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BEFORE 1909, PONT-FETAN-LEVEK, MORBIHAN, FRANCE, THREE YOUNG PEOPLE:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

A 1909 French book about folklore of the country written by local archaeologist Zacharie Le Rouzic, tells among many stories and legends, that one evening, three young people of the vicinity of Nignol, Rosnual and Kermario, were returning after spending the evening in the village of Kerlann.

Arrived at Pont-Fetan-Levek, they saw something white just beside the hedge.

One of them approached to check what that could be, but as soon as he had arrived, this object rose in the air, while growing bigger, and moved towards the villages of Kerlear and Keriaval. It was described as resembling a block of three houses.

The young people, though strongly disturbed, resumed their travel, and shortly after they separated, they heard a "terrible cry which seemed to come from the air, but they did not see anything at all..."

It is then told that one of the witnesses was like paralyzed during some time after having returned home.

Nothing else is known.

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Narratives:

[Ref. gs1:] GILLES SMIENA:

Authoring the book review columns in the ufology magazine Lumières Dans La Nuit, Gilles Smiena discusses a rare book he discovered, "Carnac, legends, traditions, habits and tales of the country", published in Vannes, printed by Lafolye and J. de Mamarzelle, at the beginning of the century, and whose author was Zacharie Rouzic, an archaeologist, founder of the prehistoric museum of Carnac and a native of the area.

Smiena notes that the book is poorly written, naive, disordered, badly printed, and afflicted with many typographical errors, but nevertheless of unquestionable interest as a disordered collection of odds and ends and past beliefs.

Among the stories in this book, Smiena picked up this one:

"One evening, three young people of the vicinity of Nignol, Rosnual and Kermario, were returning after spending the evening in the village of Kerlann. Arrived at Pont-Fetan-Levek, they saw something white just beside the hedge."

"One of them approached to check what that could be, but as soon as he had arrived, this object rose in the air, while growing bigger, and moved towards the villages of Kerlear and Keriaval. Understandably, it resembled a block of three houses."

"The young people, though strongly disturbed, resumed their travel (...) A shortly after they separated, they heard a terrible cry which seemed to come from the airs, but they did not see anything at all..."

It is then told that one of the witnesses was like paralyzed during some time after having returned home.

Points to consider:

Zacharie Le Rouzic was born in Carnac in 1864 in a large and poor family, and quit the school at the age of 10. But he was taken as principal collaborator by Scottish archaeologist James Miln, who had come to study the many megalithic sites of the place.

When James Miln died, Le Rouzic became the director of the Museum of the Prehistory of Carnac, continued his archaeological prospections and became an internationally recognized archaeologist, his book "Carnac, légendes, traditions, coutumes et contes du pays" becoming a reference for the specialists of the time.

He gave his collection to the museum of the Prehistory of Carnac, now bearing his name associated with that of its founder, Miln-Rouzic Museum. Rouzic died in 1939 in Carnac.

I managed to check that the story really appears in his book.

The story is of course quite vague and ufologically speaking, rather useless: there was no investigation of the story; which was probably hearsay that Le Rouzic merely noted down.

Also, no UFO occupants were actually seen, only a terrible cry in the air provides for a meager reason to include the story in a UFO occupants cases. However, as I heard the case mentioned here and there by fellow ufologist, or by fairy lore buffs viewing the flying saucers occupants phenomenon as some modern continuation of fairies appearances, some stating that fairies were just as real albeit "paranormal" than UFOs; thus it is perhaps not useless to provide the information.

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Evaluation:

Probable local folklore invention. Insufficient data.

Sources references:

* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.

• [---] ? "Carnac, Légendes, Traditions, Coutumes et Contes du Pays", book by Zacharie Le Rouzic, Lafolye and J. de Mamarzelle printers, Vannes, France, page 87, 1909.
• [gs1] * "Livres Lus", article by Gilles Smiena, in the ufology magazine Lumières Dans La Nuit (LDLN), France, #263-264, page 48, May/June 1986.

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