The 1954 French flap:

Near Les Rousses

Two children stone
a "flying saucer"
which had arisen
in the farmyard

Les Rousses. -- Did two "Martians" on a spree, Monday evening, get supplies on the high Jura plateaus, or get a sample of the terrestrial animal species?

We could suppose so by listening to the story of two young children from the village of Prémanon who allegedly found themselves, they say, in the presence of a mysterious silver craft, Monday evening, in the middle of the courtyard of the father's farm.

It was around half past eight. It was raining like loads of buckets! The young Raymond Romand, 12, came out hearing the dog yapping. It was then that he saw it. 2 meters high with a metallic appearance, it shone in the light of the lamps on the farm, about ten meters from the building.

Frightened, the kid returned inside. But curiosity was the strongest. He came out. In the meantime, the apparatus had moved slightly. The child threw stones at him, then, emboldened, approached.

At this moment, the object set in motion, and the breath brought down young Raymond who, terrified this time, fled to his bedroom.

His younger sister, Jeannine, aged 9, had also seen the craft.

"We saw ghosts last night", said the kids the next day at school, because they had never heard of "saucers." But their words were reported to the gendarmes who opened an investigation.

"The thing was on three legs," said young Raymond. And indeed, at the place indicated by him, the gendarmes noted vague traces. But it has been raining for 36 hours, and these are very indistinct.

What credit to attach to this strange tale. "The truth comes out of children's mouths," one sometimes says. Is this so?

GENDARMERIE NATIONALE

N° 30/4.

Saint-Claude, on September 29, 1954.

REPORT

by Captain [], Commander of []
on the appearance of a strange craft.

REFERENCE: Articles 78,81 et 87 of the May 20, 1903, decree

On September 27, 1954, around 08:30 p.m., three children, a 12-year-old boy and two eight- and four-year-old girls, of a family living on the farm [], Commune of PREMANON, Jura, declared separately and in a seemingly sincere manner, having seen, near their house, a strange device of aluminum color, of rectangular shape, split partly in the middle in the direction of the height, bearing on each side, at its base, two supports angled externally, and measuring approximately two meters high and one meter wide.

At the approach of this craft which was advancing and appeared to slide slowly, the boy reportedly grappeda stone which he reportedly threw in its direction. The shock would have produced a metallic sound. Using an Eureka pistol with which he was equipped of, the child would have shot an arrow that reportedly sounded identical to the previous one.

As the machine continued to advance, the boy was reportdly nocked over by a kind of grunt that did not resemble a human voice.

The frightened child would have rushed home to bed.

His two young sisters who entered the barn from the inside of the building, would have in turn seen this kind of robot on the threshold of the door; they give a somewhat similar description.

Frightened also, they reportedly hid in the hay to leave it only a few moments after the craft had left the scene.

They added that after about 100 meters of their house they saw a red glow swinging at the level of the ground, but having returned to their

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parents, they did not see what became of it later.

The latter, to whom the children had reported the facts, did not want to give them the least credit and did not seek to check into it. They did not want their name to be revealed.

The publicity for this event originated in the children's story to their teacher, who seems to have faith in what they say.

These children live in a remote part of the city, do not go to the movie theaters, and do not read newspapers where they could draw on elements that would encourage their imagination.

#519 / 3.S Seen and transmitted by the Chief of Squadron, Commanding Officer of the Jura Gendarmerie Company, []

to Mister the Colonel commanding the 7th Legion bis of the Gendarmerie, []

In BESANCON

- An additional investigation made it possible to find traces where the light was seen (grass lying on the surface of a crown with diameter 3 m 80 and 2 m 50).

- A supplementary report is attached.

in Lons-le-Saunier, on October 2, 1954

A "saucer" said to have landed in the Haut Jura

MOREZ (From our correspondent). - "We saw ghosts last night," Raymond Romand, 12, and his sister Janine, 9, told at school in the village of Prémanon (Jura) on Tuesday.

It was 8:30 p.m. on Monday and the storm rumbled over the Upper Jura regions. The young Raymond Roland, hearing the barking of the dog of the house, went out and... saw a silver object about two meters high, standing on three feet, in the middle of the farmyard.

At first scared, Raymond went inside quickly, then came out again armed with all his courage and... a few stones that he threw at the mysterious machine; which had moved slightly in the meantime. The child approached then, and the brilliant object set out, releasing a breath which threw the young Raymond on the ground.

His frightened cry attracted his little sister Janine, who also saw what was immediately called the flying saucer of Premanon in the region.

Although the rain had not stopped falling since Tuesday, the gendarmerie, which carried out the investigation, found marks on the lawn at the place indicated by the children.

Saucer or not saucer, a fact: the fear of the young Raymond Roland was such that this child, absolutely normal on Sunday, is, since this appearance, stuttering.

GENDARMERIE NATIONALE

#30/4.

Saint-Claude, on October 1st, 1954.

SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT

by the Captain [], Commander []
on the appearance of a mysterious machine in PREMANON, Jura.

REFERENCE: Articles 78, 81 and 87 of the Decree of 20 May 1903.
Following report No. 29/4 of 29 September 1954.

Due to some more or less accurate press information, the Section Commander felt obliged to carry out a new investigation into the mysterious craft which was reportedly seen on 27 September 1954 by the children of a PREMANON farm, (Jura).

Although the parents persist in believing or making believe that the substance of the case is inaccurate, the young witnesses remain affirmative.

A scenario cannot be a priori so well mounted, if it were simply the fruit of the imagination of these young children who, moreover, do not vary in their statements.

In the direction in which the red glow was seen swinging at the level of the ground, but at a slightly greater distance (about 200 meters), on the grassy ground there is a large crown, the outer and inner circles of which have a diameter of 3 m. 50 and 2 m. 50.

Despite the abundant rainfall in recent days and the trampling of the curious, it still appears clearly and perfectly drawn. On its entire surface, the grass is lying and oriented in a counterclockwise direction.

According to the opinion of first reliable witnesses, including that of the priest of the parish, this drawing cannot be the work of an ordinary object or the ordinary trampling by people or animals.

Four holes, initially very apparent and determining the angles of a large trapezium inside the great circle, now merge with the cattle tracks. These traces, add the same witnesses,

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seem to have been made by kinds of feet carrying at their ends three lugs arranged in a triangle.

It was not possible to gather other elements.

No. 523 / 3.S- Seen and transmitted by the Chief of Squadron []

to Mister the COLONEL Commanding the 7th Legion Bis de Gendarmerie.

in PREMANON

Lons-le-Saunier, on 2 October 1954.

they are seen everywhere...

Flying saucers
cigars and... "cigarillos"

Perpignan, 1^st. -- At the Mas de Brury, near Perpignan, several grape pickers said they had seen in the sky a luminous object in the shape of a saucer. After having moved vertically leaving a white trail, the craft disappeared in the clouds.

Mulhouse, 1^st. -- Two people declared to have seen a luminous craft in the sky in Rixheim, using binoculars, they noted that it had the shape of a long cigar, a dozen satellite "little cigars" surrounded it. A railroader on night duty said he observed the same phenomenon.

Besseges, 1^st. -- Two inhabitants of the commune of Foussignargues, near Bessèges, declared to have seen in a meadow, near their house, in the night from Sunday to Monday, a bright red luminous machine surrounded by vertical rods.

Pau, 1^st. -- Yesterday morning around 11:45 a.m., many people have seen in the sky, at very high altitude, a mysterious machine in the shape of a long and shiny balloon. The object came from the South and was heading towards the Northwest.

Nevers, 1^st. -- Mr. Raymond Deloire, 20, agricultural worker in Langeron (Nièvre), who was riding a bicycle on the road to Saint-Pierre-le-Moutiers, saw in the sky a mysterious semi-spherical object, emitting a bright orange glow at the front. Flames shot out from the back. The machine moved without noise at great speed towards the North-East.

Dijon, 1^st. -- Two children from Prémanon, the young Raymond Roland, 12, and his sister Janine, 9, told their schoolmaster this amazing story:

It was pouring rain yesterday before when around 8:30 p.m., Raymond heard his dog barking furiously. He went out and saw in the courtyard of his parents' farm a metallic craft, 2 meters high, which shone in the light. Frightened, the kid returned inside, but driven by curiosity, he went out again with his sister. The strange craft had approached. The boy threw some stones in the direction of the machine which started off. The two children were blown away and dared not tell their parents about their mishap.

When questioned by the police, Raymond said that "the thing (sic) was on three feet".

Indeed, the gendarmes found traces in the courtyard. But the rain had partially erased them.

The list is growing

Flying saucers have also been spotted at Rebais (S.-et-.M.), at Brest, in La Rochelle, in Lins (Austria), in Nîmes, in Montpellier, in Casablanca, in La Norville (S.-et-.O).

In 1950, on the American Radio...

In a radio broadcast made in 1950, the American journalist and commentator Henri Taylor said:

"Without betraying any military secret, I can assure you that the flying saucers are part of a large experimental program that has been developing in the United States for almost three years. I know what the flying saucers are for: is a great military secret that I am not allowed to reveal. The day the American Air Force decides to break the silence, humanity will learn very good news..."

THE "MARTIANS" ON HOLIDAYS (CONTINUED)

A "SAUCER" WITH THREE FEET IN THE JURA, AND A "CIGAR"
with rear light in the Nivernais

IT is true, as the disciples of the "Christ of Montfavet" [*] assure, that the flying saucers are a divine manifestation, we saw enough, yesterday in the sky of France, to "halo" all the apostles of this Messiah postman. And enough cigars for Mr. Churchill's consumption in a fortnight.

The most sensational story is the one told by little Raymond Romand, a 12-year-old boy, whose parents are farmers in Prémanon, in the Jura. The other night he saw a flying saucer in the middle of the farmyard. It was eight o'clock in the evening; the child had gone out hearing the dog barking furiously. The saucer was there, two meters high. He threw stones at it, approached. At that moment, it started to move and the blow lifted him from the ground. Terrorized, he fled. Her sister, little Jeanine (9), claims to have also seen the saucer from the window.

"I saw ghosts," she said to her schoolmates the next day.

The two children swear they had never heard of flying saucers.

The "thing" was on three feet," said Raymond.

He wanted to show the gendarmes the traces that the three feet had left on the court ground. Unfortunately, the rain had wiped them out...

In Foussinargues, near Bessèges, in the Gard, two people claim that they saw in a meadow "a bright, sharp red luminous machine, surrounded of vertical rods". Near Mulhouse, a cigar wandered in the sky, followed by a "litter" of twelve cigarillos.

The son of the rural guard of Langeron, in the Nivernais, saw only one cigar. It had a "rear light". Which seems to indicate that the Martians have an air force.

Two thousand residents of Pau saw, yesterday afternoon, a cigar and two saucers, one white, the other green. They were a little disappointed when they learned in the evening that the cigar was a jet plane and the two saucers were children's balloons...

MORE AND MORE MYSTERIOUS

"Luminous objects" explore the South and the East

The round of flying saucers, luminous cigars and other mysterious craft continues across France, the country of tourism for Martians on vacation. Yesterday there was a luminous ballet in the sky of the Ardèche, a landing in a farmyard in the Jura and apparitions in all skies, night or day.

Continued on page 11
under the title: SAUCERS

Saucers

The most amazing story is that told by a 12-year-old boy, Romain Romand, whose parents are farmers in Prémanon, in the Jura. Thursday evening, he saw a flying saucer, two meters high, which had landed in the middle of the farmyard. He threw stones at it and approached. The saucer began to move and the movement of air lifted him from the ground.

Terrorized, he fled. Her 9-year-old sister claims to have also seen the saucer from the window. The two children claim that they had never heard about "flying saucers."

In the Ardèche, in Lemps, not far from Tournon, a farmer, Mr. Joseph Habrat, observed a bright object, brighter than a star and heading for Valence.

With astonishment, he saw it move at a very high speed and suddenly stop. Mr. Habrat called his daughter, very skeptical about the reality of flying saucers, and the two then witnessed a real luminous ballet, led by the first beam. Suddenly all disappeared towards the East. Three craft reappeared for a moment and disappeared in their turn.

At Mas de Bruzy, near Perpignan, several grape pickers said they had seen in the sky a bright object in the shape of a saucer. After moving vertically, leaving a white trail, the craft disappeared in the clouds.

In Rixheim, near Mulhouse, two people said they saw a luminous object in the sky. Using binoculars, they found that it had the shape of a long cigar, a dozen cigarillos accompanied it. A railroader on night duty claims to have observed the same phenomenon.

Two residents of the commune of Foussignargues, near Besseges, in the Gard region, declared that they had seen in a meadow, close to their house, in the night from Sunday to Monday, a bright red luminous craft surrounded by vertical rods.

Thursday morning, many residents of Pau also saw in the sky, at very high altitude, a mysterious craft in the shape of an elongated, shiny balloon coming from the South and heading to the North-West.

In Nevers, Mr. Raymond Deloire, agricultural worker in Langeron (Nièvre), who was riding a bicycle on the road to Saint-Pierre-le-Moutiers, saw in the sky a mysterious object of semi-spherical shapes and putting out a bright orange glow, while flames gushed from behind. It was moving noiselessly at high speed towards the northeast.

Saucer... fly!

Passagers of the Prémanon saucer look like sugar lumps

There was already the boa of Martigna in the High-Jura. At least the legendary boa had a beginning of reality: with the passing of the years, the little children do not know so well any more nowadays if this 6 meters length red animal was not, by the way, a scarlet flannel belt.

With Prémanon's flying saucer, one is left guessing.

The case occurred in the opaque darkness of a rainy night. And as it is appropriate for mystery story, it was in the premises of an isolated farm, at 3 kilometers of Prémanon, a small village lost in the mountain, near the France-Switzerland border. There are four heroes. The elder, Raymond Romand, aged 12, played the main character. Leaving home, he suddenly saw "the object," which was moving, which was brilliant, and which had, this time, the appearance of a rectangle.

- It was high as the door, the child repeated to us.

Then he threw stones at him, and one of the stones produced the characteristic sound of a struck metal piece. Going though phases of fright and curiosity, Raymond Romand takes his arrow gun. Again, the same metallic noise. And then, approaching more, Raymond Romand felt that "something cold" suddenly weighs on his shoulder. He falls to the ground. He stands up. He shouts. He flees to his home, without telling anything to anybody in the family. Previously, Jeannine Romand, aged 9, had already seen, inside the lit barn, a similar object of rectangular shape, of aluminum color, which moved with a hardly perceptible noise. Frightened, the child hid in a corner.

Later, the younger of the other Romand children calls his two sisters downwards to show them a ball of red light in a field, at more than 200 meters of the house. All three see the ball move while oscillating from the right-hand side to the left hand side. Then, it all disappears.

So, it would seem as if a mysterious craft landed in Prémanon. Did the alive creature resemble a right-angled parallelepiped (all things considered, a sugar lump?) and the ball of red light may perhaps be the interplanetary vehicle.

Wednesday, September 29, the gendarmerie, which has heard of the story, proceeded with the traditional investigation.

With Mrs. Geuillon [Genillon?], teacher of the village, which was the first to get the confidences of the Romand children, with the gendarmes of Des Rousses, we noticed, at the precise place where the four kids had seen the ball of red light, that the ground was literally pressed, with the colchic flattened as with a press, four holes resulting from the depression of four triangular corners. And also, a mast, the fir tree whose bark had been torn off on 15 centimeters, at 1 meter 50 above the ground.

AT THE BORDER

A mysterious craft said to have landed in the French High Jura

(c) Three children of a family living in an isolated farm in Prémanon (Jura) reported sighting a mysterious craft near the paternal home on Monday, September 27 at 8:30 p.m.

The children, a 12-year-old boy, an eight-year-old girl and a four-year-old girl, were perfectly normal, they did not go to the movies and did not read children's magazines publishing illustrated stories that might have influenced their imagination. Their statements were therefore recorded with the utmost seriousness and properly forwarded to the competent authorities.

The young boy said it was a metallic shape, an aluminum color, two meters high and one meter wide, which moved easily. He claimed to have thrown a stone on the craft, in contact with which it emitted a metallic sound. Then he says he also threw a wooden spike filled with rubber with his spring pistol. He then reportedly perceived a similar metallic sound but less intense. After that the craft reportedly advanced towards the child whom it would have struck and overthrown while uttering "grunts".

More emotional, the two girls fled into the barn. They claim to have seen the "shape" one meter from the front door. They hid cautiously in the hay.

Finally, the three children saw the "object" disappear, moving away in the sky leaving behind a reddish glow.

Is it an invasion of people from another planet? We publish this information with all the usual reservations, insisting however that the three young people were still not influenced by the appearance of similar apparatuses, belonging to an honorably known family who wishes to remain anonymous and consequently seeks no advertising effect.

Mrs. Genillon, teacher in Saint-Claude, noticed that her pupils were, that day, particularly inattentive.

- But what's with all of you?

- Well it's that yesterday we saw a ghost... answered the young Raymond Romand, aged 12...

The gendarmerie and Mrs. Genillon's husband made an investigation and since they are left wondering. Young Raymond does not vary in his statements.

- It was last Monday. We were playing with Janine (aged 9 ) in the barn. She was weird. "I saw a ghost! He does not make any noise." I look outside: I see the thing. you would have said it's a sugar lump, it was not taller than me. I throw stones at it; I tried to approach, but I was thrown at the ground and I was very cold"...

The next day, Mr. Genillon, wanting to have the final word on this, checked the account of these kids and noted that at the place where the kids claimed to have seen the "sugar lump", the grass was flattened and a pole which was installed by a vacation camp had a mark torn off on 15 cm at a height of 1 m 50.

[Top left caption:] These notches in the meadow represent the footprints left on the ground by the mysterious craft. Mobile and color of fire, high as a door.

JURA: -- It looked like a sugar lump

SAINT-CLAUDE. -- The saucer under the astonished eyes of the Romand children differs markedly from all those which were making their appearance in the sky of France, and left their imprints on the earth more or less. A ball of color so vivid that it makes one think of an incandescent metal. The passengers are even more original. They look exactly like a giant sugar lump. Like the visitors of Dewilde, in the Nord, they are able to emit a strange radiation that paralyzes.

[Bottom left caption:] The gendarmerie captain Brustel went to Prémanon. He interviews the young Raymond Romand, 12 years old. The child is very affirmative. Although he was very scared, he clearly saw saucer and pilot.

[Bottom right caption]: When it took off, the ball of fire struck the fir tree and burned its bark on about 13 centimeters at a height of about 1 m 50.

THE WANDERING "MARTIANS"

(Continued)

Nevers (from our Press Correspondent.). -- According to the testimonies of five people, whose sincerity cannot be doubted, a flying saucer crossed the sky of Château-Chinon on Sunday evening, around 9 p.m. The strange apparition took place around 9 pm. This time, it is a luminous spot, of oval shape, appearing motionless at a very high altitude. At one time the spot appeared to separate into two parts, and each of the formed discs began to turn at full speed, changing color several times. Then everything went out. At the end of a few minutes, the first light spot reappeared, before splitting again and turning. The same phenomenon repeated several times under the more amazed than frightened eyes of the five residents of Chateau-Chinon.

Is it the same machine that was seen at Santenay at approximately the same hour? In any case, the testimony of the residents of Santenay is confirmed by that of the Lille residents who, a few moments earlier, saw three luminous "croissants" above the region.

The "Sauceritis" continues its ravages

Morez (from our special correspondent). -- In the Upper Jura where the statements of the children of Prémanon affirming that they had stoned a saucer, the minds are heated.

The other day, a resident of Les Rousses (whose name is not given) announced that a saucer had landed at the "Combe aux Chèvres" in a small clearing in the forest of the Massacre.

In fact, the many curious (20 cars at least) who drove there, did see a metallic object resplendent in the sun.

In addition, police roadblocks had been installed on all roads. It was learned later that the police were hunting more for Baranès, whose passage to Switzerland was feared, than for the Martian, for the saucer of the forest of the Massacre was only a rain gauge installed there for years!

FLYING SAUCER IN SAVIGNY-LES-BEAUNE

Saturday, 10 pm. 30 and 23 h. 45, a group of four people from Savigny-les-Beaune saw a very bright "ball of fire" followed by a long green trail, which crossed the sky at a dizzying pace.

Two other people who were in a different place also noticed the phenomenon.

It is therefore not a hallucination ... but is it really a "saucer"?

Because a "Martian"
kissed him, Raymond (aged 12)
- the young Galileo of the Jura -
was spanked by his mother...

While his little brother, eyes wide opened, looked at the "Field-that-Burns"

Raymond, 12, attacked a "flying saucer" with a toy revolver

then fled, believing he saw a ghost

MOREZ (from our correspondent). -- In a recent issue, we briefly reported the mishap to a 12 year old boy, victim a strange being resembling a huge sugar lump from another world, using one of these mysterious unidentified flying objects that currently invade Europe.

Investigations. Observations... Was a 12 years old Jurassic boy the hero of the first interplanetary battle?

Perhaps future will tell. But certainly this cute story won't be noted in History!

6 p.m.. Raymond will not come. The green van of the baker of Les Rousses who, today, carries out the bi-weekly round, had disappeared long ago from the turning of the road. Raymond did not come to get the bread this evening. Just like his brothers and sisters, he didn't go to school this day.

I did approach the maisonette, laying "Under the Rock" ["Sous la Roche"]. I did see the kid there, playing two steps: but at my sight he had run away.

Since that Wednesday when the gendarmerie squad of Les Rousses came at "Under the Rock", by Prémanon, a small village nested in the Jurassic forest, at a few kilometers of the France-Switzerland border, since the extraordinary adventure of Raymond Romand was known, tens of cars had passed in the rocky path. Thousand times, the young boy had answered the same questions: shown the treaded colchicums, the marks on the fir tree mast...

His had become tired. He too, and he did not intend any more to talk about this strange story; this unreal being with whom he "played" or "fought" by a evening rainy, in a landscape of the end of the world.

And yet, the 12 years of Raymond had, that evening, with a handful of stones and a toy gun spitting arrows with rubberized ends, written one of the most beautiful chapter of the bulky "Flying saucers" file!

Raymond is not imaginative

That Monday, the Romand family lived an evening like all the others. It was eight hour thirty. The night fell and, with it, a small cold rain which announced unpleasantly that October would soon run away in search for snow.

In the barn, Raymond, 12 years old, Janine, 9 years old, Ghislaine, 8 years old and Claude, 4 years old, organized a big game. They were going to live another game. A game that most imaginative children of this age cannot create, and, undoubtedly, cannot know!

Captain Brustel of the section of Saint-Claude will tell us. Mrs. Genillon, teacher in Prémanon also: Raymond is not imaginative. Tall, solid for his age, lost in the depth of his native Jura, he does not read illustrated magazines for children. Obviously he had never heard speak about "flying saucers."

So?

So, Raymond did not dream. His brothers and sisters neither, who never contradicted one another during the investigation.

A mysterious machine must really have landed "Under the Rock."

Police and thieves

But let's go back to this Monday, September 29, at the hour when, suddenly, the plot would unfold as in the best science fiction novels.

A barking of dog. A child's laughter. Raymond goes tot on the doorstep of the barn in which Janine, Ghislaine and Claude seek a good hiding-place. Police and thieves... Raymond, who is armed with an arrow gun will be the representative of the law. He will wait a few minutes outside, and then, thanks to his intuition...

An icy and impalpable weight

But what's that then? The young boy, half anxious, half curious, suddenly sees within a few meters of him, moving in the half-light, a brilliant "object."

"It was high as the door, the kid would say, and resembled a large rectangle..."

A tiny nervous finger which presses the trigger of a kid's gun. A split second during which a heart beats at a crazy pace. And then a shock which produces a metallic sound.

Raymond becomes daring. A handful of stones flies towards the "shining object" which produces the same noise of "struck metallic sheet."

At this point in time, still approaching, Raymond feels "something cold, impalpable and icy" which weighs upon him on the shoulder. Pressed unto the ground, he shouts his fear and, trembling, runs away home, where, with the reserved character usual with people in the mountains, he won't say a thing to his family.

We've seen ghosts

But Janine, too, inside the barn, whereas she shrunk behind the hay, saw "a similar object", of aluminum color, moving without noise.

A few minutes later, the youngest among the kids, Claude Romand, will come to pull her from the bottom of her skirt, taking her in front of the farm, to show her "the field that": a ball of fire moving while oscillating from left to right at more than 200 meters, in the meadow downwards.

Without saying anything, they went to bed.

But as soon as the next day, at school, Mrs. Genillon will be their confident.

"We saw ghosts yesterday evening", they told her. And the 12 years of Raymond wont even boast in repeating that he had fought with one of them.

Two days had passed, and the rain was still falling when the gendarmerie of Les Rousses opened the investigation. Perhaps the traces... Not, they were still very visible.

And at the foot of a mast set by a vacation camp, at the very place indicated by the children, in front of grass pressed in a counter-clockwise motion, more than one curious people one would demonstrate their amazement.

Four holes in the ground, of triangular form, tilted by 45 degrees and the mast of fir tree marked on 15 cm at a height of 1.50 meter still came to support the statements of the Romand kids!

As for the great parallelepiped seen by Raymond and Janine, it is allowed to make the assumption that he was the passenger of the mysterious apparatus.

And, small story of the great History, one will perhaps forever be unaware that a handful of stones and an arrow gun were the weapons of the first interplanetary battle whose single soldier was a 12 year old boy...

J.M.

The Paris Match readers' platform

THE FLYING SAUCERS

The flying saucer issue is the bulk of the mail we received this week. Among the many letters devoted to this topic, here are the most interesting or the most picturesque.

From Mr. Raymond Michaud, 23, rue du Pré, Saint-Claude (Jura).

In Prémanon, a small village in the Jura, surrounded by fir trees, nestled in the autumn fog, on the evening of September 27, at 8:30 p.m., two children saw land, not far from the family farm, an enigmatic apparatus. It starts out like a La Fontaine fable and ends like a Wells anticipation.

Raymond Romand, 12, suddenly saw in front of him, in the spectral haze, a strange aluminum-colored shape, 2 meters high and 1 meter wide, moving silently.

The frightened child throws stones at it, as one would at an intruder, then the lure of adventure makes him rush into the house and with his arrow pistol he aims at the disturbing target which makes hear a sound of metal being struck.

Then the form, the mass, advances towards him, he is hit in the shoulder by the machine and the stellar cold makes the child faint.

His sister, Jeannine Romand, nine years old, saw something more bizarre: a metallic form, an animated cube inside the lighted barn, advances fearlessly, with surprising regularity, and the little girl witnesses this nightmare which evokes the most hallucinating stories of the "Science-fictions". The girl, to escape this bewitching sight, buries her worried face in the hay.

We saw the place where the machine crushed the blue and cold as the icy water colchicum that grow on the small village of Prémanon. The gendarmes of Saint-Claude noted that the meadow is trampled as by a tank.

Experts we have consulted are lost in conjecture about the nature of the unusual visitors. Machine, galaxite or secret weapon, children, with their eyes washed with innocence and their overwhelming ingenuity, on a strange September night saw its passengers from the sky, whose names we will eventually know one day.

A child of a farmer living near Premanon said he heard his dog barking in the field and found a three-legged saucer six feet high at which he threw stones. As usual, "It rose in the air and quickly disappeared."

[... Other cases...]

That saucers often appear in the configuration people would like them to assume could be evidenced by a report from Sainte Claude, where some children watched the landing of a saucer "of such vivid color that it looked like the metal was burning." The occupant was described by the children as looking "LIKE A GIANT LUMP OF SUGAR."

...let's cast a look on the small Jurassic village of Prémanon, where in the evening of September 27, the most attractive story perhaps of all the autumn 1954 occurred.

PREMANON, OR THE INNOCENCE. There is something of mysteriously touching in the Prémanon case: it is that the only witnesses are all young children. Their adventure, they lived it like a game until the moment when, the play becoming incomprehensible, curiosity made place to terror. But then they did not cry, they did not say anything to their parents: as it was nearly 21 hours, they went to bed, mute and pensive. Same silence the following day. It is their young teacher, Mrs. Génillon, who, guessing something odd from their attitude and their whispers, made the elder one, Raymond Romand, twelve years old, speak out.

"Ok, he finally admitted: yesterday evening, we saw phantoms."

And he told it all: he, his brother Claude (four years old) and his sisters Janine (nine years old) and Ghislaine (eight years old), had seen the day before at the door of the hayloft where they played two "tin phantoms", and in the meadow, within 150 meters, a large ball of fire gently dandling itself. The phantoms resembled a "sugar lump split in bottom, making legs".

Mrs. Génillon interrogated the three other children, who, each one in his manner, gave one after the other the same erport, confirming the same details, explaining what they had seen with other naive images, like the sugar lump.

The story, although incredible, was of an absolute coherence. Mrs. Génillon even made draw on the blackboard the "sugar lump". She knew these children. She was quickly convinced, whatever had been the thing they really contemplated, that their account was veracious. She informs the gendarmerie of Les Rousses, the village with the nearest squad, who informs their senior officer captain Brustel, from Saint-Claude, the nearest sub-prefecture. Those arrived Wednesday September 29, approximately 36 hours after the incident, and began at once their investigation under the control of the captain.

THE INVESTIGATION. One proceeded first of all to the separate interview of the children (four, eight, nine and twelve years old, let us not forget it). Their story stood up. No contradiction, and a note of sincerity to which the gendarmes testified, and also the teacher, the priest, and later, journalists. The scene was then reconstituted, with the same result. Here it is, such as it arises from the reports written by the investigators.

It is 08:30 p.m. approximately. The four children play in the barn, while outside, in the black night, a cold and thick rain falls on the meadows and the nearby forest. The Romand farm is isolated in the mountain, at more than 1000 meters of altitude.

Suddenly, outside, the dog starts to bark. Raymond, the elder one, gets out in front of the door, and almost throws himself at an object having the shape of a vertical rectangle - a sugar lump - split in the bottom and reflecting under the rain the light of the door. The child looks at it, amazed but little impressed, collects some small stones which he throws at the thing. They rebound with a metallic noise.

The child takes his spring gun and shoots a dart with rubber end. Same result. He then approaches for touching, but before having time to do it, het is thrown on the ground as by an invisible and icy pressure. Raymond suddenly understands that one does not have fun with "that", stands up and moves back in the barn, terrified.

Alerted by the cry of surprize and fright he pushes while falling, Janine (nine years), runs, throws a glance outside and also sees the "thing" which moves while being dandled.

She moves back in her turn towards the others. They stay there a while, amazed, return towards the door, see nothing any more and flee towards the house.

While they run, Claude, the youngest, suddenly exclaims:

"Oh! Janine, look!"

And he shows to his sister a large red luminous ball which oscillates gently within 150 meters from there, in the meadow below the farm. They all stop, look at it one moment, then resume running and return quickly to the house.

It is soon 9 o'clock. The four children go to bed without saying anything to their parents, and this astonished the journalists (not the gendarmes nor the teacher, who are country). If it is allowed to somebody who also formerly a small farmer in a mountain farm to deliver his opinion, I would say that my brothers and me would have most probably done the same.

THE RED BALL. "But this red ball, gendarmes asked, where did you see it?

- Over there, in the meadow", they said.

The four children led the investigators to it. It had rained almost without stop for two days, and however the gendarmes found irrecusable and amazing traces: at the indicated place, and on a circular surface approximately 4 meters in diameter, the grass was lying in the counter-clockwise direction. Not crushed, nor torn off, but simply flattened, solidified in the motionless image of a swirl. Some autumn colchiques flowers seemed to have been pressed down. The edge of the circle was very clear. In the surface of the circle, four holes laid out in square marked the depression of corners triangular of 10 centimeters in section and bent at 45 degrees towards the center.

Beside the circle, a mast planted the previous summer by the children of a boot camp was scratched on 15 centimetres, its bark torn off, at a height of 1,50 m. A wood specialist, having examined this scratch, stated that it certainly dated from the day before or the two days before.

At the foot of the mast, the investigators found two traces similar to the four triangular holes of the circle, but lengthened in a kind of skid. All these traces gave the idea of a craft which, at the moment of the landing, had run up against the mast and hung a bit of the ground of the meadow before immobilizing itself a little further.

Charles Garreau, who went to Prémanon one week after the incident, still saw very clearly all the traces, in spite of the persistent rain and the curious people. He asked the opinion of the villagers on this strange business. The Jurassic people are wary and silent people. The opinion was however that something had landed there. But what? And that the children had not lied. Can four children from four to twelve years support for a long time the tricks of an interrogation? Captain Brustel, the gendarmes, the teacher, the priest, the Romand parents thought that they did not lie. And then, there were these traces, impossible to reproduce, and well too abstract for a childish imagination. Lastly, the investigators noted that none of the children had initially thought of a Flying Saucer. They had seen "phantoms", and it is the adults, after the account made at the school, who had the idea of the Flying Saucer came for the first time. The investigators could even acquire the certainty that only the elder one had heard about Saucers, although this expression did not evoke anything clear to him.

Such is the Prémanon case, the most poetic undoubtedly of all the history of the Flying saucers. If some day a museum of innocence is opened, a tenderizing place will be reserved there, I hope, to the dart gun of the young Raymond Romand.

On September 27th, 1954, sightings were made at Perpignan near Foussignorgues [sic], at Lemps, Premanon and Rixheim. Once again these sightings fall on a straight line, the Rixheim sighting was of a stationary cigar-shape, Rixheim lies at one end of the line. Two other sightings of September 27th line up with Rixheim one in Eastern Paris and one at Francles - though not in the same line as the others.

September 27, 1954]

[... Other cases...]

08:30 p.m.: Prémanon (6 km S. Morez--Jura): lumin. sphere /ground + "robot"?

[... Other cases...]

September 27, 1954: Prémanon(6 km. INS in the S. of Morez--Jura): Children Romand, 4 to 12 years old Raymond, Claude, Janine, Ghislaine (luminous sph. on the ground + "robot" ?/traces

"As for the professional scientists," wrote Dr. Jacques Vallee (Challenge to Science: the UFO Enigma), "to brush away such accounts (the Premanon, France, landing of a UFOnaut) with a smile is for them one of the tests of fashion. This silence in high places should disturb us greatly."

THE LANDING AT PREMANON

We have seen that landings seem to be reported more often in areas far from population centers, in quiet surroundings. In this respect, the landing at Premanon on September 27, 1954, is typical. Premanon is a tiny French village perched in the magnificent mountains of the Jura, very close to the Swiss border. All the witnesses were children. The incident - one of the first landings of the wave, called by Michel "perhaps the most interesting of the entire autumn" - took place on a rainy night at the farm of the Romand family, on a desolate area far from the center of the village.

At eight o'clock, twelve-year-old Raymond Romand decided to go out for a walk. Just as he closed the door, he froze on the spot: in the yard of the farm was a strange object, vaguely shining, that looked like a vertical aluminum box: "It was as tall as a door, and shiny, like a wardrobe with a mirror."

This "object" - or "entity" - approached the boy and gently touched him. The thing was cold; terrified, Raymond fell on the ground. He tried to call for help but could not. He managed to get up on his feet, but in spite of his fear decided not to go back inside the house; he was more afraid of his parents than he was of the "thing"; he would be unable to hide his excitement and would surely be accused of lying if he told of "seeing a ghost." Besides, he was now more fascinated than terrified by his adventure.

At that point, Raymond was no longer alone. His nine-year-old sister, Janine, and the two smaller children had followed Raymond outside. Janine saw the "entity" and managed to hide in the barn. Encouraged by their presence, Raymond picked up stones and started to throw them at the "ghost." One of the stones hit sometWng metallic as the thing walked away. Leaving the yard of the farm, it went to a luminous, reddish object in a pasture downhill, and this "ball of me" soon took off. The next day the police investigators from Saint Claude and from Les Rousses found four triangular holes in a heavily flattened area at that spot. In addition a pole fence had been grazed and -the bark of a pine tree was scorched five feet above the ground. Charles Garreau reports that over the :Battened area, which was twelve feet in diameter, the grass was flattened counterclockwise in the pattern of a whirlwind, and meadow flowers looked as if they had been put through a press. The edge of the circle was clearly defined, and the four holes were arranged in a square.

After the departure of the "ghost," the children soon realized that they would be much better off if they did not talk about what they had seen; they remained silent throughout the evening and the night. But the next day, Raymond told the story to another boy at school; the rumor spread and reached the young teacher, Miss Huguette Genillon, who called the police.

Captain Prustel, from Saint Claude, conducted the investigation himself. Thoroughly familiar with the region and its people, he was not surprised at the reaction of the children; he interviewed them separately and at length, and he had them reenact the whole scene.

Throughout this investigation, Mrs. Romand displayed a very strange attitude. She seemed deeply shocked by the whole affair and reluctant to let the interview take place. She refused to believe that Raymond might have seen something. A very pious, devout woman, she stated plainly that "flying saucers" and "Martians" could not exist and that she would rather believe that an evil spirit, or the Devil himself, was prompting her son to lie. God has created us, she said, beyond God and his creatures, no live being exists, and particularly no "Martians." A newspaper reporter who went to Premanon and spoke to the woman remarked that her home was probably one of the very few places in France where the subject of "flying saucers" had never been discussed at the dinner table. The children themselves never used the term "saucer" or "Martian." They said and repeated that they had seen a "ghost," The idea of a ":flying saucer" was started by the adults in Premanon.

This was the beginning of an incredible period in the life of the little village. Mrs. Romand wanted to force her son to admit he had been lying, that he had seen no "Martian." To her it was a question of faith, and she also felt that the good reputation of her farm was at stake. As Raymond did not change his story, he was punished and confined to the house. He still maintained that he had seen it. The mother was further vexed because the child had not confided in her, for it was now common knowledge that the young school teacher had first heard the story, Sympathies were split between the two camps, and soon the "Martian" had become an ideological issue in this little mountain community.

We should do well to consider this reaction among the population of Premanon with care. It gives the UFO phenomenon its true dimension as a sociological fact. The cause -of the sightings can be discussed according to physics, but their most important consequences are psychological and social. Whatever its physical nature, the phenomenon has made us aware of the limitations of our philosophies, of the obscurities in our beliefs, of the weakness of our knowledge. It has generated conflicts and produced changes in our awareness of the world about us that are not easy to weigh or even to perceive, although we are all affected.

The Premanon incident has not been the occasion of great debates. No grave philosopher has stopped to ponder the story. As for the professional scientists, to brush away such accounts with a smile is for them one of the tests of fashion. This silence in high places should disturb us greatly.

Sep. 27, 1954

787 1850

France, Premanon. The four Romand children, alerted by their dog barking saw, outside their barn, a "tin ghost" like a "lump of sugar standing on end." After Raymond Roland, 12, threw pebbles at it and attempted to touch it, he was thrown down "as if by an invisible force." The "thing" moved off to a large bright red luminous ball, oscillating slightly 400 to 500 ft. away in the meadow. The next day they told their teacher. When the police investigated, they found that the grass was flattened counter-clockwise over a 12 ft. diameter area, sharply defined. Within the circle there were four triangular holes, 4' in diameter, inclined at an angle of 45° toward the center, arranged in a square. Outside the circle, a flagpole was scratched and the bark was torn off at a height of 5 in. above the ground. At the foot of the pole were two marks similar to the other four, but more elongated. (Michel, Aime, "Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery." Criterion Books, New york, 1958)

4/ MECHANICAL TRACES.

Tradition dictated that these marks were left by the feet of Fairies dancing their rounds. Our current knowledge of the "Flying Saucers" phenomenon allows us to give them another interpretation.

A. Meyrac reports, on page 189 of his "Villes des Ardennes" a quite remarkable item. In the Pré Norbert, in Avaux (Ardennes), there was a circle where the grass was STRIDED IN A SPIRAL.

It is impossible not to link this description to certain contemporary facts. The Fairies Circle of Avaux strangely resembles the trace left by a ball of fire observed on 09-27-1954 in Prémanon by the Romand children and which Aimé Michel describes as follows on page 147 of "Mystérieux Objets Célestes": "At the place where the ball of fire was observed, the gendarmes discovered irrefutable traces. At the location indicated, on an area 4 m in diameter, the grass was lying in the opposite direction to the movement of the needles of a clock. Not torn or crushed, but simply flattened, frozen in the motionless image of a whirlwind..."

7/09/1954 Premanon (Jura)

Around 8:30 p.m., four children who were playing in a barn observed a metallic thing in the shape of a sugar cube (rectangular parallelepiped) 1.20m to 1.50m high with a split at the bottom (like legs)... ( A. Michel)

"Martians" of the C C type

Here, anything is possible! We cannot go into details, we will content ourselves with citing the most significant cases.

[... other case...]

Type CC 4: on 09/27/1954 in Prémanon (Jura) was observed a "thing" lm high in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped split at the bottom, as if to make legs.

09/27/1954 Premanon (Jura)

Children observed a red luminous ball oscillating in a meadow 150m below their farm. Therefore, the craft was not placed in contact with the ground. Two days later, during the investigation, the gendarmes discovered amazing traces on the landing site. On a circle 4m in diameter, the grass was lying counter-clockwise. Not crushed or torn, but simply flattened, frozen in the motionless image of a whirlwind... (A. Michel)

It is quite obvious that this flattening was not due to the weight of the sphere, it would have had to have considerable dimensions to put such a surface in contact with the ground. This flattening was simply due to the "reaction...", it had to correspond to the orthogonal projection of the craft on the ground.

The being seen in Prémanon 9/27/1954

On September 27, 1954, in Prémanon (Jura), four children, the oldest aged 12 and the youngest aged 4, play in the hayloft of the family farm. Suddenly, they are in the presence of a "ghost" that they describe as "like some sort of a large sugar lump, very shiny, split in the bottom, without arms, the size of a child." A few minutes later, they see a luminous ball rising from the nearby grass field. The gendarmes of Saint-Claude discovered there a circle of 4 meters in diameter, where the grass was flattened, and four rectangular holes, of 10 cm section, bent at 45 degrees.

160) September 27, 1954 08:30 p.m., Prémanon (France):

Four children came out of their home as dog barked furiously. They found a large object on the ground and a small being they thought was a "ghost" in the yard. Raymond Romand, 12, threw stones at the intruder. (P 20, Challenge 170).

160) September 27, 1954 08:30 p.m., Prémanon (France):

Four children came out of their home as dog barked furiously. They found a large object on the ground and a small being they thought was a "ghost" in the yard. Raymond Romand, 12, threw stones at the intruder. (P. 20, Challenge 170).

September 27, 1954, 08:30 p.m., Prémanon (France):

Four children came out of their home as dog barked furiously. They found a large object on the ground and a small being they thought was a "ghost" in the yard. Raymond Romand, 12, threw stones at the intruder. (Ici-Paris, Oct. 11, 1954; Le Parisien, Oct. 1st, 1954; Paris-Presse, Oct. 2, 1954. Challenge 170).

160) September 27, 1954 08:30 p.m., Prémanon (France):

Four children came out of their home as dog barked furiously. They found a large object on the ground and a small being they thought was a "ghost" in the yard. Raymond Romand, 12, threw stones at the intruder. (P 20, Challenge 170).

40. Prémanon, Jura, France - September 27, 1954.

Hearing the dog howl, four farm children came out and encountered a small creature (a "tin ghost") walking around the yard. Further, in a meadow, was a luminous object. Traces were discovered later.

Ref. Aimé Michel: Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 90.

Mysterious landing of a craft in the Jura

Jura, September 27, 1954.

Dense and silent, the autumn night for a long time confused the blacks fir trees of the Jurassic forest and the mountain houses attached on the slopes of Prémanon. The rain of this September 27, 1954 still thickens the darkness that absorbs the village. Up there, at the edge of the narrow free-Switzerland mesa, at nearly 800 meters of altitude, lights still shine in the farm of the Roland, isolated in the pastures. It is nearly 9 o'clock. In spite of this late hour for schoolboys, the children received the permission to play a while in the dependencies of the farm... Suddenly, the elder one, Raymond, twelve years old, stops playing and, intrigued, is all ears, imitated at once by Claude, his little brother: outside, the house's dog howls relentlessly at the night like to alert about an arrival or about a strange presence. The two brothers had not yet recovered from their from their astonishment, when the door of the kennels opens all of a sudden. Their sister, 9 years old, comes in, pale, trembling, upset that is. Surmounting her state of confusion, she tells them in a voice vibrating of fear:

- If you knew what I have just seen in the barn! That is the weirdest thing. You would have said a phantom walking without noise.

From the face his sister makes, Raymond understands that she is not joking. Courageously, he rushes into the barn. But he explores all the recesses in vain, it is empty. Already, he shrugs: girls, they see phantoms everywhere! However, to be sure, he gets out in the farm's yard. He had hardly made take two steps, that he freezes, awestruck. A few meters in front of him, in the pale clearness diffused by the lamps of the farm, the phantom stands. One kind of a phantom that no legend had ever described.

- It was like an enormous sugar lump, Raymond would explain. A very shining sugar lump, split in its bottom, about my size and which appeared to advance on three feet.

Recovering from his stupor, the young boy puts himself into driving this "armless" monster out. He throws stones at him. One of the stones rebounds on the strange target "with a noise of metallic sheet", but without appearing to move the "thing" more than that, which seems indifferent. Raymond then "arms himself" with a toy revolver that he carries at the belt, aims at the intruder and shoots some arrows. No reaction either! Then, without letting himself be disconcerted, the child approaches.

- At the time when I was within some footsteps of him, he told, I felt a frozen pressure against me, which threw me at the ground. Terrorized by this "icy fluid" which put him at the ground, Raymond screams. His sister Jeanine who stood in waiting in the hayloft hears him. She opens the door and sees the "giant sugar lump" moving away "while dandling himself" on its three feet. Raymond who stood up to take refuge close to her, also scans the darkness to try to see and understand. Then, in panic, the four children rush across the court to return in the dwelling house where their parents are. In the middle of his race, young Claude stops and point a finger towards the meadow which extends in front of the house, he shouts to his sisters and brothers: "Oh look at that!"

Eyes widened by stupor, the children see, within 150 meters of them, an enormous glowing reddish ball rise and "fly like a dead leaf." At the end of a few seconds, it suddenly seems absorbed in the night... The four young witnesses then reach their beds without daring to say anything to their parents. It is only the next day, at school, that Raymond Rolland decides to tell his adventure to his teacher. When hearing this mindboggling story, she does not believe initially her ears. She however knows that Raymond is not a liar nor a fabulator. Moreover, he could not have invented all the details of this adventure.

The gendarmes are certain that the three witnesses tell the truth

- Draw me your monster, she tells him. Raymond goes to the blackboard and, without the least hesitation, he draws "the sugar lump" on its tripod. Convinced of his sincerity, the teacher alerts the gendarmerie of Saint-Claude. Soon, captain Brustel arrives on the premises. He questions the three children and, struck in his turn by the agreement of their accounts, he is shown to the place where they saw the red ball rising. The prints that his gendarmes and himself discover there show him that the children did not invent this landing of a mysterious machine in spite of the rain which did not cease falling, they clearly distinguish in the meadow a circle of 4 meters diameter drawn in the lying (and not packed) grass and 4 rectangular holes of approximately 10 cm side. It is the proof that a machine landed there on 4 crutches. Everything leads to the assumption that the circle was drawn by a field of force, probably magnetic, at the time of the takeoff of the apparatus. Finally, very near from there, a mast erected by campers carries all fresh scratches...

After a meticulous investigation and two "reconstitutions" on the spot, the officer of gendarmerie is formal. He declares:

- For several reasons, I am convinced that the Roland kids do not lie. not having never intended to speak about flying saucers, they could not invent all the details of their adventure. Their testimonies agree perfectly when I interrogate them separately, and especially, these testimonies are supported by the traces noted on the ground. Lastly, all the inhabitants of the village are unanimous to believe that Raymond says the truth.

There remains, of course to determine to what kind of extraterrestrials this "sugar lump" belongs. Is this a dwarf, a type so often described by some witnesses, covered of a diving-suit of geometrical forms or, more simply, a radio-controlled robot? Will we ever know? The "thing" of Prémanon in any case presents several common points with "tourists" quite as mysterious who came to visit our planet in that September 1954. It does not have an arm, just like the "small green man" who, 15 days earlier, had landed on the railway of Quarouble (Northern), met Marius Dewilde and cherished the head of his son. However, it resembles even more the "scarecrow" which, on September 28, i.e. the following day of the affair of Prémanon, terrified Mrs. Leboeuf, in Chabeuil. That beginning of afternoon, she walks near a wood when her bitch expresses, by howls, an excessive nervousness. Mrs. Leboeuf approaches and remains nailed on the spot. In front of her, a small being with human face but without arm is standing. It is covered with a transparent diving-suit. "It resembles a child that you would have put under cellophane," she says. "Frightened, I went to hide in a hedge from where I soon saw, rising in the close corn field, an apparatus in the shape of a spinning top which moved away at low level. But the trial of the schoolboys of Prémanon is not relevant anymore, if one considers the number of landings and passengers of UFO which, for this day of September 1954, have been observed by irrefutable witnesses in this area of France.

6 - CASES OF NON-HUMAN FORM

CASES OF NON-HUMAN FORM - There are 9 such cases:

1) Case #42: Prémanon, France, September 27, 1954: shape of a "sugar lump split in two downwards" with brilliant surface.

[... Other worldwide cases ...]

334 27 September 1954 2030 PREMANON (FRANCE)

Four children were playing in the barn when their dog barked. Raymond Romand (12) went outside followed by his sisters Ghislaine (8) and Janine (9), and brother Claude (4). They encountered a small being "like a lump of sugar standing on end, split at the bottom". It appeared metallic, reflected the barn light, and the stones Raymond threw at it bounced off with a metallic "clang". When Raymond touched the being he was flung to the ground by a kind of force. It waddled off. As the children fled they saw a big, red luminous ball about 150m away. Traces were found where this ball had been.

(M1 0; Ici Paris, ll October 1954; Le Parisien, 1 October 1954; Paris-Presse, 2 October 1954; Challenge, 170; Michel II, 94).

Notes
334 Vallee reports the children were leaving the house. Michel indicates there were two beings, but makes no further mention of this second being.

36. Prémanon, Jura, France (8.30 p.m., September 27, 1954)

Hearing their dog barking furiously four children came out of their house and saw a small being ("tin host") in the yard and a strange large luminous object near by.

Aimé Michel: Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 90.

09/27/1954

Prémanon

Invention of the young romand following a schoolwork on the topic of the Martians proposed by the teacher Miss Genillon: investigation by the Swiss group Cosmos on 09/1954 and counter-investigation by Mr. Bosson to be published in "OVNI: présence de l'A.E.S.V."

A few days later, on September 27 [, 1954], in Prémanon, in the Jura, four young children were playing in a barn. They hear their dog barking. The oldest of the children is worried about it and goes in search of the animal. He suddenly finds himself facing a rectangular creature "like a sugar lump"! The child throws pebbles at it and tries to come closer. An invisible force stops him and throws him to the ground. He then runs away screaming, while the creature moves away in the direction of a meadow. When the children warn their parents, the latter still have time to see a brilliant red sphere, which, 150 m away, flies over the meadow. The next day, the gendarmes were to discover a circle of visibly crushed grass 4 m in diameter.

To give the authors credit where credit is due, their criticism of the methodology in the selection of cases is accurate, and there is at least one classical case (Premanon, 540927) that they have unmasked. And they have also pointed out in the Vallee Catalog some of the cases without scientific value, information which is really not new to us.

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- The case of Prémanon on September 27, 1954. This case is now supposed to be nothing more than a story due to the one of the farm boys following a school work: a drafting on the topic of the Martians! Knowing the area and the mentality of the teachers and parents well, I have difficulties to believe that such a topic of drafting was even proposed to these children of a small rural village so close to the start of the school year (or was it was before the summer holidays. But then, can there still be a cause to effect link, 2 months afterwards?). I doubt besides that the start of the schoolyear already took place at that time in 1954, because since the 27 is a Monday, it should have taken place towards the 23-24, which seems to me early for the time; it is a first point to be checked. There remain to explain the so intuitive imagination of these children who find on the first blow expressions of an amazing accuracy if their history is invented. First, it is initially the word "thing" used to concretize the image of their vision; this term of childish slang expresses well the idea of a robot and not that of a ghost, which corroborates the continuity of the account. It is the description: "like a sugar lump (without arm) on three feet"; if they had wanted to describe a ghost they would have added the arms and only put two feet! But three feet ensure more stability to this enigmatic machine. The proof that thus is not normal, it is that one of them uses the expression "a sugar lump split in bottom, making the legs!" Which seems well to express an experience, of a vision not understood. It is also the idea of "invisible and icy pressure" which plated Raymond on the ground when the machine passed close to him. This idea of icy cold that one finds indeed in many cases of spiritistic or fantomatic contacts seems impossible to me to be invented by a 12 year old child if he did not experience it... or, he is perfectly informed at his age! As Aimé Michel explains in his book, it also seems that it was at this moment that the child who so far played with the vision while launching stones to him, then arrows from his toy gun, understood that he should not play with "that" and flees, terrified, whereas before he confronted it. It is really very strong if this is simple imagination and our modern super-investigators would make a case of it then, for they do not compete. Finally, there is the description of the motion of the luminous ball in the sky which went down "like a dead leaf." Ok, this is traditional in ufology and that has been rehashed so much that it is perhaps known by a 12 year old child in 1986 if he is an assiduous reader of comic strips, but in 1954, it is much less certain!

Finally let's not forget that these children from respectively 12, 9, 8 and 4 years old did not contradict themselves in their testimonies when they were successively and separately questioned by their parents, their teacher, their priest, then by the gendarmes and the various investigators or journalists who followed one another during months. Very impressive children! And all that is demolished in a snap, thirty years later, by an iconoclast who goes stir up dust ignoring all testimonies of the time! Ridiculous! We would like to ignore and laugh at it; but we should also think at the damages all this "destruction" does to ufology. That is less laughable.

I will not believe that the naive ones were the local parents, the people in charge, teacher and priest, then the gendarmes, then the journalists and the investigating ufologists who all were unanimous to testify of the consistence of the accounts made separately by the children and of their note of sincerity when they were asked for a "reconstitution of the scene" as in a lawsuit, for things went so far, with children of 12, 9, 8 and 4 years! The investigation was perfect. The only very naive one are those who on the faith of their prejudices and without taking account of testimonies of the time are demolishing everything to retain only the fruit of a childish imagination, and that, against reports and logic.

Sad ufology, that of the iconoclast ufologists! And sad time we live, when the refusal to admit a reality which "challenges" us overrides the best established testimonies. Sad time, as we saw, when one does not hesitate to dirty the reputation of the witnesses of ufologic visions for better sapping their testimonies.

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54-31 Sept. 27, 1954 2030 Premanon, France Type C

Four children saw a ball of fire hovering in a meadow and 2 "tin ghosts", shaped "like a lump of sugar split at the bottom." Raymond Romand (12) threw pebbles at one; on going to touch it, he was flung to the ground by an ice-cold force. A 12-foot circle of flattened grass was found at the site.

"It was no taller than I am", said Raymond.

Investigator: Local police under Captain Brustel.

Source: Michel, Straight-Line Mystery, pp. 90-92; Paris Semaine du Monde, 10/8/54, p. 7.

(38) - In the case of Prémanon, it would rather be the present interview of the witness that makes one skeptical given his position as a scientist! Because how to explain the cold indicated by the child that he was, cold that one finds in multiple spiritualist phenomena and that he could hardly invent at the time! According to certain witnesses of the time, the child questioned about certain contradictions in his account had specified that he had "dreamed" this detail of the cold! Which singularly complicates the problem of Prémanon... (source: Alain Gamard).

A few days later, on September 27 [1954], in Prémanon, in the Jura, four young children play in a barn. They heard their dog barking. The oldest among the children worries and goes out to look for the animal. He is suddenly vis-a-vis a rectangular creature "like a piece of sugar"!

The child throws stones at it and tires to approach. An invisible force prevents him to do so and throws him to ground. He then flees while yelling, while the creature moves away in the direction of a meadow. When the children inform their parents, those still have time to see a brilliant and red sphere, which, at 150 m from there, flies over the meadow. The next day, the gendarmes were to discover a circle of grass obviously crushed, 4 m in diameter.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1: DID A FLYING SAUCER LAND ON THE HIGH JURA -

Morez - We saw ghosts last night, said Tuesday, Raymond Romand 10-year-old and his sister Janine, 9-year-old, living on a farm in Prémanon. It was 8:30 a.m. on Monday and the thunderstorm rumbled over the area. The young Raymond hearing the barking of the dog, went out and saw a silver object of two meters in height and posed on three feet, in the middle of the yard. At first scared, Raymond returned quickly and he came out, armed with all his courage and some pebbles he threw on the object that had meanwhile, slightly moved. The child then approached and the shining object began leaving, leeting out a gush of air that threw the young Raymond to the ground. His cry of terror attracted his little sister, who also saw what at once everyone in the region called "the saucer of Prémanon". Although the rain is [sic] ceased to fall since Tuesday, the gendarmerie who carried out the investigation, noted at the place indicated by the children, marks on the grass. Saucer or not saucer, a fact is certain, the fear of Raymond was such that this child, absolutely normal, since this apparition, is stuttering.

"Tin ghosts?"

Premanon, France. 8:30 p.m. September 27th.

According to the story told by some young children, on the evening of September 27, 1954, they were playing in the barn yard of the family farm which was in the nountains near Premanon, France. The oldest was Raymond Romand, who at 12 years should have had a reasonable grasp of the facts. Two others, Janine (9) and Ghislaine (8) were also old enough to relate most details well. The youngest, Claude (4) could not be expected to be a good witness.

It seems that at approximately 8:30 p.m. the children had retreated to the barn because of a cold light rain had started to fall. A while later, for no apparent reason the family dog began to bark so Raymond peeked outside to see what had excited the animal. To Raymond's surprise he was confronted by two strange figures he likened to "lumps of sugar standing on end," vertical rectangles split at the lower end that enabled the things to walk with a waddle. 133. Another newspaper put it this way, according to a supposed direct quote: "It was as tall as a door, and shiny, like a wardrobe with a mirror." 134.

Apparently the lack of features on the figures was why the things engendered no instant fear in Raymond who, evidently from mild annoyance and curiosity, pelted the things with small rocks. The stony missiles had no effect, bounching off harmlessly, making a tin-like noise. He then shot the figures with his toy gun which launched rubber-tipped projectiles (a lot of bravado for a 12-year-old if he was telling the truth). These assaults proving ineffectual, Raymond tried to grab one figure but was knocked down by an invisible force. Roughly treated and suddenly aware he was helpless, Raymond yelled and ducked back inside the barn where the other kids cowed. The strange figures did not follow and after a short time the children opened the barndoor, hoping for a chance to flee to the farmhouse. No figures were in sight so the four youngsters ran for their lives and as the four crossed the yard, 4-year-old Claude sighted a large, oscillating, luminous sphere about 100 yards away resting in a meadow. "look!," exclaimed Claude. The children only paused for a quick glance in their dash for safety. They said nothing to their parents at the time (This lack of communication should not be considered extraordinary according to Aime Michel who had been a French farmboy himself and Michel points out that none of the French investigators that interrogated the children later considered it odd). As it was,the story did not come out until the following afternoon.

The next day at school Raymond was caught whispering in class. The boy told his teacher, Mme. Genillon, about the "tin ghosts" he had encountered the previous afternoon. Astonished, Mme. Genillon notified the authorities at the nearby village of Les Rousses. On the 29th,gendarmes visited Raymond's home to question him and the other children. 135.

Was the Premanon case a hoax?

French researcher Claude Mauge has this to say:

"I agree with Sani that the evidence presented by Barthel and Brucker (hereafter BB) leads to a verdict of 'insufficient proof' for both sides. BB's conclusions are however strongly supported by an investigation of the Swiss group Cosmos on November i4 1954, which had been forgotten but was reprinted in Vaucluse-Ufologie in the June-September 1980 issue. If these investigators are right, it was indeed a story invented by Raymond Romand for a school work... which the school teacher took at face value! This does not solve the trace mystery, but it would not be the only time where totally independent events would be wrongly linked to build a 'strong story,' Yves Basson [Bosson], who is still investigating the case, thinks that the trace was caused by a little temporary metal shed of a holiday camp, his arguments seem good." 153.

Report 9/27/54 Premanon, France, 2050: multiple witness, disc, humanoids, traces.

2. 1954, Premanon

This account is the first of six in 1954, and begins on the evening of September 27. The Romand family were spending the evening in their home when their dog began frantically barking. Looking outside to see what the cause of the commotion was, they saw a small glowing ball hovering near their barn. They stepped outside to take a closer look, and one of the children picked up some stones and threw them at the glowing blob. To his alarm he was thrown from his feet, as if by an invisible force.

The following morning, a 4 m, anti-clockwide circle was discovered, with well-defined edges. The connection with the glowing mass is strongly implied. Small holes were found within the circle, reminding us of the case above.

TABLE 1. UFO OCCUPANT SIGHTINGS, 1954-1963

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September 27, 1954 Raymond Romand, Prémanon (Jura), France 8:30 P.M.

Two beings, squarish with legs; fiery ball hovered over meadow, light from barn reflected off being, child threw pebbles that struck it with metallic sound; 12-foot circle of flattened grass, imprints, at site".

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September 27 [...]

08:30 p.m.: in Prémanon (the Jura), four young children of the Romand family play in a barn. They hear their dog bark. Raymond Romand, the oldest among the children (12 years old) worries and leaves to search the animal. He is suddenly vis-a-vis a rectangular creature like a piece of sugar! The child throws stones at it and tries to approach. An invisible and icy force prevents it and pushes him to the ground. He then flees while yelling, while the creature moves away in direction of a meadow. When the children inform their parents, the latter still have time to see a brilliant and red sphere which, ao 150 m from there, flies over the meadow.

*Sep. 27, 1954 - Four children in Premanon, France came outside of their home at 8:30 p.m. because their dog was barking furiously. They saw a large object on the ground and a small being they thought was a "ghost" in their yard. Raymond Romand (or Rolland), age 12, threw stones at the intruder. (Sources: Aime Michel, A propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 116; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 212; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 91-92).

- That of Prémanon on September 27, 1954 (1). The case would be nothing more than a question of fabrication due to one of the boys of the farm following a school work: an essay on the theme of Martians! Knowing the region well and the mentality of teachers and parents, I find it hard to believe that such a writing topic was proposed to these children of a small rural village so close to the start of the school year (unless this is before the summer holidays. But then, can there still be a causal link, 2 months later?). I doubt moreover that the start of the school year had already taken place at that time in 1954, because the 27th being a Monday, it should have taken place around the 23rd-24th, which seems to me early for the time; this is a first point to check. It remains to explain the so intuitive imagination of these children who immediately find expressions with an astonishing accuracy of tone if their story is invented. It is first of all the word "thing" to materialize the image of their vision; this term of childish slang expresses well the idea of ??a robot and not that of a ghost, which corroborates the rest of the story. This is his description: "like a sugar cube (without arms) on three feet"; if they had wanted to describe a ghost they would have added the arms and put only two feet! But three legs provide more stability to this enigmatic machine. The proof that this is not normal is that one of them uses the expression "a piece of sugar split at the bottom, making the legs"! which seems to express a lived image, but a vision that has remained misunderstood. It was again the idea of ??"invisible and icy pressure" that pinned Raymond to the ground when the machine passed close to him. This idea of ??freezing cold that we actually find in many cases of spiritualist or ghostly contacts seems to me impossible for a 12-year-old child to invent if he has not experienced it... or else he is perfectly informed to his age! As Aimé Michel explains in his book, it also seems that it was at this moment that the child who until then had played with the vision by throwing pebbles at it and then arrows from his revolver understood that shouldn't play with "that" and fled terrified, whereas before he stood up to it. It's really very strong if it's simple imagination and our modern super-investigators would do well to take the inspiration, because they do not come close to them. This is finally the description of the displacement of the luminous ball in the sky which descended "like a dead leaf". Of course, it's classic in ufology and it's been hyped up so much that it might be known to a 12-year-old child in 1986 if he's an avid reader of comics, but in 1954 it's a lot less certain!

Finally, let's not forget that these children, aged 12, 9, 8 and 4 respectively, did not contradict each other in their testimonies when they were successively and separately questioned by their parents, their teacher, their priest, then by the gendarmes and the various investigators or journalists who followed one another for months. Very smart, these children! And all of this was demolished with the stroke of a pen, thirty years later, by an iconoclast who stirred up the dust, ignoring all the evidence of the period! Joke! You want to shrug your shoulders and laugh about it; but we must also think of the harm that all these "destructions" do to ufology. This is less laughable.

You will not make me believe that the naive ones were the parents, the local officials, teacher and priest, then the gendarmes, then the journalists and ufologist investigators who all were unanimous in testifying to the coherence of the accounts made separately by the children and their accent of sincerity when we made them "re-enact the scene" as in a court case, because we went so far with children of 12, 9, 8 and 4 years old! The investigation was perfect. The only and great naive is the one who, on the strength of his prejudices and without taking into account the testimonies of the time, allows himself to demolish everything to retain only the fruit of a child's imagination, and this against the texts and the verisimilitude.

Sad ufology than that of iconoclastic ufologists! And sad time that we live where the refusal to admit a reality which "defies" us passes before the best established testimonies. A sad time, as we have seen, which does not hesitate to smear the reputation of witnesses to ufological visions in order to better undermine their testimonies.

2. 1954, Prémanon

This account is the first of six in 1954, and begins on the evening of September 27. The Romand family were spending the evening in their home when their dog frantically barking. Looking outside to see what the cause of the commotion was, they saw a small glowing ball hovering near their barn. They stepped outside to take a closer look, and one of the children picked up some stones and threw them at the glowing blob. To his alarm he was thrown from his feet, as if by an invisible force.

The following morning a 4m, anti-clockwise circle was discovered, with well-defined edges. The connection with the glowing mass is stronly implied. Small holes were found within the circle, remining us of the case above.

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Ref#197 WEINSTEIN, D: French Newsclips 1954 Page No. 63 : MOUNTAINS

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Location. Prémanon France

Date: September 27 1954

Time: 2030

Four children saw a ball of fire hovering in a meadow and 2 "tin ghosts," shaped "like a lump of sugar split at the bottom." Raymond Romand, 12, threw pebbles at one; on going to touch it, he was flung to the ground by an ice-cold force. A 12-foot circle of flattened grass was found at the site.

Humcat 1954-58

Source: Aime Michel

Type: C

09/27/54 2050 France, Premanon: The four Romand children heard their dog barking and saw, outside their barn, a "tin ghost" like a "lump of sugar standing on end."

One of the children threw rocks at it and attempted to touch it; he was thrown to the ground "as if by an invisible force." The thing moved off to a large bright red luminous ball, oscillating slightly 400 to 500 feet away in the meadow.

They told their teacher, and police investigated, finding that the grass was flattened counter-clockwise over a 12 ft diameter area, sharply defined. Within the circle there were four imprints-triangular holes, 4 inches in diameter, inclined at an angle of 45 degrees toward the center, arranged in a square.

Outside the circle, a flagpole was scratched and the bark was torn off at a height of 5 inches above the ground. At the foot of the pole were two marks similar to the other four, but more elongated.

Encounters with Aliens On this Day

September 27

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1954 - Four children in Prémanon, France came outside of their home at 8:30 p.m. because their dog was barking furiously. They saw a large object on the ground and a small being they thought was a "ghost" in their yard. Raymond Romand (or Rolland), age 12, threw stones at the intruder. (Sources: Aime Michel, A propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 116; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 212; Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 91-92).

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2. 1954, Prémanon

This account is the first of six in 1954, and begins on the evening of September 27. The Romand family were spending the evening in their home when their dog frantically barking. Looking outside to see what the cause of the commotion was, they saw a small glowing ball hovering near their barn. They stepped outside to take a closer look, and one of the children picked up some stones and threw them at the glowing blob. To his alarm he was thrown from his feet, as if by an invisible force.

The following morning a 4m, anti-clockwise circle was discovered, with well-defined edges. The connection with the glowing mass is stronly implied. Small holes were found within the circle, remining us of the case above.

September 1954

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Mon 27

20:30 In Prémanon (the Jura), 4 young children of the Romand family play in a barn. They hear their dog to bark. Raymond Romand, oldest of the children (12 years) worries and leaves to search the animal. In the yard, he is suddenly vis-a-vis a rectangular creature like a piece of sugar, which they take for a phantom. Raymond throws stones at him and tries to approach. An invisible and icy force prevents that and throws him on the ground. He then flees while howling, while the creature moves away in direction of a meadow. When the children inform their parents, the latter still have time to see a brilliant and red sphere which, at 150 m from there, flies over the meadow.

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September 1954

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The gendarmes, among those captain Brustel, discover on the site of the day before in Prémanon, in which the grass is lying in the clockwise direction. Inside, 4 holes resulting from the depression of rectangular corners of 10 cm section, tilted at 45°. A mast, drawn up on the site by a vacation camp, shows scratches at 1,50 m height; at its foot, there are 2 holes identical to the previous ones.

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Following the unexpected visit, in 1954, of a spherical creature having the power to land on the ground and to fly in the air [...]

The mystery of the famous ufos in the Jura

In his book "Les Mystères du Jura " published by De Borée publishers in the end of 2009, Alain Lequien, with an historian's approach, listed the observations of unidentified flying objects (ufos) in the department of the Jura. There was the red ball of fire of Poligny, [...] the close encounter of the third kind of Prémanon, the cigar of the schoolboys of Les Rousses, the multicoloured oscillating object of Dole, [...] the white and luminous phenomenon of Meussia, [...]

September 27, 1954, in Prémanon, in the Jura, the children Romands, 12 and 9 years old, see a form of aluminium color of 2m by 1m; the boy shoots with his arrow gun. The mass then approaches the boy who is hit at the shoulder; his sister sees an animated cube in the barn, it hides in the hay. The gendarmes later note that the meadow is pressed.

September 20, 2010

1954 Return on the wave of demonstrations of unknown machines on the national territory

1954 is an important year in the history of French ufology.

[General information]

Here some one of the encounters:

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September 27, 1954, in Prémanon, in the Jura, the Romand children, 12 and 9 years old, see an aluminum color form of 2m by 1m; the boy shoots with his arrow gun. The mass then approaches the boy who is hit at the shoulder; his sister sees an animated cube in the barn, she hides in the hay. The gendarmes would note that the meadow is pressed.

[... Other cases... ]

September 27 1954. 2030hrs.

PREMANON (JURA : FRANCE)

The four Romand children, Raymond (12), Janine (9), Ghislaine (8) and Claude (4) were playing in the barn of their isolated farm on a darkish, rainy, night, when the dog outside began to bark. Raymond, going out to investigate, encountered something like a vertical rectangle, split at the bottom. When Raymond threw stones at it, they bounced off with a metallic noise. He then shot a rubber arrow at it, before going to touch it. When he did this, he was thrown to the ground by a sort of ice cold invisible force. His sister Janine, alerted by his cry went outside and saw the thing waddling away. They retreated to the barn, and when they went back the thing had vanished. Their little brother Claude drew their attention to a large luminous ball oscillating slightly in a meadow 120-150m away. When police and officials arrived on the morning of the 29th, they found a circular area 3.5m diameter of flattened grass and flowers. There were four holes in the closely defined circle, arranged in a square, and a flagpole on the edge of the circle was scratched and marked. Investigators were impressed but according to Alain Gamard the story was actually made up for a school essay on “The Night I met the Martians)

• Michel 1958, p.92, citing investigations by Captain Brustel and Charles Garreau. Vallee Case 160, citing Ici Paris 11 October 1954 + La Parisien 1 October 1954; Paris-Presse 2 Oct 1954.

Location: Premanon France

Date: September 27 1954

Time: 2030

Four children saw a ball of fire hovering in a meadow and 2 “tin ghosts,” shaped “like a lump of sugar split at the bottom.” Raymond Romand, 12, threw pebbles at one; on going to touch it, he was flung to the ground by an ice-cold force. A 12-foot circle of flattened grass was found at the site.

Source: Aime Michel; Magonia 160

September 27 1954. 2030hrs.

PREMANON (JURA : FRANCE)

The four Romand children, Raymond (12), Janine (9), Ghislaine (8) and Claude (4) were playing in the barn of their isolated farm on a darkish, rainy, night, when the dog outside began to bark. Raymond, going out to investigate, encountered something like a vertical rectangle, split at the bottom. When Raymond threw stones at it, they bounced off with a metallic noise. He then shot a rubber arrow at it, before going to touch it. When he did this, he was thrown to the ground by a sort of ice cold invisible force. His sister Janine, alerted by his cry went outside and saw the thing waddling away. They retreated to the barn, and when they went back the thing had vanished. Their little brother Claude drew their attention to a large luminous ball oscillating slightly in a meadow 120-150m away. When police and officials arrived on the morning of the 29th, they found a circular area 3.5m diameter of flattened grass and flowers. There were four holes in the closely defined circle, arranged in a square, and a flagpole on the edge of the circle was scratched and marked.

• Michel 1958 p92 citing investigations by Captain Brustel and Charles Garreau
• Vallee Case 160 citing Ici Paris 11 October 1954. + La Parisien 1 October 1954.; Paris- Presse 2 October 1954.

Evaluation - Hoax by Raymond. The hoax was confessed only six weeks after the event to the Geneva based group COMOS Report published by Yves Bosson, with a commentary by Thierry Pinvidic in Vaucluse Ufologie 18/19 (1980) also in SOS Ufologie 1992 p4. Cf Rossoni, Maillot and Deguillaume 2007 p268 citing Yves Bosson in Pinvidic 1993 p123. The traces in the meadow, not part of the children's initial story were the traces of an old hut. The children originally planned the entity to be a robot, it was their schoolteacher and her ufologist husband who interpreted in UFO terms, and somewhat changed the children's answers by suggestion