from Robyn Collin's 1974 book ‘Did Spacemen Colonise the Earth’
According to Antonio Fenoglio in his
article[1], he visited the Archives of the august French Academy
of Sciences, Paris, and discovered the following report
submitted to it[2]. In 1975, Dr Jacques
Vallee quoted the account and appeared to indicate that he had seen the report
himself [3].
You will no doubt be very interested in
what could be the first (?) UFO crash in history.
During June, 1790, Police Inspector Liabeuf
was sent from Paris to Alencon,
west of the city (between Argentan and Le
Mans). His orders
were to make a thorough investigation of a disturbing incident –some of the
observers being of high standing.
Liabeuf visited the town and the following
is his report, submitted to the Academy
of Sciences.
“At 5 A.M.,on June
12th,several farmers caught
sight of an enormous
globe which seemed surrounded
with flames. First they thought it was perhaps a
balloon that had caught
fire,but the great velocity
and the whistling sound which came
from that body
intrigued them.
“The globe slowed
down,made some oscillations and
precipitated itself
towards the top of a hill,
unearthing plants along the
slope. The heat which
emanated from it was so
intense that soon the grass
and the small tree
started burning. The peasants
succeeded in controlling the fire which
threatened
to spread to the whole
area.
“In the evening this
sphere was still warm and an
extraordinary
happened,not to say an incredible
thing. The witnesses were;two mayors,a doctor and
three
other authorities who
confirm my report,in addition
to the dozens of
peasants who were present.
“This sphere,which
would have been large enough to
contain a carriage,had
not suffered from all that
flight. It excited so much curiousity that people
came from all parts to
see it. Then all of a sudden
a kind of door opened
and,there is the interesting
thing,a person like us
came out of it,but this person
“was dressed in a
strange way,wearing a tight-fitting suit
and,seeing all that
crowd,said some words which were
not understood and fled
into the woods. Instinctively,
the peasants stepped
back,in fear,and this saved
them because soon after
that the sphere exploded in
silence,throwing pieces
everywhere,and these pieces
burned until they were
reduced to powder.
“Researches were initiated to find the
mysterious
man,but he seemed to
have dissolved.”
Dr Vallee, a respected scientist
who has spoken before the United Nations, cites this case as evidence of
visitors from some other world. Dr
Vallee notes the many similarities to modern accounts of “UFOs”.
The question is; does this report
exist? Fenoglio wrote his article circa
1967 so we know that the document was, allegedly, still in existence then. Inspector Liabeuf’s report either exists or
was fiction created by Fenoglio and it is scientifically important that the
reality of it is ascertained once and for all.
After all,the report had many features from modern UFO accounts: the
landed object followed by an entity appearing and the explosion totally
destroying the object. Even the
description of the clothing worn by the entity is typical of modern accounts.
What this meant was simple: people
in 1790 France
could not possibly know of post 1947 accounts of UFOs and Liabeuf’s report
would be a major kick in the teeth to the anti-UFO brigade.
A document was forwarded to the Keeper
of the Archives, French
Academy of Sciences, on 9th
January, 2006. It took a while but
rather than hearing that the report had been found I was told that no such
report existed or reference to it found.
Fenoglio seems to have been the only person ever to have seen the report
leading to the conclusion that this was yet another UFO hoax. Fenoglio was in fact a well known UFO hoaxer -this was known in the 1960s.
I forwarded a copy of my report
to Dr. Vallee’s last known contact point but nothing so far.
This was a real disappointment to
me, though I should have expected it.
References
[1] Fenoglio,A.,”Ancient Sky
Visitors”,Clypeus magazine III,p.13 [quoting]~
[2] “Archives of the Academy
of Sciences,Paris,France”
[3] Vallee,Dr Jacques,Passport To
Magonia,Tandem Books,London,
1975,pp:60-61
[4] AOP Bureau Case Reference
No.022/06/1790/FR
Location:Alencon,France.
