Close encounter of Cussac: Difference between revisions
| Line 25: | Line 25: | ||
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". |
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". |
||
The sphere still describes some circles, always rising, while the luminous intensity which it radiates increases strongly. Then, the noise that accompanied the take-off of the sphere disappears and it disappears very quickly towards the northwest. |
|||
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. |
|||
At the same time, a smell of sulfur (the sulfur having no smell, perhaps SO2 or ozone) spreads and comes to the children (the light westerly wind corresponds to the object configuration → children) . |
|||
The cows begin to bellow and shake. 25 cows in a nearby meadow, about 300 m away, also bellow and come to gather near those of François and Anne-Marie. The dog Medor barks after the object and seems to want to follow it. The children do not see the object disappear, because they are obliged to take care of the cows, very agitated. |
|||
The observation lasted 30 seconds. The children hurry to bring the cows back to the farm, 30 min (2 hrs?) Before the scheduled time. Ten minutes after the sighting, a farmer sees them on the road coming back with the cows, obviously in tears and in shock. He also notes the agitation of the cows. |
|||
Francois (who has fragile eyes) watered during the quarter of an hour following the appearance, and in the morning when waking for several days in a row. His sister (who does not wear glasses), will not feel anything. She will be the only one to talk about 3 or 4 straight crutches seen while the sphere was still on the ground. |
|||
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. |
|||
The mayor of Cussac, who is also the father of the children, sees the dog arrive Medor, then his shocked children (order of arrival that he will describe as unusual). |
|||
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). |
|||
He decides to call the gendarmes of Saint-Flour, 19 km away. The mayor knows them well, they are the ones who deal with road accidents, and many other problems, as he does for his constituents. |
|||
The gendarmes arrive at 4 pm They notice the smell and a trace of grass slightly yellowed, 4 to 5 meters, behind the hedge (the contrast weakens little by little from the 1st day). They collect testimonies, and inform their hierarchy by radio. However, no trace of the report will be found. |
|||
Anne Marie |
Anne Marie can not sleep for the next two days. The children will be shocked for almost a week. |
||
==Spectical analysis== |
==Spectical analysis== |
||
Revision as of 07:33, 5 September 2018
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (April 2011) |
| An editor has performed a search and found that sufficient sources exist to establish the subject's notability. (September 2014) |
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".
The sphere still describes some circles, always rising, while the luminous intensity which it radiates increases strongly. Then, the noise that accompanied the take-off of the sphere disappears and it disappears very quickly towards the northwest.
At the same time, a smell of sulfur (the sulfur having no smell, perhaps SO2 or ozone) spreads and comes to the children (the light westerly wind corresponds to the object configuration → children) .
The cows begin to bellow and shake. 25 cows in a nearby meadow, about 300 m away, also bellow and come to gather near those of François and Anne-Marie. The dog Medor barks after the object and seems to want to follow it. The children do not see the object disappear, because they are obliged to take care of the cows, very agitated.
The observation lasted 30 seconds. The children hurry to bring the cows back to the farm, 30 min (2 hrs?) Before the scheduled time. Ten minutes after the sighting, a farmer sees them on the road coming back with the cows, obviously in tears and in shock. He also notes the agitation of the cows.
Francois (who has fragile eyes) watered during the quarter of an hour following the appearance, and in the morning when waking for several days in a row. His sister (who does not wear glasses), will not feel anything. She will be the only one to talk about 3 or 4 straight crutches seen while the sphere was still on the ground.
The mayor of Cussac, who is also the father of the children, sees the dog arrive Medor, then his shocked children (order of arrival that he will describe as unusual).
He decides to call the gendarmes of Saint-Flour, 19 km away. The mayor knows them well, they are the ones who deal with road accidents, and many other problems, as he does for his constituents.
The gendarmes arrive at 4 pm They notice the smell and a trace of grass slightly yellowed, 4 to 5 meters, behind the hedge (the contrast weakens little by little from the 1st day). They collect testimonies, and inform their hierarchy by radio. However, no trace of the report will be found.
Anne Marie can not sleep for the next two days. The children will be shocked for almost a week.
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]
See also
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.
- Joël Mesnard et Claude Pavy, « Rencontre "diabolique" sur le plateau de Cussac », dans Phénomènes Spatiaux, n° 16, juin 1968, pp. 27-31, traduit « Encounters with "devils" », dans FSR, vol 14, n° 5, septembre-octobre 1968, p. 7-9.
- Hebdo (Toulouse), 12 octobre 1968. - Jacques Vallée, Chroniques des apparitions extraterrestres, Paris, Denoël, 1972, p. 420. - Bulletin UFOIC, n° 21, décembre 1968. - Rapport International UFO Bureau, mai-juin 1969. - « Les petits êtres de Cussac », dans Fernand Lagarde (dir.), Mystérieuses soucoupes volantes, Paris, Éditions Albatros, 1973, p. 127-132.
- Communication à radio Luxembourg, 30 août 1967. - « Les martiens ont-ils atterri ? », dans La Montagne, 1er septembre 1967, p. 3 (détails du cas de Cussac)
- Paris Jour, 2-3 septembre 1967. - Lumière Dans La Nuit (LDLN), n° 90, septembre-octobre 1967, p. 6. - The APRO Bulletin, sept-oct 1967, p. 8.
- Pierre Ensia, « Les humanoïdes », dans Horizon du Fantastique, n° 25 bis (spécial 2), 1974, p. 57-59 (il signale également deux publications en anglais sur le cas, dans le Bulletin UFOIC et par l'International UFO Bureau).
- Jean-Claude Bourret, La Nouvelle vague des soucoupes volantes, Paris, France-Empire, 1974, p. 136-138.
- Charles Garreau et Raymond Lavier, Face aux extra-terrestres, Paris, Jean-Pierre Delarge, 1975, p. 192-194.
- Gordon Creighton, dans Lumière Dans La Nuit (LDLN), n° 145, mai 1975. - Coral E. et Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, New York, Berkeley Medallion Book, 1976, p. 162 (ils soulignent ressemblance avec un autre cas sud américain). - Pierre Delval avec la collaboration de la commission OURANOS, Le Grand livre des Objets volants non identifiés, Éditions De Vecchi, 1976. - R. Jack Perrin (pseudonyme de Roger-Paul Perrinjaquet), Le Mystère des OVNI, Paris, Pygmalion, 1976, p. 20-28 (reprend l’article de Phénomènes spatiaux). - Henry Durrant, Premières enquêtes sur les humanoïdes extraterrestres, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1977, p. 41-47 [reprend le texte paru dans MSV] - Info OVNI, spécial, catalogue Auvergne, juillet 1978, p. 34-35. Rapport au Conseil scientifique du GEPAN, t. 4, CNES/CT/GEPAN, 140, juin 1978 - signé par 19 personnes. FSR, n° 68.
- Michel Figuet et Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI. Premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochées en France, Nice, Alain Lefeuvre éditeur, 1979. - Éric Zurcher, Les apparitions d’humanoïdes, Nice, Éditions A. Lefeuvre, 1979, p. 313. Jean-Claude Bourret (dessins de Patrick Claeys), Témoignages OVNI, Paris, Éditions Atelier 786, 1981, p. 46-50. - Thierry Pinvidic, « Synthèse de la rencontre avec JF XXXXXXXX, témoin de l'observation de Cussac, Clermont-Ferrand le 21 juillet 1983 » (communication personnelle, 11 pages). - Alain Gamard, « À propos de la « Synthèse de la rencontre avec JF XXXXXXXX, témoin de l'observation de Cussac, Clermont-Ferrand le 21 juillet 1983 », 20 décembre 1983 (communication personnelle)
- Thierry Pinvidic, « Des témoins pour une "légende" : un cas d'apparition d'ovni », dans Communications, n° 52, octobre 1990, p. 311-335. - Thierry Pinvidic, « Un grand classique qui a la vie dure », dans Thiery Pinvindic (éd.) - OVNI: vers une anthropologie d'un mythe contemporain, Éditions Heimdal, Paris, 1993, pp. 199-209.
- « Un cas célèbre : Quatre petits êtres et une sphère lumineuse à Cussac en 1967 », dans Limousin Magazine, n° 368, mai 1994. - Jean-Claude Bourret et Jean-Jacques Velasco, Ovnis, la science avance, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1995, p. 112-123. - « Ovnis au Planétarium », dans Lyon Capitale du 7 décembre 1995 (Cussac au centre du débat). - Patrick Huyghes, Field Guide of Extraterrestrials, New York, Avon Books, 1996. - Éric Maillot, « Les ufologues et l'ovni de cussac - 30 ans dans un cul-de-sac ! », dans la revue du Cercle Zététique, 1996. -Pierre Lagrange, Science & Vie Junior, n° 77, janvier 1996 p. 84. - Pierre Lagrange (et al.), Sont-ils parmi nous ? La nuit extraterrestre, préface de Michel - Royer, Paris, Gallimard, 1997, p. 41.
- Jean-Claude Bourret, Ovnis : 1999, le contact ?, Paris, Michel Lafon, 1997, p. 53-57. - « Le cas de Cussac, 29 août 1967... », dans UFOmania, n° 22, Décembre 1998. - Alain Delmon, Les cas solides : Cussac, 1967, RR3, France, 2003. - Éric Maillot, « Cussac », Comité nord-est des groupes ufologiques (CNEGU), le 29 août 2004. - Claude Poher, « Retour sur le cas de Cussac », 2004. - Grégory Gutierez, « Cussac - 29 août 1967 », Ovniland, 2004. - Grégory Gutierez, « Cussac : le dossier interne du GEPAN enfin publié ! », Ovniland, 2 mars 2005.
- Éric Maillot, « Retour aux sources du cas de Cussac grâce à une enquête méconnue », dans Les - Mystères de l'Est, n°10, CNEGU. - L'Autre Monde, n° hors série, « OVNI : hypothèses extraterrestres », p. 30-32.
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.
