PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION CO CLUSIONS 3. OATETIME GROUP Vin:;:; S u r Car an:y , France .C. lYPE OF OBSERVATION IO~Ground Vi suol D Ground-Radar 0 A ir-VIsual 0 Air-Intercept Raoor 0 Was Balloon ProhCibly Balloon 0 PossilJit B alloon Wo~ Aircraft 0 Probably Aireroft Po ssl bl y AI rc:1aft 0 Was AlJtronomi col OYs 0 ProboblyAstronomlcal :ct:No Civilian 0 Possibly Astroflomicol , 7. LENGTH OP OBSeRVATION I. NUMaER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE r<"~ Otne'r ~ -. ~ .. j :t , 0 In suffl ei ent Doto for Eva I uoti on not repo.:-ted -.. -l o u d in;:; .fl..:on r 't of Satt.::er lnnt.litHt in southern ATJC FORM 329 (R!eY 26 SEP S2) Case #J-Beaucourt- Sur-Ancre May 10,1957. Investigators : Marc Thirouin The general different director of C. I . E. Ouranos and Y de Saint-Aubin the secretary general of C. I .E. Ouranos and Jules reporter and investigator of C. I . E. Ouranos for the department that is located in Somma. Eye Witnesses: Mr. , a highway maintenece laborer of S . N.C.F-. and Hr. a S.N. C;F road-mender and s. man for S.N.C.F and the municipal couBsellor other Witnesses: retired and Mrs. nd Hr. a farmer all of Beaucourt-Sur- Ancre. Some others. The narration and testimony of the witnesses. On May 10,1957 my v:ife and I were in the company of some neigh- bours (Hr.&Mrs. ) who had come to pay us a visit. \-le w.ere in the kitchen,my wife left and went to the bedroom -where our son lay ill. At approximately 10:45P .t1 we heard someone tap on the kitchen windows and so -we opened the -window and there we saw Mr. ,a Hungarian refugee who has been here since 1942,all pant- ing and puffing, he kept repeating "They aL tacked me", They attacked me In At the time of all t he confusion we asked him to please come in and we dimmed the lights. In very whis?hered words he told us what had happened and why he was so frightened and we listened attentively then we looked out the window -On Hay 10,1957 at approximately 10:45 P.M. as I was riding home on the route that comes from Beaumont on the \.Jay to Beaucourt-Sur- Ancre coming from church. Upon arriving at the level of the electric transformer at the t urn i n the highway that at this time of the night and at thi s side is generally deserted,thc r e- for e I was very surprised to observe a ver,y pwerful flare located on tho highway . After observing the flare I observed four silhouettes of human a'3pect that seemed t o be blocking my way. Very strongly amazed at this arrangement/immediat~ly struck me as being an ambush so that I jumped from my bike aHd ro.n to ta1{e cover behind the t ransmitter device and through a foot path and after a rat i1er long detour I stumbl ed upon the house of lvlr . &Nrs. . I tapped on the window of their kitchen and they let me in end then I explained to them what had happened and what I had Then all of us observed the latter from the window. Y~.& s. hen Mr.~ ho had a lso passed along this ro~te Th~ough the window of our kitchen we obse~ed all five of these humans on the open route to Miramont at less than 50 meters was a brillant light whose color would blink on white then turn to dull red. Then so that we could see better we went to the door. The light remained ~ore on the red than ont the white. When it was white it appeared to be the fire of a very powerful floodlight projector and it was blinding. This light cast a reflection to the back of it and very near this we observed three figure s that appeared to be that of three men who could not measure more than 1 50 meters standing on the highvray in an immobil e manner. their arms hanging along side their bodies and half-:-hidden by the slo) e of the hill. They seemed to be dres- sed in a greyish-beige outfit and their heads seemed to be ve17 somber couloured although we did not get a good close look a t them. An automobile passed along t he open highway and the headlights of the auto l et us have,for a brief instant, another look at the t~ree,still immobile,figures. After the automobile passed the white light reappeared but less blinding and higher above the level of the hiehway. vle saw it shine in the sky at approxilnately a L~o5 angle tmtards the North-Eust approsimately towards N and without making single sound. This all took place at appro: .imately 11 :15. The light statted to fade. But approximately 15 minutes later it once again appeared high in the uky above the church (to the North-East). It seemed that as it fle,,r away its brightnes~ dimin- ished. Soon we lost sight of it. Towards the endo of the observation,! went to the station behind the house to warn my colleague who was still on duty (1-~r. !le promptly joined us and observed the light taking flight We called the police in Albert and approximately a half-hour later they arrived. We accompanied them on the highway right to the place where we had s een the light and the beings. There, ,,.,e were all surprised upon encountering the presence, on the highway, of approximately 12 different sets of forms. These were all of different dirr.ensions and widths and black as the casting of costly tar. This was divided along the periphery of a circular area of approximately 3 to 4 meters in diameter . The prin- cipal series set measured approximately 40 c entimeters in diameter and had a width of 1 centimeter. This soft substance was slightly stinking to the ground and we \Jere able to remove it by rolling it on itself as it it were crepe paper. It had no trace of circulation except that of the tire mark of an auto,that was most probably the auto that '..te had seen pass during t he time we were observing the other phenomenon I no w r e fer t o that auto that Rppear ed approximately 10 minutes after the light disappeared The next few days,these traces were flattened,they also streched and adher ed to the gr ound and it aas then ilnpossible to remove any more of this substance . This substance W'as not tar because it had a slight stool odour. five other W'itnesses,Nrs. ,Hr .&!.rs. and l:r., rere all questioned individually und they all confirmed this r eport. Examination of the S8tfi o~ substance on the hj .c;,h~,-r~y At the site that had been indicated by tho witnesses wre exanined the previously described pieces of matter. They appeared to be similar to stretched pieces of tar on the highway but they did not contain any gravel in contrast to that tar on tr.o highway and they did not stem. from the highway and -...re=\e definitely not part of a piece that had been worked on as the highway in this section was in good condition. We tried to use a knife and remove some of this but it adhered to the highway and -to the knife and to our fingers and was very difficult to remove. It did not smell like tar and rather gave an odor that was even \JOrse than tar. :iovrever ti1e l atter did not seem to smell like cow dung as was previously stated. \~e lifted some of the particles of the highwray that also seemed to smell like the characteristic. tar odour. At some hundred meters of the latter,in front of a monument for dead,we removed some of the highway that had been patched and it seened to be similar to the myster- ious substance that we had encountered although it did not smell like the latter We subjected these three pieces to the flame of a bunsen burner and the repair piece of the highway gave off the wrell known odor of hot tar and the t wo other pieces although they were equally subjected to the flame gave off no recognizable odor with the exception of one that slightly resembled glue or wax. These pieces are presently still being analysed but the experts to whom we sub- mitted these pieces for examination have informed us that the mysterious substance is not tar but asphalt and t he crackling that was produced during the sujection to the flaw.e ";as probably due t o some form of hydration, be it accidental or not. Anywray any wray that one looks at -i t if we ar~ dealing vith a known substance then the presence of the latter on the highway is therefore explained and e.lso ex- plains the cracked pieces that wer e encountered over an area of 3 to 4 meters in diameter. In this smell province of 195 peopl e , the pa:ssing of an asphalt truck "~;tould not go unnoticed and at 10:45 at night it would be an unlikelihood. Even a leak in a nozzle woul d not have left such traces. We examined the proximate bridges and high\.'ays for some other clues~ CovJS ancl storm l amps We know,through the press the almost official version that has been accredited to the statements of the Jv:ayor of Beaucourt,Nr. Chatelain. According to this ver- sion Mr. Chatelain left his house about 11:.30 P.N. carrying a stor m lamp to try and check on his cows (one of them having died) going to the pasture that is next to his farm and extends up to the intersection of the l1iraurnont highway route This could possibly be the lamp that the witnesses saw as having been the proj- ector of red and white glaring lights,then the same light that they saw in the sky and the same that the 4 or 5 men that they saw eventually would have been 1-:r. Chate- s co,.,rs I Or,we do not want to make remarks on the ridiculous of this situation and its interpretations. Only a glance at the photographs that we publish here and the diagram and the explanations and testimonies of each of the witnesses leads one to believe that the cows and storm lamp" version is only one of state of mind. Let us suppose that an expierenced railroad man shoul d confuse ,comparable to the eye witnesses,that look into the sighting position and. signal larnps should confuse the glare of a projector (floodlight) that blinks on red and white with that of a small storm lampt Imagine 1 This could not happen and we will not believe it t Let us add that of the reconstitution that proceeded the night of the famous storm lamp,in the pasture of Mr. has amply demonstrated the fact that no confusio:1 .,..ras possible insomuch as that that is related to the intense light and the color that the trajectory and the speed of take-off that are retrospective of light has oo comparisonv ~le asked Kr .. for his version of the facts. But to be truthful the Eayor of Benucourt does not seem to ever have had any real version of facts 1 1,.fithout a doubt ,and in fromt of the police, it is true that he pretended to say that his wife was the onet that had left the house about 1Q:/~5 P.H. and But this is all at l east one hour later than the event that is presently under investigation and then h e said that his wife want to bed at 11:30 (this docs seem possible because most farmers do go to bed early l ) . And then the next de.)" in front of t he 1-iunicipal council he pretended that he was the one that \.lent out to-wards the a bove mentioned hours and he had his tractor with him (this seems a little less believeabl e 1) When at last we asked him for his unbiased opinmon he seemed a little embarrased and he then revoked a l l that he had said in the police station and which is almost impossible to acheive. We know that is deals with a certain principal ,, after all the V~yor's signature is at.stake 1 But the meeting did not seem to bother him and he did_nention the fact that the witnesses that were inv~lved were "honest peo- ple" and at no time did he try and create a feeling of distrust towards them and at no time did he become worried over their testimonies. \ole therefvre absolved Mr. -with the conviction that he was the first to deplore his statements and that they were perhaps a bit premature nor that he tried to make a fuss over the official version of facts that were jointly inscribed in tl1e case by sL~ of the most respected and most dignlfied inhabitants of the community, amongst which one of these was the gunicipal Council. Three days after these events Mr. moreover stated that one of his admin- istrators , l{r . Laine, had made some very different statements and had also remarked In a:1y case there must be something to all of this The wttna.ss&s a r e very trusb-10: thy people. He pursued pur investigation all over the country side and \.Je realized that not one individ .al doubted the sincerity and the statements that had been made by the ~itnesses. On a whole all of the Beaucourtians are open and sineere,logical and calm and objective people . And they never pretended to kno\o/ more than they really The Chief of the police station of Beuucourt- Hamel that hac! not tleen alerted or ~nrr.cd of the event on that fa1nous evening yet when we posed the problem of the matter to him he volnnt'lrily r esponded "They ha ve sur ely seen son:ethi.ng 1 All of the witnesses are emploJcod by the railroad and they have made us aware of tho following observation Why tell stories ? These inventions if they were o::1ly that would mak~ us look bad in the eyes of our bosses. And also possibly jeopardize our individual j ob positions. An orange light in the fields. Now we will continue on in a mor& pleasant mood and by this we refer to the fact that the next night some of the young people of the village were shooting firecrackers .in the fields of Mr. Chatelain and we found amongst the fields some of these half~ burned firecrackers by the fields but this was not another cause of confusion .as the cause was understandable. More interesting is the observation that was conducted the night of Hay 1'2 and May 11 by .&Mrs. that live on the side of the Hiraumont highway a little above t he other witnessss. They had not spokem to the press and other officials. Their statecent is as follows: 'On V~y 10, we did not sae anything as \.Je \>/ere asleep states.But the fol- lowing evening I was avTakened at approximately 3 in the morning (and at our ages sleep is one of our weakness's) at I passed by the window that passes through the room and is located in a South- \.Jest direction. I was attracted by a rather brillant orange light hhat I perceived through the- window. It wa s the same in diameter as the moon and the range of the glare reached t home that is to the left of the Cafeteria at approximately 80-meters.. I woke my wife up and told her to come and observe this strange light. She did and then after a few seconds the light dis- appeared and did not reignite so that we went back to bed. Mrs ....... confirmed the testimony of her husband. At this timeo of the riight it is rather strange that one should believe that it could have been a stray firecracker and no one else would have observed itt At t farm we found out that no one had seen anything strange and that all told they had all slept straight through the entire night. This surpassed the time that the Laines had been aroused by th'3 strange Conclusions. are the first indications of an investigation that took pla ce during a period of 10 hours on Saturday and Sunday the 18 and 19 of Hay. This was only 8 cays after the:occurences. Some things must still be cleared up as we have already indicat ed therefore all that really remains is that we comment on the magnetic investigations ... that were conducted on the metallic pieces that were located neur t~e ob~Jervntion points. This is given later as a simple indication because a systematic study wa s begun after the set of phenomenons that were reported,refering to those that took place in Vins, Palalda and Beaucourt. We will draw attention to the reader of the note and the magnetic measurements that follow The only place that is lacking now is that that would eventually deal with the vibrations that wer e confirmed both in Vins and Palalda. These can be supported as new and iLl portant elements for the solution of lift and support elements of the proplusion of Non-Identified Flying Objects. We continue our study of this subject If by some chance this article should fall into the hands of that person or per- sons whose automobile passed on Miraurnont highway the 10 of May at approximately 11: 00 P .H. and if they possibly did observe the "small men" on the path of the hill we would be very appreciative if they would place themselves in contact with us even if they should 'Want to remain annonymous THREE UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS LAND IN FRANCE UNtDITED ~OUGH DRAfT TRANSlA"'u~Q~,j THREE UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS LAND IN FRANCE English Pageaa 20 SOURCE Ouranos Revue Internationa1e De s Soucoupea Volantes (French), Nr. 21, 1957, pp 49-58 THIS TiltAMSLi. TfOH IS A R!MDtTI0)4 Oft TH! OrltiGJ. HAL FOR!lGM Ti!XT llltTMOUT A~Y A.,.AL YTICA\.. Oil I!DI10 .. tAL. CO~ZNT. ~T.lTfl~JMTS 0~ iH'!Oitlt!S ADVOCAT!DORIMI'LIID AileJ THO'JI OJt THI! SOUaCI AWDDO NOT M!C!SS&llLY Al!,LRCT THi! POSITIOM o:. Oiti)410M 0' TH! PO~liOM T!CHNO\..OGY Dl T;lA>ISL.\TI0:-4 DJVI~M PO)l:!JG~ T!!CH>tOLOGY DIVJSIOH ti?Afll, OHJO. Date22 Dec. 19 64 C JMMISSION I NTERNATIONALE ' D ' E N QU ETE OURANOS POUR l'ETUDE''DES SOUCOUPES DIRECTION GENERALE 27, ru~ [ rionn(:!Dolct, BONDY ( Seine) Direcl eur: Marc Thirouin Chef du service d 'enql..ote : Jimmy Guieu C o rrt-srondonls do s lc monde entier VOLANl ES ~, PROBLEMES CONNEXES ~OuRANOS~; f~ 1: V U E I N T E R N A T I 0 1-J A l t Orgc:np du Ia C. I. 1:. 0 . ienne-Dolet, BONDY (S~lne) 1\bor,nen o: