8 August 1975 22:00
Ostricourt, France
Yellow domed disc hovers at 5m altitude. two 1.5m tall luminous humanoids appear. Glide across ground.
Close encounter with a an unidentified craft and its occupants. One yellow domed disc was observed by three witnesses in a field for two minutes. Two 5-foot-tall luminous beings, each wearing a luminous suit, were seen.
Two young people, both 17, watched an illuminated object circle and come down in some fields a quarter mile away. Together with a third younger witness, they went off to the site, located among old mineshafts and slag piles, and saw the object hovering motionless in front of a stand of trees some 300 meters to their left. It appeared as a plate upside down, with alternating red and orange lights blinking around the perimeter. The top was red and it was yellow underneath. There was no sound. Suddenly, at about 30 meters directly in front of them, two humanoid figures about 1.50 metes in height appeared, moving slowly and stiffly toward the young people. Brightly illuminated all over by a white light, they held their arms "glued to their bodies," and their legs were motionless as they glided along just above the ground, smoothly over somewhat rough terrain. No features were discerned. After about one minute, the young people, petrified with fear, "found their legs" and beat a hasty retreat to their home, telling their parents what they had seen. No one believed them. Next day the young people went back to the site. While they could find no traces in the area covered by the figures, they did find the ground blackened and grass charred at the site over which the object had hovered. Two months later, when the investigators examined the site, the blackened area was still visible.
Hynek rating: CE3: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Entity reports)
Vallee rating: CE3: Entities have been observed on the UFO.
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