France · 21 October 1982

Suburban garden, 1982

Scientific context

A biologist watched an oval object 1.5m across hang a metre above his lawn for twenty minutes at midday; when it left, the grass beneath stood straight up, then lay back down, and the amaranth withered.

Where
Suburban garden, commune anonymised as VI
When
21 October 1982
Who reported it
1 civilian biologist
Entities described
None reported
Handled as
INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED
Evidence class
SCI-2

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

One witness, no landing marks, no photograph. GEPAN recorded that cold storage of the samples was insufficient to stop enzymatic activity, so the biochemistry supports no conclusion. Sceptics: ordinary frost.

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