Trans-en-Provence trace case

Farmer Renato Nicolaï heard a whistling and saw a lead-coloured object shaped like two saucers rim to rim land briefly on his terrace and leave, about 50 m away; he reported it to the Gendarmerie next day, who photographed and sampled the ground. France's official UFO office GEPAN reported soil compressed and heated and nearby alfalfa with 30 to 50 percent less chlorophyll, and after two years found no conventional explanation. Critics, including Éric Maillot, argue the marks lie on an active track and resemble tyre traces, that the witness was alone, and that the analysis was flawed. The COMETA report in PURSUE presents it as proof that something landed.

None established; vehicle traces on a farm track proposed

• Document255_413270_UFO's_and_Defense_What_Should_we_Prepare_ForRelease 1

  UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For? (the COMETA report), with April 2001 Carol Rosin cover letter and handwritten notes

  This is not a NASA-authored document: it is a 2001 cover letter and handwritten notes from Carol Rosin (self-described former spokesperson for Wernher von Braun) forwarding the 1999 French COMETA report 'UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?' to a NASA official, apparently seeking a meeting. COMETA was an independent association of former auditors of the French defense-studies institute IHEDN, not a French government body. The report reviews French pilot testimonies, five foreign radar/visual aeronautical cases (Lakenheath-Bentwaters, RB-47, Tehran 1976, a Russian missile-base case, Belgium), several French ground cases investigated by GEPAN/SEPRA (Trans-en-Provence, the 'Amaranth' case, a 1979 close encounter with reported humanoid figures), and recommends French and EU government action, stating the extraterrestrial hypothesis 'cannot be ruled out.'

  Open the original on war.gov

• Wikipedia: Trans-en-Provence caseen.wikipedia.org
• GEIPAN (French official UAP office)cnes-geipan.fr