Valensole UFO Encounter
- Event date
- 1965 Jul 1
- Location
- Valensole, France
- Country
- France
Record summary
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.