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ered no longer newsworthy, having been persistently disparaged by the
authorities and the national news media, which parroted the "planet Venus"
and "moonlight reflecting off the bellies of snow geese" explanations made
by the Director of the Arkansas Sky Observatory, who was hundreds of
miles away from the scene of the action in his office in Little Rock.
Besides the many eyewitness reports of UFO sightings, there have been
many cases that involve craft landings, sometimes with physical evidence
of landing traces left behind after the craft's departure. These traces of
physical evidence have often been carefully investigated, and once again
there are literally hundreds of examples I could point to. However, one
specific case is outstanding because of the remarkable way these details
were supported by the meticulously conducted research of high-level scientists,
which backed up the anecdotal eyewitness reports with hard physical
evidence.
Trans-en-Provence is a little village near Avignon in France. The incident
took place there at 5:10 P.M. on January 8, 1981. Renato Nicolai, aged
55, a retired mason who had become a farmer, saw a strange aircraft land
in his garden, where it remained for about one minute. It then took off and
disappeared over the horizon.
Mr. Nicolai thought that it was probably some sort of experimental
craft being tried out by the French Air Force. He did not believe in flying
saucers. That evening when his wife came home from work, he described
to her what he had seen. The next morning she went with him to look at
the markings on the ground, then told a neighbor about the incident. The
neighbor was frightened and informed the police.
A contingent of the Draguignan police came to Mr. Nicolai's farm. He
described the craft to them as approximately 6 feet in length and 7 1/2 feet
in diameter. The color was a dull gray, like that of lead. The shape was flat
and circular, bulging slightly above and below. The craft rested on small
telescopic legs. There was no light, and no smoke or flames. There was no
sound except for a faint whistling. It first appeared at an altitude of about
150 feet, like a mass of stone falling. However, it came down lightly on the
ground. He approached it and could see the craft clearly. He had advanced
about thirty paces toward it, when it took off at very high speed. When he
saw the object from beneath, it was round, and had four port-holes.
The police reported that there was a circular outline about half to threequarters
of an inch deep and 7 1/4 feet in diameter, with skid marks at two
places. The site had the appearance of a circular stain, being darker in
color than its surroundings. The police collected samples of soil and vegetation
along a straight line through the impact site, writing on each
sample taken its distance from the impact site. Upon their return to
Draguignan, they transmitted their report and the samples to GEPAN