Valensole landing (Maurice Masse)

Farmer Maurice Masse said that at dawn he found an egg-shaped craft on legs in his lavender field with two small beings beside it, and that one pointed a tube at him and paralysed him until they left. The Gendarmerie investigated and recorded marks in the soil, and witnesses later said lavender grew poorly at the spot for years. Masse was the only witness; his wife said he described receiving some communication from the beings and treated the site as hallowed. The French COMETA report (in PURSUE) summarises the case as one investigated in depth by the Gendarmerie.

None established

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  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: UFO sightings in France (1965)en.wikipedia.org