France · 31 July 1968
Plaine des Cafres, 1968
ReportedTwo ninety-centimetre figures in Michelin-man suits in a Reunion clearing, and the departmental fire chief's radiation meter then found eight hot spots in a five-metre circle.
- Where
- Plaine des Cafres, Le Tampon, La Reunion
- When
- 31 July 1968
- Who reported it
- 1 civilian agricultural worker (Luce Fontaine, 22)
- Entities described
- 2 figures
- Described as
- Two figures ~0.90m enclosed in a bulky one-piece suit (scaphandre). No skin, face, eyes, hands or feet. Visor/helmet detail is later retelling, not documented.
- Handled as
- INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED
- Evidence class
- GOV-2
What the record resolves
The record carries a garment, a helmet or an enclosure. The body inside it is not described.
Two figures in a bulky scaphandre. The visor detail belongs to later retelling, not to the record.
The record
An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.
UNVERIFIED - parent fonds catalogue: https://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/ark/965265 (GD 2007 ZM 1 188215-188234, 191744)
Part of the chain is attached. The rest is still being retrieved.
What is not settled
Single witness. Radiation readings taken by a fire officer with improvised equipment, never replicated, no laboratory report. Case file not public, so every description in circulation is second-hand.