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Quarouble UFO Encounter (Marius Dewilde)

DATE10 Sep 1954
LOCAL TIME10:30 PM
LOCATIONQuarouble, Nord, France
COORDINATES46.27°N, 2.27°E

Railway worker Marius Dewilde encountered two small beings walking toward a dark object on railroad tracks. A beam of light paralyzed him. Physical evidence included a six-meter depression with carbonized stones. This was one of the first major encounters of the massive 1954 French UFO wave.

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