Case · UFO Afrinews No 18, July 1998
Trans-en-Provence trace case demolished (review)
1981 ยท Trans-en-Provence, France
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Wintle records that a famous French close-encounter-of-the-second-kind case at Trans-en-Provence, long validated by GEPAN, the official French government UAP investigating body, is demolished by Eric Maillot and Jacques Scomaux in chapter 14 of A World History of UAPs. He gives no particulars of the sighting or the ground traces, citing it only as a further example of the book's weighting towards scepticism. It is recorded here as a physical-trace case that the issue refers to, with its date and details to be taken from other sources.
What Hind made of it
Explanation offered
the sceptical demolition by Maillot and Scomaux, not described
In their words
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long validated by the official French government UFO investigating body GEPAN
Cross references
- A World History of UAPs, chapter 14