France · 27 September 1954

Figeac, 1954

Documented

On a September afternoon in 1954 children in the Lot reported a small figure and a flying box, and seventy years later the French state still lists it, unexplained for lack of information.

Where
Figeac, Lot
When
27 September 1954
Who reported it
Children (number not recorded)
Entities described
1 figure
Described as
Un personnage de petite taille seen with a caisse volante. No height, dress, head, face or limbs.
Handled as
INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED
Evidence class
GOV-2

What the record resolves

A silhouette

A shape, a height, a number of figures. Nothing that resolves a body.

A small figure and a flying box. No height, dress, head, face or limbs.

The record

An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.

The document is attached to this entry.

What is not settled

Class C, officially unassessable. Child witnesses at the peak of the Sept-Oct 1954 media wave. Many GEIPAN 1954 entries derive from press archives rather than gendarmerie paperwork.

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