UFO. France

Two gendarmes, M Simon & M Barboule, were coming back from tour of duty, pushing their bicycle as they mounted a hill, and had reached a barn when they heard a noise that quickly became a “deafening racket.” Then there appeared about 50 yards away, a few yards above the ground, a round black disc shaped mass about 35 ft in diameter and 4 ft thick, beneath which was a row of flue-pipe mouths, appearing red hot, from which emerged short reddish flames. A strong hot wind blew from the object and pushed them against the barn. The object continued on to land in a flat field, passing within 50 yards of them. The red tubes mouths darkened, as if cooling down. After about a minute, a cupola of an opaque ivory white color lighted up atop the object, and at the same time dazzling rays of several colors—yellow, green, and blue—emerged from the base of the cupola and were given off in all directions. Then a sort of luminous “balloon” emerged from the source of the rays, detached itself, and slowly twice made the circuit of the nearby hilltop peak, “Castelai.” After this it rejoined the object and disappeared. During the flight of this “balloon,” the witnesses noticed human like silhouettes—perhaps 4 of them—slowly walking around the UFO, as if inspecting it. They went around it several times. When the “balloon,” returned, these silhouettes disappeared. Then the light rays and the cupola went out, and the hot wind began to blow again, with a deafening noise, the object rose vertically and disappeared in the sky. During the observation, the gendarmes felt paralyzed; M Simon put his hand on his revolver holster, but could not remove it. M Barboule’s watch never ran properly again.