I wanted to make a post about this story for a while, as it happened in the region I come from and I find it fascinating. I always wondered why it didn’t get more attention and thought you guys might find it interesting, as the events are backed up by several witnesses.
It is very spoken about in my region, and most people in my hometown have heard of it, yet there has been very little attention from the media, especially outside of France. I will try to bring up all the facts that are publicly known about this, as well as add details that I heard myself, but I will let you know when something I write is not backed up by any written sources as you might want to take these with a pinch of salt.
What happened:
On the morning of the 29th of August 1967, in the little village of Cussac in France, François, 13 years old, his sister Anne-Marie, 9 years old and their dog are busy leading the family’s cows to a pasture 800 meters west from the village. The weather is clear in Cussac, but there is fog in the valleys surrounding the village. Once the cows are in their new pasture, the two children sat on the ground, their back against a stone wall bordering the pasture. This is important for later: the temperature was quite fresh for an August morning (between 12 and 16 °C) and a slight breeze was coming from the west, the wall would keep them away from the breeze. There is a country road right behind the wall, and on the other side of the road is another pasture bordered by a line of trees (only in the back of the pasture, not in the front). They started playing cards until 10:30 AM, when their dog started to bark as the cows are getting “agitated”. François stands up, takes a quick look over the wall, and sees a bright sphere 80 meters away from them in the pasture behind the road, in front of the tree line, surrounded by four “small people” getting busy around it, François estimated their height to be between 1m (3 feet 3 inches) and 1m20 (3 feet 11 inches) with some of them being taller than the others. He initially thought they were children. Here is what he said to his sister:
“there are black children over there”
“call them” she replied
To give you a bit of context, this is very rural area isolated in a volcano range in the middle of France, when I grew up in the late 90s, only a couple of children of color were attending my school. On top of that only 200 people lived in Cussac at the time and I think the children really got curious about seing new children in their village, but were not considering anything supernatural at this point.
François gets on the wall to get a better look and his sister stands up to look at the scene and the children who turned out to not look human: both of them will describe the creatures to be entirely “silky” black, and to all have identical faces, their arms are described as long and thin, and their legs as short and thin. The children were watching together and saw that one of the aliens was bending over and seems to be doing something on the ground, two of them are just standing but not facing the children, and one of them is holding an object that reflects the sun (that was behind the children), the one holding the mirror is described as being a bit taller than the others and started to make signs to the others, and children felt like they noticed that they were being watched. They hurried and started to levitate vertically to enter the vessel not through a door, but by entering the top of the sphere, one after the other.
The 4 aliens around the sphere - unknown origin
Boarding into the sphere - GEPA files
I am going to add something I have heard directly from someone that heard the story from François as it adds important elements in my eyes: according to him the four aliens were standing up straight, with their arms hanging down. They then started to rise from the ground and started to pivot to enter the vessel head first. I enclosed a (wonderful) illustration I made from the scene.
Entering the sphere head first
The sphere then slowly started to take off, but the fourth alien got out of the sphere, and landed on the ground to pick up something he forgot, François thinks it was his “mirror”. At this moment they both noticed that the creature had webbed feet and Anne-Marie also noticed that he had a pointy nose. He got back in the sphere the same way (head first) even though it was already higher than the trees bordering the meadow. The sphere rose higher, the children said it did 4 to 6 clockwise turns in a spiral pattern. As it was rising the children could hear a sound they describe as a whistle or the wind blowing, but they could only feel the slight west breeze that was present that day. They became blinded by the sphere, but saw it racing to the north-west before they had to look away: when the sphere started to rise and fly away, the children’s cows and the cows standing in the neighbouring meadow started to get agitated again, and were mooing, at some point the cows became so agitated that the children had looked away to try to calm them down. The dog was barking at the object and wanted to follow it. They also noticed a sulfur like smell in the air, as a note, there was a western breeze that day, which would have been able to carry smell from the sphere to the children.
Frightened, the two children hurried up and decided to bring back the cows to their father. 10 minutes after the children saw the sphere, a farmer saw them visibly shocked and crying. He also noticed that the cows were agitated. The mayor of Cussac, who happens to be the children’s father, found it unusual for the children to be this distressed, listened to their story and decided to call the gendarmerie, a French military force in charge of law enforcement duties mostly in rural areas.
The gendarmerie arrived at 4pm that day (I don’t know it it is because they didn’t think it was serious, or because the father waited before calling them), and noticed the smell described by the children in the area they designated. They also noticed that some of the grass was more yellow than the rest in an area covering 4 to 5 meters. The contrast between the yellow grass and the rest became more and more pronounced after the first day.
Nothing more was released officially regarding the color of the grass, but some people from the village say that the grass then started to entirely dry and would not grow back for years. This is really a rumor. I have not verified it myself, as the grass is growing again now, but I think it is worth mentioning.
Another detail that I heard from the same person I mentioned before: when the children came back their eyes were crying and they were squinting their eyes as if they were looking at something bright, even though they were inside the house. Their eyes remained wet for a few hours, which never happened to them before or after this event.
Both children were shocked for an entire week, and Anne-Marie was not able to sleep the two nights following the event.
The other witnesses
We have two direct witnesses so far, and they are both children. I will explain below what makes me think that they are not lying. We also have two adults that confirm that at the very least the children and the cows have witnesses something shocking. A forest ranger was 500 meters away from the pasture when he heard an unusual whistle at the exact time the children said the sphere took off, the children also heard a whistle when the sphere took off.
The GEPAN investigation
The GEPAN, is one of the first French organisms dedicated to the study of UFOS, and in 1978 they decided to go to Cussac and interview all the witnesses of the event. Among the GEPAN team is Claude Poher, Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics, a magistrate that didn’t have any UFO related knowledge at the time, an optician engineer (without prior knowledge of UFOS as well) and a GEPAN secretary.
The magistrate will say : “the various elements of this investigation are all in line with the reality of what the children say: their fright was actually observed by third parties. Reliable adult witnesses also noticed the smell, the noise, and the agitation of animals. There is, in these various elements, no flaw, no discrepancy which allows to doubt the sincerity of the testimonies.”
My last note will be about François, and what we know about him. He is the son of the mayor of a small village, and will later become mayor of a mid sized town himself. He was highly intelligent, but a bit of the quiet kid at school. He did brilliant studies and became a lawyer. Even though he is brilliant, he might be described in the region as a bit unfriendly, cold or even weird. He has never tried to bring attention to himself, and a lot of people are talking, he is aware of it. It is a very small community, where everybody knows everybody. He himself doesn’t believe in aliens, he thinks he might have lived a time distorsion, and keeps wondering what happened to him that day. He also stated that the sighting makes him feel guilty, and he doesn’t know why.
Submitted April 27, 2021 at 07:28PM by CrystalsandM00nshine https://ift.tt/3t15ig6
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