Fig. 2. French Straight-Line Sightings
Eight sightings in France for September
24, 1964 (Michel, 1958) as reported
in France-Soir, Paris-Presse, and
LaCroix (Sept. 26 and 28). A ninth sighting
at Lantefortain-les-Baroches in northern
France is not shown on the map.
Sightings at LePuy and Langeac do not
occur on the line, but the other six fall so
close to the great circle arc indicated that
no deviation can be detected on a Michelin
map with a scale of 1: 1,000,000. Circumstances
of the six sightings on the line
were very briefly as follows:
- Vichy, afternoon:
Football players practicing in a
stadium and spectators saw an elliptical,
cigar-shaped object cross the sky swiftly
and silently.
- Gelles, early night: The witnesses
saw a luminous, cigar-shaped object
cross the sky at fairly high speed and without
noise.
- Ussel, about 11 p.m.: A luminous
red object rose above the horizon and
dived, at high speed, toward M. Cisterne,
who was driving his tractor back to the
barn. The object approached so closely
that he jumped from the tractor and lay
terrified in the field. The object hovered a
few yards above the road, and in front of
the tractor, remaining motionless for several
minutes in complete silence. Surroundings
were illuminated with a reddish light.
The UFO then flew over the tractor and
disappeared over the horizon in a few seconds.
Two other people also saw the object,
and leaves at the top of an ash tree,
near where the object reportedly had
hovered, were dried and curled.
- Tulle, 11
p.m.: M. Besse, with the aid of highpowered
binoculars, watched a luminous
object move rapidly in the sky, changing
color from reddish to white and then to
green.
- Lencouacq, nightfall: A single witness
watched a luminous object arrive at
high speed in silence, hover above a
meadow, and then leave again at high
speed.
- Bayonne, afternoon: Many people
watched three elliptical objects, metallic in
appearance, hover in the sky, and then
move away very rapidly.
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