France · 21 October 1982
Suburban garden, 1982
Scientific contextA biologist watched an oval object 1.5m across hang a metre above his lawn for twenty minutes at midday; when it left, the grass beneath stood straight up, then lay back down, and the amaranth withered.
- Where
- Suburban garden, commune anonymised as VI
- When
- 21 October 1982
- Who reported it
- 1 civilian biologist
- Entities described
- None reported
- Handled as
- INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED
- Evidence class
- SCI-2
The record
An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.
- GEPAN / CNES; Gendarmerie sampling; Centre de Physiologie Vegetale, Universite Paul Sabatier Note Technique n.17 (Amarante) (opens in a new tab)
The document is attached to this entry.
What is not settled
One witness, no landing marks, no photograph. GEPAN recorded that cold storage of the samples was insufficient to stop enzymatic activity, so the biochemistry supports no conclusion. Sceptics: ordinary frost.
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