Close encounter of Cussac
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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
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.
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.
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.
