1993.08 Europeans seem to be having more success [than Americans] in the UFO political arena. The European Community’s Committee on Energy, Research and Technology (CERT) has recently commissioned Professor Tullio Regge, an Italian Deputy to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, to prepare a detailed report on UFOs. This report will recommend whether or not to […]
Trans-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France, Europe
1981.01.08 Due to the French privacy laws, the case was originally published with the witness name replaced with the pseudonym Renato Collini; however the witness name is by now well known to the UFO community as Nicolai. (ufoevidence.org) 17.00 At about 5.00 pm, Mr Collini, in the words of the French Government’s UFO study group […]
Valensole, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France, Europe
1965.07.01 05.45 Just over a year after [the Zamora incident], at 5.45 am on the morning of 1 July 1965, a farmer at Valensole in France had a remarkably similar experience. There had been mysterious disappearances of his lavender crop… (UFOs and How to See Them, Randles) Farmer Maurice Masse grew lavender for use in […]
Quarouble, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, Europe
1954.09.10 [Click image to clarify and enlarge] 22.30 Alerted by the sound of his dog howling outside, Marius Dewilde, at approximately 10.30 in the evening on 10 September 1954, opened his door and saw two strange humanoids just a few feet away from him. They were wearing one-piece diving-style suits and their heads were enclosed […]
Gaillac, Tarn, France, Europe
1952.10.27 Ten days [after the Oloron-Ste-Marie incident] the same kind of event occurred 140 miles to the northwest, at Gaillac in the département of Tarn. This time a leviathan, its outer surface wreathed in what looked like wisps of cloud, stood on end for ten minutes over the town, surrounded by sixteen saucers. Again angel […]
Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, Europe
1952.10.17 [Click image to clarify and enlarge] 12.50 [Mr Prigent] and children… saw a curiously-shaped cloud in the skies over his home in Oloron-Sainte-Marie. Behind it was a long cylinder which seemed to be emitting an exhaust trail. Ahead of it were some 30 disc-shaped UFOs which left a trail of so-called “angel hair” behind […]
France? Germany?, Europe
1945.02 In September 1992 Greenwood started reading a three-feet-thick file of all the mission records for the 415th between autumn 1944 and spring 1945. He found that sightings continued right up to the end of the war. Intriguingly, among these documents… were the records of American foo fighter sightings during February 1945. There were two […]
France, Europe
1945.01.02 The New York Times of 2 January 1945 reported several other cases of foo-fighters seen over France over a period of several months. (UFOs 1947-1987: The 40-Year Search for an Explanation, Evans and Spencer) On 2 January 1945, stories appeared in the press in many countries, using the term “foo fighter” and still implying […]
France, Germany, Austria, Europe
1945 (The UFO Encyclopaedia, Spencer) (The Complete Book of UFOs, Hough and Randles) Only after the war was it revealed that the balls were not sent up by the Germans. Their forces had seen them too – and thought they were a British or American device. Pilots from either side in both Europe and the […]
France? Germany?, Europe
1945.01 In January 1945 other pilots from [415] Squadron were followed in the same fashion by three of these balls, red and white this time. (UFOs 1947-1987: The 40-Year Search for an Explanation, Evans and Spencer)