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URECAT - UFO Related Entities Catalog

URECAT is a formal catalog of UFO related entities sightings reports with the goal of providing quality information for accurate studies of the topic. Additional information, corrections and reviews are welcome at patrick.gross@inbox.com, please state if you wish to be credited for your contribution or not. The main page of the URECAT catalog is here.

1930, AVIGNON, VAUCLUSE, FRANCE, MR. TEYSSIER, HIS MOTHER, HIS UNCLE:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

One Mr. Frank Teyssier wrote in June 2004 to the ufology magazine "LumièPres Dans La Nuit"; which published his narrative of the 74-year-old facts in No. 376 in 2004.

Teyssier reported that in 1930 in Avignon, in the Vaucluse, his grandmother had noticed that chickens had disappeared from her chicken coop, and on three occasions she had observed a "thing" described as a small being with a dark face and wearing a dark garment, coming from the disused seminary which adjoined her property, and which spanned the fence in order to penetrate into the poultry-house.

One evening she decided to catchit it with her brother-in-law and her 10-year-old son, father of Frank Teyssier. At almost midnight, they saw a creature appear that walked a few meters on all fours, then stood up, stopped and looked up to check the windows of the house.

The uncle then hit a window sash with the butt of his rifle. Hearing the noise, the being crouched a long while behind a wheelbarrow and then resumed its march towards the hen house. Once inside, he grabbed a chicken, which did not make a noise, then went out, taking care to close the door.

The uncle then suddenly opened the shutter and fired two cartridges, the being uttered a terrible cry but managed to escape without releasing the hen.

The next morning, traces of what looked like blood were found up to the fence of the property.

The uncle had thought it was a monkey trained to steal, while Mr. Teyssier still wondered why the being was stealing chickens when, at the seminary, chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs living in freedom were available. It is also said that the garden where it took place overlooked the vast complex of the seminary of Avignon where an old Italian woman lived with her mentally challenged nephew. The place was deemed dangerous because there were hungry pigs and snarling dogs. The seminar was demolished after the World War II and replaced by bars of buildings.

Basic information table:

Case number: URECAT-001604
Date of event: 1930
Earliest report of event: June 2004
Delay of report: 74 years.
Witness reported via: Told the son who tells it to a ufology magazine.
First alleged record by: Witness son letter to LDLN.
First certain record by: Witness son letter to LDLN.
First alleged record type: Witness son letter to ufology magazine.
First certain record type: Witness son letter to ufology magazine.
This file created on: October 5, 2017
This file last updated on: October 5, 2017
Country of event: France
State/Department: Vaucluse
Type of location: Garden.
Lighting conditions: Night
UFO observed: No
UFO arrival observed: N/A
UFO departure observed: N/A
UFO/Entity Relation: None
Witnesses numbers: 3
Witnesses ages: 10, 2 adults.
Witnesses types: Mother, son, uncle.
Photograph(s): No.
Witnesses drawing: No.
Witnesses-approved drawing: No.
Number of entities: 1
Type of entities: Humanoid or human
Entities height: Small
Entities outfit type: Dark clothe.
Entities outfit color: Not reported, dark.
Entities skin color: Not reported or dark.
Entities body: Not reported.
Entities head: Not reported. Dark face.
Entities eyes: Not reported or not seen.
Entities mouth: Not reported or not seen.
Entities nose: Not reported or not seen.
Entities feet: Not reported. Two.
Entities arms: Yes, two.
Entities fingers: Not reported or not seen.
Entities fingers number: Not reported or not seen.
Entities hair: Not reported or not seen.
Entities voice: Yells when hit by gunshot.
Entities actions: Steals hens.
Entities/witness interactions: Frightful, frightened, flees.
Witness(es) reactions: Observed, shot at it.
Witness(es) feelings: Not reported.
Witness(es) interpretation: Monkey trained to steal.
Explanation category: Hen thief.
Explanation certainty: Medium.

Narratives:

[Ref. jg1:] JULIEN GONZALEZ:

The author indicates that there was a close encounter of the third kind in France in 1930 in Avignon in the Vaucluse.

Mrs. Teyssier found that chickens had disappeared from her chicken coop. On three occasions, she observed a "thing" coming from the disused seminary that adjoined her property and which spanned the fence to enter the henhouse.

She described the "thing" as a small being with a dark face and wearing a dark garment.

One evening she decided to wait with her son and brother-in-law in order to catch the "thing", and at almost midnight they saw a creature appear, who walked a few meters on all fours, then stood up, stopped and looked up to look at the windows of the house.

The uncle then struck a vantial from the window with the butt of his rifle. Hearing the noise the being crouched a long time behind a wheelbarrow and then resumed its march towards the hen house. Once inside, he grabbed a chicken, which did not make a noise, then went out, taking care to close the door.

The uncle then abruptly opened the shutter and fired two cartridges, the being uttered a terrible cry but managed to escape without releasing the hen.

The next morning, traces of what looked like blood were found up to the fence of the property.

Julien Gonzalez said that this story was communicated in June 2004 to the magazine "Lumières Dans La Nuit" by one of the subscribers, Frank Teyssier, son of the youngest witnesses, to whom his father would have entrusted his testimony 74 years after the facts.

Julien Gonzalez says that the uncle thought it was a monkey trained to steal but that nothing confirms it.

It indicates that the garden where this took place gave on the vast set of the seminary of Avignon where an old Italian woman with her somehow mentally challenged nephew lived. The place was deemed dangerous because there were hungry pigs and snarling dogs. The seminar was demolished after World War II and replaced by tall buildings.

Julien Gonzalez indicates that Mr. Teyssier still wonders why the being was stealing chickens when he had, at the seminary, at his disposal, chickens, ducks, geese and pigs living in freedom there.

He indicates that the source is "Lumières Dans La Nuit" #376 on pages 4 and 5.

Points to consider:

There is absolutely no indication of any interesting strangeness in the report:

I guess the "mentally challenged nephew" of the "old Italian woman", makes for an ideal culprit for the stealing of the chickens!

List of issues:

Id: Topic: Severity: Date noted: Raised by: Noted by: Description: Proposal: Status:
1 Data Severe October 5, 2017 Patrick Gross Patrick Gross Missing primary source LDLN 376. Help needed. Open.
2 Ufology Severe October 5, 2017 Patrick Gross Patrick Gross Not an investigated case, only a reader's letter to a ufology magazine. - -
3 Ufology Severe October 5, 2017 Patrick Gross Patrick Gross No strangeness. - -
4 Ufology Severe October 5, 2017 Patrick Gross Patrick Gross Second hand report 74 years after the occurence. - -

Evaluation:

Chicken thief.

Sources references:

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

Document history:

Authoring

Main Author: Patrick Gross
Contributors: None
Reviewers: None
Editor: Patrick Gross

Changes history

Version: Created/Changed By: Date: Change Description:
0.1 Patrick Gross October 5, 2017 Creation, [jg1].
1.0 Patrick Gross October 5, 2017 First published.

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