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Valensole UFO Encounter

DATE1 Jul 1965
LOCAL TIME5:45 AM
LOCATIONValensole, France
COORDINATES46.30°N, 2.19°E

French lavender farmer Maurice Masse witnessed an egg-shaped object with two small humanoid beings gathering his lavender plants. One being pointed a tube-like device at him, paralyzing him for fifteen minutes. Lavender refused to grow at the landing site for ten years. Jacques Vallee called it the best-authenticated close encounter in continental Europe.

[ PRIMARY CITATION // COMPILED REFERENCE · CTD-0133 ]

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