wall that separates them from a pasture in which there are about thirty cows belonging to a neighbor.

François gets up to call his dog so he can bring back the animals. In doing so, he sees on the other side of the road (behind a hedge) about 80 m from him, 4 little beings, whom he thinks to be children at first. He then climbs a few stones to better distinguish them. He finds them strange: They are of a "silky" black, without distinction of clothes or face.

Their size varies between 1 m and 1.20 m, two being smaller than the others. Their arms are long and thin and their legs are short and thin. Their head seems to have normal proportions but the skull and the chin seem more accentuated and all seem to bear a "beard"

François and Anne-Marie distinguish behind them, half hidden by the hedge, an extremely bright sphere, 4 to 5 m in diameter (Anne-Marie will underestimate this distance to 2 to 2.50 m as all distances that she was evaluating). This sphere is painful to watch, as it sparkles. No opening or door is visible.

Francois says, "Oh, there are black children! Without turning around, his sister replies: "Are you calling them? ". But he answers: "Look, look" Then he goes up on the contiguous wall to better see "the black children". His sister gets up and watches as well. One of the "black children" is down and seems to be working on the ground. Two others are seen in profile. The 4th, a little larger, holds a rectangular object reflecting the Sun behind the witnesses (that Francis compares to a mirror) and waved his hands seeming to make signs to his companions: the little beings seem to be aware of being observed.

The first flies vertically and plunges, head first, into the upper part of the sphere. The second follows him in the same way and the third, after getting up, does the same. The 4th (the largest) rises but, before diving into the aircraft, down to pick something up (his "mirror" esteem Francis).

The sphere then begins to rise in a helicoidal trajectory (4 to 6 turns in the clockwise direction seen from below, of increasing radius over 10/50/100 m, at the rate of 1 turn / s approximately) and the cows begin to bellow.

The 4th being flies away again and catches the sphere when it has already reached about 15 m in height. The children distinguish on the latter as "webbed feet" while he is in the air. Anne-Marie will also notice a "sharp nose".

La sphère décrit encore quelques cercles, s'élevant toujours, tandis que l'intensité lumineuse qu'elle irradie s'accroît fortement. Puis, le bruit qui accompagnait le décollage de la sphère disparaît et celle-ci s'éloigne très vite en direction du nord-ouest.

En même temps, une odeur de soufre (le soufre n'ayant pas d'odeur, peut-être plutôt SO2 ou ozone) se répand et vient jusqu'aux enfants (le léger vent d'ouest correspond à la configuration objet → enfants).

Les vaches se mettent à beugler et à s'agiter. 25 vaches situées dans un pré voisin, à environ 300 m de là, beuglent aussi et viennent se rassembler près de celles de François et d'Anne-Marie. Le chien Médor aboie après l'objet et semble vouloir le suivre. Les enfants ne voient pas l'objet disparaître, car ils sont obligés de s'occuper des vaches, très agitées.

L'observation aura duré 30 secondes. Les enfants se dépêchent de ramener les vaches à la ferme, 30 min (2 h ?) avant l'heure prévue. Dix minutes après l'observation, un agriculteur les voit sur la route en train de rentrer avec les vaches, manifestement en pleurs et en état de choc. Il constate aussi l'agitation des vaches.

François (qui a les yeux fragiles) larmoie pendant le quart d'heure qui suivra l'apparition, et le matin au réveil, pendant plusieurs jours de suite. Sa sœur (qui ne porte pas de lunettes), ne ressentira rien. Elle sera la seule à parler de 3 ou 4 béquilles droites aperçues alors que la sphère se trouvait encore au sol.

Le maire de Cussac, qui est aussi le père des enfants, voit arriver le chien Médor, puis ses enfants choqués (ordre d'arrivée qu'il décrira comme inhabituel).

Il décide d'appeler les gendarmes de Saint-Flour, à 19 km de là. Le maire les connaît bien, ce sont eux qui s'occupent des accidents de la route, et de bien d'autres problèmes, comme lui-même le fait pour ses administrés.

Les gendarmes arrivent à 16 h. Ils constatent l'odeur et une trace d'herbe légèrement jaunie, de 4 à 5 mètres, derrière la haie (le contraste s'affaiblit peu à peu dès le 1er jour). Ils recueillent les témoignages, et informent leur hiérarchie par radio. Cependant on ne retrouvera nulle trace du rapport.

Anne Marie n'arrive pas à dormir les deux jours qui suivent. Les enfants resteront choqués près d'une semaine.

Spectical analysis

- Apart from the strange smell felt after the supposed event, as well as the slightly yellowed grass, the case suffers from the absence of real scientific proof.

- The only witnesses are two children, brother and sisters. In addition, the place of business is very isolated.

Arguments in favor of the case

- Since this morning of August 29, 1967, the two brothers and sisters have never denied or contradicted their testimony.

- Their fear of returning to the village and their state of shock the following days were observed by many residents.

- In their statement to the Gendarmerie, François and Anne-Marie evoke a hissing sound accompanying the takeoff of the sphere. However, a country guard who did not attend the scene, but who lived nearby will declare, a posteriori, also heard this noise.

The enquest

Joël Mesnard and Claude Pavy start an investigation for the GEIPAN (state research section, on unidentified observations). It is published in the issue of Phénomènes Spatiaux in June 1968. The ufological association Lights in the Night (LDLN) is also conducting a survey with members of the South of France. In 1977, Luc Bourdin, investigator of LDLN meets François, then student at the faculty of Clermont, and remakes a complete counter-investigation of the case. He learns that a sentence attributed to Anne-Marie (You come to play with us?) Is a pure journalistic invention [article of "The Mountain" August 1967], the witnesses having realized quickly that they had not deal with other children. François also confirms that he did not see any "feet" on which the sphere would have rested. Only his sister mentioned this detail.

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]

References

^ Rossini, David; Maillot, Eric; Déguillaume, Eric (February 2009). "UFOs: an Assessment of Thirty Years of Official Studies in France". Skeptical Inquirer. 33.1. Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. Retrieved 17 September 2014. 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 {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
^ 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.